Date: October 12th, 2026 2:44 PM Author: fragrant prole
I moved abroad a year ago--not primarily because of politics, though maybe it was a consideration. I guess I've shielded myself from the worst of this stuff. But there are people from my past I can't really talk to anymore due to the mainstreaming of extremism on both sides. People I'd like to meet up with and shoot the shit about old times, were they not ideologically possessed.