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They may not be successfully hiding it from me, but they are successfully hiding it from themself.

Yep. They like to claim to be "in the middle" and have no allegiance to any political wing, while also just spouting off the most generic right wing stuff imaginable. One time I defended student protests against education fees, prompting one of them to ask me if I was a terrorist for giving one of the tamest defenses imaginable. Years later, that same one compared me to ISIS. First time, I just laughed it off because I couldn't take the question seriously and the second time I just ignored it.

I have a brother who watches shit like OAN. I once overheard him telling my parents about that synagogue tunnel story. One time, my family was discussing the French Revolution and he kept arguing that the "lawyers and bankers" tricked the "inner city poors" into rising up against the "good Christian leaders." Even my center-right history buff brother pushed back and later agreed about the fash vibes.

There's so many red flags that he's deep into fash shit but he still acts normal and friendly to me (I'm closeted towards him and my parents). Most of my family can see it but my parents both don't know the signs and don't want to see it, so it's a very uncomfortable dynamic, and I feel like he knows how to take fascist rhetoric and rebrand it to be amenable to my parents. It's like a PVP disabled zone.

He's a veteran who came back and started doing meth to cope, and recently either started doing it again or just went off his meds because he went from standard levels of paranoid schizophrenia that all fascists have to the level of paranoid schizophrenia where you start making actionable threats in a group chat while on parole so for now he's in a jail cell. So that's cool, the world is safer with him there.

“Let’s not talk about politics” means “I don’t want my liberal or fascist views to be challenged by a communist.”

my fascist family is proud and doesnt hide at all.

I think that the only deeply held belief for my family is that our country will never amount to anything if we stopped depending on the US so all the leftists are lunatics. Every other thing is not really important in political discourse in my country, so even though people become fascists all the time (particularly christofascists) you usually can talk them down from it pretty quickly as long as you stay away from the colonialism issue. They'll straight up say being gay should be illegal one minute, and 2 baby's first secularism sentences later they'll be like "yeah I can see why it would make sense for HRT to be free." It's funny what happens when propaganda about most other things isn't that strong.

Anyway, people don't bother hiding it, either.

AFAIK my dad never said a slur in his life, but damn did he not want affordable housing or mass transit anywhere near him.

My dad recently told me that "we should have immigration policies like the usa" and I'm not gonna lie, it really fucked with me. We were never really close and all that but I never thought he would have said something like that, I just can't understand how anyone could think like that if you consider immigrants to be human beings trying to get a worthy life for themselves (and often enough for their family), but I guess he just sees them as a nuisance.

Also he implied the usa had better healthcare then Cuba but that one was just funny to me

Reminds me of a conversation I had recently.

Nah most of my family either spews out the slurs straight out or even do it intentionally to "trigger me" and as a joke. Unlike libs I do in fact make it a problem. But thats just different class dynamics.

all my family has died. 😞

Luckily no, my aunt recently lost in court so it's on public record (and everyone knew years before and made it clear they knew)

A sibling definitely tried, but eventually I cut off the whole "family" and that was the end of that. No time to waste on shitty people. His parents are even worse.

The US is as irredeemable as nazi germany in 1944. It needs to be invaded, dismantled and put under international tutelage for at least a hundred years. A lot of those people are too far gone and need to be erased, it takes time but we can easily make new humans that aren't grown into fascist incubators.