He's dead to me. I switch rapidly between hoping his zombifying body dies ASAP, and missing the person he was before Nazis brainwashed and stole him.

He was a shitty friend who gatekept random things, like listening to bands in his mid-twenties. Much due to toxic masculinity. I found him quite cringey. Now he's a Nazi.

Yet I mourn his cringe ass each day. A whole person was lost to Nazis. I'm cycling, and I need new outlooks on this situation to get out of this rut. My self care is suffering.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It happened to just about my entire college social circle.

    Some went full :soypoint-1: :melon-musk: :soypoint-2: as they became eager minions for Silicon Valley billionaires and the few times I talk with them it's all about robot gods from the future or takes about how climate change doesn't matter because billions of years in the future trillions of divine cyberangels will dance on the head of a Singularity pin.

    Some went full :soypoint-1: :jordan-eboy-peterson: :soypoint-2: and went "cultural Christian" after Anita Sarkeesian broke their brains by having lukewarm takes about their treats.

    Some went full :soypoint-1: :scared-fash: :soypoint-2: . Some marched, tiki torches and all, at Charlottesville and at least one was there for the January 6 clown car crash and circus fire in DC.

    • GuerrillaMindset [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      i had a close friend at the jan 6 shit and it was pathetic, he tweeted about leaving right when shit popped off like he had no clue how deep in this shit he was, but he was deep--he was leading maga car rallies across the coast and shit and then once shit gets real he's like oh snap what am i doing and leaves. so fucking dumb. he got alienated from all of his friends and family and eventually called us all one by one to apologize and say he realized he was wrong and was done with the political shit after things kinda blew up in his face. he was always apolitical before this to an annoying degree and suddenly he was a qanoner who knew everything. but then after his whole apology and everything like 6 months later he was tweeting lets go brandon shit and i'm not convinced he'll ever change. really sad and i don't really know how to even interact anymore because i loved him but what the fuck is this? like a line has been crossed and most of our friends feel the same.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Without revealing too much, I have a similar relatable story about the (at least one confirmed) MAGA cultist that was there for the January 6 circus fire.

        That's all. It's all too relatable. :doomer:

    • HexaSnoot [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I'm sorry. I can't imagine losing a whole group to chud ideologies. The chances of this happening goes way up just by living in :amerikkka:.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I was going to college in the shadow of Silicon Valley, and most of the people around me were very white and very insulated "nonpolitical" South Park enthusiasts (I even watched the show too, full confession) and their "nonpolitical" politics and their ideology of "no ideology" made them credulous clay shaped by the hands all around them. :doomer:

        • HexaSnoot [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I was a kid when I saw South Park on other people's TVs. I'd get sucked in, and I couldn't see how damaging it was in general to have zero biases. Someone recently told me that every episode ends with, "both sides are at fault."