Don't apologise to the grammar police*;* they are more afraid of you ~~then~~ than you are ~~from~~ of them.
RustyShackleford
joined 2 years ago
Indian American boomers
My wife has more dense layers than convolutional layers nowadays, but father time comes for us all, amirite?
I should clarify.
I'm an American not of European descent. I'm not "white". I'm perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.
When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe's lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and "fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money" thinking behind. I'm certainly aware that "god, glory, and gold" did not start in the United States.
When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people's parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that's destroying the US currently. It's just that it was much more than I expected.
It never stops.
Once the "others" outside of the tribe have been eradicated, the various sub-groups within the tribe will take the place of the "other", and so on, and so forth.
Conservatism is a cancer.
Like an EMP deployed at ICE staging areas?
And you have full governance of your data.
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I'm an anti-theist, who profoundly and especially despises the Abrahamic religions, but I'll bet good money this is not about prayer calls and "Islam taking over".
This is about him being a brown immigrant socialist.
It's because, still in 2025 in the US, if you want publicly funded social programs for better individual outcomes in a capitalist economy, and you're anywhere left of the fucking Einsatzgruppen, you're a commie pinko who loves getting Eiffel-Towered by Stalin and Mao.
Being honest, though, I would say this a very American mentality, but since I immigrated to the Netherlands from the US in '22, I'm sad to say, it's infecting Western Europe.
I'll never understand the perverse allure of this type of thinking. I've had it explained to me. I've read The Righteous Mind by Dr. Johnathan Haight. I get it on paper, but it still seems very alien to me when people go on about "the <insertEthnicSlurHere> breathing up all our air and taking all our jobs and making things easier for the wrong people."
Nothing will meaningfully change until the wealthy fear for their lives.
In professional wrestling, who was the Undertaker's manager dude with the makeup and goofy voice?
That's Bannon.
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Yes.