The panel on Monday's edition of Special Report on Fox News had a rare moment of unanimity in the wake of President Donald Trump's response to the killing of film director Rob Reiner and his wife.
So this is why I heard Mom saying it was sad. She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal and actually gave me whatever you call the vocal version of “side eye” and said “he actually came out as an atheist” as if I thought that was something rare or bad or unbelievable.
She somehow still has no idea about me tho, because I will dodge that conversation forever unless I have to directly and specifically address it.
She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal
It makes me wonder how many MAGA drones are spitting on his life and legacy while also having core memories of movies like Princess Bride as formative, key pieces of entertainment in their lives.
I’m sorry you have to live like that. Living under religious oppression, regardless of how passive aggressive, is incredibly frustrating, disappointing, and degrading. I hope you find peace and independence so you can live your life free of other’s delusions.
I brought this up in another reply, but I’m probably finally moving back out this year. I had a good number of medical issues and surgeries causing me to be unable to work (being held together by staples and having to keep a large and bulky device physically tethered to my body for 2 weeks, for just one example) for the last free years is the problem.
But I’m past that and just waiting for the holiday season to be over to start again. I cannot throw myself back into the deep end of holiday issues at work right off the bat. I’ll already have less stamina than I did before, not starting work on the boss level lol.
Now since '21 the economy has gotten fucked up even more often than it has before that (I’m millennial), so I’m not looking forward to that but actually being able to have literally any spending money and freedom to just yell “fucking Christ on a damn cracker, shiiit” without consequence will be nice.
I often wonder if the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated are not much, much higher, but some of the people are still afraid to come out of the closet…
Xtians always like to simultaneously beat their chest about their supposed numbers (and they are often wrong about them, I’ve noticed - they seem to consistently overestimate, by quite a lot, the percentage of Americans that are xtian) but simultaneously play the DARVO game - while they denigrate and try to ostracize and marginalize everyone not in their little book club, they act like it is THEY who are being “oppressed”.
If someone who is agnostic/atheist and has parents like that, or in-laws, etc…and they don’t want to be dealing with that all the time, well, I get it. They might just skip going to church and be mostly quiet about their positions on religion. And when they get polled, they might even list themselves as xtian.
Well I’m my case I’ve had to have multiple surgeries since about '21 to stay alive, and I’ve been unable to work in the mean time and had to unfortunately move back with them, and pretending to (well they know I’ve voted blue and hate Fox News) be semi neutral as far as being a “crazy leftist radical”.
But I’m about ready to start again soon, but I am not starting the process in the middle of holiday stuff, so hopefully '26 will be the year I can finally start living again. It feels like it’s similar in a lot of ways to what LGBT kids must go through while having Republicans for parents.
And given that one of my younger brothers is LGBT, using this same room before he got old enough to get out, he understands completely and says the same thing.
So this is why I heard Mom saying it was sad. She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal and actually gave me whatever you call the vocal version of “side eye” and said “he actually came out as an atheist” as if I thought that was something rare or bad or unbelievable.
She somehow still has no idea about me tho, because I will dodge that conversation forever unless I have to directly and specifically address it.
It makes me wonder how many MAGA drones are spitting on his life and legacy while also having core memories of movies like Princess Bride as formative, key pieces of entertainment in their lives.
I’m sorry you have to live like that. Living under religious oppression, regardless of how passive aggressive, is incredibly frustrating, disappointing, and degrading. I hope you find peace and independence so you can live your life free of other’s delusions.
I brought this up in another reply, but I’m probably finally moving back out this year. I had a good number of medical issues and surgeries causing me to be unable to work (being held together by staples and having to keep a large and bulky device physically tethered to my body for 2 weeks, for just one example) for the last free years is the problem.
But I’m past that and just waiting for the holiday season to be over to start again. I cannot throw myself back into the deep end of holiday issues at work right off the bat. I’ll already have less stamina than I did before, not starting work on the boss level lol.
Now since '21 the economy has gotten fucked up even more often than it has before that (I’m millennial), so I’m not looking forward to that but actually being able to have literally any spending money and freedom to just yell “fucking Christ on a damn cracker, shiiit” without consequence will be nice.
I often wonder if the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated are not much, much higher, but some of the people are still afraid to come out of the closet…
Xtians always like to simultaneously beat their chest about their supposed numbers (and they are often wrong about them, I’ve noticed - they seem to consistently overestimate, by quite a lot, the percentage of Americans that are xtian) but simultaneously play the DARVO game - while they denigrate and try to ostracize and marginalize everyone not in their little book club, they act like it is THEY who are being “oppressed”.
If someone who is agnostic/atheist and has parents like that, or in-laws, etc…and they don’t want to be dealing with that all the time, well, I get it. They might just skip going to church and be mostly quiet about their positions on religion. And when they get polled, they might even list themselves as xtian.
Well I’m my case I’ve had to have multiple surgeries since about '21 to stay alive, and I’ve been unable to work in the mean time and had to unfortunately move back with them, and pretending to (well they know I’ve voted blue and hate Fox News) be semi neutral as far as being a “crazy leftist radical”.
But I’m about ready to start again soon, but I am not starting the process in the middle of holiday stuff, so hopefully '26 will be the year I can finally start living again. It feels like it’s similar in a lot of ways to what LGBT kids must go through while having Republicans for parents.
And given that one of my younger brothers is LGBT, using this same room before he got old enough to get out, he understands completely and says the same thing.