I posted this as a reply to another tweet, but it's something I've been thinking about lately.

I know a lot of my followers on this account are really familiar with the "internet culture wars" of the past few years - has anyone else felt this deja vu?

I used to be friends with a LOT more conservatives, but drifted apart as they grew more extreme in their views and support for the GOP, to the point that I barely recognized them anymore.

It's hard to know if they were always this way and hiding it, or if they were radicalized.

I'm sure that most of them would say the same about me, but I don't think my political alignment has actually changed much. Even when I called myself "anti-SJW" (cringe), I was always a lefty.