I have to post this here. So I haven’t seen him since like 2020 and even before that we saw each other last time in like 2014-2015 at most so we don’t really see or talk that often. He was normal last time in 2020, but now he went nuts.
So let me explain, we saw each other just before a few days after he came here with his sister and gf, he was talking about how shitty the situation in Germany is and about shit in Ukraine, Germany being USA puppet and immense hate towards Russia/Belarus etc in Germany which gave me hope until the next minute which was the exact moment when I was 99% convinced that he’s on drugs. He just started randomly rambling about ‘’‘’‘‘LGBT propaganda’’‘’‘’‘’ in Germany, that it’s ‘‘attacking mah family’’, randomly talking most incoherent shit about religion and Christianity, I will try to make sense of it: he basically said that Protestant church is not the ‘‘real’’ Christian church and talked shit about his Russian friend just because he is Protestant, all of that because Protestant church promotes ‘‘LGBT propaganda’’ which is ‘‘satanic’’, that every single religion in this world is wrong and satanic and that only Orthodoxy is the ‘‘real way of god’’, basically ‘everything I don’t like is satanic’.
And then, fucking then, he started talking about totally legit stories of priests who saw talking goats and heard voices in mountains and talked with me about it with a dead serious face. And then he went and told me that people who drink, smoke or use drugs are being told to do so by satan and that atheists are doomed in life and you get the point…
I’m completely convinced that he’s using drugs for which we don’t even have a names for yet and that he reached the point of no return, his entire fucking peronallity is talking about god every other minute, Orthodox christianity,hating on LGBT and rambling about random shit. And that’s all he has talked about for 2 straight hours after we didn’t see each other for years, I couldn’t bare to spend 1 single minute more with him and didn’t even try anything because there is no point. After all of that I’m so happy that he lives in Germany his whole life and that we see each other one time in like half a decade…
Wtf did I just witness?
This so what happens when culturally the leftist solutions are rejected/destroyed by the state/etc. People know that something’s wrong and the fascist/crypto fascist solutions end up being the easier outlet to find solutions. Nothing has solidified my beliefs more than understanding Marxist economics and understanding the material reasons for why leftist solutions make sense, and it’s sad (but not a coincidence) that it’s not explained to taught because it would dispell a lot of this “return to tradition” garbage
Adding to that: defending the Russian invasion can be turned into a criminal offence in Germany. The operation has been given the status as “war of aggression” by the German government and defending a war of aggression is punishable by imprisonment.
The most “extreme” position you can take is saying “Ukraine and Russia equally bad.” But even that will brandmark you as some pro Russia lunatic in the eyes of most Germans.
Yet Germany and the EU are “bastions of free speech” even though they do this