Hey all, sincerely hope you’re well.
Many of our American posters are gathering together with family and friends today. They’re likely to hear plenty of awful takes from their liberals. Unscratched, freshly scratched, or pre-scratched chuds alike, there are sure to be brainworms all around the table and openly airing their unhinged grievances. Please feel free to share their awful takes here. This thread is open for supporting one another, venting, laughing at bad family takes (both stale and bespoke).
This thread is intended to be a supportive space to bring the community together. Please be kind to one another. As always, discussion of struggle sessions or attempts to relitigate them will not be permitted.
Have fun and keep cozy! 
My spouse’s mom brought edibles to thanksgiving for us to take before having to interact with the rest of the family, and boy howdy did I underestimate her tolerance for weed. I took a quarter of one of her supergummies and I’m melting
Oh shit, how many mg?
This year is the third year where my extended family has completely severed ties with me in regards to family events/holidays.
The reason hasn’t been given to me directly, but based on what my father has told me it’s probably because I’m non-binary or that I’m “scary” to all my evangelical family because I work out, I wear thick eyeliner and I have bracelets with spikes. Like I’m clearly some type of queer leftist punk by demeanor and appearance and that’s simply who I am and have been for a long time. My grandmother died of covid in 2021, days before the vaccine was commercially available. She was the matriarch of the whole extended family and she loved me dearly. No one would dare speak against her in regards to me being present. I was tolerated so long as meemaw would shoot them a dirty look or brandish her wooden spoon if someone started speaking ill of me. My meemaw was an absolute real one, grew up in poverty in the 1930s, daughter of a community pastor, and overall the sweetest person I’ve ever known. She had such an immense love inside of her. She practically raised me too, I got my first lessons from her on why racism is evil and how you should treat people with kindness and appreciation.
Now that she’s gone the matriarch and planner seems to be my deranged fundamentalist aunt. At one point my aunt was the principal of my middle school where she was known by the students as “lady Hitler.” She would frequently make disparaging remakes about the Latino students and once made a morning announcement that all Christians should be wary of secret Muslims sneaking into America. This was in the early 00s so she never got fired for blatant discrimination like that, instead she ended up superintendent of the whole district a few years later.
Yeah so if my aunt is in charge of extended family plans, I’m probably never going again. My parents, bless them, actually didn’t attend thanksgiving last year or this one because they figured out I was deliberately excluded. Apparently there was an incident where my uncle tried shooting the shit with his brother (my dad) in 2022 about me. Uncle was saying something to the effect of “this is a lot nicer without that commie (slur) isn’t it?” He said this thinking my dad would go along with it, but it ended up turning into shouting. Dad actually defended me, said I was smarter and more kind than anyone at the whole table. I’m just some dumb goofus, but it touched me to hear my dad defended me like that from all the bullies in my family.
My parents are actually super chill with me, despite being a little nuts and racist themselves, they’re just standard American type of deranged, not the red pill maga christian fascist type of American. So my parents don’t tolerate their kids being called slurs or disparaged by family, thankfully.
Anyway. I’m thankful that I’m healthy and I have two lovely cats. I only have one human friend, but she’s very dear to me. And you’re all my comrades and you’ve always been super nice to me. Thank you
Dad actually defended me, said I was smarter and more kind than anyone at the whole table.
don’t need to meet your family to be utterly confident that your father is correct ❤️ I’m really glad to know your parents stick up for you, you deserve it.
Thank you, you’re very sweet
Your grandma sounds like she was a great lady, I’m sure she was very proud of you
Thank you, I hope so.
Bracelets with spikes and eyeliner sounds extremely cool, and lady hitler is hilarious I guess as long as you don’t have to deal with her.
Getting deadnamed: the holiday
Love to get ruthlessly dogpiled for being the only one to make thanksgiving political when I tell someone that “No, actually Europe is not an authoritarian country for having different driving tests than the United States”
Aaaaaawaaaaaaaaaqqqqqaaaaaaaaaaaa
Actually, the US is fascist for using easy driving tests to deputise its citizens so they can kill protestors and children with SUVs.
Granted this was Japan and not Europe, but I remember for years people telling me that the test was impossible and that everyone fails twice and that it was actually a scam for the Japanese driving school to get money.
Passed it on my first try. Turns out most Americans just suck at driving.
I failed my driving exam, in the U.S., twice, but it was for total fucking bullshit. One failure she claimed I was speeding. No, I was watching my speedometer, I never went over 35. The second failure it was LIGHTLY RAINING, like, imagine the lightest fucking rain imaginable. I got failed for not turning my windshield wipers on automatic… I was just manually operating them as needed. Because it was barely fucking raining. But I got this “blah blah blah state law when it’s raining you gotta turn on the wipers” bullshit. Fuck those assholes, wasting my fucking time on absolute nonsense.
Sounds like Massachusetts lol
When you are in a situation like this, the best way to argue is to pretend to be a dumbass and ask lots of questions you already know the answer to, especially questions that are “But doesnt the US do that with xyz?”
It’s been a year since I spoke to my family, and this is the first thanksgiving I’m missing. I can’t do it anymore. I’m tired of never having my thoughts and feelings taken seriously, either because I’m a child and therefore lesser than my parents, or because I’m a communist. They begged me to be a libertarian instead a couple years ago, lmao (they’re liberals, or at least they think they are). The final straw was Palestine. Everyone called me antisemitic last Thanksgiving, and I’m not dealing with that again.
The distance has let me reflect on how my parents raised me. Although they never hit me, there were a few fucked-up situations that with hindsight prove they never respected me. They think they love me, but they don’t. They love the concept of me as a relatively successful son, and familial peace.
