When they start coming for white people.
(Gordon_Cameron was quicker)
The comments tho
“The DOXXie Chicks”
Laughing so hard over here.
You know, I’m really kind of tired of reading you spout this nonsense in EVERY SINGLE THREAD about Pennsylvania. You do not live here anymore. You don’t know anything about PA in 2018. Stop acting like you do.
There are shit people everywhere in the United States. The inner cities, the suburbs, the mountains, you name it, there are shitty people there. Pennsylvania has a lot of really great people living in it and frankly I’m just sick and tired of seeing you drag it through the mud on QT3. Kindly fuck right off.
Ya, folks in PA are generally pretty chill.
I mean, when it comes to eagles fans, sure, we might throw batteries at you. But that’s just on sundays.
Out here in the middle PA, it’s pretty much Kentucky.
I was in Pennsylvania yesterday. Seems fine. No civil wars anywhere that I saw.
Back on topic, my favorite Gawker writer, Hamilton Nolan, has some thoughts
Oh, one thing about PA, you probably make a reasonably strong case for “economic anxiety” more than many places. There are definitely sections of rural PA which have been hit hard by the changes to manufacturing and industry, and the decline of coal.
In terms of racism, I think there is more of a passive “I don’t care about minorities” more than hard core overt racism (although that certainly does still exist too), largely because there just aren’t that many minorities in central PA.
This is what is on one side of our current disagreement: death, and human rights, and freedom, and equality. And this is what is on the other side: wanting to eat at a nice restaurant without having anyone remind you that you are ruining people’s lives. The sides of this scale are not even close to balancing yet.
Amen.
Damn, Dave, did he kick your Nintendo or something? :(
I can confirm what you say, though. Live in the mountains and have daily confirmed sightings of mountain douche.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ Alright gents, I’ll back off PA.
For now…MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thank you.
Also Wisconsin:
It’s not a divide by states, so much as urban vs. white suburban, semi-rural and rural America.
I’m not sure but I think Dave was attempting to be ironic :)
I’m with you. As awful as Trump is he is still obeying the courts. Or perhaps more accurately, even his crazy advisers (e.g. Sessions) are still doing so. In some ways, the situation is actually encouraging; despite electing, a chaotic evil leader, filled with kleptocrats, and having a legislative branch that is MIA at best, we are still basically a law-abiding, functioning country.
If starts ignoring courts, or trying to pack the Supreme Court, then we are in deep kimichi.
As bad as the polarization is today it was worse during 67-69, and no where near as bad as pre-civil war times.
Not literal “packing”, but Merrick Garland might like to have a word with you.
The right’s revulsion against a black president targeted by birther conspiracy theories is not the same as the left’s revulsion against a racist president who spread birther conspiracy theories.
Faced with the unceasing cruelty and degradation of the Trump presidency, liberals have not taken to marching around in public with assault weapons and threatening civil war. I know of no left-wing publication that has followed the example of the right-wing Federalist and run quasi-pornographic fantasies about murdering political enemies. (“Close your eyes and imagine holding someone’s scalp in your hands,” began a recent Federalist article.) Unlike Trump, no Democratic politician I’m aware of has urged his or her followers to beat up opposing demonstrators.
Instead, some progressive celebrities have said some bad words, and some people have treated administration officials with the sort of public opprobrium due members of any other white nationalist organization. Liberals are using their cultural power against the right because it’s the only power they have left, and people have a desperate need to say, and to hear others say, that what is happening in this country is intolerable.
This is a fantastic point. We’re seeing social upheaval along the lines of that era, now. I’ve thought that for a while. 1968 - 1972 is the closest analog to what’s happening at the moment.
Not the flippin’ civil war. Caucasian, please.
I’m going to repeat this everytime the guy’s name is mention. There is no way in hell a liberal judge, like Merrick Garland was getting on the Supreme Court. Yes, the guy should have gotten a hearing but he would have been rejected by the Republican majority. The last time a SCOTUS vacancy came up, near the end of a term, when the President and Senate were of the opposite party was when Reagan had to find a replacement for conservative Justice Powell. It took Reagan 3 nominations before he finally got Kennedy past the Democratic-controlled Senate. Kennedy is the absolute center of the Supreme Court. No Democrat to the left of Joe Lieberman was going to be seated.
I’m going to repeat this every time you repeat that.