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Confrontation 12/23/2024
Advisory: possible triggering content on politics, and panic attacks. Use proper self-care…
I think, I believe I passed another test.

Last night, I was doing laundry, and there was this guy with a bald head, youngish. And Polish, because he let me know that, and he started ranting and rifting about Republicans and conservative and such pro Trump, and talking about how he grew up in Poland. I never got his name, and I never told him mine. He lives in my building. We’ll call him Josef.
He was going on and on about ivermectin. Here I am in the laundry space in the basement, and I have a mask on because of COVID-19 to protect myself. I am still hesitant being in enclosed spaces. For goodness sake. I still don’t visit the main Costco in Queens because of the lack of access to outside air, and I refuse to go into it still,
He was jumping all over the place and talking about how Trump is going to help the world and protect it.
And in my mind, I’m running…
Why can’t he see what I see?
What was he on?
He kept pushing conservative media. And I said, please, I don’t want to talk about that. It’s not, you need more balance.
But then he counters out, oh, I listened to BBC propaganda…