One of my in-laws is the worst kind of aging :freeze-gamer: .
He's the target audience for Youtubers that ramble about how everything is political these days. Many of his takes are chuddy but tepid, but one was very, very hot indeed.
If I recall correctly, it went almost verbatim like this:
:grillman: "My kids are mature for their age. They've watched Game of Thrones with me plenty of times. They're not thin-skinned snowflakes... but it should be against the law to show gay shit without warning me about it." :grill-broke:
He went on to describe in some detail some gaaay oral sex scene in Gambo or maybe it was some other :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: that ostensibly a few preteen children are totally mature enough to watch with him, as long as there's none of that. :gayroller-2000:
While he was ranting, delaying the return to his car as I had been waiting for for the better part of an hour, his preteen kids were standing around him, one bored, one annoyed and outright asking "are you doing this again, daddy?" with a :lea-why: face that implied that he had made the near-exact same rant to someone else before during other offline opportunities.
Kids are totally mature enough for :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: and it's some sort of badge of honor to play with Legos on the carpet during historically accurate hog feedings, as long as it isn't gaaaay. :what-the-hell:
Defend the Iraq war.
As an Australian.
Who was born in 1998.
WHO WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE AUSTRALIAN ARMED FORCES LAST YEAR FOR FAILING A DRUG TEST.
The defense was that they (Iraq) didn't have WMDs because haha W Bush and america are dumb.
But they could have developed WMDs in the 2010's so it's retroactively justifiable as a pre-emptive strike.
The amount of smug he expressed over Americans and how stupid they are while explaining the dumbest justification for the Iraq War you can come up with. Like dude, the Iraq war succeeded in it's mission statement, make billions for arms manufacturers. It was a masterfully executed example of manufactured consent, the powers in charge weren't stupid, they were greedy and evil. It wasn't bad intel, it was bad faith.
My auntie considers herself pro life because she'd never choose to have an abortion, however she's fine with other women making those choices and thinks it should be legal for them - which is literally a pro choice position but I guess it has other cultural detritus for her.
Unironically least terrible "pro lifer."