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:
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.
I hate that almost no high paying jobs are looked down upon, except maybe lawyers sometimes. People should feel more shame working for Raytheon or a think tank.
No worries. People don't stay at Amazon for that long. The average is around 1.6 years I think. For white collar jobs.
My first serious boyfriend in high school grew up to be a prison guard :cringe:
If you turn on the radio these days there are just like nonstop advertisements for jobs in prisons. Great benefits and pay, flexible schedules, join the prison family, it’s totally not dystopian!
i once went on a few dates with this girl who was working for a union and was lib and 'progressive', but she was considering a career change to become a prison guard and i absolutely could not figure out the logic there
funnily enough she ghosted me but then a few weeks later she messaged me apologising and begging me to go out with her again, she said she had been scared off because she thought i was a terrorist but i guess she eventually decided that wasnt a dealbreaker
she said she had been scared off because she thought i was a terrorist but i guess she eventually decided that wasnt a dealbreaker
lmao
found the guard who ends up running off with an escaped inmate because she "can fix him"
they can't get enough people to do it. i've thought about taking the paid training and then getting fired but it just sounds emotionally exhausting in a way i don't want to deal with even if it wastes the carceral state's time and money.
yeah, i can see the appeal of becoming a cop to a normal garden variety asshole who's been fed propaganda their whole life, but corrections seems like work that requires an incredible level of misanthropy and sadism.
i know this guy from college who works for a prison. not as a guard, specifically, but without getting specific, in a job skills training capacity lets say. i remember when he took that job (comes with an insane commute), my closest friends and i were like, "yikes", but he's lib brained and the money/funding is good (obviously). he's a few years into it now and i was catching up with him and he was somehow still surprised that everyone he works with is a dipshit, racist chud. i tried to explain that the carceral state is effectively a jobs program for fascism to provide training, indoctrination, and material support for the sadistic thugs it requires, but he can't quite glimpse the bigger picture around the warehousing of such a large portion of our population.
I'm a mean drunk guy
Not really I'm very nice. Just did a lot of wayyyyy too much drinking a few years ago that had me in a lot of circumstances that looked very unfavorably
I knew a super nerdy religious horse girl in high school. She got pregnant in college and didn't tell anyone. A relative of hers found the dead fetus in a garbage can in their basement bathroom. While on bond and pregnant again, the second pregnancy disappeared and she never told anyone what happened. Also I think the first pregnancy was from an international student who fled back to Saudi Arabia.
the type of religion that would shame a woman for getting pregnant to the point she'd do that is horrifying.
the exact opposite of what Jesus was on about but I suppose that's hardly surprising
I know an astonishing number of people who I was very close to growing up who have since gotten jobs making weapons for the military-industrial complex. They probably deserve to be executed tbh. (As in tried, convicted of crimes against humanity, wall.)
I was just thinking about it today and it made me very angry and upset. I genuinely have no idea how they can live with themselves.
I've mentioned it here, but Madison Cawthore. Not much else needs be said.
a guy i went to high school with started a business as a professional pick-up artist, running expensive pick-up training courses to turn vulnerable lonely guys into gross sleazes
he has videos with the fedora and the bow tie and suspenders and everything and some poor woman looking intensely uncomfortable
a close childhood friend became a cop. but we kinda knew from the get go that he was fairly reactionary. like he'd try to mask his own racism as misanthropy and would go full debatebro to justify it. we gave up on him when he started dating a 16 y.o. at 21 after he didn't listen to several of us telling him that he was being a fucking creep. so he became a cop and none of us have heard from him since.
yea there's definitely worse out there but this was grody enough to creep several of us out - "age is just a number" is unsettling to hear out loud as a defense. I'm glad your sister's situation is at least stable and not immediately dangerous.
A depressingly large number of people I knew joined MS-13.
A depressingly large number of people I knew got caught in cartel shit.
La mayoría de esa gente que conocía era inocente, al menos quiero creer. Fueron al centro o salieron del pueblo, desaparecieron, y luego, días después, encontraron sus cadáveres.
Sanigua! Nuestras experiencias son muy similares. Chuchos va con ellos porque no tenían pisto.
