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Anyone becoming increasingly estranged from your parents as they get ruined by the fascism portal known as the internet? (hexbear.net)

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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.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

My dad has been reading reactionary blogs for over 15 years and is as big of a fan of Scott Adams today as he was 35 years ago. And yet he's been taking a lot of cues from the charity I do. For a long time he was into meditation and vegetarianism, and I feel like he would have been a hippie if it wasn't so repressed.

My mom can't handle any politics that's outside the MSNBC window. She manages to not be turned into a raging reactionary from being on Nextdoor.

It's frustrating but I know that at this point I have the high ground, having worked a wider variety of industries, lived with more people, and experienced more struggle than they have.