Does anyone remember that antivax site called like Global Research Center or GR Initiative or something that would have like Michael Parenti and anti-imperialist articles posted next to anti-vax and other right-wing bullshit?

Edit: It was Globalresearch.ca “centre for research on globalization”. It’s an annoyingly common tactic.

If you’re that phone
Then who was phone?

This might work. Going to try this.

And also people would ask why I was carrying a rug around with me, which is harder to answer.

Also was worried people might think I was on my way to dispose a body.

Tried wrapping her in a rug once, Cleopatra-style, but it didn’t give her enough light to play on her Game Boy Colour and people kept asking why the rug I was carrying kept talking.

Might honestly just be straight stupidity.

He thinks items in the US are getting tariffed based on like a production manifest that lists out the origin of each component, I think. In the “discussion” he also mentioned stuff about ATV engines being sent from Mexico/US to Canada being blocked because they didn’t have their emissions stats included due to some error so I’m assuming he mentioned that as a parallel to the component-list tariff idea.

And I think they also think that this includes stuff exiting the US too? I’m not sure. My idiot father also gets mad as fuck when I actually get him to clarify what he’s talking about. The other day we were arguing and he said he told my mother to get new tires for her car and I kept asking how he “told her” this because I’m pretty sure she blocked his phone number because all he does is send curt, barely-literate demands to people via phone, which sucks ass to receive at all. Anyway, he wouldn’t say how, he just kept restating that he told her.

Edit: I’m suspecting this is their mental cope to explain, like, tariffs driving price increases and that the companies need to just move production to the US or purchase US parts to solve it because that adds more US production to the manifest list which would bring down prices or something? I really don’t know, it’s so fucking stupid what I’m hearing. He said a guy at Honda (I’m assuming a dealership here and not the HQ) who was importing stuff “didn’t understand it either”. Which I think just means he kept doing the same shit he does with me and the other guy just gave up and pretended not to know either to get him to shut up because he will not shut the fuck up sometimes.

No, he doesn’t respect at least me (or seemingly anyone) and I can show him actual government webpages or whatever and he’ll just pretend to agree and then revert back to whatever his initial position was with his mouth-breather coworkers. Talking with people like him (and my aunt on my mother’s side is the same) isn’t dialogue where there’s interplay of information and ideas, but instead I get to uncover what his internal prior belief is that’s already established and based on nothing (AKA a feeling) that’s somewhere in his subconscious. He talks until his belief is uncovered and then he’ll just keep restating that belief over and over in a recursive loop until I get pissed off.

Withholding sympathy until I know their political alignments.

The only family member I truly liked, my grandmother, died in 2019. Or at least she was the nicest to me, the most left-wing, and harmed me the least (basically none at all). Literally the meanest thing she ever did was she saw me reading the Full Metal Alchemist manga and asked what I was reading and kinda’ gave the front and back covers a once-over and went “this looks stupid” for some reason. No idea what that was about because she was never judgmental like that before or after and wasn’t even that mean-spirited about it.