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I love hanging out with my parents because they are great parents: have these parents considered trying “not being terrible parents”

also this nails it. people have been quietly cutting off their horrid family members since the dawn of time, it just used to be easier to get away with it unnoticed before we had instantaneous global communication. bsky.app/profile/lasr...

You didn’t have to come out and SAY that you were packing up your ocean-crossing canoe to search across the seas for a new land just to get away from your awful family, but you know that had to have been a FACTOR for a lot of history’s intrepid explorers and settlers

mfs out here being like “if I have to see my uncle Teuira and my aunt Uira one more fucking time on this tiny island, I will drown myself in the sea, so guess I’m packing up the outrigger canoe and brushing up on my star navigation”

“Oh, there’s a frozen land bridge leading to uncharted territories across the Bering Sea now? Where my horrible family won’t follow me to judge my mammoth spearing technique ever again? Sign me up.”

and that’s how human beings arrived in North America, probably

I get the sentiment, but that is definitely not how that happened. Also, I wonder why that is the example here, and why it is not some temper tantrum throwing Puritan child getting away from Europe.

Yes, I am. Some jokes have consequences, though. And jokes about Native peoples as primitive children have led and lead to rather brutal consequences. Most Americans think that the sketch of history you posted is not a joke or if it is a joke it is not too far from reality.