Did/does anyone else have conservative parents that pick your happiest moment to pop in and rant about foreigners/gays/etc.?
Posted by golden commando
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Did/does anyone else have conservative parents that pick your happiest moment to pop in and rant about foreigners/gays/etc.? August 14, 2026 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 100 |
Context: I'm 36 and I live with my parents, mainly because my father willfully neglected his health and gave himself another stroke after almost fully recovering from the last one. Since becoming a leftist years ago, I find it very difficult to have deep conversations with either of them because I always have to fight some conspiracy theory or strong hatred of theirs. If it's the weather or movies or a game, we can talk just fine, but I don't have the patience to debunk their FOX slop. I've tried, and it always ends with them almost screaming at me about how Democrats hate white people and America and apple pie, blah blah blah.
Anyway, I've had several moments where I'm having a normal conversation or playing video games, and my mom in particular will suddenly insert some dumbass talking point, and for the next five minutes, I have to nod and "that's messed up" until the "program" ends and she goes back to normal. No amount of polite hints will stop them. Scratching my neck, shifting in my chair, throwing in increasing numbers of "yeahs" and "uhhuhs", it's like she's a robot. It takes about 2 to 5 minutes but feels like years. Eventually she gets bored and "resets", but it's still infuriating. The good news is, I'm going to inherit their house when they're dead, and a paid-off full sized house is a gift from the gods in this economy. I've also learned to use their empty headed nature to my advantage. Whenever she's upset about something, she will always take it out on me with a nice 20- to 30-minute lecture about my job not being good enough for her or my hobbies being "childish" or my car not being "cool " enough. It's painful, but at the end she resets and I go about my day like usual.
Anyway, I've had several moments where I'm having a normal conversation or playing video games, and my mom in particular will suddenly insert some dumbass talking point, and for the next five minutes, I have to nod and "that's messed up" until the "program" ends and she goes back to normal. No amount of polite hints will stop them. Scratching my neck, shifting in my chair, throwing in increasing numbers of "yeahs" and "uhhuhs", it's like she's a robot. It takes about 2 to 5 minutes but feels like years. Eventually she gets bored and "resets", but it's still infuriating. The good news is, I'm going to inherit their house when they're dead, and a paid-off full sized house is a gift from the gods in this economy. I've also learned to use their empty headed nature to my advantage. Whenever she's upset about something, she will always take it out on me with a nice 20- to 30-minute lecture about my job not being good enough for her or my hobbies being "childish" or my car not being "cool " enough. It's painful, but at the end she resets and I go about my day like usual.
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Re: Did/does anyone else have conservative parents that pick your happiest moment to pop in and rant about foreigners/gays/etc.? August 31, 2026 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 1,544 |
Just tell them that you don't agree. What are they going to do? Murder you?
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all."
~Sigmund Freud
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all."
~Sigmund Freud
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