I said "Any democrats on my facebook might as well remove me as their friend now." My dad commented.. (he never comments on any of my other posts, he commented on this minutes after posting). He said "If that's how you feel you might as well go ahead and remove me." I replied "I'm not going to remove you but I did hide your posts, I don't understand how you were in the army and people died for our freedoms and you're voting to take them away. You don't have any real knowledge about what's going on and you only listen to the fake news." (He has dish and only watches the main stream news channels.) He replied, "You watch fake news, you're just a bunch of sore losers." That was exactly what that dumbass CNN news anchor said during Trump's conference last night, thus reinforcing how he only watches fake news and listens to their narratives.
He didn't have to reply to my post at all. He could have tried to deescalate the situation but instead he hardened his heart and stuck his chest out. So I blocked him. Not done talking to him, we don't have the greatest relationship anyway. But I am going to take a break for a while from him.
I made the post because I had recently added a handful of girls and different people and I didn't know where they stood. I knew my dad was a democrat a long time ago.
I also had a phone call like a year ago where my dad was drunk and was screaming into the phone at me about his hatred from Donald Trump. Since then I have been with him many times and left politics out of the conversation but today he had to comment on my post.
My dad is stuck on thinking that Democrats are for the poor and needy and Republicans are only for the rich.
I ignore my Dads posts. He's always been a news hound. We tried to have them over to watch the first debate. Maybe 10-15 min into it they started parroting lies and when challenged seemed to pause, not know why they were saying what they were saying, have no response and get mad. They left not even halfway through.
He recently posted something like 'a close election is a good thing because it means everyone wins' - which is the opposite of the truth here. A landslide means the majority gets what they want; a close election means half of the people do not. That's the post I ignored.
He's basically a lazy idiot that rages out at the smallest things and wasn't a part of our lives until it become convenient for him. He uses friends as resources more than friends.
I just bought a brand new truck last week. Hiss jealousy shone through on one of my sisters posts when he said 'don't forget your roots!' us having grown up in the projects and on welfare. That was a dig at me for daring to live a better life. I do try to include him in family events despite all of this and we even went on a camping trip a few weeks ago. That said, I find myself annoyed with him most of the time. If its a family event he's going to get smashed and talk about dumb shit like 'the hood'. Yes, I grew up there but I didnt let it define me. Im fully aware of how it works.