It would be nice to have a family, but I’m so exhausted by it. I’ve never really had a good relationship with my family, so I don’t even know what it would look like if I forgave them and they magically changed how they speak to me. I hope they get over their racism and transphobia, but I can’t try to change them anymore
I already had a wonderful friendsgiving with a bunch of lovely people, and I’m going to my friend’s family’s Thanksgiving tonight. She’s lost family in Gaza and the West Bank this year.
Im glad you arent being subjected to that this year. Even if it isnt 100% easy you deserve your peace to be respected. You can be a successful son in ways that they dont even understand, contributing to the well being of others rather then leeching off of them
The distance has let me reflect on how my parents raised me. Although they never hit me, there were a few fucked-up situations that with hindsight prove they never respected me. They think they love me, but they don’t. They love the concept of me as a relatively successful son, and familial peace.
I had a similar experience, but didn’t begin to hit the “rails” with them until I had my own kid.
friends are the family you choose ❤️
The amount of “you need to beat the shit out of kids” I’ve heard this trip lol. And conservatives wonder why they get cut off lol
mine is going to graduate high school next spring and has been lauded by teachers and friends’ parents for being a good kid – I am delighted to report that you absolutely do not need to beat your kids, you just need to talk to them like they are people with their own needs and desires
Only had one nword this thanksgiving but thats a new record low.
The arc of history bends towards not saying the nword.
My family is at least liberal so it’s not that bad. Actually, my uncle called the Senate a “reactionary institution” out of nowhere.
Someone in my family told me he did an environmentalist
at one point, so he’s a pretty cool guy.“I hope I can avoid chuds on Thanksgiving.”
monkey’s paw curls and im surrounded by white PMC liberals.
Wish me luck chat, into the lion’s den I go. I’ll try not to fedpost IRL to maintain Hexbear’s opsec.
Edit: Maine.
Reasons Kopmala lost the election:
“She’s a woman. And she’s black.”
“Russian election interference.”
“Didn’t have enough time to get her campaign going.”
“Trump supporters infiltrated her campaign and sabotaged it with overspending.”
“She didn’t know what her staff was doing and how they were misappropriating campaign funds.”
“Articles about her low polling numbers is fake news.”
“Something is off and I can’t put my finger on it.”
Not mentioned? Palestine. Inflation. Outflanking Republicans from the right. Police brutality. College funding. Healthcare reform.
Really activates the almonds on Main Street.
Got that too. Also, grocery prices aren’t even part of “the economy” and if you think they are you’re (r-slured), believed the Russian lies, and you don’t deserve to speak because you don’t know anything about “economics” even if I’ve read like 5 textbooks on economics.
The economy = GDP apparently. Here I thought it was all the resources and labor of a nation and their movement, and GDP was just a measure of one aspect thereof.
Here I thought it was all the resources and labor of a nation and their movement, and GDP was just a measure of one aspect thereof.
My sweet summer child
“Trump supporters infiltrated her campaign and sabotaged it with overspending.”
but of course! they are famously fans of overpriced salads
“She didn’t know what her staff was doing and how they were misappropriating campaign funds.”
who can say who ordered these overpriced out-of-state salads?
Lmao the salads thing is what got the “Trump infiltrators” comment.
my family is cool and i don’t have conservatives in my relations
Just a bunch of libs here 😤
lollll that means you’re the family chud
luuuuuuuuuckyy 🤩
wanna swap?
I’ve got turbolibs. Really just as hard to talk to if you have any interest in talking about the world as it actually is.
I’m happy i’m not American so I only have to deal with this shit on Christmas, can’t imagine living through 2 events like this in less then a month
I learned how to deal with it in my family, thanks to the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism
My dialectical approach is to tell my father to shut the fuck up when he tries to talk shit about immigrants, trans people etc
A heartwarming coming of age story about a child who finally grows old and strong enough to kick their dad’s ass
Thousand yard stare shit pour one out for me
I was kind of pressured into attending my new boss’s Thanksgiving since I’m temporarily 5 hours from home. I’ve only known him like 3 days so I have no idea who any of these people are. So far the food is good and nobody has said any crazy shit, so better than I expected. Will update once people get drunk.
Honestly, that’s a nice gesture to invite someone into your home and share a meal with them when you’ve only known them for mere days. Hope it all turns out fun!
Thanksgiving for me is really just a chance to have dinner and spend time with my in laws. They’re in their 70s and a lot of fun. They showed me their weed plant they’ve been growing and I brought them some sparkling weed water I got in Chicago.
Weed water? THC isn’t water soluable though how does that work
It’s lipid soluble, so they use something like vegetable glycerin to extract it, then an emulsifier like lecithin to mix it into solution with the water.
Weed water is the weirdest thing I’ve tried from the dispensary, still not sure if I like it or hate it but it certainly tastes like what it’s called
Oh, the only drinkable I’ve had was an orange soda (pretty good, too sweet IMO)
Not sure. It’s some sparkling flavored water with THC and cbd. I don’t think there’s any alcohol in it?
Maybe a different product from the one I know, the one I tried isn’t carbonated
You dissolve the THC into glycerin.
My family is tolerable usually but my god i hate visiting my family, then visiting my gf’s family, and spending 8 hours combined in doing so. I have enough conversation in me for like 20 minutes
thank god it’s over… until christmas
visiting two extended families on the same day is awful.
anybody who hosts their holiday gathering in the days before or after deserves extra love and appreciation, imho.
I think @shadowinlight and I managed to do 3 dual-holiday years before we cracked. it’s just too much.
