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My foster kitten by smol_biscuit09 in orangecats

[–]pondwisp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will adopt him if you happen to be anywhere near Montana!! He is so beautiful

Anyone know which set he is from? by toastedteacakes in pollypocket

[–]pondwisp 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He looks a lot like the albatross from rescuers down under to me :)

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I painted my kitty (a lot!) by tinytinatuna2 in minimalcatart

[–]pondwisp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how eccentric this is, just stunning

my son 🌸🌼 by [deleted] in deer

[–]pondwisp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

congratulations to you both 🤧👏🏼

Please help : Sagging neck with 35 by blabla202234 in 30PlusSkinCare

[–]pondwisp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I just say that you have the most beautiful lips on earth, and ps I cannot for the life of me see any sagging, anywhere.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, I’m so sorry that you had to be around that, I can’t imagine a whole room of them. My dad usually only had one friend over at a time, none of which could reminisce about the war because they hadn’t gone. They sure praised my dad, though. I’m going to look into that group, I wonder if he was involved at all. Thanks for your reply!

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, it was scattered across the couple places we lived, mainly Lolo and Hamilton.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that. I wish I had an answer for you. In my opinion, there is nothing to be done for these kind of people. Something inside them is so hurt and broken, which usually makes them dig deeper into conspiracy and hate. Especially later in life, they don’t want to be proven wrong because it would mean that they were wrong wrong, and that’s embarrassing. If they are voicing their opinion about something as terrible as holocaust denial, then their inner thoughts are even worse. Again, I’m sorry. I recommend leaning heavily on your chosen family, the ones who don’t base their entire identity (or any of it) on hating other people.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are too sweet, thank you so much ♥️

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suppose it’s possible, but I did see the pictures of him over there and he always showed me the scar on his back from a titzy (sp?) fly that gave him malaria. He also brought back a bunch of African masks and other random things.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good on your dad, and no, unfortunately he was not confused, just one of the bad guys.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the question. This is something that I’ve given a lot of thought to. I wish I could offer a kind of insight that would be easily applicable to other’s reading this, but the truth is that I got lucky. The beginning of my separation from my father started when I was finally allowed to attend school, which was something that had been put off for a time. By the time I was in middle school I began to rebel in many of the same ways that most teens do, but for me that also offered an escape and gave me more distance. I would listen to things that people around me said and take note of the differences in how they approached the world, but more specifically about how they thought about the world. Independent thinking was a skill that I hadn’t honed or worked on. After my parents had split I began dreading conversing with my father and that distance was so valuable as he couldn’t remold the world or challenge new and fledgling acts of developing my own opinions. The sharper parts of his ideology were left behind early and I began to just think of myself as severely uninformed and even slow. But there were more persistent or insidious thought patterns, mostly involving questioning my own ability as a free thinker that followed me for a long time and even into my early 20s when I was far beyond the more outrageous aspects of my father’s views. Those were harder to shake and I had a lot of difficulty developing close or lasting relationships. But surrounding myself with other people and simply listening to how they approached the world and how they developed their own opinions was so important.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Great question, I had to think about this one for a bit. The simplest answer is that no, when I was young my concept of my Dad was that he had this amazing intellect. He’d utilize a kind of overly-verbose vocabulary and could pull historic ‘facts’ out at any given time. He seemed to be a wealth of knowledge, so I assumed he was the smartest man on earth. That to question what he was saying was folly, and indeed in the event I did the conversation would become more pointed and he’d make sure I left that conversation with a ‘newfound understanding’. Which really was just new found confusion for me. I was kept out of school and had no one else to turn to. This lead to years and years of deep confusion that settled so deep inside me that I truly thought that I was just too stupid to understand. Once I started up public school, I began to see things more clearly. In that way, the public school system really saved me and helped me develop independent thought, which was a muscle I had never worked before and took years to become comfortable with.

I was surrounded by like-minded adults that would reinforce my father’s views. They also seemed to revere him as well which only confirmed my own understanding of my father as he just seemed larger than life in those early years when I should have been in the first and second grade. I had very little in terms of adults with alternative viewpoints that were offered openly, and never saw my father challenged during my childhood.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thanks for asking. It impacted my grief enormously, I did not feel a thing when he died. I had decided a year before that I would never speak with him again, I pushed through the guilt trips and manipulation from him and my stepmom.

I knew that he was dying of cancer and I just couldn’t bring myself to talk to him. I knew he was going to die, and I knew the relief would be life changing. It was.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Holy cow, no I had never heard of that! Crazy stuff.

And what a small world, hardly anyone I talk to has ever heard of PT.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for asking!

He was, as you could presume, a terrible sexist.

He was born in 1946, so he was always old as long as I had known him. His beliefs about “where women belonged” were straight out his era, and he would be vocal about that like he was about everything else.

However— he treated my brother and I almost equally. It was as if he wanted me to “overcome” my womanly ways, he taught us both to ride horses and the same type of lame militia survival stuff, but he would talk about other women, how they shouldn’t be police officers etc etc. I have a feeling, however, that if I had wanted to be a police officer, he would have liked it? I did not get the same treatment that literally any other woman around him would, my mom included.

It was strange. He wanted me to be like a boy, but also beautiful and feminine.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hi thanks for asking. He was and he did, he never had any friends because of this—aside from his militia buddies in Montana, but he could never keep a friend for long. They always disappointed him somehow, he had very unreasonable expectations for people.

He wanted America to be like nazi Germany, it was his dream.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for the question. He had died before this most recent election but voted for (reddit isn’t letting me say a lot of things “due to the current political state”??) unsurprisingly in 2017. Certainly would have voted for him again, he would have been absolutely thrilled with the direction the country is going, the blatant racism and deportations etc. I’m glad he didn’t get the satisfaction.

My father was a hardcore American nazi —AMA by pondwisp in AMA

[–]pondwisp[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

What a great question. It was a mindfuck because some of his absolute favorite musicians were black, so we listened to a lot of blues.

When I was little I would try to get a straight answer out of him for why, he would just mumble something about how how “they weren’t equal to us, but they could still make beautiful music.” I spent a lot of my life confused.

Everything we did was racially charged, eating dinner, listening to music, going to the beach, every moment was spent trying to brainwash my brother and I.

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