• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Family is the worst when it comes to this stuff. Mine is all military, it is fucking WILD to me to hear all the old grunts who’d kill a commie for being red back when we were in a Cold War…now they’re telling me why this orange guy says the truth. Propaganda is a hell of a drug

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      9 months ago

      It’s really wild to me, tbh. The military is what made me as Progressive as I am. My father served as well during Desert Storm in the USMC. He traveled around too. Yet I grew up in an extremely conservative household.

      I wonder what yours says when trying to reconcile their own cognitive dissonance. It wasn’t that long ago that we were actively against Russia FFS,

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        9 months ago

        My dad did 4 in the navy and got out chillin on ships and seeing some places, I haven’t talked to him for a long time cause he burned that bridge in other traditional shitty family ways,. Over covid out of the blue he commented on Facebook on one of my posts that protestors aren’t a problem if we shoot them, and that I’m “a pussy lib who hates America.”

        I’m 100% with the VA for injuries sustained in an IED blast. ^(and he knows that)