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[–] 26 points 1 day ago (33 children)

Most healthy members of society dude 😭

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  • [–] 6 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Yes, healthy members of society spend time with their pedophile supporting extending family. Right.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    I am not weak enough to give up on someone. Every meeting is a chance to educate them

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Not conservative, not "republican": MAGA.

    My MAGA relatives are some of the worst human beings I've met. Hateful, loud, dumb bigots that seem unable to act like a decent human being for more than a few minutes at a time. I've heard the shit they've let slip out and they meant (and mean) every word.

    They're not welcome in my home and I am sure as shit am not wasting my time on them.

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  • [–] 0 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Conservative, republican, and MAGA are interchangeable. You don't get to claim to be one without the others. They're all the same at this point.

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago* (1 child)

    There are degrees of shitbaggery. There are people that can be redeemed without too much pain.

    Nobody is an angel: everyone has harmful views and does bad things -- it's just a question quantity and quality. As much as it sucks the reality is if we set the bar too high we're going to spend life alone ... and risk being a hypocrite as well.

    So we tolerate peoples failings as we hope they tolerate ours. We grow and redeem ourselves by learning of our flaws and blind spots from other people.

    That being said there's a line where its not worth it. Everyone has to decide where that is for themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago*

    American conservatism and American republicanism are interchangeable with MAGA.

    Being a "republican" means different things based on context. The American Republican party is interchangeable with MAGA. The same is generally true of conservatism, although modern conservatism is always a harmful ideology.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

    Our families invite process is fairly simple. If you can't last family time during holiday without talking politics, you aren't invited. I think that's a fairly healthy ask. I think only one person was excluded from family planning/gathering due to it, but thankfully the feeling was mutual because they couldn't isolate their political side from their actual personality and as such didn't want to be in an environment where they couldn't talk politics anyway.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    Ah.. "don't ask; don't tell". Everything is fine even if Uncle Steve is diddling your daughter (or son) while everyone else is watching football after the family feast.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

    Different scenario so therefore different rules. It may surprise some people on Lemmy but, not everyone that has a different political orientation is molesting children or some other extremity. Shocker I know.

    There's a time and a place for politics for either side. Family time isn't one. We don't want to be associated with people who can't respect that. Regardless of political orientation.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    Not everyone that has a different political orientation is molesting children or some other extremity.

    True.

    Family time isn’t a time and place for politics for either side.

    I believe people have a responsibility to hold family accountable. Politics rest on ethics, and supporters of the modern-day US Republican party have chosen hate over morality. A family gathering is an ideal time to hold family accountable. Naturally, exceptions should be made for events such as funerals and wakes.

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  • [–] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

    I understand your opinion, and I do agree it's the family's responsibility to hold people accountable. However, there is a time and a place for everything.

    I firmly disagree that family bonding time during holiday is the time for it. And that feeling is mostly shared throughout my immediate family.

    I personally wouldn't attend family gatherings that were containing political talks, to be honest, It spits in the face of the entire point of family bonding time to try to be pushing a political sway and goes against the entire point of meeting for holiday which is family time bonding and having fun.

    those type of subjects generally cause more tension or isolation than bonding. So are better off as a more one-on-one than an entire family thing. A one-on-one also allows it to feel more organic. Someone is going to be way less receptive to any reasoning if they're being put on the spot during a family dinner than if you were to just approach them during casual free time. Results caused by peer pressure rarely work out in the long run, in order to discuss opposing views, you need to keep the person you're talking to open for discussion.

    Personally, I feel isolating out the family members who can't separate their political identity from their person is more than adequate for keeping family time as a bonding time instead of an infomercial/trying to pursuade people on differing opinions while getting the point across quite nicley.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Did I say slightly right or are you moving the goal posts? Yeah, you're moving the goal posts. Be accountable. Hold others accountable - especially family.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

    you initiated the reply with a goalpost move what did you expect it to be ignored? Either way I think you are trolling me so I'm disengaging.

    For context on their claim(which I had edited prior to their comment as it didn't really matter to the post): My original reply stated that just because someone is slightly right doesn't mean they molest kids. It had no place in the comment as it doesn't matter the reason: Politics have zero place at family time.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    you initiated the reply with a goalpost move

    I did no such thing. I said hold your fucking family accountable. Not doing so just because it "ruins thanksgiving dinner" is a piss-poor excuse. It's this playing nice with family members that allows them to continue comfortably being racists and/or pedophiles. Quit enabling them.

    Politics have zero place at family time.

    This is the most important time. When the fuck else are you going to do it? Jesus fucking christ, hold your family accountable for not being awful people. If you fail to do that then you, too, are an awful person. Maybe you didn't know that before, but now you do and you have no further excuse.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (2 children)

    for not being awful people

    I think you meant "for being awful people".

    If I am correct, and that is what you meant, I agree with your sentiment that family time is the most important and useful time to hold family accountable, and that holding family accountable is a moral imperative.

    I did no such thing [a goalpost move].

    I won't deny that American conservatism protects pedophiles. But you equated conservatism with committing direct molestation of a child, which was a goalpost move.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    I think you meant “for being awful people”.

    I stated it weirdly, but you got the intent.

    I won’t deny that American conservatism protects pedophiles. But you equated conservatism with committing direct molestation of a child, which was a goalpost move.

    No, I stated that people allow pedophilia to continue out of deference to keeping the peace within the family. I did not say maga == pedophiles. Refusing to have difficult conversations with family members to hold them accountable allows the bad behavior to continue without challenge or consequence.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago*

    I did not say that MAGA == pedophiles.

    It reads as though you implied it when you said "everything is fine even if Uncle Steve is diddling your daughter (or son)" sardonically. But yes, you didn't say it outright. And yes, I agree that MAGA condones pedophilia.

    Refusing to have difficult conversations with family members to hold them accountable allows the bad behavior to continue without challenge or consequence.

    You have my complete agreement on this point.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    That's not healthy. That's enabling.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

    After Election Day 2024 I completely cut my republican father out of my life. He never was maga, but he was celebrating trimp's win (ironically by listening to a Woodie Guthrie cd I got him). I did not speak to him for almost a year and a half, then in April I found out he was going to group therapy. I am unsure of the exact nature of the GT but one of his friend's that is in the GT said it is to redeem them.

    We still do not have the close relationship that we used to have, and I doubt we ever will again.

    The crazy thing is he used to be a long haired hippie fighting for freedoms and protecting protesting the Vietnam war.

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