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stealie72 posted:That's basically everywhere past the last bus stop. The average person in downtown Jackson Mississippi has a more progressive mindset than the average person in Massachusetts farmland. I can believe it. Had a job in early 2021 that required me to drive around large parts of rural western Mass and there was no shortage of Trump banners and even the occasional Confederate flag.
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Yeah, my parents retired to rural Central NY and it's chuddy as gently caress. So many homemade trump signs.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:00
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I'm cool with the cities, it's specifically the people in between that are backwards and regressive. Whether it's WA, NC, FL, or TX I've yet to drive through a rural area and not see a bunch of trump bullshit. Hicks seem to embrace being regressive shitheads.
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I dread 2024, the fact that we have to fend off Trump yet AGAIN is just loving insane to me.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:09
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Mustang posted:Hicks seem to embrace being regressive shitheads.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:11
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Yeah there are tons of great people in the south and its a far cry from a "cesspit", though that lind of language has been used for generations to describe the many communities of color that exist there. America's many problems are not relegated to "the south" by any stretch of the imagination.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:12
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Definitely not talking about them. Specifically it's the small town white folks of North and South Carolina that my family has lived in for centuries. Without fail the few times I go back and visit someone I previously thought was a decent human being will say something racist or homophobic. It's like a switch was flipped in 2016 and now they get to openly say every hosed up thing that comes to mind. Personally I've given up on that part of America, I think they're a lost cause. The small towns of other parts of America don't seem much different, other than being much less religious. Just as backwards though.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:17
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Giving up on those folks is what got us in this situation and further giving up will not improve things, hth
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Dec 17, 2023 19:19
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It's a tough sell to care about people who want you dead.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:21
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Tough to feel sympathetic to folks that deny the humanity of gay and trans people, or try to sweep away the history of their black neighbors because it might make a white person uncomfortable. They're actively choosing to be like this, they're responsible for their own choices. They can choose to be better (they won't).
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Mustang posted:Tough to feel sympathetic to folks that deny the humanity of gay and trans people, or try to sweep away the history of their black neighbors because it might make a white person uncomfortable. They're actively choosing to be like this, they're responsible for their own choices. They can choose to be better (they won't).
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Kith posted:Giving up on those folks is what got us in this situation and further giving up will not improve things, hth In 2021, I was on a bike tour that went through a really wealthy part of New Jersey (still close enough to NYC to be considered part of the city's suburbs) and came across numerous huge fancy houses with huge TRUMP 2020 banners and Thin Blue Line flags. These houses had to have been worth millions, and the late-model BMWs, Suburbans and Teslas in the driveways didn't point to anyone facing "economic anxiety." At this point, if someone is still a Trump supporter, they're openly admitting that they're cool with the xenophobia, authoritarianism and violence that he's unabashedly offering. I'd rather give up on those folks then legitimize them.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:In 2021, I was on a bike tour that went through a really wealthy part of New Jersey (still close enough to NYC to be considered part of the city's suburbs) and came across numerous huge fancy houses with huge TRUMP 2020 banners and Thin Blue Line flags. These houses had to have been worth millions, and the late-model BMWs, Suburbans and Teslas in the driveways didn't point to anyone facing "economic anxiety." at this point?? it has always been the case, or did you forget how excited his base was when he used the term shithole countries?
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Even in the Trump infested wastelands of Upstate NY, I didn't hear white people casually throw around the N word like I did during my 2 days in Austin, the liberal Mecca of Texas.
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Elviscat posted:Even in the Trump infested wastelands of Upstate NY, I didn't hear white people casually throw around the N word like I did during my 2 days in Austin, the liberal Mecca of Texas. Austin oddly might vote higher split dem vs GOP, but it always feels more conservative than El Paso, just based on how many moderate dems and conservative white (caucasian) transplants are in Austin.
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cool cool thanks for telling the 40% of us that have to live here and aren't regressive shitheads that we're a write off
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Dec 17, 2023 19:53
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Currently visiting my folks who retired to coastal NC and can confirm this state is a cesspit full of the worst of us. Truly an abominable experience, and we're in the most progressive part. For reference I live in Kentucky for fucks sake
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shame on an IGA posted:cool cool thanks for telling the 40% of us that have to live here and aren't regressive shitheads that we're a write off True, I'll admit there's decent people in all parts of the country, but it kind of pisses people off reading about all these new laws red states are devising to target and erase some of the most marginalized groups in our society.
