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Milo and POTUS posted:But the alternative is to admit it's an american problem and the rest of the country doesn't seem ready to admit that yet It's absolutely not just a southern problem. Born and raised in Pennsylvania. The running joke that's not really a joke is "Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Pennsyltucky in between." Ya know all those think pieces about absolutely run-down, decaying, poo poo hole towns that were left over from industrial revolution days and have absolutely no reason to exist anymore? One of those towns is where my family comes from and until you live there no description will do it justice. They're just so jaw-droppingly ignorant they don't even see themselves as racist. They're just "telling it like it is" about all the non-white people they see when it's time to make a shopping trip in to the 'big city' but that have never been in their sundown town.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I don't understand any of that. "Hey everybody, it looks like the government decided to stop doing its loving job over here, anybody want to come and pinch hit for these assholes?"
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Brute Squad posted:in other current events, Ethan Hawke is making a John Brown miniseries. This looks pretty good. Hopefully it is.
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Brute Squad posted:in other current events, Ethan Hawke is making a John Brown miniseries. Oh gently caress yes
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Ah cool, Ethan Hawke is a good call for that role imo. Should be fun. e: Proud Christian Mom posted:We should stop pretending this is a southern problem This tbh. It's a little more open, a little bigger in general but after growing up in Louisiana and then OK and TX then moving to MA and now living in RI... it's lovely everywhere. There's probably more people I've met in New England who are a little more vocal against racism than down south where it's more quiet disapproval / acceptance of it. But, it's also more... flagrant? for lack of a better word. I've seen more rebel flags in 3 years in RI than I did in 5 years in Austin. About 1/5 to 1/4 of the white people I met in Boston or in RI when I mention "I'm from Louisiana" proceed to lean in, drop their voice a couple decibels and then say something along the lines of "how did you deal with all those n*****s?" or some other use of the word. This doesn't include all the people I met / know in academia, but that's a pretty different group of people. That Works fucked around with this message at 13:21 on May 13, 2020 |
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Brute Squad posted:in other current events, Ethan Hawke is making a John Brown miniseries. Did they blow up Groverhaus at the end of that trailer?
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That Works posted:This tbh. It's a little more open, a little bigger in general but after growing up in Louisiana and then OK and TX then moving to MA and now living in RI... it's lovely everywhere. There's probably more people I've met in New England who are a little more vocal against racism than down south where it's more quiet disapproval / acceptance of it. But, it's also more... flagrant? for lack of a better word. I've seen more rebel flags in 3 years in RI than I did in 5 years in Austin. Grew up in RI, SE Mass. This tracks. I also lived for years in the suburbs or what counts for "remote" in RI before eventually moving into one of the cities that everyone in the burbs/remote areas always talked about as being scary and bad. I'm sure you can guess why. Spoiler, it was not scary and bad if you're not a racist. I fit in more there than I did anywhere else. Hard to explain but I think just about everyone being poor had something to do with it. Also, let me guess...you saw the flags in either Foster/Glocester, North Smithfield or West Warwick?
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Jeopardy GOAT was the best part of 2020. Everything has been downhill since then.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Grew up in RI, SE Mass. This tracks. Hahah did you live like outside of Cranston or something? I still don't know all the neighborhoods etc. Growing up in a town with only like 30% white people has made me immune to getting freaked out when I go through "black" parts of wherever. Flags were in West Warwick and Exeter / Coventry areas. I live squarely in the middle of Richmond now which is strangely Trump country all of a sudden. However at 40 I am the youngest person in town it seems. e: otherwise Richmond owns though. I have a legit river in my backyard that I catch trout in and woods all around my house that just have shitloads of turkey and just about every species of bird in new england. Spent the past few weeks watching a pair of wood ducks move in at the back of our property. All of that and I can still be at work in 12 mins (when that was a thing).
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That Works posted:Hahah did you live like outside of Cranston or something? I still don't know all the neighborhoods etc. Growing up in a town with only like 30% white people has made me immune to getting freaked out when I go through "black" parts of wherever. Sounds about right. I grew up in the northern part of the state/Southern Mass (Woonsocket/146 area), but that state is incredibly small and insular at times. Like my family moved down from Canada for my dads job, and you could tell my parents never really fit in or got on with most of the people they met there unless they were also from out of state. Also the concept of driving more than 20 minutes to go anywhere is mind blowing concept to most people there. Remember the Station Nightclub fire? I'm not exaggerating when I say just about everyone in that state knew someone who was there or who died that night. It was insane. The Trumpiest people in that State def. live in Washington County though and Cranston may as well be a suburb of New Jersey with the white flight and all. Richmond's nice (I think Yawgoog is there? I went a bunch when I was a kid.) from what I remember of it, and if you're teaching where I think you are, that's a pretty solid commute. There are def. some parts of that state I miss but there's a reason I got the gently caress outta dodge from there as soon as I finished college. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 14:16 on May 13, 2020 |
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I’m in WA, one of my roommates in 2010 was from rural Oregon. When I tried to fill out the census I got a lecture about the Rothsteins controlling the world.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:we have so many gippers from ct/ma/ny/ri Well we are more of a left leaning vet forum so it makes sense
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Flikken posted:Well we are more of a left leaning vet forum so it makes sense That’s why we are all betas https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1257350818174578689?s=21
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:we have so many gippers from ct/ma/ny/ri And all the rest of us are from Minnesota, which is weirder.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Sounds about right. I grew up in the northern part of the state/Southern Mass (Woonsocket/146 area), but that state is incredibly small and insular at times. Like my family moved down from Canada for my dads job, and you could tell my parents never really fit in or got on with most of the people they met there unless they were also from out of state. Also the concept of driving more than 20 minutes to go anywhere is mind blowing concept to most people there. Remember the Station Nightclub fire? I'm not exaggerating when I say just about everyone in that state knew someone who was there or who died that night. It was insane. I feel you on the 20 mins thing. I was telling a coworker about driving to NYC for the weekend and they looked at me like I had booked a trip to the Australian outback. Yeah Yawgoo valley is right up the road from my house, about 5 mi away. And yep you can probably guess where I work with all that (no giant secret really). I love the commute and the Amtrak station is right there too so I can be in Boston in 40 mins or in NYC in a couple hours. Good poo poo. I would have haaaaated to live here as a single person in my 20-30s but being married and stable this is a pretty rad spot for us now. poo poo is super cheap (compared to most of NE) and it's very quiet and chill. Good place to ride out a disaster for sure. My brother in law and his husband came out on St. Patricks day from Brooklyn and have been living with us since then (because a giant house out in the woods here costs like.... $330k). They are packing up and heading back to NYC tomorrow morning though. Gonna be boring with just my wife and I here I think. I dig RI a lot though overall for this point in my life.
