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Thanksgiving is right around the corner and lots of people will be visiting family for Christmas. Things might be a bit tense after the election. Any advice on keeping the peace with relatives you don't see eye to eye with?
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Nov 15, 2024 01:23
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Everybody in my family voted for Harris except for my grandparents who don't talk about politics in front of everyone else so there's not a lot of of conflict here op
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Nov 15, 2024 01:27
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Stay home. I’m doing my part!
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Nov 15, 2024 01:28
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https://frinkiac.com/mp4/S08E18/130...yBQUk9CTEVNUy4=
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Nov 15, 2024 01:30
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Aesop Poprock posted:Everybody in my family voted for Harris except for my Okay but suppose they did talk about politics and also used racial slurs while doing so. What then?
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Nov 15, 2024 01:31
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My mom and her sisters have been trying to get them into a retirement community for a while I think that would just accelerate the process. They're very old
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Nov 15, 2024 01:34
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I'm gonna slice a mother fucker about politics no I don't give a poo poo who they voted for I just want to slice someone
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Nov 15, 2024 01:36
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get out your phone and start filming your relatives when they go off, farm some content and make a mint
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Nov 15, 2024 01:36
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Pretend you can't understand English.
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Nov 15, 2024 01:37
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wash bucket posted:Okay but suppose they did talk about politics and also used racial slurs while doing so. What then? that's called thanksgiving op
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Nov 15, 2024 01:37
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Bad Purchase posted:get out your phone and start filming your relatives when they go off, farm some content and make a mint *indian dad yelling at me for filming dinner* "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE loving MR BEAST??"
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Nov 15, 2024 01:38
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Bad Purchase posted:get out your phone and start filming your relatives when they go off, farm some content and make a mint Now Gamgam is a TikTok Star
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Nov 15, 2024 01:38
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Shut the gently caress up, Chico Man.
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Nov 15, 2024 01:59
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I will spend the night trying to make someone cry, even if they repent and regret the choices they have made, I'll keep going until I'm ready to leave or until they do.
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Nov 15, 2024 03:14
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You know if you hate ur famil you can just hit the bricks and not hang out
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Nov 15, 2024 03:39
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If anyone brings up politics, just nonchalantly say, “Yeah, the people have spoken. I hope everyone gets exactly what they want.” Try to say it in a disinterested tone that dismisses the gently caress out of them.
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Nov 15, 2024 04:07
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Colonel Cancer posted:You know if you hate ur famil you can just hit the bricks and not hang out and waste an opprutunity to use my slicin' knife???
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Nov 15, 2024 04:26
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For Thanksgiving I’m taking my wife and sons to a casino on the Oregon coast (Chinook Winds). Leaving Wednesday at noon, staying two nights, come home on Friday. Going to eat buffet turkey, let the boys swim in the pool, and no in-laws for a hundred miles. I already booked a cruise for the last half of December too, but that was set up a while ago. I’m not suffering fools gladly this year, and already feel so good about it I’m thinking of making “oh can’t make it, going on vacation that week” a new holiday tradition.
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Nov 15, 2024 04:27
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put some 9/11 footage on after dinner and watch it intently
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Nov 15, 2024 04:35
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Start talking to your family about this new site called X, which does everything
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Nov 15, 2024 04:40
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Tell them you voted for the lemon party
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Nov 15, 2024 04:58
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Someone in the other thread said all you have to do is say "TRUMP's probably gonna be the last president of your lifetime" to all the olds in your life
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Nov 15, 2024 05:05
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"Actually, I'm glad we're through with all this voting business"
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Nov 15, 2024 05:08
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Outpost22 posted:Someone in the other thread said all you have to do is say "TRUMP's probably gonna be the last president of your lifetime" to all the olds in your life Yeah if you want them to get good sleep at night
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Nov 15, 2024 05:09
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I would not hang out with people who can't curb their racism any unless I was stuck at their place, OP
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Nov 15, 2024 05:10
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Repeatedly bring up "furry inflation" as an economic concept. Tell them to do their own research if they ask what that is
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Nov 15, 2024 05:11
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Everyone from my dads side of the family is a lifelong democrat, so I’m assuming it’s gonna be similar to last year, where the gen alpha kids play Roblox while my cousin’s husband talks about the dread he feels as a elementary school teacher. Maybe my aunt will read another excerpt from her unpublished biography, that will be cool.
