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There's nothing new about this. Some people stopped associating with you because they didn't like your opinions, a story as old as humanity itself.

Didn't catch the Republican debate last night eh? Unsatisfactory does not begin to describe the situation with American politics.

Absolutely. I would continue to use Linux even if I thought my development environment / user experience were worse than on Windows or OS X. Fortunately I don't though!

> yes, but the Republicans aren't that insane.

I wouldn't put it past them to choose Trump, but either way, the other leading contenders like Ben Carson or Ted Cruz are even more whacked-out. And god forbid the Bush dynasty would continue...

Of the Republican candidates, the only ones I find less crazy than Trump -- and to be clear, I more or less despise everyone I'm about to list -- are Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, and perhaps Marco Rubio. Fiorina and Rubio because, maybe, they don't actually believe some of the panderous garbage that they say, and Paul because he occasionally expresses some anti-war sentiment (even if it's motivated by his desire to decrease federal spending).