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Solid Sonic posted...

Why are political and arguments about social issues the most likely subject to prompt a "Okay, I think we're done here, thank you for your input," followed by an abrupt end to all further conversation.

Because most people tend to define themselves by political ideology and social issues to some degree, which means they internalize the sides in any given debate. At which point, you've effectively disengaged anything resembling logic or reason, and are now reducing every argument down to an "us or them" mentality, in which the goal is to score points on "the other side" while fanatically defending your own side, because criticism of the side you've chosen is tantamount to a personal attack on your sense of identity.

So conflict-avoidant types who don't want to spend their entire lives in meaningless, futile arguments that will literally never change a single thing tend to want to just shut them down before they even start, because they're tired of your shit. At best, they're trying for a "Well then, we'll just agree to disagree" scenario where you avoid the sensitive topic and focus on the things you DO have in common, or at worst they've just dismissed you as being a terrible person because you are clearly "THE ENEMY", and thus have nothing of value to say.

In normal life, I go out of my way to avoid political discussions with friends for precisely this reason. Even on PotD, I tend to avoid most blatant political topics because they're about 98% stupidity and mostly shit-flinging.

Religion is the other major shitstorm topic that tends to go exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons, which is why I very rarely discuss religion with anyone outside of very specific contexts.
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