Yep. I was enlisted in the navy. I’ve seen this pipeline over and over on Facebook

Hate the Navy, Joe Rogan Phase, Hate the Government, Jordan Peterson Phase, Becomes sexist and undateable, Become libertarian, Be smarter and better than everyone else, Diet racism, Conspiracy theories, Angry and isolated because of their shitty beliefs, Digs in more and lives to argue, Lost their fucking mind

It’s sad watching genuinely decent people become angry, scared, and isolated. You can’t even feel bad for them because of how insufferable they become.

Your real mistake was continuing to be on facebook.

I have no idea how to help these people anymore. Before you could tell them to stop watching Fox, but now the rabbithole is everywhere you don't even know where it's coming from (well Russia at least some of it, but via so many things).

It's a little hilarious to see what these idiots say. Nextdoor is full of closeted magtards waiting to engage. A few recent highlights:

"She can't even form a sentence" about Harris. Gee, I wonder how she graduated from law school?

"As soon as they got in office, they shut down oil drilling". Uh, we are producing more oil than ever genius.

Sadly, the needs of the few (Putin, Bezos, Musk, etc.) outweigh the needs of the many, we seem to have all collectively decided.

The founding fathers literally warned us that this day was coming, but we did not listen. We could have made voting requirements more robust - like, you must be able to name or at least answer that there are 3 main branches of government to vote. Instead, media mostly won't even fact check debates, bc ofc not, why would they?

This guy may be one of the first in line to suffer, but years and decades from now, he definitely won't be the last. Unfortunately the true puppeteers will discard him instantly when no longer needed. Ironically, liberals would not, but therein lies the rub: how do you save a nation when a good 42-49% of people inside it are dead set on it not being saved, and instead handing it over to the likes of Russia? Whatever our fate, we deserve it.

I guess I'm saying: I've moved past blaming people like this - we may as well blame the Lego that we step on at night, for all the good it will do. All that is left is to understand what can be done. Like run for local office or something.

Leaving Reddit and coming to the Fediverse is a great start imho.

Does he have brain damage? Like a stroke or a bad concussion? I know two people that became like that and both of them suffered from literal brain damage before the change.

From my European perspective, it's super weird to see how much Americans care about who people vote for. The way I see Democrats talking about Republicans, and vice versa, is almost as if they’re speaking about a different species of humans. I guess it’s the benefit of living in a country with more than two political parties, so even when you know which way someone leans, you can’t be sure who they voted for. People do talk politics, but I rarely hear anyone say who they’re voting for, and from what I’ve seen, most people don’t even seem to care.

I always read in the news about how everything is going to fall apart because a certain person got elected, but then nothing happens and everything stays the same. Events like COVID or the war in Ukraine had far greater consequences on my daily life, and even those barely affected me. It feels like every time I open the news, the world is burning, but when I go outside and everything is fine, and people are nice to each other.