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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

I don't guzzle Fox News and OAN 24/7, but I ALSO don't guzzle MSNBC 24/7.  In fact, I purposefully maintain some people in my social media feed, and read news aggregators, that include MAGA thinking/reporting, because it's important to at the very least "know what the other side is thinking."

Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?

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6 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I hate to break it to “Hispanics” but white trumpers don’t view you as peers.  You’re lumped in with the blacks and orentals

Not the preferred nomanclature dude.   Asian-American please

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?

Yes.

Wait....just 90%?  You sonofa.....

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Posted
6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

...yes....but also no, because of a couple of key differences.

(1) Once the Irish "integrated" into American society, it was pretty much a done-deal.  There was no REsurgence in anti-Irish sentiment.  Once the initial hatred subsided, it wasn't really a factor any longer.  Hispanics, on the other hand, are finding themselves back in the Juan Crow barrel in full.  We are public enemy #1, with the president and his admin literally saying it's okay to hunt them down in the streets based solely on their ethnicity (see Tom Homan's open admission of that fact).

(2) The phenomenon of (1) may be in large part because of skin color.  The majority of hispanics...look hispanic.  Just like the majority of Irish look like....regular white folk (they ain't all redheaded leprechauns, very few are, actually).  It's easy to treat Irish like "real Americans," because they look like what a "real American" should look like.  Brown-skinned hispanics, on the other hand....well, they's different, ya know?  Sure, some of them can pass as white (yours truly included -- which has given me an interesting perspective, as I've been in rooms where people didn't realize I'm hispanic, and have said some truly loathsome shit), but most of them appear hispanic on immediate visual inspection.

Humans love to sort other humans that way.  Black people are ALWAYS going to be behind that 8-ball here.  And so are hispanics.  The fact that a shitload of us are too hopeful/dumb to realize that is its own tragedy.  MAGA America actually hates us, for what we are -- or rather, for what we aren't: good, white, pureblood "real Americans."  Our presence here is "poisoning the blood of our country" (their godking's exact words).

Should hispanic voters think of Dems as their friends?  Maybe, maybe not.  Should they think of MAGAs (which is the entire GQP now) as their mortal enemies?  Fuck yes they should.  They are never, ever, ever going to think of us as real Americans.  We are the enemy to them, even if they treat us momentarily as an ally of convenience.

I still hate the Irish. 

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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

But have they? That’s what I meant about a feedback loop. When a person are so blinkered by their community they don’t  know basic facts we all take for granted, and at the same time progressives have withdrawn from their geographic and online spaces, can we really say they made a choice? 
 

If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?

 

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6 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

I wish I could say the same thing.  My dad has gone from a never Trumper in 2020 to a full blown supporter. In the last few weeks he has told me that he thinks Trump is a good man, that tariffs are a good thing for the economy and that gas in CA is $8/gallon because Newsome shut down the refineries. They believe so many things that are objectively false and easily disprovable with 2 min of Google searches.  But he sits at home, mainlining Fox News all day long and believes them over anything else.

Had dinner with him 2 nights ago because my youngest is going off to college.  It was such a strained conversation because all he wants to talk about is his dumb Fox News shit but he knows that I won't abide that. So we had several long, awkward silences as I tried to think of safe topics to discuss. And even then, he tried to slip some bullshit into the conversation a couple of times but stopped when it was immediately refuted.

I want the man who raised me back and I know he's gone forever.  He's 85 and has been fully consumed by the right wing propaganda machine.

Parental lock out FoxNews, Fox Business, and any other right wing propagandist channels from his TV.  Also disable his internet or at least block social media and fringe sites with settings for a 5yr old.  When he complains tell him, you were trying to change some settings and must of messed something up but will come by to fix it in a few days.  Then keep coming up with excuses why you can’t come over that day.  Rinse and repeat for 2-3 weeks and you will slowly start to see  your dad back.

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5 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?

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