Asklemmy

My dad is awesome but my mom is scum. I told her to fuck off and stop talking to me but it wasn’t that hard cos she used to abuse me and didn’t raise me

I cut my Mom off. Dad was pretty deep in it too, he'd voted for Regan and Nixon, but he died before I couldn't take it anymore.

Same, and I fucking hate it

You're better off asking them questions. "what makes a person eat someone else's pet?" or do simple definitions of what they say, as if you're trying to understand. "so white people deserve to travel and others don't?" (that's a stupid example, but all of the talking points boil down to these types of statements). Apparently getting them to debate facts doesn't work, getting them to question what they're blindly believing, does, but I haven't put it to practice. I want to go and get a refresher on critical thinking, so I can more easily break down, the way to properly ascertain if, what is being sold to you is truth or propaganda, and then make it into a question / statement and rather than addressing any topic, add a where did that come from, who sold you that, who profits from that, kinda thing, but I want a better statement / question than that. My parents are really similar, I have to avoid a lot of topics, I'm the black sheep of the family, I've always been much more earth conscious than them, it's gotten so much worse lately. It's the news they're being fed. They believe it, wholeheartedly. It's how they've always known what's happening. And it's why they're panic buying out tiktok, currently, they (those creating the propaganda and distributing it) can't have a narrative out there that doesn't align with their agenda.

They think I hate them but I promise you it's shame. If we do talk, it's Dishonest Harmony.

I deal with it pretty easily, I don’t have contact with them lol.

My parents are consuming more red media. This seems to happen in immigrant non-english circles.

Not great.

Ignore them and tell them trump is an idiot if you do talk to them and they bring it up. Watch them freak out.

Sorry, the brainwashing was too successful. You wont save them. They domt care that he raped children. They wont change their minds.

My parents are normal but I don't speak to any other relatives anymore.

This sounds very familiar. I don't often try to talk politics around my family anymore, but they still feel free to regurgitate whatever nonsense conservative news has riled them up about around me. Its way to annoying to ignore, so I try to set the record straight when they do that. It doesnt matter though. I've completely laid out all the details on a topic, and they just stare at me. When I try to get a response its usually along the lines of "I don't know about all that, but I'm not going to acknowledge that anything you said was right". Its like they have to go check fox news before they know how to respond. They just assume I'm wrong about everything before I even start talking. Its rich coming from people who are constantly misinformed, and by their own admission don't know much about any topic I've tried discussing. I'm on the verge of telling my dad "I want to think of you as a good person, but I'm running out of excuses for you".

got their numbers blocked and stopped checking FB because they are there. they kept trying to make me maga-like, i avoided saying anything mean, i have come to terms with just cocooning, just want to be left alone

I wonder if maga people are having the exact same, conversation about there parents becoming leftists.

Before Trump, we’re get republican still? My parents were always super republican, but won’t vote for Trump. Also won’t vote for a democrat….