One table over from me during lunch at a deli, a mother and daughter were discussing current news.
The daughter was a 40ish Air Force Colonel - I had to ask my ex-military hubby later what the patch and eagle on her shoulders meant LOL.
It went like this:
Mother: "This war in Ukraine is so awful! Why is Putin doing this?"
Daughter: "Mom, I've been to Ukraine three times. Their government is pure evil!"
Mother: "What does that have to do with what Putin is doing?"
Daughter: "It's not what it looks like. I don't understand everything going on with Putin, but I have it from a very good source that the Ukranian's are glad the Russians are there."
Mother: (looking dumbstruck) "But that's crazy! The Russians are killing them!"
Daughter: "No, they're not, Mom. The Ukranian Army is slaughtering their own people."
Mother: "But...but... Fox news says Russia is attacking them!"
Daughter: "Don't watch the news, Mom. Any of it. It's all lies."
I walked out of there SO full of hopium! 🥰🥰🥰
Edited: I made a mistake with the star comment. She had eagles on her shoulders. She is a Colonel. Sorry for the mix-up.
Yes, I picked up on that as well. As a writer, I study people, their expressions, body language, tone of voice, etc. to make my characters sound real. I sensed the daughter was irritated with her mom. Like they've had conversations like this before where her mom is oblivious to the fact that her daughter is clearly an intelligent, goal-oriented person. She's an Air Force Colonel, for Pete's sake! Lol
Just my take. I could be wrong. But people are FASCINATING!
I had a conversation with my own brainwashed mother on Ukraine, it went pretty much how I expected.
-- Fair enough, but which ones, the Communists or the Nazi's?
-- I agree, it's terrible what the Ukranian government are doing to their own people.
-- Do you realise that he invaded to protect the people in the East who were being killed by the UKR government?
-- Do you ever stop to think where the words you are using are coming from Mum?
Back during the vaccine push I tried to red-pill her, but she told me I was scaring her and could I stop. I agreed, as long as she stopped repeating to me what the TV has told her to say. She broke the rule so I dropped red pills.
As soon as it got into details she clearly knew nothing about she backed off and claimed it was all too much to think about.