I went through this in 2016-2017.
I'm really sorry it's happening to you too. 
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Replying to @eigenrobot @spakhm
Just to add on this happened to me in 2013-2015. It's normal.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @spakhm
Maybe. I mean I'm inclined to believe this is new. But it also sort of seems natural that you go through a social culling in your late 20's early 30's as people enter the social consciousness and choose sides. Did it happen before, but look different?
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Replying to @RevrseSolipsist @spakhm
people used to drift apart but it was usually awkward differences in lifestyle rather than shouting matches about politic's
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Replying to @eigenrobot @spakhm
mm. Yeah. So I'd say it's probably always been normal, but this thing where your friends explosively start being mean to you publicly on social media then stop texting you and it happens with all your Friends Of A Certain Persuasion all at once is new.
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Replying to @RevrseSolipsist @spakhm
I think that's right mostly. In some of my personal cases, it really did rend some friendships that were likely to persist absent All This.
@liminal_warmth can confirm or deny, but we were still getting along well and meeting up over summers before things went stupid
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Oh yeah for sure. The group of people I spent most of my free time with suddenly and without warning uniformly went full-bore Jezebel feminist. It legitimately took me a few weeks to convince myself they weren't being ironic. Anyway I participated in what I believed was an
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Replying to @RevrseSolipsist @eigenrobot and
invitation to talk about social issues (remember, this was a reasonable belief in 2013), and my friendship with over half of that group ended in the next three or so months. I would have loved to keep hanging with them, but they weren't having it.
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We would probably all be chill to this day but for. I still wonder what exactly happened to cause such a drastic, uniform change in such a short period (with my group of friends specifically).
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