Mine hit me with the “We’re spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

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    I’m American: my dad told me a couple years ago that immigrants were “unclean.” I’m almost 40, and that was the first time he’d ever used that phrase. That’s probably the first time I realized how “mainstream” extremism had become, since he has virtually zero online presence.

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      My younger brother went on a rant about how immigrants should speak English before coming here and hit every traditional racist perspective in the issue before saying he wanted to get rid of naturalized citizenship. Both myself and our older sibling are naturalized citizens.

      It was then that I realized how mainstream white supremacist talking points were in his community and that now that he’s sober my brother is dumb as shit and he sucks as an adult.

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        Sobering up left a void. He filled it with a different bad vice. Gotta have something positive to replace a vice before attempting to remove it

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          Nah he moved to FL and joined a golf course community. He basically is surrounded by proto-Nazis.

          The sad part is for years I thought he was smarter than my sister in law who is a very wealthy kid who just doesn’t know shit (I suspect she stopped paying attention to anything in school after 12).It turns out they are both dummies.