Sorry, your father is a jackass. It happens sometimes.
Sorry to hear your dad has been brainwashed into a cult. There was a good documentary about this called 'The Brainwashing of my Dad' in 2015, which shows the mechanism of how it happens.
likely watches fox 24/7 and listens to radio owned by conservatives. theres loads of stories like this on reddit the past few years.
he's worse. he likes Russian propaganda blogs and OAN. he used to have gay friends.
Did your dad experience any traumatic event before really falling into the deep end with that stuff? I'm curious if Andrew Callaghan's radicalization theory as to why this happens holds up in this instance.
I don't think so, but he has never been willing to explain into why he got into the stuff with me. I tried asking years ago and he just gave some dumb "both sides are propaganda, I read everything" answer.
Authoritarian followers frequently have poor reasoning skills. Though I've rarely heard anything quite that stupid.
MAGA? That's the Make America Go Away group in Greenland isn't it?
Fuck I'm so ashamed of (most of) those in charge of the USA anymore, along with the blind cult following.. ☹️
If you’re interested in street epistemology, you could use those tools to have some impossible conversations with him.
It’s an interesting toolset people usually use when they want to plant seeds of doubt and make Christians squirm, but it can be used for much more than that. If you do it right, you’ll understand why he believes the way he does, and the conversation will remain calm and respectful regardless. It’s borderline magical if you know what you’re doing.
Could you elaborate? What is "street epistemology"?
"Trump did away with all of that"
I never know what they mean. But neither do they, so that's ok I guess.
Magats are why I’m always carrying
Tell your dad to choke on a fat cock.
He's basically right though. The "law" was established in service of the rich, to persecute the poor. The only thing that matters in a courtroom is whose lawyer can either convince a jury or bribe a judge - those are the skills that get lawyers paid.
It's not that Trump got rid of the old order. He just ripped away the veneer of "equality" it's been wrapped up with for a while.
Or in more direct terms: money talks, bullshit walks.
Those systems were set up by globalists and Trump destroyed all of that. It's all worthless now. You need to convince people to believe in good ideas that make society better.
If by "globalists" he means Jews, then obviously he's just being insane. But there is an underlying truth here if he means "capital". The legal and financial systems that the world is built on have been set up by international capital interests. Trump didn't destroy any of it, not really. Throwing a wrench in things with tariffs and such, but that's about it. Billionaires and CEOs still have lavish dinners at the White House to court special treatment. Capital interests are still influential in politics. If you want to overturn all of this and build a better society, then you do have to convince people to believe in good ideas, but I have a feeling your MAGA father's "good ideas" are not, in fact, good ideas.
Can your father get COVID and disappear already?
You really think that's what OP wants to hear?
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