• The_v@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I haven’t seen my parents in over a decade. Born in '50 & '51 they check all the boxes of the worst stereotypes.

    Republican ✓

    White ✓

    Racist ✓

    Bigoted ✓

    Ultra-Religious ✓

    Limited education ✓

    Entitled ✓

    Narcissistic ✓

    Physically and emotionally abusive ✓

    Depended their parents assistance until their mid-30’s, kicked their kids out at 18 (17 for me). ✓

    I honestly have no clue if they are MAGA or not. I suspect they are because my older sister was pictured in the news at the orange cheetos inauguration.

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      It’s the Republican MO: everyone needs to suffer from everything I’ve ever had to deal with at a bare minimum. More is fine, but anything less than every single issue I had to deal with (whether I really did, or just think I did, thanks to a healthy victim complex) is unacceptable.

      In practice, it looks a lot like the socialism they claim to hate, but only for negativity. Hoard everything good, distribute everything bad.

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        the Republican MO: everyone needs to suffer from everything I’ve ever had to deal with

        And the “suffering” is always “I worked hard for what I got” meaning they got an entry-level job working 40 hrs a week that let them buy a house and raise 2.4 kids on a single salary.

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      kicked their kids out at 18 (17 for me)

      One thing that constantly surprised me on reddit was in the personal finance sub, there was a post about this about once a month, give or take. It’s just shocking how often it happens. It was in the FAQs because it happened so often.