Okay this is gonna probably make absolutely zero sense, but I’m gonna try and explain:
(This might cause some brain damage and you might lose a few braincells from reading this)
For context, most of my family are US Citizens, we were all born in China.
My mom (and my dad, somewhat) is just so big on “Tough on crime”, whenever there were alleged lootings during protests, my parents would be okay with them getting shot to death. Constantly blame “Democrats” for crime and the “migrant crisis”. Also love their Wechat and constantly play (Chinese) nationalistic songs and other propaganda on the fucking speaker. Also, if you are dealing with severe depression, and temporarily can’t work, they call you a “廢柴”, basically the cantonese term equivalent of the term “useless eater”.
My brother is into some crazy conspiracy theory that the Chinese Government is in a conspiracy to replace Han Chinese with, not only Chinese ethnic minorities, but African Migrants (like wtf dude), basically the equivalent of the “white replacement conspiracy theory” but in China instead (yea it sounds insane, doesn’t it? Like… buddy, China doesn’t even give permanent residency to foreigners, what the fuck is this insane conspiracy theory? Also, he’s a US Citizen, why the fuck does he care?). Simultaneously, he opposes racism from white people in the US (… some crazy hypocrisy, isn’t it? 🤨).
Tell me this isn’t just me with the most insane family in the world.
one of my relatives is a flat earther andrew tate support self-proclaimed “top-G”
Yeah, my mom has unmanaged schizophrenia and my dad is an abusive piece of shit. So yes, very much so
My family mellowed out a lot after the parents of the baby boomers died. The boomer generation gets a lot of flak online but for us it was the prior generations who were problematic.
Just know the most senseless people make up at least 2/3rds the population.
Felt like 4/5ths during the pandemic. Ugh, it felt like a social awakening. I hate it.
I used to be pretty good friends with one of my cousins until I was trying to get a hold of a friend of mine several years ago on Facebook (only reliable way I can ever leave him a message) and saw all the batshit conspiracy theories she was posting on there like chemtrails being real and wifi poisoning your brain (this was pre 5G and COVID but I’m sure she eventually moved to 5G posion and vaccines being bad).
China doesn’t even give permanent residency to foreigners
China totally does, if you’re either employed for 3+ years with a master’s degree and annual salary above 500-800k RMB (depending on the province) or with a bachelor’s and 5+ years work experience (same income requirements), OR have a PhD and are employed by a company listed on a Chinese (not HK) stock exchange or a government owned company/entity in a higher R&D function (no income requirements), OR are married to a Chinese and have been working for 7+ years in China (no income or education requirements).
Source: Used to live in China, qualified for 2/3 pathways and my company kept pushing me to accept residency (which I refused to be able to withdraw my social security accounts upon my planned departure).
But I digress.
Due to my Chinese wife I have quite a few touching points with “offshore Chinese” as she calls them, and there are quite a few insane ones among the diaspora. The “glory to China, but I wouldn’t ever live there again” types, mostly.
And yeah those wechat hymns and crap from douyin is omnipresent. We avoid those people like the plague, but every once in a while some of them show up to events hosted by saner people and spew their bullshit.
More common than you think unfortunately. The internet has given anyone the option to find their mental echo chamber.
My parents a hispanic immigrants (both citizens) who voted for trump, are republicans and also hate immigrants. They believe all the Obama drinks children blood stuff, are antivaxers, and since my older sister is with them, she is now also an antivaxer so her children have zero shots of any kind. (Good luck to them in the future if they want to travel)
One of them believes aliens speak to them. I’ve seen a group in my family go to cult like events where they all dress in the same white uniforms and talk about the universe.
The immigrant population voting for Trump is the most ming boggling example of brainwashing I have seen in a long time. It even beats out all the white women voting for Trump instead of Clinton or Harris because they thought “women were too emotional to hold office”.
me
Well let’s see…
- Father: Statue.
- Stepfather: Conspiracy nut. Believes in a shadow government that strives to control everything while also already controlling everything. Good handyman with practical problem solving skills.
- Mother: Conspiracy nut. Believes in ancient aliens, auras, magic healing crystals, animals doing telepathy for verbal communication, and an occult shadow government. Very creative person, but very little practical skills.
