Hopefully none of you need to put up with your reactionary families for to long today, but of you do, feel free to vent here!
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Same! My dad and I don’t even bother with holidays anymore, so I’m making some hamburger goulash and vibing. Way better.
My parents are so reactionary that they’re isolating themselves from parts of our extended family. I’ve been going to holidays with the better side for years and I can tell it’s bugging my mom in particular, but it turns out that holidays are a lot more enjoyable and I’m a lot more talkative when they aren’t around.
Glad to hear that the chuds are sorting themselves out. Hope this year goes smoothly.
I wouldn’t even go that far, the family I’m spending time with are still conservative, just not like my parents are.
This thanksgiving I’m working hard to still try to set a precedent I am a grown adult worthy of respect. This transcends politics to some extent. I’m on Mac and Cheese duty after being encouraged to do so by someone I used to date (but we agreed to keep things platonic, the spark just wasn’t there.) Also offering to help with the dishes after the meal. Bringing an item as if I was living on my own AND helping out with dishes is a good start. If the humiliation ritual begins, I’m gassing up my most recent interview.
This is more of a personal struggle rather than a political one. I just want to be taken seriously as an adult, no matter how much it feels like adulthood has been denied to me.
Not a bad approach
Yeah, thankfully neither politics nor my current state were ever talking points, and the mac and cheese I made was a hit…and now it’s my thing to make.
Hope everyone else’s thanksgiving was equally as painless.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is the only time were watching “normal” TV. Trying to save a buck I subbed to Peacock at the basic level, only to discover after they lock it behind premium. Naturally. So I upgrade to premium but naturally they just charge you again lol. So $18 for the parade. Disgusting.
Jellyfin can handle live TV, so I’m going to start trying to figure out what equipment I need to make that happen.
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Yeah! If you have over the air TV you can just watch it on NBC but I doubt people in my age bracket and lower have over the air TV.
Just ahd to spend a couple bucks more: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Installation-Reception-Channels-Support-Tvs-10ft/dp/B07YJ4TKFM/136-5536785-3070320?
I have to get this going before the in-laws come to visit later in the year. They still don’t understand how we make it by without ever watching the nightly news. Instead of dealing with the ABC app And signing in to it, I’ll just have live TV available.
That plus an HDHomeRun might be a good first step.
No I totally get you, but also people forget the network TV is literally free if you spend 20 buck on an antenna
Oh yeah! The quality is really good too! People don’t need my fancy set up. I used a cheap antenna for years before moving into our current house.
I don’t have an upper hand on this either, mine is sitting in a box somewhere
The pie isn’t solidifying fast enough! COOL DOWN YOU JIGGLY FUCK
Oh also my sister’s mother-in-law has some incredible climate denial brainworms. Last time I learned that the ice caps are melting because China’s Three Gorges Dam has thrown the Earth off of its axis of rotation. Yes yes very reasonable mhmm.
Funniest I’ve heard is that the climate is warming because of body heat from domestic cats
Let them outside to cool off
This is why we have to keep them inside
That is an awesome theory! I haven’t heard that one before. I have heard of the idea that our activity with water is changing the earths rotation but not that its melting the ice caps.
amazing how this happened without affecting the length of a solar day
Or satellites, GPS, or the tectonic plates. I guess the Moon just shifted along with the rest of the Earth on its axis too.
Also for some reason there aren’t new ice caps forming somewhere else.
Nature truly works in mysterious ways.
my family is libs, family-in-law are chuds. don’t have to see any of them this year. partner can’t get home in time so i used that as my excuse to opt the fuck out
I don’t have to put up with reactionary family because what I said last year got us disinvited from Thanksgiving this year and you know what? I was still holding back and that was still enough to send my chud older cousin to his room for a tantrum over getting some pushback against his bullshit about immigration and fentynol
First time in like 2 decades that I get to spend today not around family. I’m nursing a horrible hangover and eating veggies and rice.
I also posted one of my yearly “fuck this genocidal settler colonist state” post on FB this morning. I think this year’s was a banger.
Would it make you too easily dox-able to post an edited version of it here? Sounds like it could be a good read.
Unless I’m actually FB friends with a fellow comrade on here I doubt there is any chance of doxxing me. This is the text:
Happy Thanksgiving.
This country was founded on genocide, slavery and oppression. And it still operates under this capacity. Both the Democrats and Republicans are actively supporting and funding the Gazan Genocide. Your Starbucks coffee’s beans are harvested by child slaves. The US hegemony is responsible for 10’s of millions of deaths every decade it still exists. We live in the wealthiest nation on the planet but have the highest rates of incarceration in the world. We have the highest rates of homelessness and our current solution is to put the unhoused into concentration camps instead of building houses for them or expropriating the empty houses that have been bought up by billionaires, thus causing this current housing crisis that is mirroring the housing bubble of 2008. We have the best medical science in the West but our health is locked out by subscritions and paywalls that masquerade as insurance that most of the working class can’t even afford. And our drinking water is in crisis because the Oligarchy we live under is controlled by the same tech billionaires that think we need more AI data centers instead of having our basic needs met.
A better future is possible, but not under this system. A better future starts with landback, reparations, and the egalitarian treatment of all people.
Succinct and right on. Thanks for posting it. Hopefully some of your FB friends are amenable.
I’m friends with a few comrades on there lol.
A cousin started being misogynistic while I was cutting pickles for a dish (with a giant cleaver), I made full eye contact without blinking and kept asking his wife how she felt about it
He broke eye contact first so I think I won
Families not perfect, but they’re mostly chill
Yeah my family is pretty chill, once you get into the extended family is when it gets reactionary. That branch of the family doesn’t come around though for various reasons least of which are political, it’s for the best.
Extended is mostly chill too, the real reactionaries have separated themselves off and basically joined up with cults.
Damn, Meta going hard on ads for their stupid glasses on Fox | NFL right now. 🤮
Did you see the ones for Northrop Grumman and the border patrol? The burger reich is real
I missed it! How bad was it?
The northrop one was a space rocket lauch. It was kinda cool to watch until it became apparent that it was promoting slaughtertech. The border patrol thing was something with an ambiguously hispanic looking man with a stalwart expression riding a horse in the desert. The sound was off so I cant comment on that part. Between them was a rather violent looking ad for the game fortnite, it all felt very facistic and grim.
Me and my polycule had a nice lunch with my mom and brother and his gf, definitely a lucky and cool situation for an American
I was doing fine, just laying in bed and watching football, then the game ended and I saw everyone eating and having a good time and the bleakness of my life just washed over me like a wave.
I’m hosting company I enjoy but them staying up crazy late all night w/ the TV on plus their dog caused me to sleep like absolute shit and I feel like they gave me a sickness.
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