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fpw9 4 points ago +4 / -0

I was a lib for decades. Always lived in the places you'd think of as the leftiest. Moved to Oregon in 2013, had a roommate that worked for state government. By 2016 was already on the way out because I was always a pro-USA lefty, and it was getting obvious that such a thing was not going to be a tenable option for much longer.

Then the hate that came out in the 1st month after the election straight-up red-pilled me. Coworkers calling me a Nazi, getting the Nazi salute in the hall, managers all talking shit about Trump all the time, open office plan where i have to hear the dumb shit CNN is running being parroted about, etc., etc., etc. And I'm in the part of Oregon that's considered "Trump Central" by people (it is 100% dem run, so that should tell you everything you need to know about this ridiculous state).

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good luck with that. Jesus Christ, that things been triggering libs since at least 1990 (myself included, many times), I don't think they're doing it by accident!

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

Holy shit, not to derail this convo, but does everyone get the same recommended tweets? Rand Paul calling Dick Cheney Darth Vader was not something I expected to see.

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fpw9 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's a billboard on private property. What justification are they trying to use to remove it? They can't even use their "free speech only applies to the government silencing you!" argument here.

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

Poll watchers? How would that have helped in the midterm elections, where they spent 2 whole days finding more and more "misplaced" ballots until the close races went their way? It will be 100 times worse with mail-in ballots.

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fpw9 5 points ago +5 / -0

China's social credit system is here, and millions of idiots opted in.

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

Why has anyone done a 180 and capitulated? Who knows what skeletons he has in the closet, or how he'll react when they threaten his loved ones?

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fpw9 4 points ago +4 / -0

Speaking of universities, Washington & Lee has a whole host of ideas for appeasing BLM, including removing images of Washington and Lee from diplomas, but I don't see anything about how they plan to change the name of the school...

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't know what's happening there, but I have to assume thumbs-up is now some kind of hate symbol.

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fpw9 1 point ago +1 / -0

Are you going to wear a mask the rest of your life? Pretty much everyone who was going to get it is still going to get it. They just aren't going to all be cramming hospitals at the same time. You remember the reason for the shutdown was "flattening the curve," right?

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

I hope you prepared them that if they DO defend themselves in Portland, the police and DA are going to throw the book at them.

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fpw9 6 points ago +6 / -0

When this 1st happened, all the news agencies were reporting this as if it were Trump supporters abusing a black man. It was all vague language about interracial violence and "referring to Donald Trump's election."

Then, in the afternoon, the police announced that hate crime charges would not be filed. Uh oh, you know what that means...

by Synsin
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fpw9 1 point ago +1 / -0

I used to know a cop who used to arrest a guy who had shot himself in the sac on two different occasions while carrying his piece tucked in the front of his pants.

I mean, even if you can forgive the 1st time, how does someone do that AGAIN?

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

King Obama makes a decree he admits is not constitutional, SCOTUS denies EO to rescind it, and repels any challenge with "sorry, you forgot to dot an i."

But yeah, maybe this time Lucy's finally going to let us kick the ball!

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fpw9 9 points ago +9 / -0

Most people don't actively follow the news. All they get are snippets of anti-Trump bullshit and wildly spun headlines. I assume that's why Rush Limbaugh started calling them the drive-by media.

Even on radio stations that run mainly conservative shows, the little "news" bits they run during commercial breaks are ridiculous lefty propaganda (looking at you, ABC News Radio).

They don't realize the dems are the way they are now, although the recent disband the police has helped with some people I know.

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fpw9 5 points ago +5 / -0

Partner with him? How are there any potential partners left? I'd nope out of there so fast it would leave flaming footprints, I've never seen someone thrown under the bus so hard. You have a family? What are they going to do when you go to prison for doing your job?

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fpw9 4 points ago +4 / -0

Holy shit, the real news here is that she actually got charged with a bias crime in Portland.

It looks like nothing came of it, though. According to the link below, she's been arrested 3 or 4 times since then -- including March after she was supposed to go to trial for this, and last month.

https://crimeinformer.com/searchPhp (search for Nimo Jire Kalinle )

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fpw9 3 points ago +4 / -1

I gotta tell ya, I haven't run into one of the "good ones" since at least 2003, but I've had a lot of bullying, lying dickbags fuck with me in that same time.

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fpw9 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thank you for supporting Black Lives Matter!

(just kidding, every shoe company jumped on that)

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fpw9 1 point ago +1 / -0

Michael Moore actually tried* getting them to do that in (I think) that Capitalism movie. Rich Uncle Phil had some pretty unconvincing excuses.

  • "tried" in the sense that it was a documentary point, which probably doesn't translate to real life very well
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