My father is legitimately one of the more outgoing and compassionate men I have ever met. He has raised money for kids with disabilities for most of his adult life, volunteered countless hours. He is very Catholic and spends a lot of time with elderly and the dying, especially people from his parish (this is a very hard thing to do if you have ever done it you know). He took out a mortgage on his house to pay for cancer treatment for my step-grandmother. Anytime any of his kids or grandkids needs money he’ll literally go in the red to make sure they aren’t put in a bad spot financially. He’s not rich, but he has retirement funds from 3 sources. He has worked his whole life being a provider. I see him constantly comfort people who need it, provide for people struggling to provide for themselves, and spend his time in charity and aid to the vulnerable.

But democrats are demon pinko commie f**s, immigrants are dirty and should be shot, and Israel/Palestine should be nuked. Rightwing media has destroyed his brain. It’s so gross. It’s like a switch inside him from this beautiful person of god he practices to this virulently evil trooper in service to whatever hateful demagogue was feature on the television this week. I’m not asking him to be a hippie but just recognize when the worst elements of the human psyche are being weaponized against him.

someone should kill your neighbor and dad

My boomer dad has passively nudged me into being his retirement plan. Constantly bemoans the past being better, and blames “kids these days” on things like climate change and inflation (at least he believes in climate change)- ya know, despite the fact that boomers are still in control, I tell him they’re in positions of power and he gets upset that I’ve “insulted his generation who are legitimate people and they’ll never be another generation as good”.

idk I’m tired and dunno wtf to do either

My boomer dad can be all over the place sometimes. Like he knows the rich are bastards who’ll never give us anything but war and poverty but, then he’ll say something like climate change is caused by there being too many people on this planet having too many babies. Then he’ll say something like, “If I was in charge, the first thing I’d do is make sure everyone in the world had enough to eat.” Just contradictory stuff.

I saw multiple people with American flags billowing outside their cars today and it’s really been years since it’s been like that here. There are also flags in so many places and so many houses. This is an elderly purple area of a rural purple state.

Get audio of your dad saying that. When he’s no longer able to take care of himself and whines to you on the phone about guilting you into helping him, play it back for him.

Anyone in this thread should be allowed to live with my parents for a week. They’re I guess libs, probably closer to socdem if really interrogated. My dad was homophonic when that shit was normal but grew out of it by the mid 2000s like culture in general did and thought I’m pretty sure it was due to his ignorance at the time of considering trans people a subgenre of gay, when people decided to make trans people an issue his updates from me and the fact that he didn’t have the wherewithal to compartmentalize his bigotries meant once he found out trans people weren’t like…a more permanent drag queen, it was a quick ‘oh, gotcha, I was off base’. They now Will absolutely not buy Harry Potter shit for my little cousins who’s mom (also my cousin) is an irreparable potterhead/Disney adult. I explained JK to em and they returned her Christmas presents and got new ones. My dad was also too spoiled by his union gig that he got iffy on unions until.the end when he noticed how fucking sweet it was to tell your manager to piss off once he heard about what I deal with. Other than that we play Nintendo games together when I visit and they have been enjoying retirement by becoming gamers. Too cold war brained and out of the game to be full leftists, but are just decent people without a hateful none in their bodies and they also recognize I’m significantly more passionate and well read on these sorts of things and therefore take me seriously and generally will understand that if I say something is bad or good, it probably is. They’ve seen my nose in books since I was little and I was politically inclined since the 3rd grade and they nurtured it and then got the fuck out of my way intellectually when I surpassed them. I’m sure I didn’t turn out how they had thought but they got it pretty early on I’d be hard to control and will be an absolute weirdo and adjusted accordingly. They’re also very aware they were among the last to take the money and run regarding neoliberalism and how fucked it is for us and aren’t dicks about helping out, they get that their pay was double mine and rent was less than half and that our generation and by extent theirs for those who have the money are being gutted. They’re John Oliver level and thsts fine for a parent.

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I’ve basically come to the conclusion that most people I know are pretty fucking awful, at least in terms of their politics, even if they’re nice to me. I really don’t bother myself with it anymore, I just live my life and enjoy their company and change the topic whenever politics comes up.

I’ve basically given up on any prospect of there being an imperial core left movement and it’s honestly taken away a lot of anxiety for me. I just grill and wait for Xi to rightfully nuke me and all my shitty cracker friends and family.

My dad tells me to my face that communists should be rounded up and shot.

He’s convinced I’m an Obama lib.

To try to make things more positive, people have much much better opinions the farther away they are from power. I spend so little of my time with white people, and I do like the company I keep. I do have a handful of white friends, but they’re the exception.

boomer dad and neighbour

a heatwave that won’t break

I like my boomer dad, he’s alright. Sorry about yours. :(