It’s so sad
My uncle keeps sending group texts of straight-up Qanon or transphobic hatred shit and I just don’t respond, nobody does
My dad’s Facebook page paints a profile of a painfully stereotypical boomer conservative, he thinks Bernie Sanders is a communist and Joe Biden pressed the make gas expensive button
My mom listens to Adam Carolla
My surviving grandma is 91 and watches Fox News all day, weeping for how bad California looks now with all the homeless people living on bridges but not a thought for the people and where they’re supposed to fucking go since simply existing in public is basically illegal for them
“my kids became adults, realized im a shit human, and now i can’t see my grandbabies! and that angers the narcissist in me because I only had children for selfish reasons.”
my kids became adults, realized im a shit human, and now i can’t see my grandbabies!
I mean, I wish this was more the case. But as often as not, its simply because the Millennial generation has needed to move across the country to find good work. I know more than a few chud grandparents who get plenty of grandkid time purely on the basis of free childcare being worth its weight in gold. I know more than a few based woke grandparents who never see their grandkids simply because they live on the east coast and the grandkids live out west. Increasingly, you’ll see grandparents move halfway across the country to be closer to family. Or you’ll see kids moving back in and forming extended households, entirely because of the cost of real estate.
Even the worst politics can be forgivable, even the best negligible, when material conditions are a concern.
i was just working off the meme and the grandparent who made that probably is a shit person if they have to “make up” with their kids. Obviously there are other reasons a grandparent can’t see their kid for valid or geographical reasons. My own parents are stupid as fuck conservative catholics but they aren’t complete twats about it so they see their grandkids and kids with no problems. Their debates they would have with me(the only commie) would anger me in the past, but now it just makes me laugh.
the grandparent who made that
Idk, man. That could easily have been cooked up in Ben Shapiro’s basement.
My own parents are stupid as fuck conservative catholics but they aren’t complete twats about it so they see their grandkids and kids with no problems.
That’s generally the norm. Political views vary but families tend to stick together purely because they know and empathize with one another more than phantom third parties that they pretend their personal politics impacts.
Man I fucking feel for you guys in this thread. My parents are just well-meaning libs who immediately cave when I apply pressure. Like when JK Rowling was first getting onto her bullshit and I whipped out an “actually my friend is trans and you knew her pre-transition” it basically blew the transphobia out of them like a shotgun blast. I’d rent my parents out to you guys if I could so you could have a couple old academic libs to very lightly dunk on with the understanding that they are still trying to figure out a confusing world even in old age.
Edit: I should add that I empathize because growing up in the South, most of my friends had the parents you describe and I was pretty familiar with how unstable it made them feel at home.
Teaching my grandkid that racism was invented by Judeo-Bolshevik agent provocateur Trotsky to shame and silence white people from being, well, racist. Meemaw and Pep Pep are just happy you’re back.
This is definitely a real thing for the boomer brainworm crowd. They scream that anyone to the left of Marco Rubio is a pedophile and then are shocked—shocked!—that their kids don’t want to expose their grandkids to that.
My boomer parents are wisely playing both sides. For example, they brag that their grandkids are getting homeschooled. They get Facebook Social Credit from their friends who are so happy that these kids will be avoiding the Woke Agenda. (Ha, haha, ahahahahahahaha)
You’re doing fine work and I’m proud of you. Raise them kids right. (or raise them left, rather?)
“Don’t worry, we’re not teaching them any of that liberal shit” (because the curriculum is communist
)I’m just hoping the standardized tests ask about Salvador Allende
Why was Salvador Allende overthrown by popular revolt:
A). Because he rigged the election
B). Because his corruption was exposed
C). Because his socialist economic policies caused long lines, destroyed countless businesses, and made wealthy or middle class Chileans to flee the country.
Correct answer is C.
My adoptive parents bought me so my adoptive mother would have control over my wedding/baby shower and what children I have and she wouldn’t risk being alone on holidays when her biological children (all sons) get married.
They’ve been so much worse to me after I told them I’m not having kids because now they wasted money on buying and raising me
This is so bleak comrade
you don’t deserve to be treated like that 
Thank you
“Transactional” thinking, such as seeing people they’re supposed to nurture and raise and protect out of love and see it as some kind of “investment” with expected returns, is poison, the death of love and meaningful emotional connections.
I wish there was a way to see it a long ways off to avoid those empty-inside fucks, forever.
Yeah I’m literally in the process of trying to figure out how to stay in contact with my father but cut off all communications with my mother. She’s gone off the deep end. Any conversation with her centers around her racist hatred of Mexicans. She always wants to tell me highly exaggerated and likely fabricated stories of encounters with Mexicans she’s had. The woman carries a switchblade and always grasps for it in her purse if she sees someone with too dark of a complexion. I can’t be in public with her because if she hears a single word of Spanish around her, her eyes get wide and she’ll start muttering to herself about how “Mexicans should all go back.”
We live in Texas, so often these people aren’t even from Mexico. It’s just Latinos, mostly people born in Texas in the first place.
She’s super into Trump as well, obviously, but she’s one of the odd ones who is also pro-vaccine, so at least she has that. She worships the British royal family too…and is also somehow an advocate for Irish decolonization (she claims we have Irish ancestry even though as far as I can tell our family came from Poland)
I already disowned one outright fascist parent (as in, actively and out loud wishing murder-by-police on
for even existing in the same city), but while trying to maintain contact with the other, that enabling parent tricked me into meeting with the fascist parent again after years of no contact.Oops, two disownings.
Absolutely based but it’s still sad. I wish your parents didn’t suck so much that it’s necessary.
I never wanted that but I’m much happier with my in-laws so there’s plenty of company for the holidays.
I have felt myself coming close many times. I still have normal relations with my parents but they don’t know how thin the ice is.
Yes, it is the child’s fault for not attending to the emotional needs of the parent. How may I serve you today, my liege
There’s a weird inconsistency where kids are supposed to always defer to their parents and also expected to be independent. Like, what the fuck.
Lots of y’all are posting about the politics divide. My mom won’t let the church thing rest. When I moved out for college she was constantly asking about me finding a new “church home” there. Eventually I had to have the talk and she just couldn’t comprehend that I could be secular and have a moral compass without a bible. It helped me a little that my siblings have finally had the talk too, but every couple of months or years she checks in to see if we’ve changed our minds. At least we aren’t being disowned or anything, but holy shit please just let me have my own beliefs. I think she’s worried we’re all going to hell (especially worried about grandkids), which I guess I empathize with a tiny bit if I put myself in the shoes of a concerned religious parent, but like, just pray on it and trust the Lord or whatever. We’ve made up our minds.
Next time she brings it up tell her you’ve become a different denomination of Christian and that she needs to convert to ensure her salvation.
This but with Islam
