While randomly googling I found out that someone I liked in high school now works for the ADL. She was nice and one of the top students in our class, but I guess not really too creative? She never expressed any political opinions but was clearly a lib. She was also one of the popular girls who thought they were better than everyone else. I was still kind of shocked when I found out. Like...how can you do this?

As I think about it, another girl I liked in high school is now attending an obscure medical school which is kind of controversial for graduating a bunch of anti-vaxxers or something. She was one of the best students in our class as well and also really nice.

Who do YOU know who has ended up doing something totally awful?

Edit: :jesus-christ:

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    At least a dozen of my classmates from high school ended up becoming infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan, so who knows what they got up to there.

    One classmate died in a meth lab explosion, but that was just a general route out of poverty where I grew up. More than several classmates ended up joining the Klan because I grew up in a horrifying evil land devoid of anything good . One of them is my cousin. They deny it because of course they do, then giggle about it. They think they're cute with their stupid meetings in the woods. They're too chickenshit to even threaten action anymore. Now they just join the local police department.

    Those are the most genuinely evil people I know, the ones who became cops. I think three of them did. One shot a guy in the leg. A different cop classmate of mine killed someone in his own front yard, a guy who I also went to high school with. The guy was always troubled and bullied the shit out of me, but whatever we were teenagers. He became an alcoholic and was in and out of church groups, then got into a drunk driving situation, refused to pull over, pulled into his driveway and grabbed a stick. Started swinging it at the cop, cop pulled out his service weapon and murdered him on the spot. I went to high school with both of these guys and one murdered the other because he had a badge and gun. I fucking hate my hometown.

    Anyway, a bunch of former coworkers ended up in real estate scams or becoming landlords if that counts too. It's all just very sad what people often become and I hope the USA soon lowers itself into the dustbin of history.