It's especially "fun" when you are the "black sheep" of the family, but it turns out that you're actually the only white sheep and they've been lying to you (and/or themselves) all your life.
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The crazy thing is that my parents raised me to be this way and now that I am it's like they're surprised I care and give a damn. It is whack to me that I am now exactly what they taught me to be and now that upsets them.
I feel that so hard. I got called a pinko commie a decade or more ago because I advocated for basic christian morals for people conservatives don't like.
Fuck me for actually internalizing the morals I was raised with, right?
Oh, this hits home, thank you.
Maybe early onset dementia. One of the symptoms is loss of empathy. The lead, DDT and other pesticides they were exposed to in their youth are now taking effect. In the next few decades we are going to see a pandemic of boomers suffering from dementia.
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You're not alone
I cut out the last of my family for this reason, about the time my shithead uncle compared ThE bRiTaLiTy Of ThE bIdEn AdMiN aGaInSt CoNsErVaTiVeS to people getting snatched up off the street and disappeared.
I love the man, but I will not tolerate that dumb bullshit in my life. Was kinda cathartic to cut him off after the last argument I had, and I don't really expect to hear from him again since I doubt the stupid fuck will ever come to his senses
In this boat.
Some of my biggest regrets are keeping the peace with family who in no way deserved peace.
Cut them off. This has gone way too far.
Acting like everything is ok is condoning their behavior.
Anyone on the right that isn't in the streets with us condeming what's happening is fully onboard with this nation losing its democracy because it'll be their side that's in control when it's gone. They are traitors.
it's disgusting isn't it. They're all for "fuck everyone" until it comes to them, then they're in shock that it's happening to them. "Fuck you, i got mine"
Especially within the last two weeks with the thousands of comments I've already seen if people actively celebrating the death of two innocent people.
It's horrifying to know that we are surrounded by this many sociopaths
Reminder that a lot of those comments are from trolls farms and/or bots
Yes there are evils peoples around
Yes evil is real
So is social engineering
The rich do not only pay for the ballroom
And plenty of them are from heartless people who celebrate in the suffering of others. I have a few of them in my (formerly) close family.
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It's not sociopathy. It's in/out group thinking with a dehumanization effort put into the outgroup. That, coupled with cult-like social programming ("I've burnt bridges with all of the people who think that this is wrong, if I tell the others in the group I think this is wrong, I'll have no one left") and you've got the mixture. People who belong to MAGA will align their thinking with what the party says because they don't want to be kicked out and become one of "them".
And those same rat bastard fucks were getting pissy that people celebrated Kirk's death. They are all hypocrites and I will never take them at face value again.
Nazi Germans were all common people.
I have always believed that The American political system has nothing left to give to it's people other than the vicarious experience of being the abuser. But as someone who is not American I have always seen this experience from a foreign politics perspective. Whenever America invaded a country ,performed a drone strike on civilians, or just starved another country through economic warfare; I always saw a lot of people in the comments celebrating the cruelty and making excuses as to why that cruelty is justified. This was of course a radicalizing experience while growing up; Because I don't think this is the result of "evil" but the result of a psychopathic system reprograming normal people to be the psychopaths that it needs to do it's bidding.
Born and raised red white and blue, and absolutely, America has always celebrated cruelty to foreign countries, especially poor and not-white countries. We've always been cruel as fuck to our own people, too. Trump & the Republicans have raised the curtain, though — there's no longer any pretense at what's been laughably called "truth, justice, and the American way."
Magats are scum people. The ones in office and the ones who voted for them.
Once you incorporate that nonhomogeneous view of the humans a lot of (near or distant) historical events, trends, cultural stuff, etc makes a lot more sense (sadistic & opportunistic behavior is significantly more dominant and accepted than we pretend it to be, despite constant evidence) - to the extend that "evil" might not even be completely/fully the right word for it (lacks the quality of destructive-parasitic in it's most mondaine sense?).
We sure aren't a typical mammal, but we don't deviate all that much in single traits - we just concentrated a bunch of specific ones.
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The powers that be are gaslighting everyone with excuses because they align more with a snuff film producing pedophile over what’s right and just.
Also: release the Epstein files
I'll at least wait to see if who ever's suffering is a republican or not before cheering.
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