Today I did it. I tried one last time to get through to him. He’s a Jew. I showed him a verse from the bible (Leviticus 19:33) that says to relate to a foreigner like one of your own, as we were foreigners in egypt. He doesn’t care, tried to make up semantics about why It doesn’t mean that.
I showed him pictures of the Everglades Concentration Camp and how they’re selling merchandise, and how this is what the Nazis started with. He called me a hysterical lefty and told me “you must be the most pleasant person in the room and know everything”.
I blocked him after that. It crushes me to block one of the pillars of my life from my childhood, but I can’t associate with a fucking hypocrite or a fucking nazi supporter. He’s 60, when they cut medicare for him, I hope my sister is ready to go bankrupt paying for his medical care, because he voted for this, not me.
Yes it does. Apparently, when he was younger (until 9/11), he was a liberal. Then he went down the conservative talk radio pipeline (I also listened as a kid) and we see where that always goes.
My dad said the same bullshit about being a former liberal. The turning point for him, according to him, was when Clinton lied about the BJ.
I know he’s full of shit all around because he has vocalized:
Nostalgia for slavery
Advocating, repeatedly, the nuking of middle east countries. Because anything less is token restraint.
That Republicans freed the (US) slaves, then he’s conveniently disinterested in continuing that line of conversation after the first counter.
Malicious deadnaming a trans suicide victim who was in the news, eyeing others in the room to see if it had the intended effect.
During the George Floyd protests he claimed his black coworker “supports none of those insincere protests and is humbly and gratefully employed.” This one was cathartic for me because I laughed my ass off to his face for several minutes, taunting his refusal to call up or name that coworker.
Those are just the top 5 for this particular lie. We no longer have contact. He doesn’t see his kids or grandkids.
By the way, people like this deserve the experience of some rando dropping an anonymous fake detailed tip to USdotSSdotgov along the lines of “I keep seeing brown people in his backyard pool but they never come outside otherwise. Like he’s hiding illegals.” Maybe people like that would get their own gravySEAL treatment firsthand. But of course if I were on the jury prosecuting the fake tip dropper I’d have to vote to convict because of law & order ©. (wink wink jury selectors)