About a quarter of them. Mostly middle to upper class, too; it wasn’t a ravening horde of redneck plebs.
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The smart money always goes for the win/win bets.
Betcha there’s plenty of money to be made right now in shorting anything reliant on global peace and stability.
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“We’ve done it with Iran back awhile ago."
When did we do it with Iran?
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Just like Germany, most areas do not have such problems. I know nothing of Rochester. I am sorry to hear that you are having to deal with that.
What is wrong with my avatar now?
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What is wrong with my avatar now?[/quote]
As far as I am aware, there is nothing wrong with your avatar now.
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Zoroastrians aren’t monotheists, they’re monolatrous dualists.
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all those things you so casually dismiss – boycotts, critical mass, twitter activism, street protests – are exactly what’s needed for “real” action to work.
to use your example, if trucks from ice show up to start shipping your neighbors to detention: whom exactly are you going to call? the police!?
people are not going to spontaneously self-organize. they are going to call upon the trusted networks they built during smaller actions.
we all hope that – when things are so stark – we can be trusted to do the right thing. but, that belies the mechanics of how the world works: you have to hear about what’s happening in your town, you have to know where to go, you have to learn how to act within crowds so you’re not a danger to yourself or others, know how to deal with pepper spray, and maybe it can’t hurt to know what a mic check is.
it’s not only unlikely that some group of great leaders ( as opposed to the people you call clowns ) are going to show up and save the day – leading the perfect action at just the right moment – it’s also the over reliance on that sort of hope which gets societies into trouble in the first place.
life is messy. and so is protest. it doesn’t have to be perfect to work. consider it practice.
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You’re very quick to apologize to individuals but have no problem making broad insults against groups and you apparently have no problem with women’s rights being under attack–at least you consider it more acceptable than vague concerns about “corruption”.
Curious, isn’t it?
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We’ll probably see more meetings like this before he takes office. Trump is all about loopholes, dishonesty, and unfair advantages.
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That’s the alt-right for you.
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I can’t believe the analyses of the exit polls didn’t break down the income by race. White people with no college education overwhelmingly voted for Trump:
Unless there is a large voting population of white people with a high income but no college education, “redneck plebs” did form a large part of his support base. It looks to me like lower income people voting for Clinton is more a sign of racial inequality than white support.
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Trump’s gaff appears to have a lot of water damage. hashtag incontinentpresident
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Aaaaaaand this morning, we have a new shitheel in the trump admin to contemplate: Jeff “Stand Back, Darkie” Sessions as Attorney General.
Goodbye VRA, goodbye civil rights unit in the DOJ, goodbye any concern about cops murdering PoC in the streets.
Fucking godamn ghost stories, I guess, godamnit.
Old but true Wonkette story about this shitbag:
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As are most Christians I know of, after a fashion! But that is somewhat beside the point.
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I thought that as well, and the statement struck me like many of trump’s own statements–fake it until someone questions you, and then obfuscate. Throw in all the worst words you can dream up and let them slide into the viewer’s consciousness, rightly or wrongly.
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to use your example, if trucks from ice show up to start shipping your neighbors to detention: whom exactly are you going to call? the police!?[/quote]
You’re not going to call the cops. You’re going to stand in front of the ICE truck and not let it leave with people you’ve waved to every morning when they take the kids to school. You’re going call for your other neighbours to join you (some will). You’re going to ask someone to call a lawyer on behalf of the deportees. You’re going to ask someone to call the local TV news station. You’re going to ask someone to document the incident on video. The police will also be along soon enough, called by ICE to arrest you (at least you’ll get due process – for now).
That’s a bit more effective than taking a photo of your neighbours being hauled away and posting it on your Instagram with frownie emojis (which, shamefully, will be some peoples’ first impulse).
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Oh, look, he’s chosen a Teabagger Rep. obsessed with Benghazi as CIA director. So much for those “ghost stories” about his using the Presidency to settle scores and continue to divide the country along partisan lines.
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I’m monolatrous intolerant.
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I don’t remember a lot of the specifics, and while I was never worried about the fringe BS, I recall the general worry about raising of taxes/larger government, the fucking up of the health care system, etc.
The one specific thing a lot of people were worried about was trying to reinstate the assault weapon ban which had just sunset 4 years earlier. This was a law that was passed once (very poorly constructed) and there was talk of the time of trying to pass a “better one”.
