I don’t remember if I ever posted this, so I’ll say it again just in case:
My grandfather is very conservative, and he’s driven 18 wheelers his whole life. Once, when he was very drunk, he got upset about new trucks that had backup cameras, and, I shit you not, blamed their existence on Democrats. This is always the kind of thing that I expected him to say, but let me tell you I was still amazed when I heard it come out of his mouth.
Like if I read this somewhere, like on a forum or smth, I’d be thinking like “that’s pretty funny but there’s no way that actually happened”.
Though to be fair, this is also the man who dismissed genetic testing with the phrase “you actually believe in that stuff?”
@jordyd My dad once went on a long rant about how Obama was (literally) the Antichrist, and that the apocalypse was coming (circa 2010/11 I think?) When it happened, he would become one of God's avenging angels in the war. (????)
Genetics/dna testing is part of a liberal plot to steal people's identities and figure out how to reprogram them. (??????)
Jews and Christians worship the same god, they (Jewish folk) are just "wrong." (????)
@thindol he just kinda obsessively watches Fox News
@jordyd Mine was an engineer and only lazy religious, never used to believe in conspiracy theories (aside from generic racism.)
I have no idea what happened. I think mine got too far into Fox News/Breitbart nonsense.
@thindol could also be a light and/or subthreshhold psychotic disorder, depending on how old he was when this started
@thindol not saying that it IS that
@jordyd Yeah I know what you mean. I think it started in his early 50s, but I know a major component was he started going on Those Internet "Far-Right" websites - partly because of the online friends he was making. It wasn't sudden, it just got progressively worse over time. (He was a big Reagan fan, esp. the "welfare queens" myths.)
When I was younger (and he in his early 40s) he once told me at length how he "translated the Bible and knew the truth."
@thindol the interesting bit is, my grandfather doesn't hold any kind of conspiracy theories, and isn't even particularly religious