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Not family, but a friend. Closest thing I had to a brother as a kid. Just a kind human being. Loved everyone. Bit of a hippie, and his dad was always a hard core conservative, but in a militia-type way. After high school we chose to go to the local college together with another couple of friends.
Long story as short as I can make it(I'm bad at short). At 17 years old he got caught smoking pot in his dorm room. His dad saw that as his last opportunity to "save" him and had him sent to military school. He came out of that seemingly OK, went back to college, but he signed up to have the military pay for his college in return for years of service after he graduated.
His wife said that's where it fell apart for him. The constant drip of Fox News changed something in him. He'd come home and talk about something that outraged the Fox News talking heads that day. You have to understand at this point he'd not only voted for, but did some work for the Obama campaign. His wife was getting alarmed, but it was manageable, I guess? It was still the Obama years and no one saw Trump coming.
Trump broke him. He became a full on raging MAGAt. He started going to church with military buddies after a lifetime of atheism.
We tried to talk to him, reason with him, and he'd say things like "You're probably right" but then later he'd text some article from the NY Post or whatnot and say we were wrong. We got him off of Facebook, he realized that social media was bad for him, but he was always getting that Fox News disinformation at the base.
Eventually he split from his wife. He's raising their son to be a right winger, and she's raising their daughter in a liberal environment.
There was a moment, just days after January 6th, where he called me late one night. He was clearly scared of what the MAGA movement had done.
Unfortunately, COVID sent him back. He decided that the vaccines were some liberal plot and lockdowns were "proof" that liberals wanted to take over the country and control everyone. He got into anti-vaxx conspiracies and there was no pulling him back out.
We rarely hear from him anymore, but whenever we do it's always about how liberals are going to institute new vaccine mandates or lab leaks or whatever other COVID-related plot he's wrapped up in at the moment.
A Concerned Scientist /
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2023-08-07 13:23:04
in reply to nevent1q…cgpx
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