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ummel posted:Boomer Sooners I wanted to just give this post some love. I got a chuckle. Edit: tax 
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Rosalind posted:Yeah my dad has been completely ruined by Fox News. Since coming home for the holidays 3 days ago, here's some of the stuff he's said: That's a new one. I dare you to ask your dad "When was the last time you were in an actual city? No, not a suburb of a city; an actual city." I live here in NYC and the thought of that is just farcical. If they said people are loud, pushy, and don't give a poo poo about noise pollution, they'd be right about some people. Shooting someone? Ha.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:16
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CHEF!!! posted:That's a new one. I dare you to ask your dad "When was the last time you were in an actual city? No, not a suburb of a city; an actual city." Really shows how "frog in a hot pan" the whole Fox News thing is. If you told someone that "honk your horn, get shot" poo poo right up front any non-idiotic person would laugh at you out of hand but you ramp up peoples fears whilst knowing full well they never leave a 5 mile radius around their suburb, well buddy you can get them believing any fool thing!
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Dec 23, 2019 23:19
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CHUDS think American cities are overrun with illegal immigrants, crime, drugs, and that they are active war-zones ala Fallujah 2004 or Hue 1969 or some poo poo and think cops are just fighting wars against gangs of minorities. This goes for European cities too. I remember I had a client from Montana say she would pray for my safety when I told her I was taking a Holiday to London and Paris a few years ago.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:23
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Solaris 2.0 posted:CHUDS think American cities are overrun with illegal immigrants, crime, drugs, and that they are active war-zones ala Fallujah 2004 or Hue 1969 or some poo poo and think cops are just fighting wars against gangs of minorities. Yeah my mother thinks Chicago is some street-to-street perpetual gun battle where thousands of people die a week or some poo poo. It's pretty farcical. I don't get any deeper into it than "Yeah...that's ridiculous." and move on.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:24
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Dec 23, 2019 23:33
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CHEF!!! posted:That's a new one. I dare you to ask your dad "When was the last time you were in an actual city? No, not a suburb of a city; an actual city."
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Dec 23, 2019 23:36
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Slugworth posted:Just a twist on a classic. Used to be "gangs drive around with their headlights off and shoot at anyone who flashes their brights at them!!" It's amazing how small town folk can't comprehend the scales of cities or neighborhoods. I live in Jackson, Mississippi and while we have a crime issue, it's not city wide. But the damned yokels just see something on the news about a shooting at a gas station and assume EVERY GAS STATION IN THE ENTIRE CITY is some sort of turf war. It's so loving dumb.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:38
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It's really funny/infuriating to me how little people understand about random violence. Yes i'm more likely to be mugged in a bad area of Chicago then an affluent suburb in bumfuck somewhere but it's not like it just happens if you go there. Have these people never traveled, or gone anywhere? I've been downtown alone in most major cities in the US late at night and never been mugged or attacked. Even for women(which i understand is a whole different experience from a guy) the chances of you actually being a victim of violent crime is very low. Semi quoting Joe Kendra(Homicide Hunter dude) "If you don't associate with people that traffic or use narcotics, and don't marry badly you will (probably) not be murdered." The cities aren't that scary and most street people/people out randomly at night are pretty cool. poo poo just carry a pack of cigarettes and hand em out. Fragmented fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Dec 23, 2019 23:43
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I've been nearly mugged 4 times in a relatively middle class neighborhood in Lisbon and I still wouldn't call it a "war zone". I just avoid going out alone at night or in isolated places. That's it.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:46
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Cities are full of nonwhite people and most whites in America live in a neighborhood without minorities. This problem isn't getting any better, and as the country trends less and less white a greater share of the white population retreats to so-called "extreme whitopias" -- counties that post high population growth from white inflows that are 90% or more white. These are often exurban counties bordering a large metro area, precisely the people that the corporate media target when it comes to racial fearmongering.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:49
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Maine is the most rural state with Alaska being next. Alabama and Mississppi are actually very urban. The last time most Americans lived on farms and tiny towns was in 1860. Expeditions and F-150 4x4's litter driveways and suburbia.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:51
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Somebody was shot in the parking garage at a suburban shopping mall here a few weeks ago, and the news described it as a robbery. I’ve heard people cite this incident and say things along the line of “one more reason this mall’s been taken over by the thugs, can’t go here anymore.” Turned out the shooter and the victim were related and had a dispute over money, but that bit of news is never going to be fed back into their mental models because it doesn’t reinforce their original assumption.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:52
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AceOfFlames posted:I've been nearly mugged 4 times in a relatively middle class neighborhood in Lisbon and I still wouldn't call it a "war zone". I just avoid going out alone at night or in isolated places. That's it. "Nearly"? Like had a weapon on you or just some dude asking you for money and chasing you a bit?
