Not sure if this is the right comm, but I’m having a moment and can’t find today’s megathread to vent in.

Just got back from dinner with my conservative mom and ho boy is my throat burning from all the spicy takes. It starts off with normal stuff from my mom, basically stuff like older men are too much of a chore to date so she’s not putting herself out there anymore, when is your partner moving in with you, ect. Then she shit talks Trump a little since she knows I’m not exactly a fan and says “I don’t know exactly what political beliefs you hold, but-” and I immediately respond “Oh, I’m a leftist.” before going easy on her and clarifying “I’m a socialist. You know, like the DSA.”

For some reason she immediately assumed I meant fucking nazi (like a national socialist???) and awkwardly paused before stating that she’s a very tolerant person and I had to say socialist, leftist, multiple times before she replied with “Oh, leftist, so like a liberal’s liberal ok ok.” I tried to clarify a little more and say leftists included people like communists, socialists, anarchists, and with her generation would have included the few hippies that actually believed in civil rights and were politically active even years later. (Not trying to shit on hippies here, she’s just the type that assumes all hippies did it for the casual sex and to get high.) I’m not sure if she was fucking with me or thinks I’m some sort of sucker that believes everything I read online, but it seemed to me like she was genuinely having a hard time picturing anything left of liberal. Mentioning Bernie did nothing even though he’s really a fucking war loving liberal as far as I’m concerned. I asked her if there were any beliefs she wanted me to clarify to help her get a better picture and after giving her a recent Israel/Palestine example she was like “No, nope, I’m good thanks.”

Anyways, after we got that out of the way she told me she left our old family church of over 25 years because they started allowing

I can only hope that the next church she stumbles into accidentally ends up being far more progressive, but that seems unlikely as she still thinks gay married couples can’t also be Christian. But hey, at least she left the same church that does a fake abortion graveyard display on the front yard annually. Before we parted ways on the train she proudly told the story about how her HR rep won’t do tolerance related training at work because she doesn’t think her neoliberal coworkers are tolerant enough about her Christianity like she is with them… just existing and being in happy loving relationships I guess??? She really thought that was a dunk. Naturally she didn’t want to hear about how tolerating intolerance is an oxymoron.

TLDR; I’m really looking forward to moving up north in a couple years.