Disagreeing with family on politics

[Borderlands of Rojava]

His politics are that different?

Quite. He’s a holy roller minister who eats church but won’t take care of his own mother, beating his chest with a Bible, but like believes gay people ought to be exterminated. Not converted, or approached with anything resembling compassion (not that I find forced conversations compassionate, mind you). He wants them exterminated. He can go fuck himself.

To be fair the Bible kinda condones exterminating gay people. Leviticus calls for the execution of gay men, because back then attitudes were alot more archaic than they are today.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

His politics are that different?

Quite. He’s a holy roller minister who eats church but won’t take care of his own mother, beating his chest with a Bible, but like believes gay people ought to be exterminated. Not converted, or approached with anything resembling compassion (not that I find forced conversations compassionate, mind you). He wants them exterminated. He can go fuck himself.

Isn't there a Commandment about honoring one's mother and father?

Another approach would be to introduce him to the biggest toughest gay person you know. See what he wants to do about it.

[MC United]

That goes way beyond political differences. He sounds like the kind of person who brings Christianity into disrepute.

Let me clarify that my problem is not that he alleges he’s Christian. My problem is that he acts like a fuckmunch while also Bible thumping. He’s a hypocrite.

Oh, I definitely agree with you on the hypocrisy point. The advocacy of killing people is also what I was getting at.

[Geneviev]

Quite. He’s a holy roller minister who eats church but won’t take care of his own mother, beating his chest with a Bible, but like believes gay people ought to be exterminated. Not converted, or approached with anything resembling compassion (not that I find forced conversations compassionate, mind you). He wants them exterminated. He can go fuck himself.

Isn't there a Commandment about honoring one's mother and father?

Another approach would be to introduce him to the biggest toughest gay person you know. See what he wants to do about it.

It's considered one of the most important commandments about human relationships, too. The only commandment with a promise.

[West Leas Oros 2]

My mom and brother are largely apolitical, at least compared to the rest of my family. My dad though, is quite political. He's a pretty typical liberal, albeit a more progressive one. Ultimately we tend to agree a lot, with the exception being that he is far more moderate. My Grandparents are fairly political, with my grandma being quite similar to my dad, and my grandpa (I love him for it though) who is probably the closest to a socialist in my family, having expressed his support for many pro-labor causes in his youth. (although a lot of my family consider themselves socialists). The real outlier is my uncle, who was an ardent Berniecrat or socdem, but lately has dabbled with some more radical right ideas. I don't hate him for it, and I understand his concerns and misgivings, but still, hearing him blame "the marxists" for Critical Race Theory or whatever other thing is cringy. I honestly feel for the guy. He is legitimately upset with the direction society has gone, but he has unfortunately fallen for the words of conmen offering false solutions.

All in all, I support my family, and I am not ashamed to admit I've tried to convince them of my ideas.

Interesting, your family seems to be more left-leaning than mine in general. From what I can tell, members of my extended family range from Breitbart-reading Trump supporters to moderate Democrats (neoliberals, I'd guess).

As a general rule, yeah, they are. Of course, they tend to have more “culturally liberal” views than I do, and are more right wing than I am. Of course, I’m a mega commie, so that’s kind of a given. Sometimes they’ll say something strange, like how my Grandpa said that Trump has more in common with Marxists than conservatives because he doesn’t want to “conserve” the system but rather tear it down. Which is uncharacteristic of him, because in that same conversation, he talked about being sympathetic to Castro, because Cuba used to be an oligarchy full of organized crime. (His words, not mine. I don’t know the first thing about pre-Castroist Cuba).

In general, if I were to “rank” them in order from most in agreement to least:
0. Me, of course
1. My Grandpa
2. My Uncle
3. My Dad
4. My Grandma
5. My Uncle

That said though, I’m still very far from my family. I mean, they don’t even get their news from Pravda.

If I were to give them an ideology assignment:
Me: Marxist
Grandpa: Social Democrat/Socialist
Uncle: Social Democrat
Dad: Progressive Liberal
Grandma: Progressive Liberal
Uncle: Alt-Lite

And a Political Compass:
Me: Far-Left, mild Auth
Grandpa: Left, Lib
Uncle: Center-Left, Auth
Dad: Center-Left, mild Lib
Grandma: Center-Left, Lib

I listed my uncle twice because sometimes he acts like a socdem much of the time, but bring up anything controversial that “the left” did, and it becomes conspiracy central.

(In any case, I’m having too much fun talking about my family politics.)

[West Leas Oros 2]

Going back to my scenario in which the parents are Hoppean but the kids are a Minarchist and an Ancap, I wonder what its like in families where the politics of each member are similar but just different enough to have a couple Flashpoint issues.

My family. Right there.

[Kheshiga]

My family trends liberal with some conservative ideas surfacing now and again, so being a leftist, heads button. I'm glad, though, things were never as bad as some.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I'm pretty sure my parents have always voted Democrat from what I remember. I'm not entirely sure where they lie, but I'd reckon they're both center left. Somehow, they raised a libright (me). I'd guess I'm probably the only libertarian in my family, but I'm not really sure. I don't want to know either, because I love my family, and don't want us torn up over something as stupid as politics.

[Vashty]

my family are all left wing like myself but my mother has strangely conservative views on social issues

suppose the older gens need to git gud

[Borderlands of Rojava]

my family are all left wing like myself but my mother has strangely conservative views on social issues

suppose the older gens need to git gud

Sounds like my mom. I still remember the time my mom expressed concern that I was having sex with my girlfriend after only dating her for three months and it made for a very awkward conversation that I didn't want to have.

[Sanghyeok]

my family are all left wing like myself but my mother has strangely conservative views on social issues

suppose the older gens need to git gud

They probably won't change, sadly.

[Vashty]

my family are all left wing like myself but my mother has strangely conservative views on social issues

suppose the older gens need to git gud

Sounds like my mom. I still remember the time my mom expressed concern that I was having sex with my girlfriend after only dating her for three months and it made for a very awkward conversation that I didn't want to have.

unless you were smashing in your mum's house, you didn't need to tell her shite