Politics don't ruin family dinners. Abhorrent family members ruin family dinner. - ThreadSky

waldo2006.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Politics don't ruin family dinners.

Abhorrent family members ruin family dinner.

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Absolutely. Ever since my sister and her husband decided they were done with the GOP, I no longer dread getting together with all my siblings.

hoi3407.bsky.social•3 days ago

yup

loquentia.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't associate with them...my code of ethics is that if I would have one of them as a friend, then it's 'hi-bye'

grameee5.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://substack.com/@bluepowerdemgirl/note/c-128879792?r=57rxad&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

emoontxwriter.bsky.social•3 days ago

It can't be both? That bad politics, spread wide and deep through lying media, changes formerly non-abhorrent family members into abhorrent ones? I mean, there's a gradation, or was, and then, with Fox News, it became steeper and steeper to a chasm. There were abhorrent family members back then,

emoontxwriter.bsky.social•3 days ago

of course, but there were also family members who were not, but changed over a few years of only Fox in their viewing area. (The effect of changes in evangelical churches from pretty Christian to Christian-Nationalist also factors in.)

viking4life.bsky.social•3 days ago

No. People are who they are. Trump gave them "permission" to voice their hate, bigotry, racism, homophobia. They've said it, "He tells it like it is". Fox didn't "change" anyone. It only amplified what was already there.

jerseygreek.bsky.social•2 days ago

If we reflect back on our family, friends, reflect honestly, you’ll find the racism was subtly there always. My MIL once advised me I shouldn’t let my son, 4, play w the little black girl, whose backyard backed ours. We never had a fence.

viking4life.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's exactly what I'm saying.

everythingisph.bsky.social•3 days ago

This.

comeoncomet.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bingo!

miinky1101.bsky.social•2 days ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

theveganwriter.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yep, my relationship with my brother and his family is effectively done.

sailaway25.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mine too

scorpio5954321.bsky.social•3 days ago

Same with my youngest sister the Trumper.

austinhippiechick.bsky.social•3 days ago

I haven't seen my Trumper mother in over ten years. She sent an article to her half-Black grandsons (my adored nephews) entitled: "How Not To Act Like a Negro." It makes me physically ill to be around her. I just can't.

jerseygreek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Omg! That’s disgusting to do that any child. How tragic for your nephews. She needs to get an article on “How to Not Be a Whitey Rightee Racist and Recognize You’re in a Cult”

austinhippiechick.bsky.social•2 days ago

One nephew (both grown up) said, "I can't stand Grandma." I said, that makes all of us, kiddo.

jerseygreek.bsky.social•2 days ago

*to

ishcabibbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

Holy carp. That is ...
heinous.

envy2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Very good point.

somefoo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shit children make shit adults

somefoo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Someone finally said it

spindoc627.bsky.social•3 days ago

Glad I found you!

waldo2006.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm all the best places.

trashpandaog.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absofnlutely 🙌🫶👏✊❤️‍🩹

brianm822.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think it can be both

But there probably are more of the latter these days...

big-steppa.bsky.social•3 days ago

No wonder Waldo has been so hard to find.

He’s been too busy delivering therapy nuggets for us for free

waldo2006.bsky.social•3 days ago

If people take the time to find me, the least I can do is give some advice.

big-steppa.bsky.social•3 days ago

I like that

putawomanincharge.bsky.social•2 days ago

Truth

mogigo.bsky.social•3 days ago

They still think their wish of harm coming to others is a "political opinion"

kimmykimmycocopuff.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am straight-up stealing this wording. A+++

kelliharder76.bsky.social•3 days ago

When politics turned to morals and ethics that’s what ruined it for me.

hawktales.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is hilarious.

havinagr8day.bsky.social•3 days ago

This ⬆️

wampwamp.bsky.social•3 days ago

Only if you have abhorrent family members over for dinner.

mame6432.bsky.social•3 days ago

I spent Saturday at a funeral where the people were on opposite political sides. No one argued, it wasn’t solemn, we enjoyed each other’s company and reminisced. It’s fruitless to argue when you know no one will change their mind.

falconer59.bsky.social•3 days ago

My mum voted Margaret Thatcher in a home of left wing trade unionists.
She did not however ram it down out throats.
The MAGAS never shut up they are a cult so keep trying to convert you.

tallrussell.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is about Odlaw, isn't it?

moseyingalong.bsky.social•3 days ago

They'll bring it up. You'll give a rebuttal. You'll be chastised for being political.

This is my life.

msbertoli.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ugh you are not alone in this loop.

kylervadari.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wise folk who speak with patience are the people you want at family dinners.
Leave any MAGA out and they will start to question, giving you a chance to go for the “sanity improvement”.

deviousxen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unless you are or are friends w a group of people w their life/lives threatened and other peoples' opinions are that they shouldn't exist.

Or that their lives should be needlessly harder.

You can be polite and evil its really easy actually.

Having certain politics makes you a bad person.

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