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Dec 23, 2019 23:52
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Rosalind posted:
Cool so Al Gore is off the hook.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:53
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Fragmented posted:"Nearly"? Like had a weapon on you or just some dude asking you for money and chasing you a bit? Oh god no, not this again with AoF. Please do not.
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Dec 23, 2019 23:57
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Aceofflames is a known entity in the climate change threads where he's posted that exact story verbatim regarding his fear of other people. Please don't humor him.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:04
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I live in a neighborhood that is technically on the south side of Chicago (in that it is geographically south of downtown). In the four years I've lived here, I've never been the victim of crime, and have only very rarely felt less than totally safe. Regardless, every time I talk to my grandma, she informs me that I'm desperately unsafe and need to relocate asap. It's honestly hosed up how divorced from reality these people have become. mdemone posted:Oh god no, not this again with AoF. Please do not.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:12
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I’m pretty sure all the cop shows on basic cable don’t help, where the murder rate in those shows must be comically high and every day is a war zone.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:23
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Just moved and a neighbor has their wifi named "Fios-Maga". Can't wait to see the rage when "Fios-AntifaHQ" pops up on their devices.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:32
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Psikotik posted:Just moved and a neighbor has their wifi named "Fios-Maga". Can't wait to see the rage when "Fios-AntifaHQ" pops up on their devices. Just name your wifi Donald Trump was impeached.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:35
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Rosalind posted:Most of the time I don't even respond to what he's saying. I just say "I had a lot of respect for you as my father growing up so it hurts to hear you saying such things" but he just ignores that and keeps going. I did a version of this to my mom and she had the most insane (don't probe me PPJ) loving meltdown My grandparents were Chinese who immigrated to the Philippines and while she wasn't full on Catholic she was heavily influenced by it growing up. She eventually left, came to the states and lost touch with religion because she just didn't have time to devote to it on account of having to work her rear end off to get by. I had really fond memories of her growing up; she was incredibly loving and genuinely one of the nicest people I knew. As she's approaching retirement her work started winding down. She decided to use her free time to reconnect with religion; she started attending church, joined bible studies, made new friends. She never, ever used to talk to about politics outside of poo poo that had a clear, direct impact on her (like unions, etc) and within less than a year she was addicted to youtube videos ranting about AOC, Soros and the immigrant horde. One night I caught her on a phone call with one of her nazi friends laughing and gloating about toddlers being gassed at the border during the caravan hysteria. "They're violent criminals!" So I pulled her aside one day and told her she is no longer the person who raised me. She has become a fascist lunatic who betrays everything I was taught while growing up. She fuckin went nuts and this is 100% true yelled "YOU THINK I'M A BAD PERSON THEN?! I'M THE DEVIL?! YOU THINK I'M THE DEVIL?! FINE, I'LL BE THE DEVIL! I'M THE DEVIL! I'M THE DEVIL!"
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Dec 24, 2019 00:45
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Psikotik posted:Just moved and a neighbor has their wifi named "Fios-Maga". Can't wait to see the rage when "Fios-AntifaHQ" pops up on their devices. "Antifa-virus", and set up a phone virus removal business.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:47
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Solaris 2.0 posted:In a decade both Fox News and the GOP will be irrelevant as their base of scared old white people die off, but because they have such a titanic grip on their base, they will continue to do as much damage (and grifting) as they can. The GOP may (may) be hosed once the Boomers are gone but Fox News will smoothly transition to whatever scaremongering works on GenX
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Dec 24, 2019 00:47
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FuturePastNow posted:The GOP may (may) be hosed once the Boomers are gone but Fox News will smoothly transition to whatever scaremongering works on GenX Probably just constantly reminding us that the 80s weren't 20 years ago. Although the older xers are basically boomers whole us younger ones share more in common with the millennials.
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Dec 24, 2019 00:55
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Nonsense posted:Maine is the most rural state with Alaska being next. Alabama and Mississppi are actually very urban. The last time most Americans lived on farms and tiny towns was in 1860. Expeditions and F-150 4x4's litter driveways and suburbia. Bwuh? Quora posted:The states with the largest proportion of their population living in rural areas are 1. Maine (61.34%), 2. Vermont (61.1%), 3. West Virginia (51.28%), 4. Mississippi (50.65%), 6. Montana (44.11%), 7. Arkansas (43.84%), 8. South Dakota (43.35%), 9. Kentucky (41.62%), and 10. Alabama (40.96%). What are you talking about here? I just drove an hour and a half past tiny towns in Mississippi to get to my hometown from the nearest major airport. How do you come to the conclusion Mississippi and Alabama are "very urban"?
