>Luanne isn't family, she's company!>literally his wife's niece>says to his wife that she's not family what the hell was Hank's problem?
>>144295771As someone with an incredibly shitty father, he understands what a "toxic family member" is and that they're disposable.
>>144295771The American view of "family" is very small. They don't give a shit about nieces or nephews, and cousins are practically strangers. It's very weird.
He's not blood related to Peggy
>>144295771sounds like something cotton would sayhank should punch himself in the balls for saying that
>>144295963But Luanne is a good girl, just naive, hell, half the time she's smarter than Peggy
>>144295771If he says she's family, then he'll lose his mind because he wants to bend her over and fuck that sexy ass and bust inside. Saying she's not family is a cope for Hank.He should be more like Bobby, who doesn't care that she's his cousin and would happily just fuck her anyway.
>>144295771Jews destroyed the concept of the extended family for their host culture via media manipulation, but they themselves absolutely utilize the extended family to get ahead.
>>144295771Hank was just upset he had to take care of her for so long just for some redneck to take her instead of literally anyone else.
>>144295771Hank is sexually attracted to Luanne and to cope with it he doesn't want to see her as family because if he did he will feel even more disgusted with himself.
He should have fucked her.
>>144295996OUT OF OUR LIFE AT 18 OR WE'RE CALLING THE COPS! YOU NEED TO BE OUT SUPPORTING WALMART 50 HOURS A WEEK LIKE A WORTHWHILE AMERICAN! REMEMBER WE LOVE YOU BUT IT'S TOUGH!
>>144295771In earlier seasons they allowed Hank to be an asshole who had to change. He only considers direct relatives to be family and only wants to help himself and his direct family as most conservatives do. Later he realizes he was being kind of a piece of shit and allowed Luan to stay although he never fully accepted her as family, like in the Thanksgiving episode where he didn't buy her a plane ticket. And how he was completely okay with Luan dating Lucky while Peggy was concerned. Hank would have cared if Bobby was dating white trash because Bobby is family. Luan is a burden he sort of cares about and is willing to help as long as she is either paying rent or going to college. As far as Hank is concerned Luan might as well just be a family friend who fell on hard times and not a true member of the family.
>>144295771If you have to string two familial terms together to describe your relationship they aren't family.>Wife's niece>Brother-in-law's cousin>Father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate
>>144296852but she's still Peggy's niece and Bobby's cousin
>>144295771He's not using these words to denote literal blood relationship, but their obligations towards her. He was signalling his unwillingness to house her permanently.
>>144295771Post 1950s Nuclear family mindset. Only the immediate members of the household are actually "Family" and deserve to live within the house. Cousins, nieces, nephews, etc are extended and therefore belong in their own homes.
>>144296958That's not my problem.
>>144296350It's post World War worker expansion shit by the government. They wanted Americans to get into the mindset of not having an ancestral family land, and move to where work is needed. Like out in new company communities in the midwest, or government facilities in Nevada. They wanted to program the thought process into the American citizen mind that family is just the people within one's own household, so they would have no problem moving to the other side of the continent to go be good loyal company employees, or abroad in the army as good loyal soldiers. People with a strong family mindset are not going to want to move too far away from their roots. So they took a popular modern buzzword of the day with Nuclear, and wrapped a whole new cultural identity and philosophy around it so that Americans could more easily move to suburban planned communities for companies in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, etc. It's the government and corporation think, has nothing to do with the same old dumbass The Jews stupid shit and you are fucking retarded for constantly deflecting everything to your made up boogeyman shit all over again.
>>144297239oh yeah? well who runs the government and major corporations?
>>144297239>They wanted Americans to get into the mindset of not having an ancestral family landI mean this was never white people's land in the first place so y'know.
>>144297239>The jew is mad...
>>144297372Pre-WWII you still basically had family enclaves in a lot of states. Even in major cities you had neighborhoods of family groups who settled there. People never moved too far away from their family land. The 1950s really saw an end to that type of thing. The Great Depression really ended a lot of it but the Suburban flight is what finished it.
>>144295996Americans move states almost every generation. Family breaks apart easily when you're all hundreds of miles apart.
>>144297239The secondary effect of this was that they created the >Kick the kids out at 18Generation in the boomers. They managed to mostly kill the idea of the family or looking out for each other concept in the minds of middle Americans. And then when they got old and had their fun, they started wondering why the younger generations don't give a shit about settling down and starting families, or want to call or be a part of the family, they only kicked them out and killed any ideal of holding family as something special in their youth. They don't understand why that is biting them in the ass today. Must be some conspiracy.
