askchapo

Yes, but I also got to see them take sort of a fall. Turned out a lot of the negative things people believed about me were actually true of this person.

Our friends were sensing something wrong in the aether, and I guess they tried to explain it by pinning it all on me. I had been drifting into fascist ideology around the time my regular social circle coalesced, after all. What they didn't understand was that years earlier, I had realized that there would eventually come a time when I would be forced to choose between fascist ideology or being part of this friend group. I decided to keep my friends, and I started seeking out content that challenged my worldview and let myself be changed by it. Sure, I never acknowledged that I had been a cryptofascist, but I was never shy about voicing my new left wing stance either. I also came into conflict with people who held the sorts of beliefs I had held just a few years prior. So I really don't get how they missed my metamorphosis into the Hexbearian I eventually became.

There eventually were some people who came to see what I was seeing, but unfortunately they weren't/aren't in contact with my former circle, so I remain on the shit list.