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tech3149

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2. OK so you are willing to abandon anyone that doesn't agree?
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 04:55 PM
Sep 2017

No offense, but DON'T BE STUPID! I moved back to the county I grew up in in 2002. This was a county adjacent to a moderately big city and major media hub. It was also a center of union activism from the start of the 1900's.

It was a bit of culture shock to see how far to the right the opinions and worldview had changed after being away for 16 years. But these are still my neighbors and sometimes friends. I will never cast them aside because they bought the hogsnot being sold by the only easily available media. I know they are being sold a shit sandwich because I got woke and have the time to find more independent sources that will actually dig down into facts and history.

Trying to wake other people up is not as easy as tossing them aside, so what do you want to do?

I hope your awareness is more important than your sense of superiority.

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I have never seen the country so divided Golden Raisin Sep 2017 #1
I think the opposite Kaleva Sep 2017 #3
OK so you are willing to abandon anyone that doesn't agree? tech3149 Sep 2017 #2
good for you gabeana Sep 2017 #5
I fully agree, and acceptance is the word that comes to mind. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #9
so you are going to modify gabeana Sep 2017 #11
Nope - didn't say that. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #15
I respectfully disagree gabeana Sep 2017 #16
ditto nt burnbaby Sep 2017 #12
This country is too diversified to ever be united. Kaleva Sep 2017 #4
I hope I am wrong. Blue_true Sep 2017 #6
"to stuipid" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #7
hey welcome the grammar police did not know I was being gabeana Sep 2017 #10
"standing up for those that believe people and dinasaurs lived arm and arm" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #13
ok gabeana Sep 2017 #14
"lets focus on the issue" Martin Eden Sep 2017 #18
We need people like you gabeana Sep 2017 #20
Well, we can't split the country with them... oxbow Sep 2017 #8
I am with you on this one AmandaRuth Sep 2017 #17
The deplorables idea of unity maxrandb Sep 2017 #19
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