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Why in God's name would you bother talking politics with your parents
You will never get them to understand or change their minds, you are just rubbing a cheese grater on your arm and drenching it in salty lemon juice, why do you hate yourself so much?
I keep getting free vegan meals out of it and lately it seems like she's been trying to get on my good side by cutting meat out of her diet... most of the time lol.I don't realistically expect her to go vegan but despite that she's been getting my hopes up a little bit more every time I meet with her. Her dietician recently told her to stop eating dairy as well.
She told me she's still going to eat normal food for thanksgiving though.
stating that she's a very tolerant person
she left our old family church of over 25 years because they started allowing female pastors
I see... My condolences. I'm so thankful I don't speak to my parents about politics at all, because they're about your mom's age. My dad still has the views of a USian viewing anti-communist propaganda in the year 1965 or something
Eep. That sounds terrible. Talks with my brother go a very similar way. Easy to get over the next day but in the moment I just want to scream, and it takes me a few hours to stabilize myself after.
Kinda curious how old your mom is.
She's in her 60's and about a year away from a stable retirement.
I was more confused than mad because I genuinely wasn't sure if she was messing with my autistic ass or not.
Like she literally lived through most of the cold war, surely she at least vaguely knows what a socialist is from propaganda? When I asked her if she was alluding to horseshoe theory she said had no idea what I was talking about.
Like she literally lived through most of the cold war, surely she at least vaguely knows what a socialist is from propaganda?
Anti-socialist propaganda doesn't actually describe what socialism is though, that's kind of the point of it.
Sure, I guess I just assumed that anti communists ads back in the day would at least mention the word socialism.
Funny enough, right after clarifying that I'm not a nazi piece of shit she started going on about how social security is too low and taxed way too high, pausing multiple times like she expected me to have hot takes on the matter. As if she thought socialism was primarily about social security.
Is this bait or something?I happened to agree with her that $40k pretax isn't enough for anyone to live off of in the USA, much less seniors, which is why I didn't really have a hot take for her.
But as soon as I mentioned high medical costs it seemed like she wanted to change the subject again.
Socialism is when the thing they don’t like
And communism is when the thing they REALLY don’t like
