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lagomorph777

(30,613 posts) Fri Jun 5, 2020, 12:39 PM Jun 2020

My best friend for 50 years has caught the virus: he's gone full MAGAT. [View all]

We have talked once or twice a year in recent decades. He called yesterday, and I discovered he's suddenly gone full MAGAT. I gave him a piece of my mind. I'm afraid I'll have to unfriend him (in real life - because I don't do antisocial media like Falsebook and Twit).

I'm really bummed about this. I sure hope he's an outlier. Seems to be the opposite of the trend nationally.

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My best friend for 50 years has caught the virus: he's gone full MAGAT. [View all] lagomorph777 Jun 2020 OP

I'm sorry for you. idziak4ever1234 Jun 2020 #1

So sorry to hear that, but I've seen it in my life, too. CrispyQ Jun 2020 #2

This mass social pathology has been FOSTERED. Hortensis Jun 2020 #6

Exactly. People are being exploited by modern techniques to play to their personality traits. Midnight Writer Jun 2020 #9

Those "hot buttons" all right. Wired to the gut, not the brain. Hortensis Jun 2020 #10

I'm afraid it's a trend Bluesaph Jun 2020 #3

There's a lot of this going around uponit7771 Jun 2020 #4

Certainly more going the other way mahina Jun 2020 #5

I'm an asshole so I'd tell him to get his head examined. hunter Jun 2020 #7

I meant "virus" figuratively but I wonder whether he's "asymptomatic" ... lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #8

He's almost certainly been hiding it, Lago. This is a period Hortensis Jun 2020 #11

He sounded quite uncomfortable when I laid into him. lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #12

Good. :) Hortensis Jun 2020 #15

I'd just tell them to call ya when they realize they were wrong, and not before then and... Brainfodder Jun 2020 #13

Exactly right. lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #14