Nothing like knowing your whole family thinks you are a loser during christmas, and being sickly sweet about it.
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CheesyFox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wholesome
change my mind
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
riodoro1@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just looking at this picture my brain made enough cortisol for the rest of the day.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
First paragraph? Absolutely. I would love that level of engagement and personal interest from family.
Second response and the punchline? Well, that’s what we’re here for. Of course it’s awful.
sxan@midwest.social 8 months ago
I have a hard time imagining both those lines coming from the same person. Maybe, I guess? But I agree, 1 is loving and supportive; 2 is mean & hurtful.
What a terrible family op must have.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All I can say is that, yes, this absolutely happens to people. Sometimes abuse is loud, bold, and psychologically twisted like this. Other times, it’s well-placed silence.
PSA: If you have anyone you care about with bad family like this, and know you can provide a better environment for just a few hours, have them over for a family meal. You’ll make a friend for life.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
It’s great that you’ve never had a passive aggressive family member to deal with.
tostiman@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hell
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Publically and condescendingly berating a (presumably) grown man in front of his entire family, infantilizing him and the crypto thing, the little power demonstration with the drinks, getting everyone to laugh at the poor jobless bastard?
Not sure how wholesome that seems to me. Chewing someone out in public, especially at dinner, is asshole behavior. Being overbearingly "positive" about it on the surface doesn't really help.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If I’m going to work every day to support your fat lazy adult ass while you blow money on jpgs of monkeys I’m within my rights to bust your balls about it and you’re lucky I haven’t thrown you out and turned your basement into a home gym
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Maybe, for some definition of "rights". If doing it in public, it would still 100% make you an asshole no matter how right you were.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Agreed. It sounds like this is a family dinner at home, though. Anons family already know he’s a loser.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because feeding their depression is the best way to fix the problem.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If he believes it’s his parents job to fix him that’s about 75% of the problem right there
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“MOM, MEATLOAF! FUCK! I never know what she’s doing up there”
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Depends entirely on the age.
If some 30 year old who never had a job and is trying get rich quick schemes like crypto while still living at home, then they deserve to be talked down to.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine being a guest at this dinner and watching this guy belittle his (admittedly not doing great) son in front of you as some sort of weird familial power play while airing the families dirty laundry.
I don’t care if Dad is correct, Dad is just as socially retarded as son. It’s where son learned it.
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Exactly this. I have no idea how people are justifying dragging someone through the mud in front of people. Imagining being anon is obviously rough (which is probably why someone posted this almost certainly hypothetical scenario), but just having a place at this table would be extremely awkward.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your child being a jobless loser isn’t justification to publicly shame them in front of family. Especially because you are enabling them. How about instead of shaming them you kick them out of the house?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
How to turn a jobless loser into a meth addicted street urchin.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hey meth ain’t free, congratulations you fixed the failure to launch problems
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d argue they weren’t berating him. Nothing in that statement implied they were angry. They just want better for him and will hold him (at least partially) accountable (by not letting him drink).
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
OK, whether the specific term "berating" is semantically correct or not, that's not particularly relevant to whether or not it's decent behavior. It is still an ostentatious, infantilizing putdown of anon. In company, and in a setting that's looking a lot like "dinner with the extended family".
Even if anon is the deadbeatiest deadbeat to ever deadbeat, that is... asshole behavior. Pure and simple. Maybe the anon of this fake greentext deserves that?
yata@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s fiction. I still don’t understand how so many of you take all these posts as descriptions of something that actually occurred.