I can confirm this is absolutely insane.

But sadly not the first time I heard about something like this.

Some of my friends told me on separate Occasions that their Parents ,they are 1st Generation Immigrants to Germany, support our far-right Party AFD. And are simultaneously angry with the racism they encounter.

Propaganda works.

All I've got is, "Damn."

Wishing you the best.

My family is backwards, into ultra conservative religion and is deeply prejudiced in unconventional ways not (directly) racially. Meanwhile they are pro labor union to the extreme. My sister is all hardcore religious, and she is a deeply abusive and manipulative mach.

Religion has become my primary sign of insanity. Yesterday, the neighbor was beating his kid, so a few neighbors called the cops. When I told my fam, the guy was demon possessed and speaking in tongues. Like, dude drinks way too much some times, but how bat shit must someone be to diagnose a dimwitted drunk as demon possessed.

All I can say is peak leaded fuel happened in the 1980's. I'm from '84, so I'm not entirely free from doubt, but my parent's generation... They are generally everything that is wrong with the present, and everyone controlling the head of the dragon ATM.

Yeah man. Everybody’s family is insane on some level - some more than others. Lemme put it this way, there was a reason why I moved 3000 miles away from mine.

I was gonna comment that this seems like basic ultra conservative nationalistic first generation Chinese American until you got to the Han replacement theory, which makes zero sense. I’m sorry this is really tough.

I’m happy for you that you have escape toxic Chinese and American nationalism. I’m sorry you have to deal with this.

My family can also be insane but dude, this is tough.

Edit: I want to add a comment that I frequently comment on Chinese culture and am sometimes taken the wrong way. I do not mean my first sentence in a rude or racist way. There is a weird trend of Chinese nationalism, and Chinese immigrants taking up pro China but extremely conservative positions that goes against minority rights while also being a minority in America. Chinese cultural is very conservative on its own but its blend with nationalism and political and social conservatives breeds wild ideologies in America.

My boyfriend and I were once snapped at during a family gathering because we dared to eat corn on the cob at a barbecue. The argument was something like, "A barbecue is only for meat, everything else is just greens, and the Greens (a german political party) want to ban our schnitzel!!!!1!1!" There's simply nothing else occupying these people's minds anymore—every topic, no matter how unrelated, somehow always gets dragged back to ThE gReEnS, CoViD vAcCiNaTiOnS, or whatever else.

Yeah, a family member of mine was in a cult lead by a person who had everyone believing they were a reincarnated sun god.. and there were invisible planets travelling through the solar system on a collision course with earth, and aliens.. aliens living under the ocean near Japan, and they were thinking of taking over the world in response to Fukushima.. I lost touch with her when she was grabbing shovels and heading to the hills to live in a region that had been calculated as ‘too far for the non-believers to make it following a tsunami’..

In my family my sister is an antivaxer, so my niece is unvaccinated and has been through some sicknesses - from my perspective unnecessarily. Good that she didn't get anything langlasting (yet).

I have no advice. I just hope you and your kitty find peace and calm soon. 🥲

Given what a shit state the world is in and seemingly headed for worse, I'd wager you're far from alone in having family that believes in absolute rubbish.

Most of my family is just bat shit insane

Like wow. My family is insane in their own way but the stories in this thread are twisted. Yikes.

Someone mentioned leaded fuel. Makes sense. My guess would be additional burnout, undiagnosed mental issues and lack of education. At least thats the only way I can imagine this world being the way it is.

The most cruel part is the amount of gaslighting they deal out. I was told my whole life (not even youth but until my thirties) that I‘m overreacting while believing scientists.

I suggest searching for and joining international groups of likeminded people. Its what keeps me sane in this turmoil. Of course lemmy sometimes helps too.

Happy new year to those who celebrate it.

They say insanity runs in the family. But it more like takes a stroll and takes its time to really get to know each one individually.

All the fucking time, I'm older and just have very little to do with them, comes a stage when you just don't want to excuse their shit anymore.

But I own my own house at the other end of the country, so there is that.

"Family" are people I share a philosophy with on how to treat other people, each other and treat the planet . I have little to nothing in common philosophically with people I shared some random genetic materail with.

Welcome to dangerous bullshit awareness. Strap in and start reading, it's going to get worse.

Naomi Klein has a bunch of nice contemporary books to start to get a grasp on it. I don't of a book that's specific to your case, but I hope that you'll understand that you're case is not that specific.