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Cake day: September 18th, 2024

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  • Four months ago I had an awful argument with my great-grandfather about Islam, and he’s a HUGE Islamophobe. I’ve known this for years and I knew he would go full mask-off about it. He’s MAGA and so are some others, sadly. They all watch US state media and I get frustrated everytime I hear it.

    I won’t repeat what he said but I kept telling him I didn’t want to hear his bullshit about how MuSliMs aRe TeRRoRiSts.

    Then after I got home, I decided that if anyone in my family tries to have these kinds of conversations with me, there’s no point in trying to stay calm, I’ll just start screaming and swearing at these people if they want to start shit with me. I have boundaries and principles, if you want to overstep my boundaries, well, fuck you then.

    So far no one has tried to have political discussions with me. I told my mom that I was done with being nice if anyone wanted to share their reactionary talking points and she agreed with me.










  • Liberals are never interested in what people have to say. Anytime we point out their crimes against humanity, they say we’re “funded by Russia”. Anytime we explain why their talking points are just outright wrong, we’re “funded by Russia”. Anyone that doesn’t conform to their propaganda is a “Russian puppet”. Everything that challenges them is “funded by Russia”. (Or China or Iran as OP said)

    I think they’ve always refused to take responsibility for their failures, crimes against humanity, and genocides. We saw them use this tactic in the U.S. election last year, that only made them more unpopular and more arrogant. My liberal father would dismiss reasons to not participate in the election as “Russian/Chinese/Iranian propaganda”. I had this discussion with him twice and he claimed I was repeating Russian propaganda. I told him the outcome of the election didn’t matter and there was no reason to vote in the election.

    I’ve avoided talking to my family about politics and anytime they do I just leave the room because there’s no reason to. Anytime they try to talk to me about US Bourgeois politics I just walk away. It’s tiring talking to these people.