• Rooty@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Why are you friends with douchebags? I’m not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely interested

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      6 hours ago

      I have a douchebag friend. We have a lot in common. We’re both like playing pinball. We both get migraines, and we both have chronic pain. Both have families that we love a lot. We’re both older and retired. I genuinely like him.

      He posts a lot of shit on Facebook “owning” liberals. I don’t think it suits him, but I think he’s caught up in the moment, and I think his pain and migraines get to him a bit.

      I believe he’s too good a man to stay on this track, and I’m going to be there when he realizes it. And I’ll give him a hug and tell him I understand.

      My sister has a childhood best friend that she had been through everything with, including him coming out as gay, and in her 50s her friend started supporting Trump. Again, I don’t think it suits him, he’s a sweet guy, but she just quit a relationship of 40 years because of that.

      We gotta look inside people. They have s lot of reasons for what they do.

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      4 hours ago

      He’s a good guy to me, actually a decent friend.

      Willing to help whenever etc, never met someone like him. We just have very different opinions and a different response to what bothers us haha