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Here is the thing, he wasn't like this growing up.  But the rightwing hate machine from AM radio to Fox/OANN/NEWSMAX all corrupted his values and his thought process.  This hit home.  

I get it. Between 2015-16, my Dad went from joking about Trump to voting for him. And my Mom got me a My Pillow at one point. Both have advanced degrees and Catholic. Abortion was their gateway issue.

Fortunately, they liked other shows than FOX and were decent to be with. RIP.
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I am so glad my parents are basically computer illiterate and never set up a fb account and that they never watched Fox News. If my immediate family were also trumpkins, I would for sure be long gone to another state not thinking twice 

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1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

I am so glad my parents are basically computer illiterate and never set up a fb account and that they never watched Fox News. If my immediate family were also trumpkins, I would for sure be long gone to another state not thinking twice 

It's definitely affected how frequently I talk to and see mine. And that fucking sucks. They've always been Rush/FOX "conservatives" (shit, so was I by osmosis), but they at least had the decency to keep that shit in check in polite company. The combination of Trump, COVID, and internet/social media in your pocket* has just broken so many people, especially seniors, where the floodgates for appropriate conversation have been breached. They find ways to bring the most innocuous comments back to politics--California stealing everyone's taxes, people wearing masks in cars, BLM, men playing women's sports, all the hits--at every opportunity. It's exhausting and a beating to be around.

*as with most, I'm sure, my Dad started small with morning check-ins to see what Drudge had to say and maybe a little O'Reilly Factor at night. Now, with smart phones, it's a constant addiction to Truth Social and OAN/Newsmax/etc.

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10 hours ago, Eskimohorn said:


I get it. Between 2015-16, my Dad went from joking about Trump to voting for him. And my Mom got me a My Pillow at one point. Both have advanced degrees and Catholic. Abortion was their gateway issue.

Fortunately, they liked other shows than FOX and were decent to be with. RIP.

I think I shared before that one tiny upside to my father passing away in 2015 from lung cancer is he didn't live to this era. He was already going down the Fox News Obama is the worst thing ever rabbit hole. He definitely would've voted for Trump and probably gone full MAGA. We agreed to not talk about politics around each other and I'm glad he didn't become someone that I could no longer look up to. I'm glad I'm left with good memories of him before he died. I would hate to be in a situation to have to cut him off or dodge his calls and texts.

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My mother was a fwd>fwd>fwd emailer, and a staunch Republican. She likely voted for tfg in 16, but was quiet about doing so. Then Patrick asked her to die for the economy. Problem solved.

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15 hours ago, Bullneck said:

 

 

 

Hell, I always thought this guy was a Russian troll.  


I thought the Gunther bro on twitter lived in Sugar Land? I mean you can still be a Russian troll while living in Houston, so…



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