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[โ€“] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Snap. My dad was always conservative but generally a pretty accepting person. Brexit and COVID really sent him down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and he's gone full blown racist nut job. There's a huge amount of topics which are just off limits with my family now in the efforts of retaining some sort of relationship. Fortunately they live 6 hours away so we don't see them that often.

[โ€“] kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It's strange, it's like they also put these topics above family.

I was like: "Dad, let's not talk politics" and he didn't understand why.

This is something that took hold on people worldwide.

For my dad it was COVID and Bolsonaro, the brasilian ex-president was his hero. I live in Germany and friends have told similar stories, about their relatives.