Solidarity to my comrades dealing with shithead family members today.

I will be getting drunk and ranting about communism the second politics comes up. I won't start the fight but I sure as shit will finish it.

:07: to our strongest soldier
my folks pushed for a political ceasefire years ago because I am too powerful. I hope the same for you lol.

Heard a lot of slurs and Trump glazing and it’s not even noon

God damn, at that point I'd just watch concussion-ball (ie. American football) just to avoid that rot.
Hearing shit like that just makes me shift back into doomer mode.

my family are turbo libs so they're all sad Kamala lost. basically depressive, it'd be sad if it wasn't so stupid.

I'd actually rather lib family than chud tbh since I deal with my chud dad...who's also a lib but really doesn't give a shit that Kamala lost, surprisingly.
- chud but also a lib
  scratched liberals and all that

And to those missing family today.

Yeah. I hate this time of the year because I lost my mom in December and my cat now in November so it's a double whammy of loss.
- For this reason I do my best not to think about dates and times in general

Gotta be at least 100 houses out there hosting a “Trumpsgiving”

Please give me strength to dissociate and not say anything to that aunt today...

dissociate
My go to when my dad starts screaming and yelling at me because he hates his life.
- I am basically on my phone or kindle at every holiday. If it wasn't for my kiddos, I'd just stay home. I don't celebrate or care about holidays. They are just excuses for corpos to put their treat machine into overdrive so they can have shitty sales. And for the most part, holidays just feel fake. Everyone pretends to be nice with each other because they are "family" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean. But also lib family members just have the shittiest takes imaginable.
  I'm trying to psychologically prepare for whatever this aunt ends up saying to pretend I didn't hear it. But I suck at masking.

Hosting a vegan friendsgiving. My worst fear is that we don't have enough pre-meal snacks.

The main meal is a tofurky roast in a simple herb glaze, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, herbed mashed potatoes, miso honey brussel sprouts, mushroom gravy (no chunks), sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce, apple pie, pumpkin pie.

The pre-meal snacks are: chips with homemade salsa, hummus and crackers, "chicken" pasta salad, and homemade coffee cake

Sounds good! We had a vegan Friendsgiving last week potluck style. I made a seitan turkey that was pretty good. Our family sucks so it's just my wife, toddler, baby and myself today, and I get to make another vegan spread. Just did a main, two sides, and pumpkin pie but I'm wiped out.

Is today Thanksgiving? I've always thought it sounds like a really nice idea on paper, but I do get that the real world is full of uncles. Hope you have the nicest time possible and that the food is tasty and that you have something to be happy about!

I eventually stopped going to holidays where the uncles congregate after hearing the same tired jokes about not eating meat for over a decade.
- Sorry about that. I have uncles of the sort and a lifetime of experience getting through family gatherings with them. You should go into the standard uncle encounter like you are going to speak to a young child. His opinions on immigration will be as loudly expressed and as relevant as a child raving about Fortnite and if you manage to get any point across to him you should feel the same amount of pride. Just don't miss out on meeting any lovely part of the family because of unclephobia. I have aunts and cousins who make it worth listening to hours of uncle talk if I have to to meet them. I hope everyone else is so lucky.

Had a vegan friendsgiving this year, huge upgrade

2 dollar bills
they'll say it's fake!"
Cuz it sounds like it is...?
I didn't even know they were real, I'm almost 40 and I've never seen one in the wild myself and I've lived here my entire life.
- Lucky. I had an old dude pay with them on the regular at an old job I had circa 2008. He took joy in people being confused by them.
Old people have been obsessing over "owning the youth" with two dollar bills for decades. Now it's turned to racism? What the hell.

all of the oldest generation of my family have severe trump derangement syndrome but so far no discussion of politics, thank fuck

Death to America

I’m so glad I’m recovering from surgery and not dealing with family…though I had to deal with them on Sunday so I didn’t exactly get away. But something about it not having been on Thanksgiving must’ve mellowed them out, but who knows. To be fair, they’re not the worst, but they are libs.

Going to my uncle's for Thanksgiving, he used to have a Hillary for Prison hat. Luckily most of us are just socially aware enough not to do more than a passing mention of politics with family

I have the power of the immortal science on my side

Hahaha, my family's out of town.

Ha ha! Joke's on you! We were supposed to have Thanksgiving last month! But we didn't because nobody in the family could afford it!

This is, naturally, the libs' fault.

(It is actually, but I mean it like "neoliberal policy has eroded public institutions, blah blah, complicated and nuanced answer," and they mean it like, "IT'S THE JEWS!!!"

)
- thx

I'm lucky that my family doesn't talk politics much, but I still saw the occasional brainworm. Apparently someone in my family adopted kids from somewhere in Africa and one of my uncles made a comment about how they must have such a better life in America since they don't need to "hunt baboons" for sustenance. The conversation moved to how when I was a kid a bunch of white people they knew adopted Chinese kids and the same uncle said something to the effect that the Chinese would've killed all of those children.

Another of my uncles is convinced private corporations and the government are hiding the existence of aliens who live under the ocean because of some docuseries he watched on a streaming service.

Another of my uncles is convinced private corporations and the government are hiding the existence of aliens who live under the ocean because of some docuseries he watched on a streaming service.
I, too, have watched a let's play of XCOM: Terror From The Deep.

Hey thanks. It's not Thanksgiving here but I'll take it anyway