>>158653I had a friend a while ago who basically behaved the same way. He was freaking out during the election and got really hostile against me on facebook, up to and including making personal attacks. I never made any personal attacks on him and always went out of my way to be reasonable and charitable when the situation warranted it.
It got to the point that a second friend commented on one of the personal attacks this first friend made on my profile, and he calmly and reasonably defended me. The first friend continued to be a hostile gutter slime about it, and left in a huff.
We had a discussion in the comments of a couple posts on attacks on Trump supporters vs allegations of attacks on Hillary supporters, and I thought things were moving forward when I proposed that he join me in denouncing the actions, hostility, and assaults against trump supporters if I would join him in denouncing actions, hostility, and assaults that were substantiated against Hillary supporters (I had already had a few instances of some of his "examples" being proven to be hoaxes, while I usually posted examples that had video evidence, with the people in the video shouting clear hate on the basis of the race of the victim and their alleged support of Trump). I don't remember him ever denouncing the assaults on Trump supporters.
Once I started to think he was getting unhinged, I messaged him something along the lines of "Let's agree that, no matter how the election goes, it's separate from and won't end the years-long friendship, okay?".
In all our interactions, online and in person, I went out of my way to never make personal attacks and be several degrees nicer than necessary, but it didn't seem to make much difference.
Trump won, and my friend goes dark. No contact with him at all for a few months. I assume he's just busy. We normally collaborated, or spent time together in the off-hours or between classes. I send him olive branches every few weeks letting him know about news articles on paleontology he might be interested in, or something about a mutual interest. When I eventually get a reply, it turns out he tried blocking me from every account we'd had a bridge on, and just hadn't figured out how to block my cell phone number from me. Then he blocked me from that.
Like with that second friend earlier, I showed and described the interactions I had with that first friend to several people. In a bit of detail. These were peers and even included some family friends who were decades older than me. None of them could see any mistake I'd made, or any instance of unkindness.
Whatever happened there, neither I nor anyone I talked to could see any error in how I did things. There's still exactly what his mindset was that eludes me, but I'm satisfied by now that this was entirely his failure of character. He's a mod for a group on fimfiction that's always made me uncomfortable because it looks like pedophilia to me, but given what I've learned about leftist central dogmas, I'm not surprised at it.
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Second story. Shorter, this time.
I play the MLP card game. It's pretty good. It's about mining points from central "problem" decks in between the players rather than direct conflicts, and it uses an action token system rather than tapping lands for mana like in MTG, so it's a nice change of pace.
On one of these meetups to play, one of the regular groups that shows up brought a kid with them. He's got to be something like 8-12. He has a good enough command of the language to be able to speak pretty well, and is developed enough to plan and carry out a strategy in a reasonably complex board game, but he's not much taller than the counters at the stores.
Anyway, one half of the group is playing the card game, while our half of the group is playing a desert escape board game. The kid says something like "If I could press a button that would kill Donald Trump, but would also kill a million people, I'd press it in a heartbeat, with no hesitation". He's obviously parroting something he was taught or just overheard from the adults he lives with, but it still shocked me. I'd heard one of the adults he lives with talking about someone who said he supported Trump 100% like he was angry and couldn't believe it.
(His mom cheated on his dad with this third guy, who used to be the dad's best friend. Now the kid bounces from his mom's place to his dad's place.)Turns out the kid had never even heard about the shitstorm that happened when Trump only got 2 scoops of ice cream, in an attempt to show that Trump could do literally nothing wrong, and there'd still be hateful, slanderous public outcry about him. I ended that night suggesting he look up "Donald Trump Ice Cream" on the internet, so he could see for himself. He didn't believe me when I said that Trump has just that much hostility against him already.
Hopefully that'll start a curiosity in researching his views and will act to redpill the kid a bit. I haven't run into the kid since, since he normally doesn't show up to these card / board game meetups. I don't want to ask his parents if he's done his Trump research like I suggested he do, for obvious reasons. They seem the type to fly off the handle irrationally.