I think a psychologist would say that if you really can’t find common ground, it’s best to agree not to talk about it.

Indoctrination is highly effective. Your parents were raised in a place where toeing the line is the norm and questioning those in power is traditionally a great way to ensure you disappear. Russians are deeply indoctrinated when compared to western nations because that’s how their society has been set up since 1922. The Soviet leadership ruled by suppressing any dissent, violently and without remorse. Just because the Soviet Union no longer exists, doesn’t mean their ways of doing things disappeared too.

The only way to change them would be to engage in an equally sophisticated program of indoctrination: deprogramming as it’s called. Since you lack the resources of the Soviet Union, it would be a much more difficult task, especially since your parents are now older and their brains are less changeable. They were indoctrinated as children and by a very prolific system. Reversing that now, by yourself, is a tall order.

I’m sorry your parents were failed by their leadership, it’s truly a shame.

There are these things called books…

Are americans aware that the vast majority of Europe is not German?

If I knew I would regularly get to chill with other people’s cats, I would switch careers now.

I fucking hope so. I cannot wait to watch this burn down around them.

Where I come from, we call this ‘consequences’. Maybe they haven’t heard of those in the US.

It’s time for him to sleep in the bed he made.

That’s a good one!

It still doesn’t cease to amaze me how absolutely clueless some people can be. How can you observe Trump’s behaviour and think he’ll do anything except be insane? He can’t even form coherent sentences for goodness’ sake!

I hope this moron, and all his Trump pals, lose everything.

Imagine thinking Trump has business acumen.

Not yet, not necessarily. The further this goes, the closer they come to the point of no return.