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Most of my family with the weirdest politics are dead, mom was a hardcore anticom tradcath, enough said there, as she aged she chilled down a lot on abortion and the role of women, watching someone undergo a miscarriage while we waited in the ER for like 12hrs since her blood sugar was like 500 has a tendency to do that. She loved John Paul II, Mother Theresa especially, I remember my sister pointing out the faults of the later with the India school deal and she didn't really believe her since she was a saint.

My grandma was a boring standard demsoc but had the weirdest view on environmentalism (my sister figures its related to grandma was super into magic and had all sorts of awesome mystical stories that could make a full length movie or two), basically climate change is man made all right, but it is caused by us discriminating against lgbtqia+ community, we apparently have magic mass climate and weather-controlling powers from birth or someshit and the more we're harmed/hated the worse climate change gets. She was always extra nice to those she perceived as different, not out of respect for fellow humanity/comrades, but fear her garden would get cursed and that she'd contribute to the demise of the world via environmental destruction.

The last one with the weird politics is my uncle who is living, standard neofasc conspiracy minded new age hippie sort, but he's full of regret from his career in the military (you know the type), so he knows he's fucked up at some level, desperately trying to improve on the surface 'safe' level ex learn about other peoples and cultures, then falls back into his old patterns and insults everyone that isn't a cishet monotheist white male with cosmic grade bigotry. He holds the sort of contradictory views you can imagine.