Can we have wholesome stuff too?

My fam (mostly centrists) watched Barbie on Christmas Eve and they now kinda start getting what the difference between liberal feminism and actual feminism is, without me having to interfere, this is the most i could get out of this i think so it was a good day.

had my political fight with the dumbfuck when the wizard game came out, he's still licking his wounds ig was kinda hoping he would start shit so everyone could see that HE is the one trying to start shit forcing me to educate his ass, but no dice

overall a lovely dinner was had

Mine wasn't too bad. My brother-in-law said the standard (both sides) lib shit that John Oliver didn't really bother to dispell. I just dropped the subject, honestly.

Not a raging argument as such but still a opinion from a relative.

My mother in law does some off the books housekeeping work for an aristocratic family. They're the kind of upper class people who are utterly helpless when it comes to practical stuff and who can afford never to have learned to cook, clean and do laundry. My mother in law has assumed a weird kind of parental relation to the wife and talks a lot with her.

This Christmas my in-laws were going on and on about how poor these aristocrats were and how bad it was for them. My in-laws are as working class as it gets, they are both on disability, they don't own property, they've broken their bodies doing manual labour all their lives, they have to resort to off the books work and black market trading to enjoy just a little financial comfort and here they are feeling sad about the finances of someone who owns a fucking castle, a sizable amount of farmland and several rental properties. They can afford to serve their kid to some fancy foreign elite athletics school and to employ a housekeeper and I'm supposed to feel sorry for them for having no money?

False consciousness is one hell of a drug.

Urgh my mum keeps talking shit about young people not being able to buy houses and it's just so frustrating and stupid. She's barely worked a day in her life except for some easy job in the.com bubble but suddenly she's a financial authority.