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  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Just spend any time around my extended family and you'll hear all sorts of conservative gibberish. I've been told the English royal family are leftists. I'll just list out a few things off the top of of my head: Catholics are a secret plot to drive down birthrates, all pets other than dogs make a person gay, cell phones were invented as a Satanic plot to allow white people to read non-white languages, chemtrails are real and spread gay chemicals, Trump was the only president who wasn't gay or secretly non-white, men who wear earrings are actually wearing a mind-control chip, white people are ordained in the Bible as mankind's protectors, universities should only teach business related classes, and others.

    So some of my relatives are homeschooled and they have a set of textbooks with a completely alternate American history where the Confederacy still exists, but is more like a vassal state. I remember being with one of my cousins when I was a kid and he kept saying "the real president" about something. And so I asked him like, "Who, Bill Clinton?" That's who I thought he meant, but he shook his head and said some stupid southern name I don't remember, like Cletus Amos Beauford Something Something. We didn't interact much after that, I was deemed a bad influence.