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My Spirit Otter posted:at this point?? it has always been the case, or did you forget how excited his base was when he used the term shithole countries? I'm willing to look slightly less askew at people who wrote off Trump's comments in 2016 as campaign bluster, voted for him, and then were horrified enough when they realized he was serious to not vote for him again in 2020.
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If you don’t like the American south you can do two things about it: Leave (  )Or Improve it (  )Either way, for fucks sake can we mention the American south and not just react like those “Mine” pelicans with cesspit and shithole? Seriously you guys look like stupid assholes, and I should know, I’m a stupid rear end in a top hat. Your hatred of the south is not a current event, either. Back to posting current events: Anyone see anything about that Synagogue President in Detroit? It (thankfully? I dunno) was just a robbery gone bad and not a hate crime, whatever we’re defining that nebulously as now. So at least it wasn’t something zany that stirs up the already heated and angry opinions some people have about Arabs, or Jews, or Muslims.
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shame on an IGA posted:cool cool thanks for telling the 40% of us that have to live here and aren't regressive shitheads that we're a write off It's in time like this you can take refuge in the passage found in the New-New Testament Book of Bigly Revelations Passage 14:88 "lol, behold" and Trump said "Kill them all, God will recognize his own losers"". Dont worry we all lose if Trump takes the helm again.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Improve it ( Northerners already tried this once
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shame on an IGA posted:cool cool thanks for telling the 40% of us that have to live here and aren't regressive shitheads that we're a write off What's the difference between the South and Syria? People don't feel they have to live in Syria
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:If you don’t like the American south you can do two things about it: Bitch lol "ugh if u don't like it y don't u do something about it" said every white guy to the minorities. gently caress outta here you can do better because I seen it.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Some more great and expected news out of the south. "school" nurses or all nurses? how would a nurse at a hospital have any idea whats on a school reg form.
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I read through the bill itself to see how lovely or overhyped it was and the quote is pretty accurate, and its a pretty bad bill. The bill prohibits/punished any "school official" from doing those things and lists teachers/nurses/social worker as examples. In additional to what was already pointed out, it also requires students only be referred to as their "correct" biological sex pronouns as "Entered at or near the time of the student's birth". The required reporting mentioned is code:
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There are cis, gender-conforming kids whose birth certificates were amended due to errors made in filling out or transcribing the document. I’ve heard of discrepancies existing when they go to get a driver’s permit. I don’t think that legislators thought this one through very well. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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That assumes they thought about it at all beyond "how can we legislate trans kids into not existing any more".
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Platystemon posted:There are cis, gender-confirming kids whose birth certificates were amended due to errors made in filling out or transcribing the document. Zamujasa posted:That assumes they thought about it at all beyond "how can we legislate trans kids into not existing any more". The only thought process was that their shitheel base hates LGBTQ+ people and they don't give a poo poo what they break proving how filled with hate they are too.
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Platystemon posted:There are cis, gender-confirming kids whose birth certificates were amended due to errors made in filling out or transcribing the document. Government being stupid, bad and a giant inconvenience to everyone is basically their whole shtick at this point though. It must be super liberating to go through life while having no scruples or conscience at all
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They don't see it that way. They see themselves as the pinnacle of morality, and any deviation from their norm is misguided at best and satanic at worst, and they're not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt.
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Missouri is the Midwest’s Mississippi. They came drat close to having a law requiring AR-15 ownership after either the pulse shooting or Vegas, or choose your least favorite mass shooting (don’t) and it probably was that one. Missouri also has legal marijuana for anyone of age. Truly a land of contrasts.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Missouri is the Midwest’s Mississippi. “Everyone must maintain an AR-15 and attend drill one weekend a month and two weeks a year” is the best way to interpret the second amendment if we’re going down the “it means an individual right to a gun” path. Then to implement gun control you just need to have PT standards!
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The one secret trick to slim down the gravy seal operators from Meal Team 6.
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government mandated pt standards would kill 3/4 of the country via calisthenics
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hobbesmaster posted:
Yeah, no honest peasent needs a crossbow or metal tipped arrows or bolts. When the landed gentry walks by you should just assume the submissive position like the goatman. Anal stretching is mandatory.
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those well regulated militia clowns wouldnt do pt, theyd sham their way into being medically excused
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Steezo posted:Yeah, no honest peasent needs a crossbow or metal tipped arrows or bolts. When the landed gentry walks by you should just assume the submissive position like the goatman. Anal stretching is mandatory. 
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Foreshadowing for February current events: Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule
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