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personal tangent incoming because I need to vent

I have a good friend who is basically a reverse Corrik. I'm pretty sure his fiancee has indoctrinated him into the cult of believers that democracy is being overthrown if Trump doesn't stay president.

Dude has always been relatively apolitical but I would say left-leaning on most issues except guns, because he is a gun enthusiast. Simultaneously, he is a total hippie type with anti-authoritarian and conspiratorial tendencies that I think were ripe to grow into what they have now.

I haven't posted on social media in years, so the slow transformation completely passed me by. He talked to me on messenger out of the blue a couple weeks ago saying we should catch up, and I randomly clicked on his profile to which I was greeted by a bunch of anti-vaxxer bullshit, calling the vaccines "lethal injections" and utter nonsense like that. Hard recoil on my part, especially as someone whose first job post-college was as a science writer at ORNL, the largest scientific national lab in the U.S.

Since then, I've sort of slowly monitored his FB posts out of curiosity, worried about what insanity he's been ingesting from conspiratorial and far right websites. Sure enough, he posted an OAN video, and today he seemed to be framing this entire shitshow as a heroic act on behalf of the Trump supporters, though to be totally fair, he never explicitly says this, so I don't quite know how deep down the rabbit hole he is.

We give a lot of shit to Corrik and Ulti here, but they're at least in reality when it comes to the events that are transpiring right now. And considering that poll that shows about half of Republicans are in support of what happened today, Board 8 is lucky for that.

Never gave a shit about politics interfering with friendships, but cults are another story. I don't know. Honestly have no idea if I'll even say anything about it next time I talk to or hang out with him.

I likely won't. If he brings stuff up though, I will obviously push the fuck back and open that can of worms. Ultimately, I just feel bad for him and am worried what the future might look for him if he continues down the path of radicalization.

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