Myself and DMChicago were conversating on the forum before he told me he needed a ride to Red Ash (a popular Italian restaurant in Downtown Austin.) It was his first time going there and he wanted to know if I was free, I could take him there. I agreed to do so. He direct messaged me and provided me his contact information and address so I drove to his place and picked him up. He lived in a very upscale, quaint community, his home was a nested in the hills of Austin overlooking Lake Travis and it was on the border line of a mansion property that he and his wife inhabited. Very beautiful place.
When he entered my car we chatted for a bit, got acquainted and spoke about each others past. We had similarities that we both had some prior history of living in Chicago. We spoke about how he got his house and what we did for work. It turned out, my salary was actually higher than his at the time, although I was working multiple jobs. At the time he was right at $200,000 per year and I was somewhere around $285,000 per year although I was working two jobs + Uber to obtain it. I had forgotten what specifically sparked the political debate, I 'think' we eased into it and he brought something up and I casually called certain Democratic politicians such as Joe Biden, Nanci Pelosi and Gavin Newsom crooks as I too comfortably assumed DMChicago shared my viewpoints. He showed unease and immediately replied "What about the rest of them? I.. .I'm a Democrat.. I thought we were even here!" I replied "Yeah, they are, but the reason it angers me is they keep saying that they are helping minority workers but that's not what they're doing." of which I said because their policies were causing financial distress through inflation, housing shortages, lay offs, resource scarcity, and more. DMChicago maintained his face throughout the rest of the rid and seemed to not be to bothered. He carried a completely coharent conversation and even seemed nice, but when we got to Red Ash, things changed. He started seeming to have a melt down. He told me about all of the times on the forums where I supported him and how I approved of where he lived (this is because Austin is a VERY elitist city and its inhabitants condemn anyone who doesn't live in the central district.)... He literally looked like he was about to break apart. He reached in his wallet and gave me $20 and told me "You're a good kid." and he got out of my car and SLAMMED my door HARD. It took me off guard. I yelled out the window because I didn't intend to offend him and told him "You have a good day!" .. He ignored me and continued walking very noticeably angry.
This what happened when I got back home:
For quite some time things 'seemed' normal. He kept posting normally as well. Until suddenly, he started taking jabs at me. I didn't notice it at first. At first I thought he was being genuine.
I didn't catch on immediately. I thought at first that he was sharing his genuine opinion. In either case it looked like a baiting attempt to drag me into a argument or debate over pettiness. I avoided it, although in hindsight I do wish I had firmly asserted my opinion without getting emotional. It appeared that Ivory Lee Spurlock also noticed it and diverted the topic away from them.
ashbeeigh has always had an antagonistic relationship toward me. When I first became a member of that forum, she looked for every possible way to either discredit me or deliver put downs at my posts. She is snarky and very rude. I started catching onto her because she was very overt about it and I either dismissed it or I would counter her with something witty, which I was usually pretty decent at. It eventually backfired on her when multiple forum members including myself formed a pile-on accusing her of trolling me and other posters. She was especially harsh to newcomers because she felt that they were the reason she cannot buy a house, however; ashbeeigh was not born in Texas and she moved to Austin from another city. She also always prioritizing living 'in' Austin proper as a renter and puts down anyone who lives in the suburbs as she sees herself as 'above' them, yet at the same time she also complains about affordability issues but refuses to move to the suburbs where she can afford to live (which is a choice I made despite myself making considerably more than ashbeeigh does). It came to a point however that her put downs were obnoxiously obvious and several posters retaliated against her causing her to finally stop... ...until now, where she felt a potential alliance with DMChicago would allow her to get revenge against me for humiliating her.
Meanwhile, later there was a thread regarding voting and how difficult it is to vote, of which I refuted. I personally have felt for some time that the Democrats have wanted to make it easier to vote to allow illegals to vote and skew the elections using illegitimate means. Now, I will say even at this time, I was not a firmly convicted Republican, but I felt that the Democratic Party was a lot more fishy as of late than the Republicans were.
I will say, I tend to be assertive and sometimes overly confident or aggressive. I was irritated though because of how much propaganda was being thrown at to 'frame' Republicans as the problem when Democrats at this point were getting away with way too much.
DMChicago strikes back at me. At this point in time I still didn't know or understand why he was doing this. When he was angry about the Uber ride, I 'thought' he saw me as 'entitled' or 'self conceited' and I was trying to deflect those notions of myself and subtly show him that wasn't the case. I 'thought' at the time that he misunderstood me and what I was. He was countered this time in this argument however by both myself and another poster. He didn't make another post in the thread.
To Be Continued...
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