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I have a brother who watches shit like OAN. I once overheard him telling my parents about that synagogue tunnel story. One time, my family was discussing the French Revolution and he kept arguing that the "lawyers and bankers" tricked the "inner city poors" into rising up against the "good Christian leaders." Even my center-right history buff brother pushed back and later agreed about the fash vibes.
There's so many red flags that he's deep into fash shit but he still acts normal and friendly to me (I'm closeted towards him and my parents). Most of my family can see it but my parents both don't know the signs and don't want to see it, so it's a very uncomfortable dynamic, and I feel like he knows how to take fascist rhetoric and rebrand it to be amenable to my parents. It's like a PVP disabled zone.
He's a veteran who came back and started doing meth to cope, and recently either started doing it again or just went off his meds because he went from standard levels of paranoid schizophrenia that all fascists have to the level of paranoid schizophrenia where you start making actionable threats in a group chat while on parole so for now he's in a jail cell. So that's cool, the world is safer with him there.
Not every day I learn a new, disgusting euphemism for "the jews"
“one of those new york banker types”
Oof, I think I've used some version of this to mean "NY finance bro". I hope the person I was talking to doesn't think I'm a nqzi
"east coast"
Do crackers ever see the irony of their antisemitic slanders, and every single antisemitic stereotype can more accurately be attributed to white people? White people practically brag about being the things they accuse Jews of being.
If you pressed him on it, he'd just say, "Who said anything about Jews? Why are you bringing Jews into this? What, you just automatically assume that if someone's a sinister, manipulative puppetmaster, they have to be Jewish? That sounds kinda racist if you ask me." I cannot describe the degree of bad faith this person uses, like his brain operates in permanent bad faith. My center-right brother mentioned that Robespierre was called, "The Incorruptible" (because he was a true believer) and also, "The Angel of Death," and my fash brother started attacking him, like, "Oh, so you think Robespierre was an 'incorruptible angel,' why do you love Robespierre so much?" I'm 100% sure he didn't even know who Robespierre was before the conversation.
"Veterans" all deserve to die unless they actually changed their views anyways
I always try to remind myself that all the suffering he's caused me and my family, the worst trauma we've experienced, is a fraction of the harm he inflicted on families overseas.
My partner's cousin happily exclaimed how his buddy killed the oldest man in Afghanistan and how he was able to claim worthy defense during the military court trial.
This was during Christmas dinner, I'd say 95% of veterans deserve a painful death