My dad’s always been an anti-intellectual prick but now he’s a smug one having his worst impulses reinforced by assholes on the internet and his workplace.
My dad’s always been an anti-intellectual prick but now he’s a smug one having his worst impulses reinforced by assholes on the internet and his workplace.
sadly yes. i am alone. this post resonates with me and i am sad to hear the stories you all have
my family used to not believe in reactionary bullshit like chemtrails and antivax but somehow they believe in everything now. i think facebook and my brother in law were at fault for this extremist change. inlaw used to be the cool guy who bought me a lego set and listened to metallica but now he’s a reactionary christian who keeps telling me that i am in a satanic university who supports the lgbtq (has one teacher that asked for pronouns because she was from the usa) and marxism (had a course on marxist analysis in year 1) and that i should watch all that “jordan peterson ben shapiro good trans people bad disproven with facts logic science and GOD” type of shit
it costed my actual sanity, or a lack thereof, but hey they believe in romanian sorosposting to the max. i didn’t describe “sorosposting” i keep saying that word (because it’s funny and because it’s a word i can use instead of saying the actual thing every time). basically the main scapegoat usage of george soros in the far right “community”. “politicians are paid by soros”, “soros planted the lgbtq horde in the country of romania”, shit like that. that’s what i call sorosposting. whatever the far right says and uses soros as “the reason”, that’s sorosposting.
it’s not just the internet anymore. the news ended up becoming the same. romanian news uses all those things and end up being the exact same. you cannot escape the far right’s grasp anymore. you hear it everywhere, even outside
edit: i also think they were always like this, my rose tinted glasses can’t detect that but damn. they basically consider me useless cause i can’t be used as a money maker and shit.
dad used to be a police officer and ended up drinking and shit. one time he threatened to cut my fingers off during math homework.
my mom was in italy in most of my childhood and ended up telling me about this “mussolini” guy who was “good” because “he was so intimidating that when he was leader nobody took coins from the ground”… like what? that was what boomers she worked with believed in so that says something tbh.
so yea i was fucked from the start. i am surprised i am with you all instead of the hellish landscapes they oh so love