Offensive signs
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I've never had any sign out until this year for a local election where one of the ballot initiatives was regarding "defunding police" which I found so insane that I felt a need to both put a sign opposing the initiative and supporting candidates that opposed it. The initiative failed and the pro-police candidates won.
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@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
It feels like this kind of violent disagreement where people get really personal is more common in the US than elsewhere I've lived. The UK went there during the Brexit vote, but most people are probably over it at this point. I used to work with a bunch of people who were really conservative, and we constantly gave each other a ton of shit over it, but it never got nasty, it was just what we call taking the piss, a great British pastime of course.
I feel like the US is moving in a direction where there's no real center any more. And, of course, both sides are blaming the other.
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@jolly said in Offensive signs:
@horace said in Offensive signs:
@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
This forum? I'm surprised there's only one.
WTF? I'd be surprised if the majority there wouldn't feel that way.
"Socially and economically ostracize Trump supporters" was firmly in the mainstream of pop culture during his presidency, and remains so, to the extent Trump remains in pop culture.
Well...There's a difference between disagreement and old-fashioned hate.
I have it on good authority that a family that whose son attends Alabama will let their boy marry a girl who attended Auburn. If she's pretty, bakes good biscuits and can pass a virginity check...
This Alabama guy gets married and moves out of his parents' home to live with his new wife at her and her parent's house. The next day he comes back home. His daddy says "boy, what are you doing back here?" The boy says "I had to leave her, daddy. She was a virgin." His daddy says "well I can't blame you there... if she ain't good enough for her own family she sure ain't good enough for our'n...."
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@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
It feels like this kind of violent disagreement where people get really personal is more common in the US than elsewhere I've lived. The UK went there during the Brexit vote, but most people are probably over it at this point. I used to work with a bunch of people who were really conservative, and we constantly gave each other a ton of shit over it, but it never got nasty, it was just what we call taking the piss, a great British pastime of course.
I feel like the US is moving in a direction where there's no real center any more. And, of course, both sides are blaming the other.
TDS pushed overt, righteous hatred of the other political side into the mainstream. And, of course, neither side is to blame.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in Offensive signs:
@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
It feels like this kind of violent disagreement where people get really personal is more common in the US than elsewhere I've lived. The UK went there during the Brexit vote, but most people are probably over it at this point. I used to work with a bunch of people who were really conservative, and we constantly gave each other a ton of shit over it, but it never got nasty, it was just what we call taking the piss, a great British pastime of course.
I feel like the US is moving in a direction where there's no real center any more. And, of course, both sides are blaming the other.
TDS pushed overt, righteous hatred of the other political side into the mainstream. And, of course, neither side is to blame.
Like I said, each side is blaming the other.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Offensive signs:
I'll blame them. Hell, they deserve it.
They've taken their politics to the bonkers point.
Your politics are pretty bonkers from my perspective.
Nobody thinks their politics are bonkers, obviously. But plenty of people's are.
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@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@horace said in Offensive signs:
@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
It feels like this kind of violent disagreement where people get really personal is more common in the US than elsewhere I've lived. The UK went there during the Brexit vote, but most people are probably over it at this point. I used to work with a bunch of people who were really conservative, and we constantly gave each other a ton of shit over it, but it never got nasty, it was just what we call taking the piss, a great British pastime of course.
I feel like the US is moving in a direction where there's no real center any more. And, of course, both sides are blaming the other.
TDS pushed overt, righteous hatred of the other political side into the mainstream. And, of course, neither side is to blame.
Like I said, each side is blaming the other.
Hey like I said, neither side is to blame, right? But my claim that TDS brought righteous hatred of the other political side to the mainstream, is something you could agree with or deny.
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@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@jolly said in Offensive signs:
I'll blame them. Hell, they deserve it.
They've taken their politics to the bonkers point.
Your politics are pretty bonkers from my perspective.
Nobody thinks their politics are bonkers, obviously. But plenty of people's are.
My politics may be bonkers to you, but that doesn't mean I think you're a bad person or unworthy of buying you a lite beer. A good craft brew might be stretching it, though...
