Politics and family

i learned that guns "ARE EVIL AND TEARING SOCIETY APART".

If people act like looney toons especially politically the only remedy it to argue some far fetched shit even crazier than what they are saying.  Don't admit you are trolling them.


So basically agree and start talking about nuking muslim countries and who you'd invade first.  Ask if they want to get in the car and find a random muslim to kill.  Etc etc etc etc.  That will nip it in the butt.


Whenever people cry to me about their problems and are looking for sympathy I immediately try and act weirder and say I'm thinking of cutting off my scrotum or something.  Always stops it.



People are sheep and can't think for themselves so when they think they have an original thought they like to share it the loudest.

My dad kicked my moms friends dad out of our house one night, lol. Dude was hardcore liberal and was getting into it with my dad (which you should absolutely never do after hes had a few cold ones).

Why don't you just make your own thread where you can discuss all by yourself how people are sheep since you are already doing it in everyone else's.

Stop it I was giving him help to troll annoying drunk family members and shut them up.

Yes, people are sheep yet they also like to be provocative from time to time.  And looking at things from both sides of the issue rarely happens in our society.  Especially with folks like you are conditioned to agree with the media and what your teachers say.

Anything else?

How to know you're probably wrong in an argument.

1. Are you getting angry

2. Are you butthurt

3. Are you unable to put together a coherent argument for your case.

4. Do you simply regurgitate what the TV told you to think

5. Do you believe yelling louder than the other guy makes you right?


Pretty much any extended family get together for me. Well less with the yelling as pretty much everyone is in the same boat. Although I do remember a case with my Aunt where it ended with my dad yelling at her in the middle of dinner at a restaurant. (because she chose to be a lesbian). Nothing helps show people how right you are like making a scene.

lol this is pretty much my family. they are so mixed on their views. Like a mix of both liberal and conservative values, but my dads 100% republican.

All my relatives share the same political views so we never argue.

I'm not conditioned to agree with the media. I'm also not conditioned to agree with people who come along and claim that everything that everyone knows is wrong because…well why? Have you made an argument for that?

You're dad sounds like a moron and/or a dick

Then why the fuck are you calling me out?  I don't even feel like replying your too dumb and not even worthy of debate.

Where did I say that everything people think is wrong?  Quote me.

There is no social issue being discussed on this thread.  Just a discussion of stubborn, drunken, and belligerent relatives.  We all have dysfunction of some kind or another in our families this is a thread where lots of people can relate to wankertanker.  My mothers side of the family doesn't get into arguments.  My Dads side does and my brothers haven't spoken to their dad in 6 or 7 years.  I can relate.


What the fuck point are you trying to prove to me?  Are you really good at seeing both sides of the issue?  Weren't you just extremely butthurt on me calling Mandela out for the horrible atrocities he committed and the fact SA is a worse place now than it was before he gained power? 

And thats hardly an opinion.  You can make an argument that Cubans are better off under Castro than the previous regime (Cuba was the original Vegas and dumb americans went there to lose their money gambling in hordes.)  Its probably wrong and Cuba is poor as shit but still you can argue Castro was good for them.  You really can't make the same argument about south africa and Mandela.  Unless you think 5-10/1000 black people being rich and having good jobs justifies 900/1000 living in worse poverty than before.  If thats your opinion than fine.  You probably think he is a hero and should be compared to Dr. King.  I don't.  And its easy for you to put the guy on a pedestal when you have no connection to SA and are just some fucking middle class prick in the united states trying to massage your own conscience/moral compass and prove to yourself and others how open and loving and respectful and non-racist you are.

Yeah he's super chill. Will ruin dinner or a vacation to share some valuable insight like that, then complain that Christians are so persecuted and everyone's out to get them. Oh well

Luckily we keep it to "How's the weather there?" these days.

Also football helped for thanksgiving. Just kind of retreated to the tv room at my grandpas and watched the games to avoid the madness.

If you go into the thread about Mandela you'll see that I in no way was riding Mandela's dick or claiming that he was a hero for racial justice etc, I was calling you out because this is the second thread where you've claimed that "people are sheep", which is the same as saying that everyone is fucking stupid and follows whatever they see in the media, which implies that you somehow have the privilege of a unique insight on what is going on in the world, which I frankly think is bullshit you and you should step the fuck down from whatever crooked as soapbox you think you are standing on.

I definitely have that sect of my family, the conspiracy theorists talking about the Illuminati, end of the world, muslims plotting to take over, Obama the antichrist... I dig it a bit, I don't get annoyed I let them go on. If the family wasn't dry, I would definitely sit there and get wasted and listen

My family is sober as well. I just wouldn't have survived some of those years without some booze. Both my male cousins drink. Other than that I don't think anyone does. I guess my cousins husband and his family will have A(singular) beer sometimes.

Sucks. But at least you've found a way to deal with it without causing more problems.

haha everyone was acting like normal people but my aunt was shit-faced before dinner, the next day she said she didn't even remember yesterday