Election 2016 has done wonders for tearing apart families and ending lifelong friendships, and one Long Island man is so upset his Facebook friends unfriended him after he came out publicly as a Trump supporter that he's speaking out about the "political cyber bullying" afflicting him and his fellow Trumpets. Indeed.

Gary Pollakusky, who hails from Rocky Point, told the Post this week that his Facebook friend count dropped from about 2,000 to about 1,900 in the aftermath of the election, particularly when he changed his profile photo to one of him and his wife at the Trump/Pence victory party on Election Night. One such defector, Pollakusky said, was the best man at his wedding.

"It wasn’t until probably a day or two day later that I started to look at my news feed again to see the pictures of puppies and babies that I was hoping people were posting again and one of those folks that I was looking for in my feed was my best man and I didn’t see anything," Pollakusky told the Post. "I clicked his profile and realized he had deleted me and we weren’t friends anymore."

Pollakusky—clearly very mad that his friend no longer wanted to associate with him after he voted for a man whose presidency poses a clear threat to Muslims, immigrants, women, people of color, other minority groups, and planet earth—went on to call his friend "a hot head liberal," and said he would be willing to reconcile with his buddy, but noted, "America’s ready to move on, and so am I, with or without my best man."

Pollakusky, who has not responded to request for comment, appears to be turning his misfortune into a crusade, reportedly holding a press conference today to speak out against "this growing trend on facebook and twitter as a backlash of anti-Trump supporters going after tens of thousands on them on the internet" (sic).

I just received a press release about alleged "cyber bullying" and mass unfriending of Donald Trump supporters on Long Island. pic.twitter.com/Fb6iew1hb6 — Hunter Walker (@hunterw) November 17, 2016

It is reactionary to unfriend your former best friend without reaching out first—obviously this election has been a hellish nightmare from which we cannot awaken, but your close friends and family members probably deserve some conversation before they get the cold shoulder. I would also argue one should not unfriend Trump-supporting Facebook friends provided they aren't posting abusive memes suggesting Obama's a terrorist or that pussies deserve to be grabbed. It's easy to isolate yourself from opinions you disagree with if you curate your Facebook or Twitter that way, but one should know what the opposition is saying—both to be empathetic, but also so you know what you're up against when it comes to framing your own argument.

That said, it seems slightly hyperbolic to call Facebook-unfriending an act of "political cyber bullying"; it doesn't seem, to me, to be quite on par with the person who called me an "Ugly Jewish Cunt" on Twitter the other day, or the alt-right trolls who've been sending celebrities and reporters pictures of their heads going into ovens, or the Trump supporter who sent an epileptic reporter a video meant to induce a seizure. And that's just online harassment—hate crimes against groups marginalized by the Trump campaign have spiked drastically, both in New York City and across the country.

But everyone deserves a safe space, right?