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
Warning: I post things that interest me. Read and comment at your own discretion. -
@horace said in Offensive signs:
@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@horace said in Offensive signs:
@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
@george-k said in Offensive signs:
@lufins-dad said in Offensive signs:
Our relationships in the neighborhood are strained now.
There you go.
At least one member of this forum (don't ask) posted on Faceypage that he will never be friends with anyone who supported Trump.
It feels like this kind of violent disagreement where people get really personal is more common in the US than elsewhere I've lived. The UK went there during the Brexit vote, but most people are probably over it at this point. I used to work with a bunch of people who were really conservative, and we constantly gave each other a ton of shit over it, but it never got nasty, it was just what we call taking the piss, a great British pastime of course.
I feel like the US is moving in a direction where there's no real center any more. And, of course, both sides are blaming the other.
TDS pushed overt, righteous hatred of the other political side into the mainstream. And, of course, neither side is to blame.
Like I said, each side is blaming the other.
Hey like I said, neither side is to blame, right? But my claim that TDS brought righteous hatred of the other political side to the mainstream, is something you could agree with or deny.
Yeah, because there's zero hatred on the other side. I've noticed that a lot.
I'm no expert, but...
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@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
Yeah, because there's zero hatred on the other side. I've noticed that a lot.
Definitely no sarcastic condemnation, either.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in Offensive signs:
@doctor-phibes said in Offensive signs:
Yeah, because there's zero hatred on the other side. I've noticed that a lot.
Definitely no sarcastic condemnation, either.
I can tell you've lived in Australia.
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Dude, when I meet you I want a full 0n craft beer. Politics be damned.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in Offensive signs:
Dude, when I meet you I want a full 0n craft beer. Politics be damned.
Beer Summit! I'm in.
No Buckler's.
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Update.
"A supporter of former President Donald Trump is refusing to take down signs at her motherās home critical of President Biden, despite a judgeās order to do so.
"Itās my First Amendment right, and Iām going to stick with that," Andrea Dick, a New Jersey Trump supporter, told the New York Times on Tuesday.
"Dick, 54, was immediately criticized by some of her neighbors when she put up the signs earlier this year and was ultimately cited and fined by local officials, who said the signs were violating an anti-obscenity ordinance. Last week, Roselle Park Municipal Court Judge Gary A. Bundy ordered Dickās mother to remove three of the 10 banners or be fined $250 daily.
"Dick says she will not obey that order.
"Iām not backing down," Dick said, adding that she is currently seeking a new attorney to represent her.
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@aqua-letifer said in Offensive signs:
@jon-nyc said in Offensive signs:
Dude, when I meet you I want a full 0n craft beer. Politics be damned.
Beer Summit! I'm in.
No Buckler's.
May I suggest Cincinnati. We have many fine craft breweries.
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@catseye3 said in Offensive signs:
Update.
"A supporter of former President Donald Trump is refusing to take down signs at her motherās home critical of President Biden, despite a judgeās order to do so.
"Itās my First Amendment right, and Iām going to stick with that," Andrea Dick, a New Jersey Trump supporter, told the New York Times on Tuesday.
"Dick, 54, was immediately criticized by some of her neighbors when she put up the signs earlier this year and was ultimately cited and fined by local officials, who said the signs were violating an anti-obscenity ordinance. Last week, Roselle Park Municipal Court Judge Gary A. Bundy ordered Dickās mother to remove three of the 10 banners or be fined $250 daily.
"Dick says she will not obey that order.
"Iām not backing down," Dick said, adding that she is currently seeking a new attorney to represent her.
Since her current attorney rolled his eyes and beat feet.When we were kids we would have likely found the most creative way to get rid of that fenceā¦I suspect it would have involved a rope and a car and rapid acceleration. Of course it wouldnāt have been about politics but the universe giving her feedback to step back in line. <ā- that is meta analysis. In reality sheād just be a noteworthy target that we could yuck it up about it a more satisfying way.
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@loki said in Offensive signs:
Of course it wouldnāt have been about politics but the universe giving her feedback to step back in line. <ā- that is meta analysis. In reality sheād just be a noteworthy target that we could yuck it up about it a more satisfying way.
Great observation, Loki.
