I like talking politics in real life, but it is very different. If I'm talking to someone who doesn't really follow stuff that closely, I'll usually just kind of go along. And if it's someone I don't know that well, it's also mostly just polite. But if the other person knows their shit and likes it, I can get into it. Plus, I have some long-time friends and some family members that I can get into it with.
In that group, there are people I have big disagreements with, but no one who says the kind of stupid stuff we see here (Pizzagate, Seth Rich theories, denying obvious reality, various crazy Clinton CTs, etc.), and I never see the kind of deliberate misunderstanding of points that is pretty regular here (good recent example was with
@Giblert). That's really where things get off the rails here--when you have complete idiots or people who don't argue honestly. And I never encounter either of those things in real life. I also never people in real life who are obsessed with college kids and Islam, while those things seem to be the most important things in the lives of some of the worst posters here.