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The Way Forward

In reply to the discussion: Serious questions? [View all]

Celerity

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5. I feel no 'big comeback' is nigh vibes, sorry. Social media (now with rocket fuel ie AI) has skull-fucked so so many
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 04:23 AM
Mar 2025

across the globe, especially in the US.

The RW dominates the cyberspace battleground. I have seen some good, otherwise intelligent friends (far more males than females) fall into the RW ditch over the past few years, despite my (and others) heavy lifting attempts to extract them from said ditch.

It is fucking grinding me the fuck down.

Some of them have become so hostile and full of rage that we (wifey and I) have banished them from our real lives, both here in Sweden, and also back in London. I personally told an American friend that I went to uni with in London (he has long been back in the US now, he is from the SF Bay area) that our home was no longer open to him and his GF (she is RW now too) when/if they came to Stockholm again. He has went damn near full MAGAt now, and his gateway was Rogan and that other POS Jordan Peterson, plus his incel gaming online bros. Toxic AF (and he is afro-Latino, which makes it all the more saddening, plus his GF is of mixed Chinese descent).

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