I love every person I mute for suffering through this incarnation to show me a manner of being that I choose not to emulate. They are guideposts, albeit repellant guideposts rather than attractive ones.
If your left hand causes you to sin, cut it off. Likewise, if having bigoted, hateful, and rhetorically lazy content in my feed causes me to stir, mute the content creator.
It's a long story but there's no way anyone could replace him as my car guy. There's too much history. I had plans to do something cool with him. I was going to get him to help me build a Herbie the Love Bug and teach me as we did it. When it was done, I was going to give it to him.
I can do some car stuff but I'm no mechanic and I'm no enthusiast. He was both.
Hopefully, in the future, the bigots are all laying on their asses because they just had their perspectives rugpulled by a certain book currently being written.