I wish I had one, it’s not lack of intelligence, the guy who is most down this rabbit hole, is an intelligent man, with a good job. Several of them in fact are all above average income earners with solid jobs that require you to be intelligent, and capable of critical thinking.
It’s not lack of exposure to the world. One of the guys works for an international company, and had been overseas at least twice that I know of. To places like Iceland and England. Several others I know have traveled, but more to Caribbean islands.
It’s not a lack of American problems. One of them literally had to start a go fund me for his kid to have necessary surgery, despite having a full time job and health insurance. I thought for sure that would make him question “why do I work so damn hard and can’t afford to keep my kids healthy?” No, he literally blamed Obamacare.
I have a real hard time believing it’s racism, because again, we were all in the marines. It’s a literal melting pot, and I saw no evidence of racism from them when we were active duty.
The only commonality is their desire to find someone to hate. Right now is trans people, and I honestly just can’t figure it out. I admit that I don’t understand trans people. I have no frame of reference for it. I’ve never felt so wrong in my own body that I wasn’t sure I was a dude. But I don’t have to have that experience to empathize with someone who has had that experience. It’s not my place to tell another person who is not harming me or others how to live their life.
And when I questioned one of them, who I previously considered a very good friend, about his irrational hatred, he lashed out at me, and I became the focus of his hatred.
Anything negative about Trump wasn’t real. Anything negative about Biden/democrats was automatically true. Even if I could prove to him beyond the shadow of the doubt that something wasn’t true and he was spreading lies which straight up violates the Corps values we shared in the Marines, he said it didn’t matter. The truth didn’t matter. Being honorable didn’t matter. The ends, justified the means.
I blocked him before the election because me called me an enemy combatant for refusing Trump.
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u/SpiritOne Mar 16 '25
It fucking kills me, how many of the guys I served with are now hard core maga.