OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Mark Wein said:
Wow.
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Tell me about it, they had a rally against it downtown that my aunt attended and he jumped all over her case saying they were squashing his first amendment rights. Not like all those people had their right to protest or anything...

This is truly sad from a man I truly admired that once had empathy at least, though he was always somewhat racist he wouldn't have stood up for that.
 
Knox in Box said:
I refuse to speak politics with my father since he told me in no uncertain terms that I had no right to express negativity about Trump, nor should I have a vote in elections since I live in Germany. He also defended this guy in my home town that drive around like this:

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Yes, that's a black mannequin on a noose with the sign"in loving memory of James Earl Ray" on the truck.

He defends that as his "first amendment right" but thinks Colin Kaepernik (spl?) should be arrested.

I barely call home any more due to the elephant in the room.
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f'ing pennsyltucky......i'm SO ashamed of that state and i'm from there. it's very difficult to believe great things like the declaration and the constitution were concieved and written in PeeAy. :facepalm:
 
mongooz said:
f'ing pennsyltucky......i'm SO ashamed of that state and i'm from there. it's very difficult to believe great things like the declaration and the constitution were concieved and written in PeeAy. :facepalm:
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I was very proud to come from there, I learned how to hunt, fish, skin a deer walk though the woods day or night, recognise who was up on the mountain by the sound of their gun or dirt bike, yet still lived in a city large enough to walk any streets I came around in the military with confident caution.

Now,......
 
Knox in Box said:
I was very proud to come from there, I learned how to hunt, fish, skin a deer walk though the woods day or night, recognise who was up on the mountain by the sound of their gun or dirt bike, yet still lived in a city large enough to walk any streets I came around in the military with confident caution.

Now,......
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yea.....i DO NOT remember Pa being such a f'ing redneck racist shit hole. the land is great.....the people, not so much. what the hell happened?
i used to belong to a hunting/fishing camp up in the A.N.F. and i don't remember today's kind of hatefulness.
 
Knox in Box said:
I refuse to speak politics with my father since he told me in no uncertain terms that I had no right to express negativity about Trump, nor should I have a vote in elections since I live in Germany. He also defended this guy in my home town that drive around like this:

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Yes, that's a black mannequin on a noose with the sign"in loving memory of James Earl Ray" on the truck.

He defends that as his "first amendment right" but thinks Colin Kaepernik (spl?) should be arrested.

I barely call home any more due to the elephant in the room.
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Mojo sent.
 
Knox in Box said:
Long-time unemployment starting under Reagan that somehow got twisted to be the fault of the liberals. Oh, and social media.

Lots of unemployed steel/coal workers spending to much time watching infowars.
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Nah, it's always been there....and it's always been in every state I've spent time in. Unless the display of racism or bigotry involves actual violence, it's just really easy to write it off as someone being a crackpot nut job.
I'm not suggesting that the majority of residents of pensyltucky, or even the urban or suburban areas of the state, are racists but there has never been a shortage of it. Different events or soc/econ conditions bring it out into increased visibility is all
 
Lerxst said:
Nah, it's always been there....and it's always been in every state I've spent time in. Unless the display of racism or bigotry involves actual violence, it's just really easy to write it off as someone being a crackpot nut job.
I'm not suggesting that the majority of residents of pensyltucky, or even the urban or suburban areas of the state, are racists but there has never been a shortage of it. Different events or soc/econ conditions bring it out into increased visibility is all
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Didn't say that, where I grew up was full of racists. My mother was Mexican and moved there from NM, so she was racially tolerant and I learned from her from an early age to not take any prejudices as fact and give folks the benefit of the doubt. At least the people showed the common decency to live and let live on a daily basis however.
 
Knox in Box said:
Didn't say that, where I grew up was full of racists. My mother was Mexican and moved there from NM, so she was racially tolerant and I learned from her from an early age to not take any prejudices as fact and give folks the benefit of the doubt. At least the people showed the common decency to live and let live on a daily basis however.
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It was really a response to the dialogue between you and gooz with out quoting the whole thing
 
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