[FURTHER CLARITY] I am not direct friends with the person messaging outwards, the ones in grey. My friend is the one in blue. Recently we had the one in grey have a mental snap about us joking about Kirk’s death, to which he blocked most of us and started messaging my friend in the blue text. We no longer talk to the “acquaintance”

Straight up hypocrisy. Like, openly, brazenly out to view. Unhinged fucking nutjob we just found out more about.

However the actual double-think only an hour apart is fucking incredible, holy shit.

My friend responding [the one in blue] isn’t exactly…politically aware. But I think I’ve done a good job inoculating my friends against the those who deem us “degenerate roaches” and understanding their fucking rhetoric.

You never know who is in your square.

  • Samsuma@lemmy.ml
    15·
    6 days ago

    settler defending and advocating for settlers to do average settler things on an Indigenous population, unsurprising.

    I can’t imagine how difficult it is in the U.S. (I assume) to make friends when you got loonies like these that only start off benign then go mask-off when they get comfortable…

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      Funnily enough, we were pretty explicit about our beliefs. This fella tried messaging the friend [blue text] in question to try and convince them I’m actually a “fascist, not a communist” because I thought Kirk getting shot was funny. Full mask-off afterwards.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    We have different views.

    This is such a typical euphemism for somebody’s toxic personality. It’s the same playbook that neoliberals employed shortly after an antifascist punched Richard ‘peaceful ethnic cleansing’ Spencer, and it collapses under minimal scrutiny: if ‘different views’ were all that it took to invoke our scorn, we would be too exhausted to get anything done since ‘different views’ are everywhere.

    • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      5 days ago

      It’s the exact same gaslighting tactic narcissists employ instinctively. “I’m not wrong, we just disagree” is just the polite underhanded way of saying “You are wrong, because I can never be wrong”.

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      it’s funny, after all this time I’ve been training my friend to realize that and his training paid off. I know a dogwhistle when I see it.

  • Lanterne@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    6 days ago

    Yeah keep an eye on that dude he could become a school shooter (I’m not joking he is literally the exact portrait of a school shooter)

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      I should explain, we didn’t know his political beliefs before hand. The one in blue is my other friend, whom had been talking to him in a private messages where the other friend/acquaintance had exposed these beliefs and we dropped him.

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Already did. I should specify further that there is two friends here. The one in blue is my closer friend, whom the acquaintance is someone that we have recently begun to know but have found out about this. We have since dropped them.

      Sorry I tried to make it clear as possible.

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I wouldn’t even say these things via text message at this point, especially to someone who is ideologically an enemy. It is an easy way to end up on a doxxing list

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      The problem is, it’s not me. It’s my friend and he’s just learning how quickly his crypto-fascist friend can snap after he “hid his power-level” for a bit until the Kirk-death turned him.

      update: he is not legally allowed to own guns, for whatever that is worth.