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Holidays are going to be fun
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this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
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Most healthy members of society dude 😭
Yes, healthy members of society spend time with their pedophile supporting extending family. Right.
I am not weak enough to give up on someone. Every meeting is a chance to educate them
Holding people accountable for their horrible views isn't weak. What a weird take.
As long as you use that opportunity to try to educate them, instead of inviting them over without holding them accountable.
Right? When my extended family gets together there are like 40 of us. I might try to avoid the ones that are MAGA, or at least avoid talking politics with them, but I’m not gonna refuse to go to Christmas or Thanksgiving just because my chuddy uncle is going to be there. I’ll just take a walk with the other queer cousins and get a little toasted before dinner
I would, were I you, use that time to hold them accountable for their politics of hate. I see that as the morally correct action.
Nor would I, in most cases. Were the celebration with mostly MAGA family, I would consider not attending.
Must be nice for only some of them to be MAGA.
When they're all MAGA, though, sometimes it's best to just not go.
Aww the cousin walk <3
My family extended to just 1st cousins is more than 80 people. Every single last one full maga Christo-fascists. Not worth being around.
Yeah, super healthy to go hang out with people who want people like you bashished from society because of who you want to love 🙄
How "healthy" it is to attend holiday gatherings with your family depends entirely on your family's chud ratio.
Not conservative, not "republican": MAGA.
My MAGA relatives are some of the worst human beings I've met. Hateful, loud, dumb bigots that seem unable to act like a decent human being for more than a few minutes at a time. I've heard the shit they've let slip out and they meant (and mean) every word.
They're not welcome in my home and I am sure as shit am not wasting my time on them.
Conservative, republican, and MAGA are interchangeable. You don't get to claim to be one without the others. They're all the same at this point.
There are degrees of shitbaggery. There are people that can be redeemed without too much pain.
Nobody is an angel: everyone has harmful views and does bad things -- it's just a question quantity and quality. As much as it sucks the reality is if we set the bar too high we're going to spend life alone ... and risk being a hypocrite as well.
So we tolerate peoples failings as we hope they tolerate ours. We grow and redeem ourselves by learning of our flaws and blind spots from other people.
That being said there's a line where its not worth it. Everyone has to decide where that is for themselves.
I can't believe so many people think it's just fine to engage with people that think I shouldn't exist, or that them holding those views is no big deal.
American conservatism and American republicanism are interchangeable with MAGA.
Being a "republican" means different things based on context. The American Republican party is interchangeable with MAGA. The same is generally true of conservatism, although modern conservatism is always a harmful ideology.
Our families invite process is fairly simple. If you can't last family time during holiday without talking politics, you aren't invited. I think that's a fairly healthy ask. I think only one person was excluded from family planning/gathering due to it, but thankfully the feeling was mutual because they couldn't isolate their political side from their actual personality and as such didn't want to be in an environment where they couldn't talk politics anyway.
So your approach is just not talking about the problems? Very healthy. /s
The "see no evil, speak no evil" crowd aren't much help to the downtrodden. /li
That's not healthy. That's enabling.
After Election Day 2024 I completely cut my republican father out of my life. He never was maga, but he was celebrating trimp's win (ironically by listening to a Woodie Guthrie cd I got him). I did not speak to him for almost a year and a half, then in April I found out he was going to group therapy. I am unsure of the exact nature of the GT but one of his friend's that is in the GT said it is to redeem them.
We still do not have the close relationship that we used to have, and I doubt we ever will again.
The crazy thing is he used to be a long haired hippie fighting for freedoms and ~~protecting~~ protesting the Vietnam war.
Protesting?
Yup! Hah
It sucks when that has to happen, but good on you.