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Dec 24, 2019 00:56
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LtStorm posted:Bwuh? Considering Wyoming and Alaska aren't in the top ten, I'm not sure your list illustrates "most rural." The proportion living in cities doesn't illustrate the "ruralness" I think
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Dec 24, 2019 01:02
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LtStorm posted:Bwuh? Yeah that I pulled from my rear end and my justification is dumb. They're rural states, just not as rural as Maine, so yeah not good reason to say they're "very urban"
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Dec 24, 2019 01:03
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Psikotik posted:Just moved and a neighbor has their wifi named "Fios-Maga". Can't wait to see the rage when "Fios-AntifaHQ" pops up on their devices. "Deep_State_HQ-GSoros" might also be fun. See how long until the son of a bitch tries to burn your house down.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:04
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Nonsense posted:Yeah that I pulled from my rear end and my justification is dumb. They're rural states, just not as rural as Maine, so yeah not good reason to say they're "very urban" Mississippi and Alabama both have pretty densely populated urban areas though (Alabama moreso) so I don't think you're totally wrong
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Dec 24, 2019 01:05
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oxsnard posted:Considering Wyoming and Alaska aren't in the top ten, I'm not sure your list illustrates "most rural." The proportion living in cities doesn't illustrate the "ruralness" I think You have to be careful with designations, there's such a thing as "Frontier" which is even more rural and I dunno if that's part of those numbers or not.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:06
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VH4Ever posted:See I would just stop spending time around a person like that no matter who they were. Life's too goddamn short. Unless these folks see consequences for falling into this stuff it'll never get better. agreed, posts from chuds realizing they are alone on thankgiving/christmas because of their own chuddiness are good. There's even a thread for it. Don't feel bad for excising them from family gatherings, especially if they can't even have the self-awareness to keep it under control for a few days when everyone gets together. My dad watches fox news (not sure how far down the rabbit hole he's gone) and I'm a card-carrying DSA member (which he is aware of) and we just don't talk about anything political and its been a much better past couple years. I've kept comments to myself and I'm sure he has as well, though after they left SoCal for Tennessee I did make a "talk about your all-time participation trophies" joke when we were in a restaurant and a dude with a big confederate flag flying from the bed of his pickup truck drove past. Helps that my sister and I each have had kids recently to keep the conversation and attention on them and I'm pretty sure my mother has banned the tv being on 24/7 when we're at the house. Scott Forstall fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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Dec 24, 2019 01:11
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Yeah, Alaska's ruralness (millions of square miles with literally nothing in them and like two cities where everyone lives because venturing outside them means you're trapping bears all winter) versus Maine's (relatively small area with just lots of little towns and no cities to speak of) is gonna really gently caress those statistics. Still I am routinely blown away by just how empty Maine is. Just endless tree-covered mountains full of nothing. And then the instant you cross the border into Canada it's wall-to-wall farmland
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Dec 24, 2019 01:13
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Man I feel really bad for goons that have family members that talk politics during the holidays. My family is basically nothing but socialists but even we don't talk politics and it gets shutdown fast if the topic ever comes up. I can't imagine having hardcore chuds for family members. I love my family members so much I don't know how I'd be able to excise them if they were spouting Fox news garbage. Good luck goons.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:16
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My coworker who opined that the entire impeachment process, Mueller Report, Steele Dossier, etc etc, were all the works of treasonous Democrats is 46 years old. Thinking that fascism is a generational issue and not a societal one, that 'Death will fix our problems when the olds die', feels extremely naive.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:25
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I had a mental hospital stay last year and as part of my release I had to do this outpatient therapy group; there was this older guy in our group, probably mid 60s. He was on tons of welfare programs but had basically gone full Trump after swallowing Fox News for probably decades. His only daughter told him not to come back ever again after a "political disagreement" at Thanksgiving. He took responsibility for other bad things in his life, like addiction, but absolutely refused to admit that his ranting about Fox News conspiracy theories could be an unwise practice. He traded his family for Trump. I just couldn't believe it
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Dec 24, 2019 01:26
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Scott Forstall posted:agreed, posts from chuds realizing they are alone on thankgiving/christmas because of their own chuddiness are good. There's even a thread for it. Right. And just so folks don't think I'm issuing advice I won't take myself, this Christmas I'll be flying home and I WON'T be seeing the chuddiest of my extended family members because they were such a big rear end in a top hat this year, they've gotten themselves banned from the festivities at my and my sister's insistence. So that's one less rear end in a top hat to worry about.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:29
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Is there a thread somewhere for sad chuds? That might bring some holiday cheer
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Dec 24, 2019 01:30
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r/the_donald had some good ones during thanksgiving
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Assuming trump loses the election and dems keep the house, can anything really be accomplished without also taking the senate? I mean anything, even confirming judges at the bare minimum. What will happen at the point Mitch just disallows any senate votes on anything remotely progressive?Scott Forstall posted:agreed, posts from chuds realizing they are alone on thankgiving/christmas because of their own chuddiness are good. There's even a thread for it.
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