I am so sick of listening to people champ and chew and burp and swallow and "mm tasty" and then complain about how much food they bought. It happens every year you fucking hedonists, why are you always surprised by it??

Anyway only checks watch around NINE HOURS til I can go back to my own home.

Haven't seen my family since I came over a year ago. I think they are all supportive and it would be nice to see them, but they're all rabid fucking Zionists and I just can't bear to interact with them.

I just saw one of my cousins for the first time in like a decade. His mom ditched her shitty abusive husband and they seem like they've been doing well. There's six of them and he's the only one that showed up.

I actually haven't seen any of them since we were all pre-teens and we were just a bunch of miserable kids in shitty situations hanging out together, I hope they're alright too.

I don't have the energy or focus to type out my rant, but just wanted to say that I'm glad this vent thread is here. Where there is bile, let it flow (out).

I so first off I am thankful for my amazing friends (yes you, you know who you are), my sweet little kitty, and this community that has been a source of levity and insight.

Yeah so this is my first time coming "back home" to my parents house for thanksgiving and I really kinda miss living in town so I could escape at the end of the night. My family isn't like, evil or anything but they make me feel bad to be me most of the time so its been pretty unpleasant actually. Politics didn't come up until much later in the evening and no interesting takes were said but it was still upsetting. I got to bring my kitty because shes family too now and shes made everything so much easier, everyone loves her! Can't wait to go home tomorrow, I don't want to be in this house anymore.

fortunately my folks called for a political ceasefire. Unfortunately they only know how to converse through complaining.

All I wanted to do yesterday was watch the mst3k marathon and instead I got told off by my mom and dad for being rude to people (by which they meant I called my uncle an asshole for trying to tickle my shoulders like I was an 8yo, and was a little too loud when telling my mom (who was pointing out to me that some nostalgiabait ad on the tv “looked sort of like an old tv set”) that it WAS an old tv set)

Closest thing we got to politics was my dad making some unfunny joke about how “the Dallas Cowboys can’t play against the Cleveland Indians anymore HYUK HYUK”

We went to our grandparents house to see our other relatives and I did not say a word to them at all. Most of them are reactionaries, and the only political discussion I heard was anti-China garbage. I didn't even eat at the table with them, I just stayed upstairs.

This is my second year of not talking about politics with my family.

This is my first year with my family for Thanksgiving since coming out. Idk so far it's been ok, but separately I've been so exhausted from work I kinda wish I could just veg out at home for Thanksgiving. I can't help but mask and I just feel like... Uncomfortable and unseen (not their fault), they can't help it really). Idk just complaining and venting

I hate how much my sister fawns. Every year she says she'll stand up but then immediately folds and I end up getting thrown under the bus so she won't get the fallout. She just started therapy so I have to be patient but god

2 out of 3 thanksgiving gatherings complete

Nothing terrible. Some dark new revelations about my only other queer cousin, (well there might be one or two more in the closet who knows) but it was nice talking to him. He's one of the few to come to me with fears about the upcoming US administration that I'm like "oh shit, yeah that could be real bad" (medication keeping him alive might go away) rather than tempering expectations. Its nice that he opens up to me despite my ass not really returning the favor. I guess I'm a little deeper in the closet with family than he is these days.

I'm happy to finally be home though. Teaching my tiny cousin how to do prank calls was fun

My family was pretty good this year, generally if there's some shit going down its gossip/smacktalk about other family members (ex so and so is ungrateful and making the wrong economic choices) that leads to an argument. There was gossip, but it never made that bad turn.

I haven’t seen my extended lib family for thanksgiving since the pandemic began, and this year was no exception. They invited us to come down but I just didn’t see the point. The kids and I also have “colds,” my cousin has a newborn baby, nobody masks, and I worried that there would be a meltdown if they found out that I didn’t vote for kamala, so yeah, thanksgiving was extremely low key and pleasant at our house this year, without eighteen hours of driving, expensive hotels, mediocre food, and hours of liberals avoiding all discussion of politics.

I have nice lib relatives too, I don’t know how any of you can stand your chud relatives. Before the pandemic I would see my chud relatives for Christmas, and they thankfully never discussed politics.