My effing brother the lunatic.

You know how they say that you generally love your siblings more and more as you get older? Well fuck that shit.

Why oh why does he fucking get off on telling people what to do. I can’t tell you all of the ways he is a piece of shit.

He’s racist.

Yes he is racist, which is nice, being that we’re from Mississippi, and my parents made specific attempts to raise us without that going on in our heads.

He likes to tell EVERYONE what to do. We’re the type of people who generally mind our own business. My parents never gave me the sex talk. I learned on my own. Now it’s not in an un-loving way, but more of a turn a blind eye to uncomfortable stuff way. Otherwise we are very friendly. Not my brother. He tells my sister how to raise her kids (he obviously knows best). Sits and bosses around my nephew and niece.

He’s also homophobic. Yay, yet another point. I’m not gay, nor is anyone in my family, but still. It jarring when some of his shit slips out.

He is a Fox News conservative with an idiotic viewpoint. He thinks that what happened in Katrina was a result of the black people down there “not having sense enough to get out of there”

He obviously doesn’t believe in Global Warming and ridicules the idea.

So essentially he has his viewpoints and has no tolerance for what he sees as inappropriate.

Oh and the brilliant thing is that recently he’s been accepted into dental school, so he’s been hounding my nephew about eating sweets. Just fucking great that he’ll be in a profession where he can nag people about things they should be doing but never do.

The worst part is that he wants to get into a discussion with me. I have neither the time nor inclination to do that. It’s impossible to get him to change his mind on anything, and he also wouldn’t even believe anything I have to say anyway.

He says that Al Gore is, “ridiculous.” Apparently this has to do with his claims in an Inconvenient Truth.

Essentially he bugs the shit out of everyone in our family trying to get us to do right. When he nor anyone of us has been perfect. It’s a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved. He has his nose in everyone’s business too… Jesus christ.

Previously he wasn’t as bad, he was more curmudgeonly. Now that he’s had a slight taste of success (acceptance into dental school) he’s only become more self-righteous.

Normally we would ignore him or whatever as much as possible now he’s gotten worse.
So yes, fuck you, my brother for being such an ass. I predict one of two things happening. He finds a girl who he falls madly in love with who changes him into a more realistic person, or he never finds a girl. I would imagine that with his friends he is more laid back, but for whatever reason he sees that his family needs to be put in line or whatever. I can’t stand it.

It sounds like my oldest sister had a sex change operation and moved in with you. Same commands, same politics. I had no idea she was planning to go to dental school, too.

I was wondering what my dad’s been up to in the ten years I haven’t spoke to him. Good luck!

Does he bug everyone else the way he does you? If so, why don’t you all get together and tell him to shove it?

Because IME less than 1 in 100 people will ever tell an annoying or even dangerously hostile family member to STFU and behave themselves. The reasons are many and barely defensible in most cases. Just review the last 7 years of the Pit for numerous examples.

Meh. When I saw the subject line I was expecting far worse than a mundane difference of opinions. I had a holiday dinner where everyone else at the table was expressing political views I didn’t agree with - I just chose to shrug and keep eating. What do their opinions really have to do with me?
I bet he enjoys how riled up you get when he argues with you.
He’ll probably learn to keep his mouth shut about race and sexuality when he has his own dental practice and has to please his customers/patients to keep em coming back.
The nagging thing? Not like he can force you to do anything. Lots of people think they can give unsolicited advice about childrearing to parents. Just ignore it or pretend to take it into consideration to be polite, but not liek they can force you to do anything.
Oh, and the fate of the world doesn’t actually hinge on whether this one particular dude believes that global warming is real or not.

So just smile and keep eating. It’s not worth it to get angry over this sort of thing.