askchapo

my mom is pretty much fine. She hates politics and has enough sense to understand the news cycles exist to give people like her panic attacks, and she fucking hates donald trump and maga people and their hatreds with an intensity.

But my dad is down a Q rabbit hole, a maga guy, and some of it's pretty sad. He's getting fed stuff by the algorithm that's designed to prey on his insecurities and his pathologies. He's been abusing stimulants for years now, and that has caused him to lose almost all of his teeth. So of course he believes in a theory of medicine that lets you regrow teeth with a mild electrical current???

And like, we still talk - if i can keep him in a narrow range of his para politics interests we can shit on israel together, we can discuss a lot together. He gets into fights with people who agree with him more politically over me, because i'm trans? He's weird. He puts his family first and I believe that man would take a bullet for me, but he supports a ton of shit that's positioned against me, and is in total denial about that fact.

He's mentally ill and the algorithmically delivered content is making him worse. It's really depressing, and it's making him burn a lot of bridges in a really sad way.