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Nov 15, 2024 05:16
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Colonel Cancer posted:You know if you hate ur famil you can just hit the bricks and not hang out an important life skill that too many people are afraid to put into action
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Nov 15, 2024 05:30
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Lt. Cock posted:an important life skill that too many people are afraid to put into action sssssssslice
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Nov 15, 2024 05:33
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In the bad advice column: get really into stamps. Anytime something stupid/awful comes up, immediately link that to a stamp somehow and talk about it at great length. Make sure you have your collection with you and can show everyone the stamp in question. If you are told to gently caress off with your stamps, make a scene. Bawl your eyes out at how mean the offending person is and how you just wanted to share your love of stamps with them. By doing this you will frame them as rocking the social boat and they will be defeated. Alternatively, they will stop coming or you won't be invited to come to Thanksgiving anymore.
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Nov 15, 2024 05:36
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Give them what they want: an in depth breakdown on the Treaty of Westphalia
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Nov 15, 2024 05:36
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the only thing some of my inlaws love as much as they hate vax is speculating on the value of pokemon memorabilia. if the tv in the nursing home can display r/pokeinvesting for an hour, i'll be living easy
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Nov 15, 2024 07:19
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You do the verbal equivalent of side-stepping/deflecting, moving past their strike, and getting behind them, then you can shove them around if you want. "So what do you think about Trump's policy on xyz?" "Oh, I haven't thought much about it(side-step). But I was thinking about fishing(moving past their strike). You fish for trout at that lake near you, right? Have you had good luck recently?(getting behind them and shoving to something else)". Just quickly change the subject in a courteous manner.
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Nov 15, 2024 08:01
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I'm still trying to prepare for this, my sister-in-law is a huge Trumper anti-vaxer, anti--masker, despite being a government employee with an adult special needs child. She is very aware that I am very liberal, yet somehow she has maintained a delusion for years that my husband is maybe, slightly, barely, to the left of herself and constantly suggests that this must bring major relationship conflicts between us often, you know, because obviously my husband is very conservative and I am a crazy liberal. We are gay married, we have owned two electric cars, we live in one of the most liberal, ethically and economically diverse areas of the entire metro that both of them live in. We had a immediate-family only court house wedding but we invited two of our best friends to "Just take photos" as a very clear pretense to why they were the only non-immediate family there, they are a interracial married gay couple, one of which is a flaming Afro-Mexican, professional makeup artist. My husband hates conflict and has always deflected on it, but it's starting to get uncomfortably close to jesus loving christ, in what kind of elaborate delusion do you think your brother is secretly a conservative Trump supporter and married to me, despite all the available evidence after this election.
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Nov 15, 2024 08:02
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I just remembered the women's book club my mom used to go to. Its up in the mountains on a dirt road. Mostly a wine-drinking club to be honest. There were three rules though; no discussion of politics, religion, or the road. The road is all on private property, maintained by contributions to a neighborhood fund and physically working on it; the county does not work on it at all. Of the three rules, the road discussion was the most serious violation of etiquette.
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Nov 15, 2024 08:24
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i keep a printed omnibus of pencilhands threads and reference it to start new conversations around the table
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Nov 15, 2024 08:33
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Report them to the local political officer for reprocessing
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Nov 15, 2024 09:21
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Cannon fusilade then ram at full mast
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Nov 15, 2024 09:33
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Just fight. I want to keep the peace just as much as anyone else, but frankly I'm not going to loving put up with family that voted for a party that's openly talked about eliminating people like me. On national broadcasts, even. Do the verbal side- step and riposte, but instead ask direct questions: What's Trump's policy on this or that? What is the plan, in detail, for the economy, and why do you think it will work? What do any of these men you voted for actually believe? Do you loving even know? What do you actually loving believe? I've cornered family over it, before, and they never actually have answers. They boil things down into "old school values" or "freedom" and they can't goddamned tell you what they mean by it, because they don't loving know, themselves. Now pass the loving cranberry sauce. Yes, the whole thing. I'm eating it all, because I hate you all. Except my one aunt, she can have some, she's fine.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:In the bad advice column: get really into stamps. Anytime something stupid/awful comes up, immediately link that to a stamp somehow and talk about it at great length. Make sure you have your collection with you and can show everyone the stamp in question. If you are told to gently caress off with your stamps, make a scene. Bawl your eyes out at how mean the offending person is and how you just wanted to share your love of stamps with them. By doing this you will frame them as rocking the social boat and they will be defeated. Alternatively, they will stop coming or you won't be invited to come to Thanksgiving anymore. Instructions unclear, I got really into coins instead.
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