Here you go, this is everything:
We started out in a comic book group on FB. He had some comics to sell, I bought, and all was well. Then I had some comics to sell, he bought, and all was well. We spent hours looking at his collection (it's completely impressive, I'll give him that). We talked politics, despite the fact I hate doing that, especially with someone who has a passion for it (I do not; I'm independent, and don't vote party lines). The last time we got together, the subject of gay marriage came up, and I told him I have two kids who're trans, so I'd appreciate it if we didn't go any further. He intimated he didn't have a problem with gay people, it was "their choice" how they lived their lives. The conversation died soon after, though for other reaasons I'll get to in a sec, and other than offering each other trades on FB, I haven't seen or talked to him since.
Fast forward to happenings in politics the last few days, ie the ban of trans people in the military. I would post the offensive meme he posted to his page, but it would likely be taken down. So, I'll tell you what it was, instead: A sweating man with his finger over two buttons, one that was labeled "Transgender people should be allowed in the military" and the other "Mentally ill people shouldn't have guns". I commented, saying that surely he wasn't saying trans individuals were mentally ill? To which he wrote a very long, convoluted explanation I can no longer see (he unfriended me; I'll get to that in a moment), comparing trans "mental illness" with anorexia and bulimia. Nothing extreme, he says. "I hope I've made my position clear", was his closing.
I then shared his meme on my page, along with this:
"So, my friend (name deleted, of course) has been posting offensive things like this to his timeline the last few days, despite his intimations to the contrary when discussing the subject face-to-face. Well, I've seen mentally ill, (name deleted again). I saw a grown man berate and belittle his own wife, in front of his foster kids and a total stranger, over something as insignificant as a couple of comic books.
I hope I've clarified MY position."
(That incident also occurred on my last visit to his house, when his dog ran down the stairs and trampled the comics he'd just purchased from me, and he blamed his wife in a rather hysterical (not the funny kind) and rude way, literally screaming at her right in front of his foster kids and myself, and I hadn't even been introduced to his wife, yet)
He quickly unfriended me.
He knows I sell on Ebay, and belong to a few of the same groups on FB in which many know me and have purchased comics from me. So yes, I'm worried he'll try'n sabotage me, somehow. He's already somehow convinced one group to ban me, though it didn't work on the two others.
Now you know everything I know. I don't particularly care that you thought there was more to the story, no offense, but you did give me the opportunity to type it all out of my system, and for that I say thank you.