- Little Brother #1 (mom’s side): Conspiracy nut. Believes in… Hard to tell. It keeps changing, but it’s some combination of shadow occults, god spirits, and completely misunderstanding quantum science. Also does drugs, and at some point believed to be the direct descendant of Thor.
- Little Brother #2 (dad’s side): Completely bought into billionaire philanthropy. Believes people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are highly intelligent good people who can’t be greedy because they already have everything. Likes listening to Joe Rogen. Prefers his gut feelings over demonstrated facts. Very creative person who thinks a lot and makes beats.
- Little Sister #1: A very responsible person. Travels a lot. Probably the most mature from all my siblings. Is amazing at working in hospitality, and has gotten job offers from some pretty high profile hotels all over Europe.
- Little Brother #3 (mom’s side): Looks like a tall, lanky hippie and is a botanist. Despite appearances, doesn’t believe and doesn’t care about hippie shit. He just likes plants. Also a D&D player.
- Little Sister #2: Hard to tell. Used to be a rebel, now is just sort of “normal”. Just does basic things, like going to school, having a job…
- Little Brother #4 (dad’s side): Terminally online no-life guy who hardly ever leaves his room, despite being a grown ass man at this point, but still behaves like a dank 16 year old. Sometimes I forget he’s in his 20s. American style right-winger living in Europe, complete with being casually racist and sexist about everything, despite never going out and actually meeting anyone. Has literally no skills or ambitions.
Yeah… You know… I was about to say that my family isn’t batshit insane, but it seems like it is…
What do you mean by statue?
Also, what is your “batshit” thing? I find it interesting now that you have described a few of your family. :)
He’s about as dense and flexible as a statue.
I’m… Not sure? I guess I’m an artist. Trying to make that work in this capitalist dystopia is pretty batshit. I get by with my food delivery job and drawing art for furries.
Two jobs is torture, I hope you will be able to focus on your art soon.
You are not alone.
Okay, I’ll ask: If they like China so much what are they doing in America?
They’re one of the good ones… 🙄
If they hate immigrants so much, why the fuck did they migrate? XD
It’s kinda amazing how people are just so casually racist among people who they have more in common with than not, but skin color means so much more.
My mom was like that. Despite “having black friends” and all that rot, towards the end of her life after I moved out and left her homeless, she was so racist against POC. Like I distinctly remember the day my wife and I had stopped my and taken her to lunch out of pity, and we discussed her situation. At one point, when asked why she wasn’t willing to try to get into public housing instead of living in a tent city, she told me she “didn’t want to be a light in the dark.”
If, unlike me at the time, you’re baffled by what that means, she was saying she didn’t want to live around black people. Despite having had black friends as roommates within the previous handful of years. I still played dumb and made her spell it out for me in crayon, because man is it fun to make ‘not racist’ people explain their racism in no uncertain terms and make them squirm as they try to dance around it.
Racist people hate being racist without plausible deniability. If they’re gonna say racist shit, make them say it loud and clear
I’m sorry to say it, but if your mom is living homeless, has the chance to not live homeless, but doesn’t make the choice because of racism… I dunno, her situation is kind of deserved.
Preaching to the choir, friend. I knew she’d be homeless when I moved out, and still did it anyway. To add to the ‘deserved situation’ feeling, part of the reason I moved out was finding a shake and bake meth lab in the basement.
Unfortunately I think most people have family or at least friends like this here in the post-truth world.
I think what depresses me the most is that once the MAGA leopards start eating all of our faces, they will still do the mental gymnastics to blame all of the MAGA-induced suffering on “liberals”. Even though the Democrats have basically zero power (and are right of center) they will still blame “the left” when a gallon of milk costs $18 and is full of dangerous bacteria.
All the fucking time, I’m older and just have very little to do with them, comes a stage when you just don’t want to excuse their shit anymore.
But I own my own house at the other end of the country, so there is that.
“Family” are people I share a philosophy with on how to treat other people, each other and treat the planet . I have little to nothing in common philosophically with people I shared some random genetic materail with.
They say insanity runs in the family. But it more like takes a stroll and takes its time to really get to know each one individually.
