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I had some pretty brutal discussions with my dad who is a hardcore liberal of the "the answer lies somewhere between the middle of left and right" type. He agrees with a lot of socialist stances and class war but refuses to acknowledge that a revolution is needed to achieve socialism, that killing people wouldn't make us better than the owning class and that violence is bad and that we should try to change the system by voting that voting will bring lasting change and not a revolution....all this kind of crap. He thinks that i got too "radicalized" and that im stuck in a bubble of propaganda and now he wants to have more control of the media i consume and that when he sees me watching or reading an article that i show him the sources of these articles. He really wants me to "keep an open-mind" which to him literally just means returning to being a liberal. The more of these discussions i have with my father the more i feel a distance between us and i would love if we just ignored our political opinions and kept living our lives how we always did but he insists that i am being groomed by some megalomaniac organization or a goofy ah evil person to join some kind of leftist jihad: "Yes you are entitled to have your opinion but you should also keep an open mind but the problem is that your opinion is not correct" that all i hear from him.

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[-] aidnic@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

When I was a social democrat, I discussed about my politics to my parents, and, it didn't go well. Since then, I don't even bother discussing about politics, because if they didn't like me being a social democrat, it's only gonna be worse if I tell them I'm a Communist.

Same boat here, I make my politics obvious enough to family that they can usually anticipate my takes on any given issue and know whether it will bring up an argument or not, so do I for them

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