I’m lucky to live in a family of turbo libs, but the casual ableism and transphobia is almost impressive at times

The type of people to give you all the affirmations while shedding tears as they lead you into the gas chambers tbh

My dad knows that if he defends nato in front of me I'll call him a dumb motherfucker until he shuts up. My mom doesn't really care

I actually had an OK-ish chat with my dad about transness...he's a huge contrarian and a pedant which makes talking about many things quite annoying, but thankfully he is not on social media at all so he is not completely pilled in any one direction. Once I introduced the phrase "decoupling sex and gender" he was able to at least grasp that, so.....baby steps. But who knows where we'll be at next year.

I got lucky and didn’t

Not me, but my dad and study abroad dad got into an argument about the Ukraine war. My dad is a standard pro Ukraine American liberal. Study abroad dad is also a liberal, but he stans Mearsheimer, so he has this weird hodgepodge ideology where he criticizes NATO expansionism but also loves Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

I heard my dad talking about how the word Palestine is descended from the word Philistine, gonna confront him on that bullshit tomorrow.

GOOD thread

The closest I came was saying I wasn't a fan of Miracle on Ice, so it went very smoothly. I still had to get away a number of times cause I was getting overwhelmed by too much talking and simultaneous loud conversations.