Being too provocative

[UnknownPerson]

Does anybody of you have a problem with being too provocative? I personally have this problem, I often forget to keep my mouth shut and start arguing anywhere something which is against my opinions is mentioned. The opinions I argue against is usually religion and capitalism.

Does anybody have any tips on how to control this when it isn't desired? I often loose friends this way.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

The easiest way to avoid that problem is to just close your mouth.

[Susurrus]

Or if that doesn't work, just remember to be polite and not make it into a personal argument, ie criticize them rather than the ideology.

[Buitraker]

Smoke

[bcbm]

i drunkenly ranted to a former fbi agent about my anarchist and communist sympathies once after drinking too fucking much at a baseball gam

[Quail]

Avoid alcohol or anything that lowers your inhibitions.

[Dr Mindbender]

I do it all the time. I think it has something to do with my neurological grouping. I have trouble gauging appropriate social cues.

[ComradeGrant]

I do this all the time. Like every day.

[Agent Ducky]

I do this a lot too >_> I don't do it extremely enough to lose friends though.

[OhYesIdid]

Yep, and I'm lonely for it.

[The Douche]

i drunkenly ranted to a former fbi agent about my anarchist and communist sympathies once after drinking too fucking much at a baseball gam

This is my life. But its usually military personnel, who I am currently serving with.

[Delenda Carthago]

I m an asshole. I m Greg House with a lil bit of Casino Joe Pesci. Its fuckin horrible. I really fuckin wish I wasnt.

[ZeroNowhere]

Generally, when I irk people, it's because they take my general aversion towards debate to be a sign of dismissiveness, which is pretty much the opposite of the OP's issue. "[A]rgumentation is freedom from all content, and a sense of vanity towards it. What is looked for here, [however], is the effort to give up this freedom and, instead of being the arbitrarily moving principle of the content, to sink this freedom in the content, letting it move spontaneously of its own nature, by the self as its own self, and then to contemplate this movement."

[Lobotomy]

no, I don't do that because I'm really bad at verbally expressing my opinions on the fly. actually I'm just bad at communicating in general. I'm too afraid of not explaining things properly and ultimately making socialism look bad. tl;dr I'm awkward