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Pardon Sirhan Sirhan you little shrimp.

If I had one bullet, stuck in a room with Musk and Bezos I would shoot them both with the same bullet.

Him: I consent

Her: I consent

The baby carrot: erm, isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

I mean you can go have a look if you want cuz that is definitely a thing, but it's not that hilarious because then you have to be exposed to the rest of their filth. Fash watching is miserable and not a great idea for most people haha. (garfield propaganda reminder dot png)

Hopefully there's a big mass fuckup and a bunch of them die so spectacularly that we can enjoy it from outside their sphere of cognitohazard sharing.

Yeah for real. Like all the BLM protestor organisers who shot themselves in the back and set their cars on fire after they died, they stand as a stark reminder that this oppression is current and active and until a certain tipping point is reached or a critical mass of people ready to die on their feet find each other, of course people are going to keep their heads down and focus on survival and providing for their families.

Plus like, the entire legal landscape changed in response to the BPP in its most active areas and presumably where a lot of the surviving family members are still based. You can't just march around with guns and stand off with the police anymore unless you're a psyop org. You'd just get massacred and the majority of the population would see it as a reasonable response. Fuck that, I can't imagine the frustration felt by the people who would join a modern BPP movement but instead have to operate quietly in their neighbourhood self defense efforts.

Like I'm white and not from America, I can't put myself in those shoes, but I can only imagine how incredibly miserable it would be to stay actively engaged with politics while living with the legacy of the earlier movements being so brutally repressed. The experiment was tried and it unfortunately failed, at least twice now, so any new movement has to be something new and adapted to the current material conditions etc.

This had me laughing before I even hit play. What an inspirational creature.

Gotta remember that random redditor might be 12 years old and just learned about the BPP yesterday.

In a way maybe it's a testament to the deprogram podcast for reaching people who clearly haven't done much homework but are curious.

I'm being very generous with these interpretations of course. That is such a dweeb ass question to ask.

I suspect these "leather bound" books are so you can buy a book about a niche obsession to swag out your bookshelf with having never read it, making it look like you've got some deep knowledge to impress your fellow crackers with.

There's the white supremacy thing the other poster mentioned, and there are conspiracy rabbit holes about milk pasteurization, with overlapping audiences.

What a psycho.

Turns out a picture can say a thousand words after all lol.

Thanks sib. I think they have grown to accept me for who I am and that I am never going to conform, no matter what their brainworms tell them is important. They can also clearly tell at this point that I am neurodivergent and that they are too, so I think we're in a pretty good ceasefire situation and are negotiating our peace, tolerance and individual happiness.

There's been a lot of growth over the years. And a lot of me learning radical forgiveness the hard way. I refuse to be like them in their worst aspects and so in turn I will be the better person, be patient and kind and empathetic. Where they stopped in their personal growth and development I have interrogated my own worst impulses and learned to recognise my faults.

But I won't take shit anymore, I set boundaries and when they are not respected, I either walk away or stand on business. I'm too old now for them to have that level of influence over me, too scarred to be further hurt and they are too old to take seriously anymore. And I think they find me weird, intimidating and impressive all at once. I think they can see that their fears were unfounded and that even in this hostile world I shine and am valued.

It's a classic narcissistic family situation but I have learned to be a grey rock when I need to be, to be the parent to my own parents when I need to be and to be measured in my approach with the end goal of maintaining a cohesive and supportive family unit so my niece and nephew grow up with a healthier family dynamic than would exist otherwise and are more likely to not be subjected to the madness without a countervailing force of acceptance and genuine compassion as they grow into their own identities, whatever that might end up looking like.

But that's just my story and how I've decided to handle my situation. Nobody should feel compelled by tradition, parental brainwashing or cultural values or any fucking thing to accept the unacceptable, to submit to abuse and manipulation, or to accept the role of being a victim in someone else's neurotic unthinking perception of reality.

So fuck it. I gotta do what I gotta do. It's a burden but it won't last forever and it isn't entirely a black hole of emotional energy, they are not evil people. But it would be equally valid for me to reject them entirely. I could exit this existence if I didn't feel it was worth sticking around, and anything up to that extreme including homelessness is also an option that I can consider and weigh the benefits of vs how I choose to handle my reality.

In any case it was a very low / no contact relationship for a the better part of a decade while I worked on healing myself and then breaking myself and then healing again. lol. been a long road, but I'm tougher and wiser for the mistakes. Better equipped to help others.

And, to the point of this thread, I think I'm definitely in a position to affirm OP's validity in rejecting their parents for any reason at all. We are not meant to be their canvases, their playthings, their trophies or anything else. If OP's people are intolerable then they do not need to tolerate them. If I chose that path my life would look very different at various stages along my journey.

Their politics are all fucked up too. No theory havin mufuckas. But whatever. It'll be our world soon.