I’m A Bad Daughter

Since I’ve been with Bear, I’ve noticed that the IQ’s of the people I love are lacking a few points. Or maybe it’s that I didn’t spend as much time reading the crap that comes out of their heads as I do now. I love them dearly, most of them I’ve known since I was a small child, but boy, are they dim.! They have no problem posting misinformation, or mis-leading information if it sounds good, and sod the facts. No one seems to have a clue what Google is for, and just post whatever comes into their heads as the God’s honest truth. And I do wonder if they actually do believe it is.

Over the past few days, my stepmother has called Bear a ‘party pooper’, because he pointed out that agriculture is a problem, and not the reason the CO2 levels have gone down, after she posted some crap about the poor, poor farmers and how they’re the only ones helping to keep the planet going during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then my almost-brother got pissed off because Bear pointed out that Mercedes Benz had designed a new process to make CPAP machines faster, and hadn’t actually said they were new, after he posted a rant about Mercedes saying their CPAP devices were new, which they didn’t, and he went on about having had one for the past decade.

In recent posts my father has called Bear the ‘PC Brigade’ because he objects to my father posting racist, homophobic and transphobic stuff. It pisses me off too, but I know my father doesn’t give a damn, he’ll post whatever he thinks is funny, no matter how offensive it is. So far, every time a member of my family gets pissy with Bear for correcting them or giving them the facts, I get annoyed with him and I’m constantly asking myself why it’s him I’m pissed with and not them.? The thing is, I know them and while I disagree with the vast majority of what they say and do, I know it doesn’t do a damned bit of good to try to educate them.

They just don’t care what anyone else says. They’ll do what they want and say what they want, and post what they want on their Facebook profiles, and fuck everyone else. Which is pretty much the way I work too… except I’m not offensive in a discriminatory way, I post what I believe in and if all the racists/homophobes/ transphobes/Rightwingers don’t like it, tough shit.! I know I probably need to learn tolerance for their points of view, but when they start having a go at Bear it irritates the shit out of me. He’s only trying to help them to see the facts.

He might be a smartass know it all, but that’s because he is smart and he does know it all because he spends his life reading and paying attention to current affairs, politics, world affairs, anything that has any impact on people’s lives, he knows about and when he has questions or sees something doesn’t seem right, he checks it out on Google and tracks down the truth. He needs the truth as much as I do, and apparently much more so than members of my family seem to. I’m on the verge of limiting the whole damn lot of them, so I don’t have to read the utter bullshit that finds it’s way out of their heads.

I’m a bad daughter aren’t I.?!