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Have you ever broken up with a friend and cut them out of your life? How'd that go? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by Doug@piefed.social to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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They say it’s harder to break up with friends than a romantic partner since the rules are a lot less cut-and-dry. This often results in people tolerating others’ company they otherwise wouldn’t be around because they can’t bring themselves to cut them loose.

I’ve only ever friend broken up with one other person who was going down a 4chan bigotry rabbit hole back in the day, and he’d constantly bring up problematic talking points that I’d try to dismantle, but he was too dogmatic to have a conversation with so I had to stop being friends with him.

I check up on his online presence every now and again, but he’s only gotten more racist and sexist. Sometimes I wonder if having more pushback from me or someone outside whatever echo chamber he was in would’ve helped, but he just sapped my energy so much I couldn’t take it.

(trivia for older internet peeps; he was the Legorobot Comics author. If you ever saw his work you could probably tell he was gonna grow up to be a bigot)

Anyways, what’s your friend break up story? What was the last straw? What was the first straw? Any regrets?

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let go of all friends who voted trump the first time around. Luckily only two. No regrets.

[–] Doug@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I’m very fortunate in that I don’t have a single friend or family member who voted for Trump.

The closest I have in my proximity is one maybe two coworkers, but they are not loud about it and stay very quiet on all things political because they get dogpiled on for any talking points they bring up.

But yeah if I did know any friends or family, I’d absolutely cut them out.