• Wirlocke
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    5 months ago

    Happened to my brother, normal democrat who agreed with feminism and disliked Trump.

    Then fiancee left him for another man, took a hard right thanks to Jordan Peterson.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yeah it’s because a separation can leave you in a really vulnerable emotional and mental place.

      And assholes like Peterson or Jones or so are adept at latching onto that and subverting your perspective from the inside out. You’d think “Hey, that could never happen to me!” but it’s difficult to know how vulnerable you’ll be after a truly harrowing emotional experience - which a breakup can be in some particular cases even though between adults it really should not have to be - and once you’re exploited, it’s virtually impossible to realize how skewed your view has become.

      Of course, this is separate from the often much more common case where someone was a nutjob from the getgo (like the guy in this article) and it just took their partner a while to realize that all the fame and money isn’t worth living with someone so utterly deranged.

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        5 months ago

        Look, I’m a grade A nutjob but two divorces later and I’ve never even voted Republican.

        So that’s… At least two things my dad and I have in common.