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In reply to the discussion: Parents and kids disowning MAGA family. [View all]Ysabel
(2,080 posts)23. No, it isn't dumb my family had already disowned me...
anyway...
My dad thinks it's perfectly fine to point out to me large breasted women and talk about how much he admires them. He is also unsympathetic about me being raped numerous times. He thinks I did something wrong like went to the wrong party perhaps...
My brother got together with a woman who is a Nazi. So is her brother. Her father was SS. No way do I want anything to do with any of them ever...
Do you think I should?
Regardless, I won't and it's for safety reasons and perfectly legit and perfectly fine for me to not ever communicate with them...
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My sister and her husband made it clear to me in 2016 and there's still no relationship
Deuxcents
Nov 8
#4
That is an incident I have never forgotten & have quoted as necessary. It brilliantly captures...
Hekate
Nov 8
#21
My nieces husband is one. My neighbor who has a teenage daughter and son with autism is one.
TommieMommy
Nov 8
#14
This is nothing new to me. The magats in my extended family have been on notice since Donny's first term.
paleotn
Nov 8
#17
Maybe. But as an editorial in Le Monde pointed out, there's no excuses for America this time around...
Hekate
Nov 8
#26
Not only is disowning not "dumb", I fucking recommend it. Unfriend/unfollow excise a few MAGA fuckstains today.
SoFlaBro
Nov 8
#33
You can kick it with all the regressives and Nazis you like due to an accident of fate.
TheKentuckian
Nov 8
#35
"One can neither agree with a fascist nor be friends with one, unless one is a fascist..."
GoneOffShore
Nov 9
#37
I'm avoiding talking to my twin brother. He's a Republican who used to really dislike Trump
kerry-is-my-prez
Nov 8
#22