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In reply to the discussion: fwiw: "You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri..." [View all]
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fwiw: "You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri..." [View all]
steve2470
Aug 2020
OP
weak means uncertain to them. authoritarianism is measured with the Uncertainty Avoidance Index
certainot
Aug 2020
#58
Next weekend we're about to go visit my inlaws who live @the foothills of the Ozarks
onetexan
Aug 2020
#92
It's the opposite of looking up and down. Down up, up down, in out, here there.
panader0
Aug 2020
#8
LOL - that's what I thought. Its a typo. They don't like being looked down UPON. n/t
Peregrine Took
Aug 2020
#53
I think the target for the rant are people like those who write for the NY times editorial pages
Blecht
Aug 2020
#44
I still find it madly confounding as its antithetical to everything I was taught and beileve in.
Peregrine Took
Aug 2020
#59
That's what is killing our democracy; hate radio, conspiracy tv.Fox, OANN, and Limbaugh.
BComplex
Aug 2020
#33
Bingo! The sooner Limpbiscuit is deepsixed by his cancer the better. One less RW foulmouth
onetexan
Aug 2020
#98
No kidding. I was taking a tour of the website of the local paper where I grew up in the Bible Belt.
Girard442
Aug 2020
#51
They won't mind giving up their Social Security checks, food stamps, clean air & water, NOAA, FDIC,
dmr
Aug 2020
#16
I hope we are not going back to the endless shrill cries of, "You just don't understand the Trump
Squinch
Aug 2020
#18
Unfortunately, this thread has been pretty enlightening. I wish there was no market for
BComplex
Aug 2020
#40
Biden wants to peel off some of these vile knuckleheads to vote for him...is it possible?
Peregrine Took
Aug 2020
#62
What a load. They've just been brainwashed by decades of rural right wing AM hate radio to think
catbyte
Aug 2020
#46
Tens of millions of Americans have a huge wellspring of hatred deep in their souls.
patphil
Aug 2020
#52
Yes, exactly. They resent us trying to lift others up because they feel it will only make them
smirkymonkey
Aug 2020
#88
That is a long FB post to say.. they must hate because they are weak due to their own insecurities.
chowder66
Aug 2020
#61
I want to add that if this is about status, being looked down upon then maybe they should stop being
chowder66
Aug 2020
#67
Agree but they do not have good support systems. Those systems are underhandedly
chowder66
Aug 2020
#82
I've been saying similar for a LONG time. Its not racism. It really is "I hate liberals"
oldsoftie
Aug 2020
#66
trump was on TEEVEE! he's famous! he's rich. media brainwashing since ronny raygun. then fux gnewz.
pansypoo53219
Aug 2020
#71
Who is Tom Nichols and why should we care. Like you have to live i the Ozarks to know
Kashkakat v.2.0
Aug 2020
#77