chapotraphouse

My pops is an old school male chauvinist socialist. He has always supported Cuba, and we can get into great conversations about socialism and liberalism. But, he’ll also make ridiculous statements about women, and he is the typical boomer who would still work 10 hours a day if he could. He went to college and did well for himself, buying multiple houses and becoming a landlord 🤮 but he never charged more than mortgage+prpperty tax, so he never made a profit, and his perspective is that he grew up hella poor, living on beans and rice most of his life, and he didn’t want that for his kids, so he figured he could at least give them houses. He’s sold most of the houses to the tenants living in them, even paying down payment for one of them (illegally through a shell game to keep him and the tenants from getting in trouble). Overall, he’s a good man, who just wants the best for everyone, just has some of those boomer brainworms, and I love him very much. I wouldn’t be where I am if it weren’t for him encouraging me my whole life. He even got me my first decent job, fixing computers, when I diagnosed my laptop before we took it to a repair shop, where they came to the same conclusion I did.