Reply #19: You need some better comebacks [View All]

[noamnety]

and the ability to count to ten.

Tea or something to drink helps a lot, you can thoughtfully take a sip before responding - try it, you'll see it does wonders for helping you not to escalate screaming and swearing.

I'm proud of you for saying the F word, though - the more times they hear the word FRAUD the more they will realize we do not accept Bush as being legitimately elected. ;)

I don't think you should back down. If he can watch fox, certainly you can go to whatever news source you wish, and if that means DU, so be it.

If you don't like the erosion of civil rights you can move to Canada? Okay, if he wants state sponsored religion, he can move to Afghanistan.

And wear your pin proudly. If you have children, certainly you are too old for them to be dressing you. That should be a nondebatable subject. Not an argument about if it provokes anything, I wouldn't even allow myself to get pulled into that. You're an adult, you dress yourself. End of story.

I might not go out of my way to start an argument, but I wouldn't be cowered into letting my stepdad dictate what websites I can go to or how to dress myself. I think you may need to set some boundaries there - and frame them as just that, boundaries. They get to decide what channel to watch, you get to decide things that directly affect you.

Lots of counting to ten. And tea. Or something stronger. Hang in there.

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