![[family posting] I’m surrounded by chuds. My dad is a fascist. My brother is a chud, and just getting worse. What the fuck.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/nqIB51Q3lQ.jpg){kind=link}
Responded to his shitty Biden Crackpipe meme with the :citations-needed: episode criticizing the Biden response to this absolute shitshow of racist misinformation. His initial response was “I don’t know what reality is anymore”. When I suggested it’s clearly not listening to :live-tucker-reaction: shit. He is like “but my property rights”.
He doesn't like libs. You don't like libs. It should be possible to make that a bridge for discussion and alignment but he doesn't know what socialism is, he's inundated with vague anticommunist bullshit and thinks of it as a form of liberalism that's coming for his toothbrush. Example: y'all should be able to agree that Bernie Sanders is a SocDem trying to harm reduce and that this has led him to work within the sociopathy of the Democratic party - and to pull his punches. But he thinks Sanders is a socialist, so anything Sanders does that he doesn't like is something wrong with socialism.
Sorry the challenge is basically to teach your dad/brother theory, lol. I wouldn't want to do that. Also sorry you're surrounded by such :brainworms:.
I have chud family and mutual hatred of libs doesn't work, because the connection a chud expects from you is mutual racism. They don't define libs in the same way we do. Once you reject racism, homophobia, transpobia, etc, you are a lib to them. Once you bring out the scary theory words, you're worse than a lib.
The only instances I've ever gotten chuds to reconsider their stances wasn't during a discussion, it was during a unionization petition where we embarrassed the chuds into shutting up and signing the paper to get better pay.
Oh yes, mutual distaste for libs is far from agreement, but I'm pointing to the immediate barrier. OP's post hints at the family member having a false consciousness on class and that's screwing up the ability to even communicate.