Tristemente, sí. Me alegraría si nuestras experiencias fueran similares por rasgos menos sombríos. ¿Y los ancianos de tu barrio qué dicen? ¡Es que faltan valores!
Alrededor de Jalisco, Guanajuato y Michoacán. Broma:
"ah! simón, carnal, mis coordenadas son..."
¿Tienen páginas de feis para 'reportar' malandros? ¿Aquellas páginas qué solo se dedican a postear morbo?
I once knew a girl who threw out her best friend with the bathwater because he wouldn't be libshamed into voting for joe biden. Constantly telling him that he "doesn't care about women's rights".
Now that Roe. V. Wade has about 5 days to live, I keep thinking about that and how hurt I still am over it, and the amount of restraint it's taking to not call her up after not talking to her for a year and a half screaming "I fucking told you so"
I really doubt it would do anything, she's way too engrossed in white liberal comfort. More than anything I just want to scream "I told you so" so I could maybe get a fucking apology and feel less hurt about what happened, but I still doubt yelling at her would make me feel better about that
I have no idea how you would do that literally. Yeah, it's just an expression
I have no idea how you would do that literally.
The original saying is "to throw out the child with the bathwater." It refers to a tiny, portable bathtub you just use for babies, and these tubs aren't drained by pulling a plug, you just turn them over to empty out the bathwater. Obviously, you want to remove the baby from the tub before you do that.
I had this really religious friend in high school who was straight, but had a lot of hate about his sexuality and sex drive. I tried talking to him about how he's not bad for liking or wanting sex* but the religious upbringing talked louder.
These days, I know he's doing something like as a pastor. I haven't heard from him, but I'm hoping that he got those sex issues resolved enough that he's not going to harm anybody.
He's definitely right-wing now, so that's the abhorrent thing he's doing now, but I hope that's the extent of his horrible behavior.
Thanks for the cool question!
I knew a girl in high school who was absolutely a lesbian and wore a lot of punk outfits. Everyone knew she was gay. She was fun as hell, had really good taste in music, was extremely friendly too. She was one of the few people in high school who'd talk to me normally too. Overall, she was really cool, yeah?
Part way through senior year of high school she vanishes like three months and shows back up with longer hair, a slimmer physique, and was always carrying a Bible. She had a dead look in her eye and a constant ear to ear smile.
Turns out her parents put her in one of those conversion programs out in the woods. Pray the gay away type shit. She was like an entirely different person. Completely blank inside and like was like any of the other dead eyed chipper evangelical girls in the town. It was like she died. I still miss her.
Last I heard she was trying to get into real estate. She also became really right wing.
Part way through senior year of high school she vanishes like three months and shows back up with longer hair...
When I read that, I knew exactly where that story was going. It makes me so sad to think of what some people can do to children. How fucking sad.
Also thank you for sharing this story. As I thought about my own closeted experience, I realized I felt bad for not coming out before turning 18 and giving my parents a chance. But then I realized fuck that, my parents weren't safe. They were totally the type who would've signed me up for a program like that if I came out while a minor. They gave me shit after I came out, but at least they couldn't sign away my custody to some fucked up conversion camp.
I hope you're on better terms with your family now or at least around people you love. I'm sorry your parents were like that and I do believe you can find a comforting supportive community.
My parents insist they wouldn't have, but if I was gay I know I couldn't have come out to them safely
That's the worst.
I know a girl that was raised by an ultraconservative asshole of a mother, she's still a friend of my spouse's (they're not on terms as solid as they used to be). Typical bullshit, girl's mother told one of our good mutual friends that they're going to hell for having premarital sex with her soon to be husband, all those fun things.
But for a while, the daughter seemed like she was gonna break away; she got a little too crazy in college, but not anything that made me think she was going to wind up dead in a dumpster or something, just typical cutting loose and getting more liberal (and even a bit leftwing in some aspects). But she married a guy from a real religious family and just...settled right back into that rut. All her views skewed right again, they had a kid and are gonna raise it heavily religious, she's living with her mother for a bit because they're having their house built...
Just eh. Most of the friends are getting close to cutting her and the husband out, they're all getting done with her for various reasons
You know it's gonna be reaaaally fucking bad when even the CW has a CW
Pffft, that story couldn't be that bad
(reads CW)
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