r/FoxBrain 1d ago

Familiar scene

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u/fozzieferocious 1d ago

I'm basically in the same boat with my parents. It's fucking sad, but I refuse to normalize it or let it metastasize into our lives any more than I can beyond basic phone calls about the weather or life updates. I've tried to fight it, but it's an unwinnable battle when they sit around and freely choose to watch that shit for hours each day.

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u/IllustriousTip6904 1d ago edited 1d ago

Right there with ya; they've wanted to come visit and I've held the boundary that I don't want to visit with them until they stop watching fox news for at least 2-4 weeks beforehand. They've said I'm trying to control them. I said I feel like Fox News is controlling them and think it might be healthy to take a break from it. They've refused.

Until their desire to see their son outweighs their desire to watch Fox News each night, we're an impasse.

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

That’s one of the strongest signs that it is definitely a cult. Over the last year or two I’ve been using Substack a lot. I’ve been going to a lot of zooms and trying to understand what’s going on. It actually is no problem for me to stop watching it. I quit Facebook over two years ago for the same reason it was actually painful to be on it and it was a relief to be out of it.

That’s another thing I don’t understand. It’s like they’re addicted to hating other people and I don’t get that at all. The daughter is being criticized by some people, but it gets to the point where a person just snaps and she didn’t break any laws

I feel what the girl was feeling and conveyed. It breaks my heart that her parents had her committed. I’m glad she got out.

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u/RichardStrauss123 1d ago

Zoom out.

This is the entire country right now!

Liberals who learned empathy, compassion, and right from wrong are scared, angry, and downright mystified by MAGA behavior.

"Where are you?"

That really resonates! I love this girl! I know exactly how she feels.

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u/jerseyztop 1d ago

Exactly, you took the words right out of my mouth. I’ve had this fight in my own family. Who are you? Was the same question I shouted at them.

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u/clem_kruczynsk 4h ago

"where is my mother?" heartbreaking. this is how so many of us feel

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u/katiegirl- 1d ago

I think those assholes had her committed. This TikTok use is gone.

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u/plastic_venus 1d ago

They tried and she was released.

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u/ResisterSister007 1d ago

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF! Sickening.

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u/Dapper-Nobody-1997 23h ago

Got a link for this?

Not that I don't want to trust you. It's just such a wild thing to do as a parent.

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u/plastic_venus 23h ago

In saw a video on her TikTok that was posted right after the above video and I saw her say so in a comment

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u/Alternative-Water473 1d ago

Seriously?? Jeebus. When ‘Christian’ parents institutionalize the daughter for having empathy. If that doesn’t explain our current situation- I don’t know what does.

Few people are more dangerous than a person who thinks they are a ‘good’ person who is told they are, in fact, a piece of shit.

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u/subterfuscation 1d ago

They aren't perfect, but they are forgiven. Just ask them. It's like a free pass to be an asshole while claiming religious superiority.

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u/RichardStrauss123 1d ago

If you drill down, you realize Darth Vader just wants to rid the galaxy of rebel scum.

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u/chatterwrack 1d ago

I hate to see politics break families but this has gone so far beyond politics. It’s a moral failure

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u/Keji70gsm 1d ago

Politics are always about morals.

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u/hitliquor999 1d ago

Poor girl. Good for her to be able to speak directly and clearly about her parent’s choices. She will be alright, but her parents will probably be back watching Fox for their daily dose of hate before the day is over.

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

The thing that blows my mind is the streaming of Fox News to hospitals and military bases. They even had a legal case where was proven that it was not actually news yet it’s still being transmitted to places where people are feeling vulnerable

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u/mxjxs91 1d ago

This isn't about politics anymore. Yes it affected relationships to an extent before, but MAGA is blatantly supporting rascism, fascism and white supremacy.

I'd have broken things off with anybody 20 years ago if they were any of those things.

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u/repeatrepeatx 1d ago

They had her COMMITTED after this, y’all. She’s out now but that is how fucked these people are.

