hanimmal
Well-Known Member
In 2017 after a couple years of dealing with my dad while trying to set up a farm on his land I couldn't take it anymore and decided it wasn't healthy for me to be there and had to walk away from my project. Since then we haven't spoken.
At the time I couldn't understand what was going on, he was constantly agitated, paranoid about the government dumping chemicals on him with contrails, dismissing the scientific methods i was using, the world was going to basically going to go nuts kind of stuff. Being a long time fan of this politic forum, I knew the gist of pretty much everything he was reading, and would try to get him to understand too, but I never took the time to show him how the propaganda posts work w half facts, and supposition and slanted blog style 'news' sites that are technically correct, but only show a small part of a story that doesn't counter their argument, etc. That is on me and I do feel bad I never took the time.
Anyways, I started seeing all the stuff coming out in late 2016 and in 2017 I realized that my dad's mindset is almost identical to Trump's, basically a full on internet troll. And as it turned out, he spent the couple years trolling me to the rest of my family (which is easy to do since we don't talk a lot, and when we do we try to keep it drama free as much as possible) to the point that by the time I figured it out, we had a full on family feud with me in the middle of it.
So this leaves me here now realizing that I have a family that each got sucked into the Russian(/Saudi/hate group/etc) internet propaganda trap, and no clue of how to combat it in order to bring my family back to a point we can talk about it. Since every time I do I hit a social landmine and they go full Mark Levin screaming at me for being a libtard and I lose my shit because you can only get yelled at for so long.
I wrote this post to get any ideas or experience anyone might have to give on getting past these kind of problems. I don't think the whole don't talk politics is going to work anymore since you can't touch a world topic without somehow getting troll goo on it (any side of the debate too). I personally don't care how people choose to vote, and while I don't like the white supremacist/evangelical agenda, at least they are Americans. Now we are dealing with outside countries trying to get us to vote for the most ignorant candidates and just want to sow discord in our country and I think meeting this head on is needed. But I can (and often am) wrong so figured I would ask you all for your 2 cents.
At the time I couldn't understand what was going on, he was constantly agitated, paranoid about the government dumping chemicals on him with contrails, dismissing the scientific methods i was using, the world was going to basically going to go nuts kind of stuff. Being a long time fan of this politic forum, I knew the gist of pretty much everything he was reading, and would try to get him to understand too, but I never took the time to show him how the propaganda posts work w half facts, and supposition and slanted blog style 'news' sites that are technically correct, but only show a small part of a story that doesn't counter their argument, etc. That is on me and I do feel bad I never took the time.
Anyways, I started seeing all the stuff coming out in late 2016 and in 2017 I realized that my dad's mindset is almost identical to Trump's, basically a full on internet troll. And as it turned out, he spent the couple years trolling me to the rest of my family (which is easy to do since we don't talk a lot, and when we do we try to keep it drama free as much as possible) to the point that by the time I figured it out, we had a full on family feud with me in the middle of it.
So this leaves me here now realizing that I have a family that each got sucked into the Russian(/Saudi/hate group/etc) internet propaganda trap, and no clue of how to combat it in order to bring my family back to a point we can talk about it. Since every time I do I hit a social landmine and they go full Mark Levin screaming at me for being a libtard and I lose my shit because you can only get yelled at for so long.
I wrote this post to get any ideas or experience anyone might have to give on getting past these kind of problems. I don't think the whole don't talk politics is going to work anymore since you can't touch a world topic without somehow getting troll goo on it (any side of the debate too). I personally don't care how people choose to vote, and while I don't like the white supremacist/evangelical agenda, at least they are Americans. Now we are dealing with outside countries trying to get us to vote for the most ignorant candidates and just want to sow discord in our country and I think meeting this head on is needed. But I can (and often am) wrong so figured I would ask you all for your 2 cents.
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