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You can tell if someone has ever lived in a metropolitan area by their reaction to a 20 minute drive. I mean gently caress I used to drive 20 minutes just to get a really good burger in DFW.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Did they blow up Groverhaus at the end of that trailer? I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that siding!
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I grew up in Sacramento, moved to the Bay, then Hawaii, then the Bay and now in Ventura County. Where the gently caress do you go besides the grocery store that ISN'T 20 minutes? And I have to do that if I want to go to Trader Joe's.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:You can tell if someone has ever lived in a metropolitan area by their reaction to a 20 minute drive. I mean gently caress I used to drive 20 minutes just to get a really good burger in DFW. It's weird how related rural and urban driving are. "I want a burger"- 20 minutes stop and go to go five miles and cross a bridge; Urban "I want a burger"- 20 minutes at 75 on a rural route to go 35 miles for a Mcdouble; Rural
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DC’s traffic problems can be summarized by assuming that someone with Trump’s intelligence and forward thinking ability designed the roadways. Six lanes merging down to two lanes so those two lanes can merge with another six lane, all in half a mile, every two miles. I have heard DC doesn’t have it the worst but it’s really hard for me to imagine a more poorly designed highway system than the capital beltway and all the poo poo connected to it.
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DC has the worse road planning but not the shittiest drivers. I’m looking at you North Carolina.
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That’s fair, but have you ever been to Miami? What would be criminally aggressive driving in NC isn’t even background noise down there.
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Brute Squad posted:in other current events, Ethan Hawke is making a John Brown miniseries. Oh nice! First Reformed was one of my favorite recent movies. How the heck Green Book won best screenplay and Hawke wasn't even nominated for Best Actor was baffling.
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This looks fun, but at the same time I'm thinking it's propaganda for Trump's new branch. "Sure it's a waste of money, but really, it has heart and is a good thing." It's insidious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdpYpulGCKc
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That Works posted:I would have haaaaated to live here as a single person in my 20-30s but being married and stable this is a pretty rad spot for us now. Oh yeah that is one of the bigger reasons why I got out of there after college. I could easily see myself living in parts of New England again now that I'm married and do not give a gently caress about dating and poo poo. PeterCat posted:This looks fun, but at the same time I'm thinking it's propaganda for Trump's new branch. "Sure it's a waste of money, but really, it has heart and is a good thing." It's insidious I highly doubt Greg Daniels and Steve Carrel would willingly make propaganda for Trump's space force. It's satire, lighten up Francis. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 16:01 on May 13, 2020 |
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PeterCat posted:This looks fun, but at the same time I'm thinking it's propaganda for Trump's new branch. "Sure it's a waste of money, but really, it has heart and is a good thing." It's insidious Seems like derisive satire to me? Solid list of comedy folks in it too. I'd definitely check it out just on the cast alone.
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LingcodKilla posted:DC has the worse road planning but not the shittiest drivers. I've driven all over this country and the worst drivers I've ever seen are Rhode Island drivers by a country mile.
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 that Patrick Warburton, Diedrich Bader, and Jane Lynch are joint chiefs. I didn't recognize the blonde guy offhand.
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ManMythLegend posted:I've driven all over this country and the worst drivers I've ever seen are Rhode Island drivers by a country mile. YEP. Then I moved to the DC Area. Maryland drivers have them beat.
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https://twitter.com/byheatherlong/status/1260556783787089920?s=21 Things status: bad I don't think our elites are remotely comprehending the situation we're in, because the equity markets aren't bad and that alone is "the economy" for the media and politicians.
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Handsome Ralph posted:YEP. I've lived in the Maryland/DC area for the last 2 and a half years and I'm going to have to disagree. Sure, the MD/DC crowd are aggressive assholes on the road but they at least know the basic mechanics of how to drive a car properly. The same cannot be said of Rhode Islanders. They are absolute clown shows. ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 16:19 on May 13, 2020 |
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ManMythLegend posted:I've lived in the Maryland/DC area for the last 2 and a half years and I'm going to have to disagree. The diplomat plate drivers adds special flavor to DC. Saw some dude smash his rims of his super car going over a roundabout to make an illegal turn.
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ManMythLegend posted:I've lived in the Maryland/DC area for the last 2 and a half years and I'm going to have to disagree. Actually now you're giving me flashbacks of having to deal with dipshits in RI not understanding how merges work.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Atlanta drivers would like a word. So would Chicago
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Atlanta drivers would like a word. As an Atlanta driver, I would just like to say you'd be a bit aggressive if your road system was designed to get trucks in/around/through the city and not actually get commuters where jobs are.
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