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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
I have a cousin in Florida who quotes bible verses and twists their meanings so they prophesies the election of Trump and legitimise his actions.
My Uncle (his Dad) was very special to me and in the past, while acknowledging my cousin was a bit 'out there', we had some great times in the past.
But he became so relentless and irrational on Facebook - to the extent my friends were wondering wtf was going on and how was I connected to this guy, I cut him out of my life.
It was not an easy decision and I procrastinated over it for too long, making the mistake of trying to reason with him. A couple of years later, I checked out some of his online activity with the result being that any doubts I did the wrong thing have completely dissipated.
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Similar story for me: I have a former business colleague with whom I was reasonably good friends outside of work. He was a super nice guy but a little bit slow and dimwitted; I chalked that up to him growing up in a small and isolated rural community in Northern Alberta and having very little contact with the outside world before he moved to Calgary after high school. Every now and then he'd talk nonsense about chemtrails or the moon landing being faked or 9/11 being an inside job, but I just shrugged it off as him either trolling his coworkers for a reaction or having a few silly beliefs that were ultimately harmless.
I haven't worked with him in over a decade, but we remained friends on Facebook. After Trump's election in 2016, something flipped in his brain causing him to go completely off the rails into right-wing crazytown. He started constantly posting ridiculous rants about George Soros, (((globalists))), QAnon, Pizzagate, and every other ridiculous unsubstantiated conspiracy theory you can think of. At first I tried to reason with him (unsuccessfully -- you can't reason with people that far gone), but I eventually just unfriended him. Life's too short to devote any amount of time to people like that.