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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It's weird, in my family the black sheep are the ultra conservatives whereas everyone else leans from Liberal (at the most Right Leaning) to "Let's burn down a mansion and eat the first non-servant who runs out alive!"

I was kinda glad that the uncle who was "Always trying to be my friend, always hip and cool and with it despite actually being none of those things and instead coming off as an annoying asshole." basically stopped talking to me or even acknowledging my existence beyond telling his son/my cousin that I was possessed by Demons that made me cut off my dick and that's why they gotta get the Mexicans outta America before they teach Evolution to white children (Barely an exaggeration), and his son/my cousin was smart enough to basically say "My Dad says you're evil, but I'm actually going to be somewhat nice although still an annoying little bible thumping shit, because if you're evil you have all the Satanic Video Games in VR!"

and I said "Well at least you have some level of thinking for yourself, here's my Occulus (I'm not calling it a Meta), go nuts."

Lately only my Aunt has been coming to Thanksgiving Dinners while the uncle and cousin have been staying at home, apparently she's starting to get sick of their Right Wing Christofascist Bullshit.

For the record, she's Anti-LGBT, Pro-Trump, and believes they eat dogs in Ohio, she's just sane by comparison to her husband and son.

Like it's the difference between "Trump's racist, but at least he's not a Democrat" Vs. "Trump is literally the Messiah, We're gonna send the infidels to Christ for Judgement!", Far Right Vs. QAnon Shit

We're very civil about it in the hopes that she and hopefully the son too, can break away from her husband's nonsense.

For the record: My aunt is the one related by blood, not the uncle.

I will say this, I hate Reddit Atheists; the kind that jump on your case for shouting "Oh God!" when you're scared and worship the Sacred Texts of St. Hitchens. But if every religious person I ever met was like my uncle and his son, I'd totally get why Reddit Atheists are the way they are...

Last time the kid came to Thanksgiving, he was talking to my sister about Jurassic Park... Then during dinner when I was just making conversation, (Everyone eats at the same table, we don't have a separate "Kid's Table" sides they were in their late teens anyway) I made the mistake of treating dinosaurs as if they were real and not an elaborate creation of Hollywood.

He kept chanting "The Big Bang is a Faerie Tale, not a theory!" until I "apologized to Jesus for my blasphemy."

They actually had to take him out of public school and put him in a private Fundie school because he kept failing his classes due to trying to claim most of History and Science didn't actually exist on his assignments.

I'm deeply worried; one day that guy (He's an adult now) is going to leave the bubble created for him by his Church and his father, and he will not be even slightly equipped to begin to comprehended the world outside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What makes you think he'll leave? I know plenty of adults 40+ that are still like the...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Mom and Dad have to die some time.....

It may happen when he's old and grey, rolling outside on his futurstic hover wheelchair wondering why people say it's the hover-servos that make his chair fly and not Jesus.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In my family, the more conservative guys are the clean shaven ones. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Also, GenZ men voted for fascism more than millennial men so this comic really is backwards

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Replace the second panel red with “woke and gay”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Hey buddy! I may be woke. And I may be gay! And... What was the third thing you called me?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also there is no way the second dude isn't going. He's going and hes going to bs and eat and drink beer and belch, no matter who else is going to be there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That’s probably being kind compared to what would be said if it actually were a problem.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I still haven't looked into what "woke" actually means, but from what I can tell, it seems to mean anything far-right people don't like.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

that's why the word was invented, to replace the obvious intolerance for openness

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hahahah that's what they want you to think. Woke is from like the 60s. Do some research on it. It's pretty interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So it doesn't mean awake anymore?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah he thinks it means whatever the fuck the American fat right media says it does.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don’t you dare fix that typo.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually in ancient etruscan...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

... person meant mask. If you call someone a person, you accuse them of playing a role. Fact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

are you saying you're woke on the subject? I thought it was from rap culture.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's from black culture. You tell your friends to stay woke so that when the cops stop them for no good reason, they remember to treat the cop like a wild animal and be careful around them. If you're black and you treat a cop like a human being, you'll get shot. So you gotta stay woke.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Be me

Liberal uncle in conservative/ trump family

Fly to red state for family member’s funeral

Get made fun of by all family members in public at the funeral reception

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My grandma never met you. She lived to be 103, and died last October (2023).

My grandma loved you. She wanted you to do well, and be happy. Just as she did with everyone on earth. It's physically impossible for her to host a dinner big enough to feed everyone on earth. But the logistical impossibility is the only reason she didn't do it.

My cousin is a lesbian. She had been married to a decent man, had two kids. Good family man. Married for nearly 10 years before she discovered she was lesbian. The breakup was civil. He did nothing wrong. They both still loved each other, and loved the kids. He was still welcome at the table, as was my cousins new partner. My cousins mom was NOT accepting. When my aunt tried making a scene, my grandma said "Melinda.......I won't have hate at this table. You love your daughter. I don't ask you to agree with your daughters lifestyle. But I do ask you do not bring hate into my home."

My grandma was a teacher in her 20s. She lived in a small but growing suburb, and essentially raised the whole town. She got promoted several times as the years went on. Eventually being the district superintendant. She LITERALLY was responsible for raising thousands of kids, who were everywhere from the boomer generation to the millenials.

She had a simple philosophy. Which was that she loved you. She would put aside the world to hear what you had to say. My grandpa used to joke that when WWII broke out, she was having tea with the neighbors and helping raise their kids. Just discussing the day. Choas and war breaking out across the globe, but she was determined to hear about you. And for the kids, she would teach them that everybody was different, and we need to love everybody for who they are. Not who you want them to be.

And she loved everyone. Even you. Even though she never met you. She always said "Everyone is welcome in this home, as long as they take off their hat at the dinner table, leave hate out of their hearts, and tell me about their day."

The only time I ever remember her saying anything negative, was somebody had said during trumps first term something he was doing in office.

Her reply was "I just do not like that man."

AIRHORNS!!!

I know that sounds so non-aggressive, but for her to say she didn't like someone would be like a world leader declairing WWIII. The room literally went quiet.

So I try to live my life to keep making Gram proud. Accept everyone, even if you disagree with them. You can't just accept those you get along with, and not create an echo chamber.

So if you're ever in Cleveland, you can have a meal with me. And maybe when you fly out of state to be with family, you can teach them about letting the hate go.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your grandma sounds like a wonderful human who lived a wonderful life. I hope you are doing well.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, everyone has that non-racist uncle nobody likes to see at family gatherings!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

He always stays sober and doesn't join in the violent and racist tirade

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