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We had tiptoed around the subject for a month after Roe was overturned, and when he said he wouldn't ask out a girl he likes because she's from a Blue state, the conversation went downhill from there. Please note I have literally talked him out of unaliving himself multiple times because I cared about him. I haven't spoken in any meaningful capacity since July. I decided last night was the night. This is the result...

Me: So I talked to my therapist. She was telling me about a lawyer friend of hers who witnessed Roe. She said the Supreme Court should never have had their hands on something like that in the first place, because once it is out of our hands as the voters, it's all over. It should have been in the hands of the states all along, except it should have been codified with an assurance that women's bodily autonomy be codified into the states. A dangerous precedent has been set, and now people who view me as little more than an end table are restricting my autonomy, even in Blue states. I'm coming to you and telling you this not to get you on my side, but so you know that I have avoided speaking with you for my own sanity. I do not trust you as I once did. I feel like you view me as a second-class citizen. I would never try to make you feel like shit for my being there for you, but I sincerely believe you are not someone who can ever be there for me.

Him: I'm surprised that you were ever surprised. I thought it was obvious how religious and conservative I am, and therefore implied. It always seemed obvious to me that you were on the opposite side of this issue and yet I chose to be friends with you for fourteen years in spite of that. I suppose that means nothing. So be it. I'm not naive enough to think I'll ever change your mind, and you can bet that I will die on the hill of abolition, literally if I must, just as my ancestors did at Gettysburg. You happened to catch me while I'm two days into being possessed by boiling rage over something unrelated. So for lack of having a filter I'll be blunt. Judgment is coming for all of us. There is no escape. The only hope of a better life lies on the other side of death. Everything in this world is worthless and evil, including humans and their oh so precious sexuality. This whole world will burn, and everyone hiding in their hovels and caves will beg for a death that will never come. Permanent torment is the only thing any of us deserve. And for the vast majority of us, those who have chosen "progress," that is exactly what we will recieve.

It's up to you whether you want that for yourself.

I've never given full vent to what I really think because I know most people can't handle that. Now I realize that was a mistake. I've been too quiet and too agreeable because I didn't want to stir up discord. Thank you for helping me to remove my gag. I fear we may not see each other again except in the next civil war. And make no mistake, we will be on opposite sides.

Edit: Oh lovely! Someone threw the carebot at me! Guess I'm officially initiated!