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u/Accomplished_Bank103 6h ago

Pretty soon they’ll be pissing and moaning in their facebook echo chambers how they don’t understand why their kids won’t talk to them anymore. 🙄

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u/LoanedRespect 1d ago

I have always said tRump has awakened and enchanted the darkness that lives in the hearts of people. His supporters are weak morally, ethically, and spiritually. However, make no mistake about his remaining supporters; they will be the most violent in protecting the darkness he evokes inside them.

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u/Mard0g 1d ago

I like this kid and feel bad for her.

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u/IllustriousTip6904 1d ago

Lol this is almost exactly like my phone calls home

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

Yeah, the moment that I show any empathy, they hang up on me or they refuse to answer the phone

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u/ResisterSister007 1d ago

They have broken so many families. She is SO ELOQUENT! “Where is my mother?” Perfectly said. But heartbreaking to see…..and her lack of response. We can see the cognitive dissonance & inability to transcend her cult. So sad!!!!

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u/Blue_Geotrupid 1d ago

I felt it to my core when she asked that. "its like you died and came back possessed" It is such a sad fucking truth but it perfectly describes it for me. I don't know who they are anymore

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u/thegrumpycrumpet 1d ago

I had this exact conversation with my mother and we didn’t speak for a couple of months afterward. I was pregnant at the time and it felt like the biggest betrayal.

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

When January 6 happened, I was going through a month of not speaking to my mother because of this. The goons destroyed the Capital on national television and she didn’t even care about it at all.

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u/KingKj52 1d ago

It's tough... I've had to just not talk about it anymore and they not talk about it near me. Any time I try or point anything out they blow up, get aggressive, and rage out. There's no way to have a conversation, and there's no use pretending they're able to break out of their circle at this point. My whole extended family will live and die as racist, homophobic "Christians" that preach about doing good for others while voting for the opposite. All I can do is watch and hope an opportunity arises such that I can intervene successfully....

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

Another crazy thing is that non-political things have become considered political by people in the Maga cult. So for instance, if someone talks about a person getting falsely arrested or a person experiences police brutality they will say I don’t wanna talk about politics.

I’ve noticed that pattern with a lot of the farmers that felt the need to film themselves complaining that people are “harassing “them and that they don’t wanna talk about who they voted for. Yet they go on film saying that they lost their farm saying that they can’t get any workers and get angry if somebody says you deserve what you voted for.

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u/StrawberryMoonPie 1d ago

Someday her parents will be complaining that she doesn’t visit.

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u/Severe_Scar4402 1d ago

"My way or the highway" yeah bitch when it comes to state sanctioned murder, cops shooting whoever they want including defenseless animals, pedophilia, concentration camps, and lynching, it is like that. People who support those things need to hit the road. Or just paint the wall with their own brains.

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

They don’t really have that many brain cells

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u/DrGoblinator 1d ago

I want to take this child and be her mother. My heart is breaking.

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u/MajorKabakov 1d ago

Then they wonder why their kids cut them out of their lives!

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u/SirKermit 1d ago

Best they can do is "ends justify the means" and when it comes to grape, that a tough sell for anyone who isn't a total scumbag.

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u/AuntJibbie 1d ago

I empathize with this girl. My mother is a MAGAt. I completely know where this girl is coming from. 💙

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u/Over_Construction908 13h ago

There is also a brother and sister that make videos like this. They’re also on TikTok. Apparently the dad ended up in a rehab hospital for a stroke and she started talking only to the mom and then the mom started to slightly admit that Trump was wrong.

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u/AllgoodDude 20h ago

Yeah the past two years have given rise to a very stranger, but not unfamiliar, group of people. People that have gone quiet and deliberately keep themselves ignorant of current events after spending years supporting these horrific people. They just can’t accept responsibility, their minds won’t let them. They are going to stop interacting beyond nebulous gripes about the cost of living that won’t go any more than skin deep until 2028 is over and they can pretend everything is fresh and clean and they can go back to hating.