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Today, my dad called me a conservative and assumed I agree with his nutjob conservative bigoted as hell dad... (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by alexei_1917@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Most likely, his beliefs that led to this have to do with the term "national socialist".

And I still have another whole day of Visiting Family For Christmas to get through - while doing my best to not end up talking politics, because whenever I talk politics with relatives, someone calls me a Stalinist, and one of the Hungarian nationalist nutjobs on Dad's side of the family loses it on me about '56 as soon as I agree I'm a Stalinist just to shut the McCarthyist up. (At least tomorrow I'm seeing Mum's side, Dad's was yesterday and part of today, politics came up but I didn't get called a pinko or anything worse and no one started up at me about '56, thank the heavens.) Ugh, someone please shoot me.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

this keeps happening to me with my family. im a lifelong trans communist. our grandma is a communist that worked in the bureaucracy of an actual communist state. they were given communist education on communism. i dont know why they fucking think i like trump (or bill clinton). theyre driving me up the fucking wall

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Because the media constantly repeats that anyone who dislikes democrats, likes republicans, and people slowly bend under such pressure.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, that sounds even more infuriating than mine. At least with my family, they're mostly typical Western shitlibs, I understand where it comes from, all their information on communism came from Red Scare propaganda and the term "national socialist" causes genuine confusion.