I remember an old mutual of mine and former friend who went by Based-Heisenberg, he helped me greatly during the worst years of my life in Venezuela, and really got me into loving American gun culture around the time the community was really big in Tumblr, not to mention the anarco-capitalist movement which I understood and respected, but was never really truly onboard with.
But when the pandemic began, right after I finally left Venezuela for good, all the weird shit related to those dark days started happening, and among the most annoying was the whole mask mandates, which I personally abided to and really took seriously, but which nevertheless hoped would end quickly.
Well, he went for the camp of “mask don’t work”, which always seemed to me came more from his fundamental beliefs about how everything government was bad, not to mention around the time there was the whole “trust the science bro” vs “vaccines are dangerous and we’re not getting told that” fighting that made internet debates about the pandemic pissing contests between the most annoying people.
So he started to publicly show his disdain for them, how they were useless, and how they were a tool to keep us locked and obedient, meanwhile I was trying to get my shit together in Colombia while having to deal with the annoyance of masks and life with social distancing, which were just that, annoying, but not really something that took great effort to do, just as long as I carried a backpack around with a bag of masks inside, which I did, and didn’t stick to people while in public it was a simple thing to do.
So, I got annoyed, I believe I tried to debate the topic publicly with him a couple of times, but neither of us would budge. Then one day, after he made a particularly smug reply to one of those crybaby callout posts about how you were basically Hitler for not wearing a mask, I very stupidly and without a clear reason, decided to send him some anon hate, going for an insult about his weight because idiot me thought that was the best possible reply imaginable.
Of fucking course he immediately knew it was me, dude knew how to track anon ask’s IPs, and who else would be sending him hate in near perfect English from good old Barranquilla, Colombia? This fucking idiot of course, so he answered the post and called me on my bullshit, basically showing how much of an hypocrite I was, which was very true, since I was always against petty name calling when dealing with the mask shit.
And that’s how I killed a friendship that lasted a good few years, not to mention made a fool of myself with our mutuals, some of whom never saw me in the same light again, and while I half-heartedly apologized, not to mention recognized his actions in helping me during my worst years in Venezuela, I still ended up losing contact with him, and man, even though that happened years ago, it still stings.
Sorry man, I really, really wasn’t thinking straight in those days, I don’t think anyone did really, if you’re still in this accursed site, thank you for everything, and hope you’re doing well in that cool job of yours you got shortly after the pandemic began to subside.
This post was brought by: A moment of absolute Vietnam-style cringe after recalling that day brought about while doing the dishes.
I remember based-heisenberg. He was a complete and total asshole. Very condescending, petty, and outright hostile to anything he considered stupid. Never cared for him.
