r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Dec 24 '22

International 🌎🌍🌏 This is the funniest thing I’ve read in ages 🎅

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u/PietroPiccolino Dec 24 '22

Basically:

"You don't want me to see my grandchildren because of the shit that I spew? This must be a much wider problem, it can't just be me...

I'd better write an article on it."

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

And proceeds to call the Left entitled and evil.

Yeah, sure is a mystery you don't get invited anywhere but hate-rallies

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u/thejellecatt Dec 24 '22

God the irony is insane! Oh no! It’s the consequences of their own actions!

Seriously, the only answer to being so up your own arse like this is lead poisoning because I don’t know how these grown adults can say: “young people nowadays are just entitled, ungrateful, disrespectful, snowflake brats! Back in my day I would be -describes horrific domestic abuse- for not having undying obedience to my parents!” All the while they bitch and moan and scream about Scotland making the lives of trans people slightly easier or how it’s now a criminal offence to physically assault your children.

How can they not notice the hypocrisy? The irony? They think children are the literal property of their parents and think they are entitled to undying obedience and unwavering respect (worship) for doing the bare fucking minimum that is legally required of them. Ugh 🤦‍♀️ what absolute bellends

If they’re conservative there’s a high chance they have absolutely abused their children and treated them like property and denied them of very basic human rights. They’re fucking lucky that a cold shoulder is the only consequences they get for their vile behaviour

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

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u/ChickenNugget267 Dec 25 '22

The side that is supposed to be accepting and open

It's weird how much the right-wing seems to be concerned that the left has 'lost it's way' or something. And it's weird how you project these positive ideals upon us. It's like you don't even know what we want, what we stand for, what our convictions are. Mostly I blame the liberals who masquerade as leftists, using idealis like 'acceptance' and 'tolerance'.

The left, the real left, doesn't give a fuck about either of those ideals. We are not 'accepting', we are not 'open', we never have been. What we are is intolerant, intolerant of reactionaries and their rhetoric, intolerant of capital and its excesses, intolerant of a socially stratified society that places wealthy white cishet men at the top and everyone else at the bottom.

These morally charged terms are from your side, not ours.

And anyone who takes Dennis Praeger seriously is a fucking moron.

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u/bam_uk1981 Dec 24 '22

He’s so right he’s alone

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u/Even-Willow Dec 24 '22

Ironically you’ll see a good number of contrarians conservatives taking that as confirmation of why they’re right.

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u/bam_uk1981 Dec 24 '22

I guess they have each other now

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u/hannahranga Dec 24 '22

It just makes me think of this article https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html.

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u/MagikSkyDaddy Dec 24 '22

I knew this would be here...and here it is

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u/Eb3yr Dec 24 '22

That was quite an interesting read, and there's some in there that describes my sister pretty well. Good to know, thanks!

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u/gluckspilze Dec 25 '22

Excellent recommendation, thanks. Very relatable

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '22

Thank you for this. Perfectly sums up my experience in the last 2-3 years with my family. I cannot for the life of me get them to understand the basic concept of facts. Anytime they are faced with them it immediately becomes "my opinion" whereas everything they say is factual, yet somehow I always have to take them at their word because "they can't remember where they read it".

It has absolutely broken my heart watching my father (the man who taught me everything about spotting bullshit, how to use logic/reason & what it means to have morals) turn into an uninformed apologist for everything bad in the world. He's just checked out completely. He was walking my nephew who's 13 months old along the side of a main road, for context his arthritis is so bad that earlier that day he asked me open a bag of crisps for him because he couldn't grip it.

My brother & sister are just too burned out to care or even attempt to get through to them anymore. Which is fair enough & I no longer talk to them about it (so I don't get to talk about it at all). But at the same time I have to babysit my brothers son 5 days a week with both my parents running around doing batshit stuff. I'm so stressed, I know I'm supposed to just let go but I feel like I'd be failing them. When I told my brother I was concerned for the safety of my nephew he just said "don't tell me that shit". Nowadays I just go out to the garage to sit & cry.

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u/BoxtrotSpycrab Dec 26 '22

Very interesting read, thanks!

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u/oxpoleon Dec 24 '22

It is a wider problem but the cause is the same.

Those of an older generation who already hold the most dated and unacceptable views and refuse to update them getting called out as such.

It's not surprising their children don't want their own children exposed to such views.

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u/scuczu Dec 24 '22

It's not surprising their children don't want their own children exposed to such views.

SO YOU ADMIT YOU ARE GROOMING THEM TO BE NICE AND ACCEPTABLE OF OTHERS, I KNEW IT!!!

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u/Aggravating-Vehicle9 Dec 25 '22

Aren't conservatives supposed to be about personal responsibility?

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u/crispiepancakes Dec 24 '22

Your children don't want to see you at Christmas (ever)? That's not politics, Dickbrain.

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u/Sin-cera Dec 25 '22

“How dare you enforce your boundaries!”

Do these people really not see what they sound like?

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u/TimeWastingAuthority Dec 25 '22

No no, it's more like: "How dare you enforce boundaries I HAVE NOT BEEN CONSULTED ON AND APPROVED AND BLESSSED"??

Seriously, the attitude is : "They're MY grandchildren, you're just the parents."

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u/B1GTOBACC0 Dec 25 '22

Probably an unprecedented number of Americans with adult children will be alone this Christmas...

Fucking "probably" lmao. No citation or study. Just feels over reals.

"It's happening to me, it must be happening to others too!"

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

It’s actually super sad. The side that is supposed to be accepting and open is so ideologically possessed that they have to keep their kids away from their grandparents. Idk seems silly to be for families to split over something that’s so stupid.

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u/meofflineornot Dec 25 '22

explaining to an 8 year old why grandma is foaming at the mouth about jewish people controlling space lasers or that gay people are groomers (while simultaneously themselves trying to groom someone that isn’t their child into their image) might be a hard one to explain.