They must be given no quarter

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29. i can top that.

i have a part time open relationship w one. yes, parse that.
it's been a trip, but he is basically a disaffected hippie who fell down the info rabbit hole. he believes in medical woo too. what he fell for is the idea that it's all rigged.

some of these people are reachable, and he and i have learned to cross swords w rules. i will not be trolled. he still tries, but i just say bye. usually by the time he gets his shoes on and finds his car keys, he has cooled off, and we can talk. then we find things we can agree on. i raised 5 kids. i can do simple.

it's funny that he has 2 fb accounts, one of which spends a lot of time in jail. so he uses an older sock, from before he lost his mind. i can have a halfway sane convo on that page. his actual page? blocked.

he is smart, but gullible. he doesnt have a lot of math and science background. he has sane old hippie friends. i try to never miss and opportunity to tear him up on his anti-science bullshit. he is a little better at math, but i give an occasional tedtalk about the highschool maths. and i never pass up an opportunity to wager on future numbers that i know he is not grasping.

his big contribution to keeping this sane, such that it is, is that he knows how to drop it. and apologize.

i feel ya. i had to step back from my brother, who is a lefty, but a bully. fam thinks i am being touchy and grinding old grudges, but i was always target #1, and apparently still am.