@SinistralRifleman So just how badly is Karl left-pilled? Just the other day he lambasted someone on /r/liberalgunowners for telling people to lift weights if they're too weak to handle an AR15, saying it's Ableist. Is he so far gone that he can never come back to reality? You've hung out with him a lot so I assume you've witnessed his descent to madness first-hand.
What you see him post is a genuine reflection of his ideology. He has almost no tolerance for ideological differences. He does not understand people making completely rational decisions if they conflict with his own world view.
A simple example people who attended Pima pistol club matches were traitors to him; even if it made sense for them to attend them because they live in that area.
He has little empathy for people he actually knows, while having this broad performative empathy for groups of people he doesn’t
This wasn’t always the case. He used to be able to get along with mixed company and different ideologies a lot more. It accelerated more and more post 2023.
Well to be fair, just about every single time I see you post you're crying about how Karl ruined X for you when your stupid ass was willfully partnered up with him despite knowing how he is. You knew he was part of the Satanic Temple and decided to stay onboard with him but it's apparently that damn Karl's fault that people pulled out of an event when they found out about it. Unless you're so retarded that you thought the gun community would be cool sacrificing their religious values to attend an event with somebody from the Satanic Temple involved, you are just as much to blame.
Besides, I've seen you talk a whole lot of shit to people who called out Karl's behavior beforehand. Nobody likes a perpetual victim.
I’ve already talked about this in this thread, you could scroll back and read. To summarize.
First, he wasn’t always unreasonable. He was just an eccentric nerdy gun guy for a long time. I met him in 2006. The Karl you see on the internet now is not the even close to the Karl of even up to 2019. The WWSD program started in 2017. Brutality Matches started in 2018.
The internet screaming slurs and making up shit about Karl made him seem reasonable longer than he otherwise would have. The attacks I faced for the association also made Karl seem more reasonable than the people going after him and by extension me caught in the blast radius.
Splitting wasn’t a simple decision when we had overlapping business relationships, revenue streams, and were involved in a civil lawsuit (funded by those revenue streams) starting in 2020 that finally ended in 2025, in which Karl was a key witness and the WWSD program was a major component of.
It also wasn’t non-stop drama; instead constantly two steps forward one step back or two steps forward two steps back because of various controversies Karl caused. It was not until the Wired article when he rug pulled me/went totally mask off with what his goals were that I saw him as completely unreasonable.
So in the end we won the lawsuit at trial and then negotiated a settlement to end the appeal. The company is mine now. Sales are up about 30% since splitting with Karl. I’ve launched my own match series with actual support from the industry and sponsors. And I can continue to live my lower middle class lifestyle scratching out an existence in the gun industry and not have to find a normal job if that’s even possible at this point in my life.
What could I have done differently? Not participated in internet slap fights myself is about it.
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