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30 May 2017, 10:38 pm

lol @ stinky trying to spin that statement, it's making fun of the stupid old people that watch CNN

Seriously whats your real ID? Nobody just joins and starts shitposting on PPR all day, not fooling anybody.

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30 May 2017, 11:59 pm

I don't see any evidence that Jacoby's criticism of Anderson cooper was because of his sexual orientation.

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31 May 2017, 12:02 am

StinkyDog wrote:

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I know a few " rednecks" that wanted Sanders.

Sanders would have been an excellent president, and would have accomplished great things for this country. I certainly can't look down on the few "rednecks" who wanted him. At least they're not the type of "rednecks" who blame the Jews for everything.

Sanders, though, would not have persuaded the fake Christians. All Trump had to do was claim to be Christian, read a bit from "Two Corinthians", and the so-called "Bible Belt" was his for the taking.

Up until he ran this last time as a "Christian conservative," Trump was a self-proclaimed atheist. His fan club doesn't seem to recall that.

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31 May 2017, 12:10 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

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Misslizard wrote:

I know a few " rednecks" that wanted Sanders.

Up until he ran this last time as a "Christian conservative," Trump was a self-proclaimed atheist. His fan club doesn't seem to recall that.

That's what I've been saying. His campaign was mostly telling people what he thought they wanted to hear. I don't even know if he actually believes his campaign rhetoric.

The Muslim travel ban talk was a knee-jerk reaction to the Paris/San Berdoo attacks in 2015. I don't know if most of his supporters, even the redneck ones, supported it.

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31 May 2017, 12:47 am

"Rednecks" is a vague term, as well as being somewhat derogatory.
So the question is meaningless.

And the statement "most rednecks live on farms..." is factually wrong.

Only four percent of the US population still "lives on farms". Folks who live on farms are not a large voting bloc, and of the people I personally know who live on farms none resemble the stereotype "redneck".

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31 May 2017, 6:46 am

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Unfortunately, and i know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, the average American today is dumber than a stone, myself included. Instead of doing our own research and drawing out own individual conclusions, we have allowed ourselves to be force-fed intellectual pablum by the corporate news media (since print journalism is now owned by only a few major companies, and broadcast journalism by even fewer companies). It is journalism consultants now (and have done so, for the past 40 years) that feed us nothing but "happy-talk" and infotainment, because "we, the people" can't and won't face the bitter truth that is out there. In short, it's "kill the messenger" that brings us bad news.

The Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, was right when he opined "Never underestimate the intelligence of the American electorate." The intelligence of the electorate has lowered the bar so far that a basset hound would be a better choice to govern this country. For that matter, said basset hound could probably do a better job, despite being easily bribed with food.

Walt Kelly, the political commentator and cartoonist, who drew what I consider to be the precursor of Gary Trudea's Doonesbury, Pogo, probably said it best: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

Ordinary people aren't stupid. They've just been fed lies upon lies.
We just need to focus on left-leaning populism. Let's take harsh truths and sell them to the poor as best we can.

If we say "People are just daft." then we are just surrendering.

I think it is a mixture of laziness and stupidity, the first leading to the second. "Ordinary people aren't stupid. They've just been fed lies upon lies." Only stupid people keep eating lies. Americans seem to have a "service" attitude to everything, expecting to be taken care of and looked out for. It doesn't work that way, you have to look out for yourself.

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31 May 2017, 8:16 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

StinkyDog wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

I know a few " rednecks" that wanted Sanders.

Up until he ran this last time as a "Christian conservative," Trump was a self-proclaimed atheist. His fan club doesn't seem to recall that.

To disqualify anyone calling themselves a Christian because they used to call themselves an atheist, is rather problematic.

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31 May 2017, 8:36 am

It's possible that Trump takes positions which are expedient at the moment, rather than having a steady, personal ideology.

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31 May 2017, 9:19 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

I don't see any evidence that Jacoby's criticism of Anderson cooper was because of his sexual orientation.

It is typical for Russian internet trolls to hurl homophobic slurs. Russia is a notoriously homophobic country. Jacoby offered no critique of Mr. Cooper other than Mr. Cooper's sexuality. If this behavior is acceptable on this board, then, go ahead, call me a "fag###" and ban me now.

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31 May 2017, 9:41 am

Jacoby wrote:

Put the tin foil away and don't believe all the garbage that the nice white haired effeminate man tells you on CNN.

Anderson Cooper is gay, not effeminate.

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31 May 2017, 10:56 am

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

StinkyDog wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

I know a few " rednecks" that wanted Sanders.

Up until he ran this last time as a "Christian conservative," Trump was a self-proclaimed atheist. His fan club doesn't seem to recall that.

To disqualify anyone calling themselves a Christian because they used to call themselves an atheist, is rather problematic.

The thing is, Trump has maintained as of late that he's always been a Christian, which is hardly true. Plus, his behavior is hardly Christlike.

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31 May 2017, 11:08 am

androbot01 wrote:

Jacoby wrote:

Put the tin foil away and don't believe all the garbage that the nice white haired effeminate man tells you on CNN.

Anderson Cooper is gay, not effeminate.

He's both, not that there is anything wrong with that.

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31 May 2017, 12:18 pm

Jacoby's a guy from the United States who has beliefs which tend to veer towards the Conservative side of things.

He just believes that Russia would be a good ally in our fight against ISIS.

He believes Russia is the "lesser of two (or more) evils." That's all.

I feel like he likes Trump too much, and too unconditionally.

He's not a troll, though, just a regular guy in PPR.

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31 May 2017, 1:13 pm

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As far as I'm concerned, Putin can fight ISIS by himself. We shouldn't get involved anymore. Every time we intervene in the Middle East, we just create more Islamic extremism.

This leads to more immigration, more terrorism, more racism, more Islamophobia, more torture, more surveillance more airport security, more Zionism, more money for billionaires, and less alternative fuel sources.

Battle Plan: We need to end corporate lobbying. The Republican Party and then Democratic Party are both war parties because of lobbying. We need grassroots action. We need to put these parties back under populist control.

After that, we can pull out of the Middle East and let the almighty Putinator tackle the DAESHbags by himself. If he thinks he is so tough, then he should fight Islamic extremism by himself and he should stop influencing our elections.

Hopefully, the next 9/11 will be against Russia. They deserve it. The Russians elected a dictator and now they deserve an attack comparable to 9/11.

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31 May 2017, 1:15 pm

/\Nobody deserves that.

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31 May 2017, 4:54 pm

Alright, I'm sorry if I misrepresented "rednecks" a bit. Is "redneck" a slur? What do they prefer to be called?

Anyways, I know that there are a lot of poor whiter folks in America who have been brainwashed by bourgeoisie propaganda. They have lost their sense of class consciousness, so they focus on race instead. They seriously believe that white culture is under attack because they don't know what the demographic transition is. They also don't know why all of these Mexican/Muslim immigrants are coming in. HINT: Big business is responsible.

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