okay, so let’s run through what the possible scenarios could be here, so you can figure out how you feel about them and how you would deal with them
everybody help, I won’t think of everything
- he’s exactly what he claims to be
- he’s a serial killer and you’re in danger
- he is mostly what he seems but also very lonely and maybe a little weird and has a hard time making friends except in this way
- he is looking to trap a slave
- he is running a cult
- he is part of a cult
as I’m typing them, the third one seems the most likely to me – and I bet this strategy tends to backfire a little, because it can make for an awkward beginning to a friendship when there’s so much inequity from the jump. it can be hard to recover from that, but finding a way to make the aid mutual really helps, so if that is the situation, just seeing the act of friendship as a gift you’re giving in return might be helpful.
if I had more money, I would be trying to take people in constantly, so I’ve been more trusting of these kinds of situations than I ought to be and gotten into trouble. but I am that kind of person, and I know there are others, and some of them probably have money. so maybe it’s legit.
I used to be very confident in this too, but every now and then, I look at /r/Ohio, and there have been a few threads of libs saying they’ve gotten guns and been training with them since Jan 6 because they’re worried about “what the trumpers will do when he loses again”
and probably most of them are full of shit, but idk how confident I am that all of them are