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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    Yes. My mom, unprompted one day, said:

    “Did you guys know that Elon Musk’s Dad owns an emerald mine?”

    Followed by me saying “yes, did you also know he used slave labor in apartheid South Africa to build it?”

    “Well I don’t really care about any of that. I just thought it was cool.”

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      It’s brutal when the mask inevitably comes off and you realise that your parents, who were once like gods, are in fact retarded.

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        Slightly tangential, but it’s beyond any reason that her and my dad can read the exact same Bible and parse different meanings from it. My dad is the least judgmental, least preachy Christian I know. She missed the memo, it seems.

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        😩😭😭, No it’s the worst. To find out that your parents are in fact retarded. They lack common sense, and they are just simply not able to learn about anything in regards to subjects or topics. Oh and don’t get my started on a one narrative regurgitated MSM news that spit out lies and shit. They are just stupid and easily brainwashed and have no common sense. They live in their own delusional bubble.

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          I think to some extent hate is born of stupidity, certainly fear. Probably a combination of both, fear and stupidity = hate.