My family IS my family and I don’t.
Correct. I give a 2 minute chat with Mom on: her bday, Mother’s Day, and Christmas. That’s it. Not sure how many more. She’s 87.
I don’t speak with my 3 older siblings. I’ll be forced to speak with my sister that lives with my Mom when it comes time to spread Mother’s ashes. If, she let’s me know.
I don’t talk to a lot of people, but there’s no reason I’d specifically avoid them. I lucked out, and they’re pretty cool people.
More to the point, my family are the people who shaped who I am in both nature and nurture. If they weren’t my family, I would not be me.
Nope, they’re mostly selfish assholes in my family
If my family weren’t my family, they wouldn’t talk to me…
That’s what I would say too. I love my family and they love me, but I think had we not been related they wouldn’t choose to be around me. They are rather boring people and their favorite thing to do is sit at home and do nothing. I like to do stuff and try new things. They don’t.
Spot on.
My mom and sister - Yes, they cool
My dad - He trolls liberals as a pass time and is effectively a MAGAt. No
You should troll your dad. I don’t know if they sell these, but you should see if you can find a “Make Harris Great Again” hat. All red, with white text, in that same font.
Then take his MAGA hat, and in the place he put it, you place this one. See how long he takes wearing it before he figures it out.
No MAGA hat. Canadian
Which makes his support for the GoP even more ridiculous. Also makes me wonder where the fuck he’s getting Fox News since it’s NOT easy to get in Canada, ESPECIALLY before streaming and broadband
Your father is a weird man. Obsessed with politics of a country that he’s not a part of, in support of a man who wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire. And now he’s going out of his way to reach a “news network” (airquotes doing some heavy lifting on that one) that only spews a facist agenda.
Now, in contrast, I would say 100% of Americans have NO IDEA who’s even running for president in Canada, or Mexico. Like…those thoughts are so far from what my brain thinks of, it’s insane. Last night I was wondering which would happen first: A snail traverses an entire city, or a gallon of water evaporates in mild tempatures.
THAT thought crossed my mind long before thinking of Canadian politics. Sorry Canada, you’re a great country, and I wish I lived there instead of here, but your money is monopoly colored, and your politics are irrelevant on the world stage.
Yeah. I hate that the GoP virus has infected our country
Our politics are somewhat relevant though, namely as we’re between you guys and Russia
100%? That’s insulting, lol. Some Americans are informed about international politics, just not most.
It’s Facebook and YouTube probably. My dad is also in Canada and obsessed with American news but he watches CNN on a loop so at least it’s not the MAGA people he’s supporting.
Still though, worry about your own country. We got our own issues we should be focusing on here.
My mother/brother/sister, yeah - sure. My wife/daughters/son - Probably not. I look at them every day and wonder how I got so lucky.
they are ultra religious, i am agnostic, not fun, would avoid
If I somehow met my sister as like a friend of a friend, we’d get along. As for the rest of my family, I’m just waiting for them to die so I don’t have to answer their phone calls anymore.
I live with my family and don’t talk to them.
They’re fine people, but we don’t really share any interests. I’d be unlikely I’d ever meet them.
Yes, or at least the ones I actually talk to.
This is really tough. I have two members who have such problems they are basically wards of the state. They are the only folks I know living in halfway houses. I doubt I would know them if they were not family. This sorta goes for many members to. They are fine but we move in different circles and they are not likely to be part of my crowd. Heck even my favorite brother tends to be a bar fly and way back when we might have met in a library or such. Im sure I would think of him as the cool guy from the library and maybe we would talk a bit if we bumped into each other there.
Not a chance
I’ll be honest, every time I feel like I can express my opinions about my family one of them manages to find it. This may be how I learn I have cousins on Lemmy.
So I’ll just mention my parents, who’ve become more like friends since my physical distance from them has increased over the last 20 years. And they’re all (including step-parents) weirdly (considering their siblings, nieces, and nephews) progressive.
The only member of my family I still talk to is my dad. I think he’d be a great guy to know even if I wasn’t his son, and I’d no doubt have many good conversations about books and movies with him if we had a reason to meet. But we live in different states and had entirely different career paths, so there’s virtually no chance I’d ever encounter him in life if we weren’t already related.
