I got FB blocked by a guy I had been friends with since elementary school (literally knew him since first grade through college). After college, our home state passed a voter ID law. He had moved to a different state by that time, and his new state already had voter id.
He had a meltdown about Republican nazis discriminating against blacks, etc., and ranting about how glad he was to have left our home state.
I posted on his FB "Glad you're happy in your new home, but doesn't ___ already have voter ID law? Is it also run by fascist nazis?"
I was immediately blocked and I haven't heard from him since.
Literally 15 years of friendship gone in 30 seconds.
I sent a handwritten note when his dad died (his dad was based and ran a retail store until he was in his mid-80s...we used to hang out there in highschool) and never even heard anything back. It's sad.
Really sorry to hear that man. It is just so damn alien to me. How the hell does someone even get like that? I am pretty damn opinionated but I just couldn't imagine tossing away such an old friend for something so trivial.
That's the problem, what we regard as a trivial difference, other people have decided they will die on a hill for. Meanwhile they regard basic rights like freedom of speech trivial in pursuit of that, priorities have been completely flipped on their heads.
This one is actually pretty dumb and it was a discord group I thought I was starting to get pretty chill with but it just shows you we're not alone in encountering this behaviour. I'm a programmer and I keep a close eye on what the games industry is doing generally. People I was chatting to who had been absolutely fine with me before were going on about randoms being shitty people in text and voice chat and they were expecting companies to go and deal with it.
Me, being a programmer and actually knowing what I'm talking about laid out that in order for them to deal with randoms would require the chat either being shut down entirely. Or alternatively having some kind of hyper modded service you pay separately for with 24 hour staffing and monitoring to keep the chat 'clean' by the standards that they were looking for. That was just the reality of the situation because it would cost so much for what they wanted.
For some bizarre reason, they took this to mean that I supported the behaviour the randoms were doing in these chats. Completely out of fucking nowhere, after they messaged that and clearly meant it and they were going to make me defend the viewpoint they made up about me I just went and left and never talked to them again.
I will put up with a lot of bullshit online but one thing I refuse to do is deal with people who think it's okay to make things up about me and then try to force me to defend myself on their bullshit.
The funniest part about this is Blizzard came along with Overwatch 2 and low and behold 24 hour monitoring of VOIP being dumped in as transcripts for modding purposes. So not only was I fucking dead on about stating the realities of chat as a theory the corporations are now implementing that and you also know for a fact there's going to be regulations regarding online chats in gaming because of muh 'white supremacists and incels'.
What's so fascinating about these types of people isn't necessarily that they do this, it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 their friends meet you round the back and confirm yes it's not just you being crazy with some of them leaving and getting fed up of the situation as well. They drive away everyone around them and then wonder why they're alone because they have zero capability for self-reflection. It's pretty sad when they seemed like normal and fun people to be around with before and would still be if they didn't sperg out over peoples' opinions.
I had a similar situation occur with me. A guy I've known, and for my part was friends with, since grade 4 or 5 blocked me after calling me racist for disagreeing with affirmative action policies.
But dude, the way I see it... fuck those assholes. You don't need them in your life.
Better that it happens now over something trivial than having them turn on you when you really need the support because that does happen to people and I feel a lot of sympathy for them. The scariest shit is when it's family and they stab people in the back because the media declared someone the 'enemy', utterly brainless.
Literally 15 years of friendship gone in 30 seconds.
I had a friend I had known for over a decade send an ultimatum to our friend group basically telling us to get on board with social justice crap or die.
Not coincidentally this was after he got a girlfriend who was one of those crazy feminists with "ptsd" from rape (given how hysterical she is I doubt that even happened). He was always left leaning but at least he used to keep his mouth shut about it.
The really mind blowing thing about it is that she's like a 3/10 with makeup. I could understand it if she was hot, and attribute his stupid behavior to him thinking with his dick, but she isn't. She's about as mediocre as they come and crazy to boot. I fucking hate leftist ideology for what it has done to people.
