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Picking a Fight
I’m going to pick a fight. Right here. Right now.
He doesn’t know we’re fighting. He probably won’t, because he doesn’t frequent any websites that aren’t hard left these days.
But… a friend of mine moved to a rural area that happens to be 75% Democrat (just how he likes it) and is surprised that they aren’t California-lite. In fact, some of the locals even (gasp!) open carry. He details a story about shopping in Walmart with a man just open carrying. He proceeds to go on a short little tirade about how that must be a sign of the man’s fear of impotence or size issues that he feels that he must be threatening at all times, etc, etc.
I point out that in a rural area (population <1,200 people), it’s not exactly unheard of for the people to carry openly. It might not be an inadequacy issue. Also, that he was being a bit of a jerk for presuming things when he has lived there for the full amount of one week.
His like-minded and vehemently liberal friends continue the attack with gems such as, “If he really needed a gun, he could concealed carry instead of showing it off!” and “no one needs a gun out there!”, etc, etc.
All of these points are dumb (and these are smart people; they know their points are dumb, but they also know they outnumber me by about 1,000 to 1) and support the “Don’t California My (Insert State Here)” argument. More importantly, the dumbest points are:
- It’s a sign of male insecurity.
- No one needs a gun in an extremely rural area.
- They’re in a Walmart! No one needs a gun in a Walmart (not even Walmart, because they shouldn’t sell them, either…)!
- If he really needed a gun, he didn’t have to show it off by carrying openly.
- No one needs a handgun anyway; they’re not for hunting!
And then, absolute favorite: “No one needs a gun except law enforcement.”
Ah yes. Law enforcement. You mean the ones you’re busy protesting about? About how they shoot (black) people indiscriminately and murder everyone with those guns that they (apparently) need? But no one else does?
Yeah. So I’m picking a fight. Even more importantly, if anyone would like to DM me, the small town also has an opening for two entry-level police officers. I would be more than happy to direct you to the website.
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It’s the (mis-)education system, as usual.
Good lord! I’m in CA and I don’t know many people that stupid and selfish.
Did you ever try reminding them that they probably need to eat, occasionally?
Sure, doesn’t matter. Food will always come from someplace and farmers mistreat migrants
No surprise really. They just assume food appears in stores by magic.
That is more of what it comes down to. However, with COVID, etc it has been that you are selfish and hate others if you don’t [get vaccinated/mask up/double mask/keep masking despite guidance].
You are the jerk if you dare to ask why. You are the jerk if you ask why they get to be the arbiter of my life, but I don’t get to even comment on theirs.
I find that liberals are more concerned with the morality of wealth than anything else. Estate taxes should be high, because only rich people leave their kids anything! Everyone else in Urban America rents and owns nothing but debt… so everyone else is rich. And rich is evil.
Therefore, tax the demon away!
…unless you hate people. Which you probably do because Trump.
And so, feeling fiesty, I asked him on social media what his deal was. I asked on my page (so as not to clutter his) and semi-public (it is locked down and away from his people) because I had a decent idea that he would 1) not respond privately and 2) would immediately block me.
He did not answer to anything I suggested or took anything into consideration (my post was much nicer than this one) as to why people might be jerks about him wearing a mask when restrictions were removed (etc, etc). His response was mainly, “How dare you call me out in public?!?” when he knew that our common friends would likely defend him (which they did) from mean ol’ bad me.
His response was basically that he has new family and was trying to be semi-discreet on his Social Media that they are on (which doesn’t explain his GOP-hate on there) and didn’t want to talk smack about his new town. Literally none of that answered anything I asked and all of what he suggested was not at all what I said/asked at all.
I’m not surprised. Honestly? I’m probably more disappointed in the people who “stood up for him” and suggested various things including that I didn’t know the entire situation (true, but I’m going off of the impression he chose to give to people) and that I wasn’t giving my friend the benefit of the doubt (that’s a fair criticism). One of my favorites was “who was I to comment on his life?”. Uh…someone on social media? Isn’t that how all of this works, anyway? Don’t we all comment various things on people’s lives/opinions/issues?
In sum: if you can’t say something that absolutely agrees with someone on social media, don’t say anything at all because it’s none of your business, even if they’re putting it up there on social media and you have an inkling that they might need a different perspective due to their extreme bias. It doesn’t matter if you’ve always been honest with this person, you shouldn’t say anything because… just because.
These are the new rules of social media, guys. Just FYI.
Also, those job openings are still open! Less than 1200 people? Rural, mountainous area in a low-cost state? Beautiful views!
But you’ll have to adhere to California standards: if you can’t say something insanely liberal, don’t say anything at all.
Might as well just stay in California, then.
They’re gonna bring it to you, like it or not!
Well, I was referring to someone in California. I’m not, and never have been.
Reminds me of the former co-worker who has lived in England for a decade or so. He fit the comment Churchill made in that he is like a sofa cushion and bears the imprint of the last arse that sat on him. His English wife doesn’t like America and hates Trump, so naturally he took on her attitudes. I got tired of hearing how much more “civilized” England is and how stupid Trump is and made a blunt suggestion to him. We no longer communicate.
Yeah. But it’s not as cheap. Or close to his SO’s family. Or cheap. Or pretty.
Or cheap.
Yeah. I asked a quasi-friend (bestie of my sibling) about her stuff about Trump/America. She talked about how horrible, etc it is/was. Her husband is English. And wealthy. And from a wealthy family. They regularly espouse ideas about universal income, developing a NHS here, more socialism, and on and on. She regularly talks about how much better England is at things and how things are so much worse for her kids in the US.
So I told her to go live in the UK.
Seriously.
Because if she’s a good mom, she wants her kid to have the best life. If she has the opportunity to have the *best life* in the UK (because they’re so much better), why don’t they just go already?
Her excuse? Because she “has hope” for America and it’s her home. Well, England is his home and she can vote absentee from there, so? What’s the excuse?
She never answered that.
It’s because they’re all full of crap. He wants to be here because he’s bought multiple properties and flipped them. They live on two very, very strong incomes in Sacramento. They do not want to move to the UK. They wouldn’t have cars to drive. They wouldn’t have a big house and a big yard. They wouldn’t be able to drive to the sunny beach and go hiking in the woods. They wouldn’t have Mexican food everywhere and their Vegan foods might be limited. They don’t really want to live in the UK or adhere to their social standards. They just want to say that they do.
That 60% tax rate is a killer.
People usually seem to get paid a lot more in PRC (People’s Republic of California) too, so it at least partly balances out.
They and Claire Berlinski could start a club, meeting in a phone booth.
Either they don’t know how the left feels about “the rich” – like THEM – or they don’t think the monster will ever come for THEM. Either way is pretty dumb.
You bring up a serious point. If things are better elsewhere, why not leave?
No. You get paid more…but costs are so high, you barely break even.
If they stay where they are, they’re less likely to have their stupid beliefs challenged.
And frankly, I hope they stay right where they are. They deserve each other.
Well, let’s be real. They’re lovely people. They’re just wrong.