In the case of my dad who still watches this shit, lifelong Democrat shitlibs who think "the far left", ie: anything left of Obama, are hysterical children. This gives them a good first impression of people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapino who go on bills show and complain about woke. He has no idea who these ghouls are outside of seeing them once with Bill and when I push back telling him their abhorrent views I'm dismissed as hyperbolic because they appear civil in a 15-20 min guest slot on bills show
Exactly this. He watches MSNBC and takes their word as gospel for what a good liberal should think, anything outside of that is unserious to him. I remember his contempt for the Bush administration but once Obama stepped into office things were "back to normal" despite Obamas policies being a continuation of GWB, then Trump broke his fucking brain and thought brandon brought things "back to normal" despite being a continuation of Trumps policies.
He gets more upset with people protesting the US' involvement and reminding him of the genocide in Gaza than the fact it's actually happening. He views it as a strictly religious conflict and "dumb" in his words. He's the definition of a civility lib.
Thankfully my dad isn't this bad. He doesn't like the fact that it's happening but having to see and hear about it is bad and protesting is going too far. He has 0 material analysis of why its happening, only that it should stop by way of Hamas being destroyed for being "terrorists". He doesn't like the Israelis either but he would never call them terrorists
Sometimes I think I should take my lunch in the staff lounge as the tech guy instead of our office, but I don't need to know how incredibly reactionary some of my piers are.
In the case of my dad who still watches this shit, lifelong Democrat shitlibs who think "the far left", ie: anything left of Obama, are hysterical children. This gives them a good first impression of people like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapino who go on bills show and complain about woke. He has no idea who these ghouls are outside of seeing them once with Bill and when I push back telling him their abhorrent views I'm dismissed as hyperbolic because they appear civil in a 15-20 min guest slot on bills show
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Exactly this. He watches MSNBC and takes their word as gospel for what a good liberal should think, anything outside of that is unserious to him. I remember his contempt for the Bush administration but once Obama stepped into office things were "back to normal" despite Obamas policies being a continuation of GWB, then Trump broke his fucking brain and thought brandon brought things "back to normal" despite being a continuation of Trumps policies.
He gets more upset with people protesting the US' involvement and reminding him of the genocide in Gaza than the fact it's actually happening. He views it as a strictly religious conflict and "dumb" in his words. He's the definition of a civility lib.
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Thankfully my dad isn't this bad. He doesn't like the fact that it's happening but having to see and hear about it is bad and protesting is going too far. He has 0 material analysis of why its happening, only that it should stop by way of Hamas being destroyed for being "terrorists". He doesn't like the Israelis either but he would never call them terrorists
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Sometimes I think I should take my lunch in the staff lounge as the tech guy instead of our office, but I don't need to know how incredibly reactionary some of my piers are.
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