>>144295996Is it different for mexicans? My family is a blend of mexicans and white people but I remember being fairly close with my cousins and my aunt often "mothered" me in a way she did with her own kids
>>144297730I remember reading posts from a colombian talking about how alien the american "Youre on your own as soon as youre 18" trend is to him
>>144297781Why the hell even have kids then? We're not on a farm, we're not going through some horrific plague that wipes out most kids, why do american families have busloads of kids if they enforce this shitty rule?
>>144297906They don't. White people have at the most 2 kids, throw them out at 18 and that's that. If they have kids at all, which is the current situation now. Current 20s and 30 somethings are not having kids at all, they were taught to be insanely individualistic and not ever care to look out for or be looked out by family and they are not interested in starting one either.
>>144295996I'm sorry you had such a messed up family anon. As an American with a strongly connected family who keeps in touch with and sees his cousins, nephews and nieces I hope things get better for you.
>>144295996I never had shit to do with any of my cousins growing up either. My parents moved across the continent before I was born and I only ever saw family members at funerals. For overwhelming majority of them I have no idea what they are like when they are not grieving and crying.
>>144296836Based Hank.
>>144297948>they were taught to be insanely individualisticBut I thought they were brainwashed into collectivist marxist globalism?
>>144298877> collectivist marxist globalismyou are the brainwashed onebrainwashed by jordan peterson
>>144298877...boomers? Are you retarded or did you just land on Earth this afternoon?
I don't remember. Do Dale and Nancy ever fuck or is John Redcorn getting all the action?
>>144297948Fake news.
>>144295963But Hank DOES have an incredibly shitty and abusive father and he still considers him family.
>>144296814This mentality hasn't been true since the end of the 90's. Now it's about forcing your kid to go to college and be up to their eyeballs in debt because they still believe the college degree holds just as much value as it did when they (the parents) were younger. Then their kids end up being over 25 and still living at home with a horrible resume as they all try to become streamers or content creators to get some form of passive income.
>>144296715She wanted him in the early seasons.
>>144297372True. We should return the land back to the dinosaurs where it rightfully belongs!
>>144297730Yes, Mexicans are much closer too extended family. You meet most of your cousins regularly at birthday and other parties, someone in the family will almost always take in their elderly too live with them and kids live with their parents until they have a stable marriage. It's a culture encouraged by the fact we're all poorfags clinging too lower middle class or poorer.To use me as an example. As a kid we had my paternal grandpa's brother live with us until he died. I had 2 cousins from Mexico live with us to attend High School in the USA, first one was when I was still in elementary and the second lived with us when I was going to HS too. Finally I'm 32 and as a kissless, hugless virgin I've lived with my mom without any fuss. Of course I keep my mom afloat on bills by paying my share of $2100 in home expenses and mortage.
>>144299349Get a real job hippie
>>144296349>Bobby, who doesn't care that she's his cousinHe literally used the "she's my cousin" excuse when he saw her naked and Joseph kept trying to pressure him into helping him see her naked.
>>144295996>>144296814>>144297168>>144297239>>144297645>be completely anchored to anyone even tangentially blood related to youThis is why lesser societies never advance. They're so busy constantly cleaning up after each other (especially the failures in their family) that they can never focus on anything else.
>>144296814This used to be true back when you could get a job at the hardware store half a mile away and in 20 years be the owner of it and making the modern equivalent of 250k a year all while houses and cars were super cheap to the point where you'd be charged like 25% in financing because the average minimum wagie could buy a house outright in 3 years
>>144295996>and cousins are practically strangersThat is done on purpose, so you could have sex with them without it feeling weird.
>>144295963>shitty father ??????There's absolutely nothing wrong with his father.
>>144297730I'm a white Catholic and our extended family was always close. I think tiny family size is more of a US protestant thing than a "white" thing... the way Italy or Ireland handle community is a bit different from Sweden or the UK
>>144303238Literally the exact opposite, all archaeological evidence shows communal living and caretaking in large groups is what allowed humanity to advance beyond hunter/gatherer lifestyles.
>>144303238Asians and Indians are doing better in the US because of family investment and nepotism
>>144304413Arab countries tend to have close knit extended families and they also have the highest rates of cousin marriage iirc
>>144301277Joseph could’ve ask or even trick her into showing him her tits.
>>144305345NOOOOOOOO EVERYBODY IS AN INTROVERTED AUTIST LIKE ME
