My dad was a racist homophobe that voted red every election because it was "the Christian thing to do." He'd constantly preach to us about how the bible said gay people go to hell and he'd always say things like "Now I'm not racist but " and then look at us children for approval of his hateful shit and we did because we were raised that way. It wasnt until all 3 of us entered our teenage years and started arguing with him about it pretty much daily and eventually him dating a woman who had a gay brother for him to start changing his mind about that stuff. Now he's super left leaning and doesnt say hateful shit anymore. Idk if he honestly had a change of heart or if he just noticed the times were changing

My father was a drunk who liked to beat the shit out of his wife in front of the kids. Now he’s wasting away with Alzheimer’s and I’m waiting for his funeral announcement so I can piss on his grave.

He was a know-nothing failure of a human being when I was a child, and he’s certainly no better today.

My dad was smart when I was growing up. He is smart now.

But he's so entrenched in the worst right wing political lunacy, and always has been, that I've rarely viewed him as someone to imitate morally.

I blew up at him as a teen over the Iraq War. He never once justified his position in anything remotely resembling a reasoned argument, but I hurt his feelings, so I had to apologize to him about it. That family dynamic has never really changed, so I just don't talk to him anymore.

...and at 40, I was amazed he didn't learned anything new in the past 26 years and I was probably right at 14.

Nah man, the older I get the less I trust adults. They let me be one and I'm the biggest fuckup I've ever met!

My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin' mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that's damning with faint praise.

Nah, he was an idiot when I was 14, 21, 28, 35, and 42. He'll probably be an idiot until he dies. Can't hold a job, can't stop drinking, and can't help but vote red down the line every 4 years. The world will be better when he's shuffled loose this mortal coil.

You're absolutely right, the young only want the old to stop destroying global human society because they haven't learned to give up and be apathetic to it yet.

Can we make a community for these "young bad, old good" memes? Something like r/BoomersSelfFellaciate ?

I guess this is the “shit on your dad” thread. Hopefully I’m a better dad for my kids than my dad was to me.

"it's mostly piss"

• Squirt Twain

the math checks out; their most ignorant years always coincide with their kid's teenage years.

My Dad quoted this a few times, until he finally realized how incredibly untrue this can be when he falls for too many online scams.

I did the contrary.

Yea this rings true, though my father wasn’t helping matters by being an alcoholic with undiagnosed CPTSD when I was 14.

Yeah my dad has definitely regressed...