First of all, thanks for your well thought out replies. I was actually hoping for more snark here, for suggestions like "Call up Buzz Aldrin, ask him to come punch her" or "join Flat Earth Society together".
@classicdrogn: So uh, showing how someone else faked a moon landing photo is supposed to convince someone that the moon landing wasn't faked? I'm getting the feeling you don't hang out with conspiracy nuts much. Don't get me wrong, it's super cool what they did, and I'm glad I watched (except boring first 3 minutes). There are a few easy ways to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that we went to the moon:
- Russia didn't say that it was all faked by decadent western capitalists
- Astronauts installed a reflector, which you can still hit with a laser and test that yes, there's a mirror on the moon
- Tens of thousands of scientists worked on data collected, any one of whom could have falsified the whole bunch
- Because Sailor Says!
Actually, she's kind of a fascinating person, so I continue to date her, having already decided that I don't want a romantic relationship. Like, I'm an author now, so I'm supposed to hang with interesting people, right? Some key facts:
- Currently holds the record for the highest bail ever granted to a woman in Santa Barbara County. Given the recent changes to the bail law, she may hold that record for a long time. All charges were dismissed, and in the end the judge was sanctioned. As for the cause of all that, let's just say that it turned out that marrying Akio Ohtori was not a good decision.
- After this, she worked on an entertainment news show, and she dated a few celebrities. As she wasn't an actress, she got to turn down Harvey Weinstein.
- Worked as a party planner for a while. Currently a caretaker for her grandmother, who raised her. Parents are both drug addicts.
- Has the "GIPPER" vanity license plate.
- We also hang out with our transwoman friend quite a lot. Watching a party girl like her take a transwoman shopping for formalwear for the first time was as hilarious as expected.
It was just kind of funny to come straight from the Democratic Party Central Committee meeting to hang out with a girl who started talking about how the moon landing was faked, and something about how many people the Clintons killed. Like, I think it's just a symptom of too much Facebook, and Facebook is getting way worse these days. Forums like this can build a personal connection in ways The Facebook never can.
She's opinionated, and sort of in a way that doesn't respect the people around her. I mean, I'm pretty selfish, but there's a certain carelessness to her self-centeredness that's the real red flag. But you can tolerate certain things in friends that you can't in partners.
From talking with her, I finally understand a little of the mindset of what it's like to be in an abusive relationship. It's hard for me to understand, because my nature is assertive, but I get it now, the banality of it, just a little. Some things you can only learn through stories. And yet, after all she's done to take her life back, she'll still defend the patriarchy most of the time. You can't ever escape your past, not entirely.
But ffs wtf is with the moon landing stuff? Like, I'm legit worried that we are all losing our grip on reality. And while I don't mind talking to the crazies -- I usually end up doing it at protests and rallies, I've never actually been able to crack the shell of their reality. Almost every time my response takes the form of "but the world is more complicated than that!" And the scale of reality just never sinks in for people.