I actually met my first IRL r*dditor a few days ago at a painting thing. This guy shows up with a Vaush-style unkempt beard and starts off with "It's good to be able to work on stuff without the kids bothering you, right fellas? Haha..."

Okay so this guy is a dad who needs some alone time. That's normal. But then he proceeds to spend the entire time talking about his kids. "Oh that's like when my son did that in school!" or he'd say "My daughter showed me that," and so on, non-stop for like 4 hours.

I really wanted to say "Dude, shut the fuck up no one here cares about your son's grades or whatever the fuck. Maybe you should have brought them with you instead of perpetuating the same 'Dad can't show children interest or affection' shit your parents inflicted on you?"

But what really made me not like this guy (who was otherwise friendly and I probably shouldn't have been bothered by him) was that he finally felt comfortable enough to say "I saw on reddit..." He switched from talking about his kids to whatever slop he saw Stormfront. Memes, tutorials, whatever...he was unironically doing "I must consoooooom!" in response to astroturfing instead of recognizing he was getting psyop'd. Like no, guy. I don't use that shitty site because it's all fake nonsense or white supremacist propaganda or some sexual predator meeting spot.

Anywho. I think I mentally overreacted to this person's vibe. But he was a peak whiteboy millennial stereotype who may otherwise have progressive politics, yet hasn't ridden himself completely of libshit because his material interests are not with the rest of the proletariat.

Sorry for the rant, it's just been rummaging around in my head for two or three days now how much I hate these fucking people.