She used to be my best friend....and then she drank the Kool Aid.

[barbtries]

59. I'm sorry you lost your friend.

I lost my lifelong friend after 70 years. My brother, who is older than I am.

I don't mourn anymore, though I think about both of them often. What they support is so bad - racism, misogyny, corruption, torture, murder, war, kleptocracy, hypocrisy, cruelty...as far as I'm concerned this is so far removed from being about politics that letting them go was literally easy. Their values and lack of morals and insistent, passionate belief in lies are toxic to me, and it's been made clear that nothing I say, no evidence I present, will sway them.

I believe they chose this.

My sister is dying from Alzheimers disease. My brother and I will almost certainly be at her funeral. I don't expect to interact with him except as minimally required to prevent my niece from having to suffer further due to our estrangement. With my ex-friend, I made it official by blocking her on fb and on my phone. The last thing I communicated to her, which was on fb after, for the umpteenth time, she shit on a post I made, was, "That's enough."