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Also lots of comments about how conservative radio host only gets called from conservative grandparents.
Not letting your racist parents see your kids: abuse.
Disowning a kid because theyāre trans/gay: what the Lord intended.
Come to think of it, Iāve never heard of a gay couple kicking a kid out for being straight.
The fucking around generation really does not enjoy even the faintest finding out.
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Poll on banning or refusing to see right-wing relatives
- I personally have banned or refuse to see close right-wing relatives for what they might say are āpolitical viewsā
- I have not done this, but I know people who have
- I donāt know anyone who has banned or refused to see family members for what they might say are āpolitical viewsā
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I know a ton of people who are annoyed with family members, but none who have actually banned them or refused to ever let their kids see their grandparents.
Seems like in 99.9% of cases, the grandparents know to just shut the hell up around the grandkids, and everyone grits their teeth and gets through it. And if not, thereās probably a lot more with the grandparents than just abhorrent political views.
I answered ābanned or refused to seeā because I have one relative who cannot shut the fuck up about their shitty political beliefs. Itās a younger male relative who has drifted into anti-vaxx, anti-Trudeau nonsense. Presumably as a way to cope with his failure to launch into adulthood, he stumbled through high school complaining nonstop that his teachers were all stupid morons and now heās approaching age 20 and lives with his mom and works at Dennyās and has no future. This is all the fault of woke liberals.
Even though I voted ābanned or refused to seeā, itās not really true. I offered numerous times to sit down with him and set aside politics and talk about making an action plan to go to school and get a better job, teach him the basics of personal finance (his mom is an absolute financial disaster), I even offered to pay for his post secondary education and set him up in an apartment if he would work with me to make a budget and a 5 year plan to take control of his life. But nope, Iām just mean because Iām suggesting that the way out of his funk is hard work. You canāt help people that wonāt help themselves.
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My nephew is your relative?
My brother was a bit like this until around 27, through more from ADD and less of an asshole. He finally got it together after my mom gave him 100 chances and paid for his community college and state university tuition. He was also stabilized by a manual labor job and an early marriage.
I told him he needs to have a serious talk with my nephew. He said thereās been multiple serious talks. That said, Nephew doesnāt talk about politics because Iād school him. He did once make a sarcastic, āOrange man badā comment when I was ranting about some insane Trump legal case.
Something about the internet/social media is like fertilizer for loserdom.
My grandfather never saw his great granddaughter because of his dumbass point of view on Covid vaccines, so I think that counts
Answered the same, itās my broke stepdad and my mother died 9 years ago and I would see him once a year or so since. He went down the facebook rabbit hole and would occasionally repost some mildly racist stuff that turned into anti vax crap and anti trudeau stuff as well. Even posted some anti Ukraine stuff once too. Havenāt seen him since Covid started instead of the usual once a year.
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ācanceling grandpaā is the new āpulling the plug on grandmaā
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I think thatās a bit different. If heād have dodged the bullet, would you have let him? If no, then I guess we can count it.
i voted for ārefused to seeā. but really i just dont go to my godparents house anymoreā¦ so i donāt know if that counts. there wasnāt any kind of breaking point. i just choose not to go there.
my godmother was one of the first radicalized by the tea party and idolized sarah palin and that was like an early gateway to trump
My (Chinese) father-in-law frequently listens to or watches nationalistic commentary that presents Taiwanese, Americans et al as enemies of the party and thus of China. It makes me pretty uncomfortable when the nieces and nephew are around. If my wife and I were to have a child here not having that material on around my kid would be a red line (obv thatād be just one of many issues).
One of my wifeās sisters has been in a relationship with her business partner who is non gender-conforming (I donāt know how they identify) and itās never been much of an issue. Her husband is still part of the family unit. So at least on that front Iām not concerned.
I am thankful that my sister put a ban on Fox News when she and their kids are with our parents and they respect it.
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Why donāt cable companies ban fox news or make it an extra paid subscription?
Olds will cancel $150 per month packages over losing Tucker
Fox News will never ever ever agree to not be in a bundle
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Why do they have to agree?
Because they have leverage versus the cable companies. Their customers want that as part of the base package.
They are too afraid to find out how many do, but Fox News makes its money on carriage fees. They get low rent, low pay advertisers.
Because Fox can portray an offer to do that as a cancellation and then the same thing happens.