I got FB blocked by a guy I had been friends with since elementary school (literally knew him since first grade through college). After college, our home state passed a voter ID law. He had moved to a different state by that time, and his new state already had voter id.
He had a meltdown about Republican nazis discriminating against blacks, etc., and ranting about how glad he was to have left our home state.
I posted on his FB "Glad you're happy in your new home, but doesn't ___ already have voter ID law? Is it also run by fascist nazis?"
I was immediately blocked and I haven't heard from him since.
Literally 15 years of friendship gone in 30 seconds.
I sent a handwritten note when his dad died (his dad was based and ran a retail store until he was in his mid-80s...we used to hang out there in highschool) and never even heard anything back. It's sad.
Really sorry to hear that man. It is just so damn alien to me. How the hell does someone even get like that? I am pretty damn opinionated but I just couldn't imagine tossing away such an old friend for something so trivial.
That's the problem, what we regard as a trivial difference, other people have decided they will die on a hill for. Meanwhile they regard basic rights like freedom of speech trivial in pursuit of that, priorities have been completely flipped on their heads.
This one is actually pretty dumb and it was a discord group I thought I was starting to get pretty chill with but it just shows you we're not alone in encountering this behaviour. I'm a programmer and I keep a close eye on what the games industry is doing generally. People I was chatting to who had been absolutely fine with me before were going on about randoms being shitty people in text and voice chat and they were expecting companies to go and deal with it.
Me, being a programmer and actually knowing what I'm talking about laid out that in order for them to deal with randoms would require the chat either being shut down entirely. Or alternatively having some kind of hyper modded service you pay separately for with 24 hour staffing and monitoring to keep the chat 'clean' by the standards that they were looking for. That was just the reality of the situation because it would cost so much for what they wanted.
For some bizarre reason, they took this to mean that I supported the behaviour the randoms were doing in these chats. Completely out of fucking nowhere, after they messaged that and clearly meant it and they were going to make me defend the viewpoint they made up about me I just went and left and never talked to them again.
I will put up with a lot of bullshit online but one thing I refuse to do is deal with people who think it's okay to make things up about me and then try to force me to defend myself on their bullshit.
The funniest part about this is Blizzard came along with Overwatch 2 and low and behold 24 hour monitoring of VOIP being dumped in as transcripts for modding purposes. So not only was I fucking dead on about stating the realities of chat as a theory the corporations are now implementing that and you also know for a fact there's going to be regulations regarding online chats in gaming because of muh 'white supremacists and incels'.
What's so fascinating about these types of people isn't necessarily that they do this, it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 their friends meet you round the back and confirm yes it's not just you being crazy with some of them leaving and getting fed up of the situation as well. They drive away everyone around them and then wonder why they're alone because they have zero capability for self-reflection. It's pretty sad when they seemed like normal and fun people to be around with before and would still be if they didn't sperg out over peoples' opinions.
I had a similar situation occur with me. A guy I've known, and for my part was friends with, since grade 4 or 5 blocked me after calling me racist for disagreeing with affirmative action policies.
But dude, the way I see it... fuck those assholes. You don't need them in your life.
Better that it happens now over something trivial than having them turn on you when you really need the support because that does happen to people and I feel a lot of sympathy for them. The scariest shit is when it's family and they stab people in the back because the media declared someone the 'enemy', utterly brainless.
I had a friend I had known for over a decade send an ultimatum to our friend group basically telling us to get on board with social justice crap or die.
Not coincidentally this was after he got a girlfriend who was one of those crazy feminists with "ptsd" from rape (given how hysterical she is I doubt that even happened). He was always left leaning but at least he used to keep his mouth shut about it.
The really mind blowing thing about it is that she's like a 3/10 with makeup. I could understand it if she was hot, and attribute his stupid behavior to him thinking with his dick, but she isn't. She's about as mediocre as they come and crazy to boot. I fucking hate leftist ideology for what it has done to people.