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It was kind of shocking seeing some friends openly turn so incredibly sexist and racist and generally horrible once Trump was elected. I don't regret the finding out, but it was a little surprising seeing I wasn't as good of a judge of character as I thought.
COVID broke people's brains too. don't know about your timeline but in my opinion while some people started showing their true colors, some people actually changed during that time.
Im 50 and Im not straight. A lot of the guys my-age didn't grow and become accepting of people they just learned to shut the fuck up about their opinion in public in the early 1990s. Those guys didn't raise their kids to be any different they were just quiet about it.
They just got really good at masking the shit in their head, don’t blame yourself
Had to cut ties with some family too (because I firmly believe family is a PRIVILEGE and not a RIGHT and if you're a shit bag you lose that privilege) but I had always known they were horrible people from the start at least.
This is my daily struggle. I mean... the ties are cut. The struggle is essentially grieving the loss of a parent as if they were dead.
I feel a little better when I hear that others have, to some degree, done the same.
I certainly have. The tough part is clients. I have a major client whom I recently discovered voted F34 because they really think he was the lesser of two evils. He's also my ENT doc.
Yeah it's, well....it's not a struggle for me personally because the snot nozzles who I'm talking about offended everyone from mother Mary to Lucifer but I get it when it's someone you mildly care about. Pro tip? Stop caring
Yeah, its a bummer. For those relationships you value you can still talk about why they feel that way. Its harder when they are consumed by the fb algo though.
If you think back before that, weren't those the most self-centered and selfish ones?
I remember a situation with a friend of mine from back in my Uni days (not a case of him turning out to be a Trumpist but a case of him having drifted away from his family, rather than "facing it like a man" he just kept deceiving them and living a double life until things inevitably blew up) and looking back from my by then far more mature and adult point of view than when he and I became friends I could spot how he was always the guy who put himself ahead of the rest of the group.
I get the impression that Trumpists are those who are a mix of being the most "what's in it for me" types (to the point of putting the satisfaction of petty and even mean personal psychological wants ahead of other people's actual lives) and useful idiot, and those would have a track record of putting themselves first even in situations were one wouldn't act like that with friends.
one of the people i know, love watching UFC, joe roegan, naturally he became a trump-lite person overtime, even starting to wear on me that is showing signs of being anti-vaxers.i notice these new trumpers are often pretty ignorant of the news in general, like they dont actually go look up his policies and what they will do. and supporting people like YE despite what he has become is all pretty clear.
That seems to be his superpower. He is so blatantly and unashamedly despicable that he emboldens every asshole on Earth to stop holding back on their assholery, but instead flaunt it like never before.
"If he can do it, why shouldn't I do it as well?"