In the past two days I've had my boomer neighbor tell me all latinx people need to be rounded up and shot. Then I had my boomer dad tell me that humans are disgusting and that Hitler was right -
In the past two days I've had my boomer neighbor tell me all latinx people need to be rounded up and shot. Then I had my boomer dad tell me that humans are disgusting and that Hitler was right -
in putting "useless eaters" in camps and killing them.
Add on top of that a heatwave that won't break until next week and all the general news about Biden and Trump has made me kind of existential dread modeing. What the fuck do we do?
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Anyone in this thread should be allowed to live with my parents for a week. They're I guess libs, probably closer to socdem if really interrogated. My dad was homophonic when that shit was normal but grew out of it by the mid 2000s like culture in general did and thought I'm pretty sure it was due to his ignorance at the time of considering trans people a subgenre of gay, when people decided to make trans people an issue his updates from me and the fact that he didn't have the wherewithal to compartmentalize his bigotries meant once he found out trans people weren't like...a more permanent drag queen, it was a quick 'oh, gotcha, I was off base'. They now Will absolutely not buy Harry Potter shit for my little cousins who's mom (also my cousin) is an irreparable potterhead/Disney adult. I explained JK to em and they returned her Christmas presents and got new ones. My dad was also too spoiled by his union gig that he got iffy on unions until.the end when he noticed how fucking sweet it was to tell your manager to piss off once he heard about what I deal with. Other than that we play Nintendo games together when I visit and they have been enjoying retirement by becoming gamers. Too cold war brained and out of the game to be full leftists, but are just decent people without a hateful none in their bodies and they also recognize I'm significantly more passionate and well read on these sorts of things and therefore take me seriously and generally will understand that if I say something is bad or good, it probably is. They've seen my nose in books since I was little and I was politically inclined since the 3rd grade and they nurtured it and then got the fuck out of my way intellectually when I surpassed them. I'm sure I didn't turn out how they had thought but they got it pretty early on I'd be hard to control and will be an absolute weirdo and adjusted accordingly. They're also very aware they were among the last to take the money and run regarding neoliberalism and how fucked it is for us and aren't dicks about helping out, they get that their pay was double mine and rent was less than half and that our generation and by extent theirs for those who have the money are being gutted. They're John Oliver level and thsts fine for a parent.
This was actually really heartwarming to read and I hope your parents know how much you appreciate them for avoiding the brainworms that rotted the minds of most of their generation.
They do to the extent considered necessary between us. We're still waspy af and don't do feelings, but the understanding is subtextually there. As a family big gestures or open 'hey, you guys are great and I love you' are corny af and we just don't and gotta be real, that fine by Mr cause I do t have to fake it with extended family when I kinda don't like most of em. My parents are cool and I got along amazingly with my dad's dad, he was the silent Gen version of me, turned down an easy military career post war to be a firefighter, laid down a mutual aide network between rural fire stations so they wod cover each other's assess in bigger fires and when woe.n were ad.itted was the biggest hard ass as fire chief about the dudes not being pigs or they'd get fired ans that was the 60s and 70s. As an old crank he went on to personally boycott any brand who ran commercials he found annoying.
Hope you tell them that you appreciate them!