Mine involves one of those "fuck you got mine" well-off gay men that decided to abandon the left (and for the most part, my friendship with him) entirely as soon as gay marriage was legally protected at a federal level.

I tried to catch up with him years later, but by that point, he started with a rant about how "commies were the ones that killed people like me. Are you still a commie, Ulysses?" and when I pushed back just a little about that incendiary statement I found out that he was supporting fucking :trump-anguish: because of that rainbow flag stunt back in 2016.

I haven't talked to him after that. :doomer:

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I remember investigating Caleb Cain (Faraday Speaks) back when he just broke into breadtube with his whole "I escaped the alt-right pipeline" grift and generally poking around and examining the crowds he was attracting.

    One of the people I remember interviewing was this real space cadet shitlib that had liberalsocialist level "irritating hot takes posed as serious questions". I remember them constantly asking what's wrong with letting white people have white people only communities. Like normally you'd tell when a fash is pulling your leg with those kinds of JAQ-ass questions but this person was a flat out well-meaning lib that constantly got upset and cried when you tell them why they're wrong and why they constantly get called a fascist.

    Back then I didn't pull my punches and that person eventually had me and a few other anarchists and communists who constantly tore holes in their shitlib and fashy takes come into a private discussion and had one final all-out shit-flinging fest where they unironically dropped the 14 words without knowing it during a section on race mixing and then deleted their account after having it pointed out they literally did the nazi 14 words bit.

    The worse part is to this day I still think they were unironically just really confused all the time and not some fashy doing a bit like Caleb Cain.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      “irritating hot takes posed as serious questions”

      Oh I so very much hate the smug contrarian "question everything except the ruling class" :very-intelligent: types.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Oh they weren't even that kind of annoying smug shit-eater grinner type. Imagine arguing with a real curmudgeonly mee-maw type that just can't comprehend every single thing she likes is fascistic but insists she's not and hates fascists but gets incredibly mad when you point out there's similarities between her beliefs and fascist beliefs

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      they unironically dropped the 14 words without knowing it during a section on race mixing and then deleted their account after having it pointed out they literally did the nazi 14 words bit.

      :data-laughing: