I know how she feels. I used to live near Boulder, Colorado.
It is interesting that lefties assume everyone around them agrees with them.
We would never make that obvious error.
Self editing is what they have been hammering us to do. If we give in, they’ll own the culture and will will continue to degrade it to the point of anarchy.
We are fighting for the future of America. Speak the truth plainly and let the chips fall where they may.
I’ve seen those signs in the liberal enclave of Jonesborough, Tennessee...in the heart of ‘conservative’ East Tennessee.
There are many who like living under totalitarian conditions.
In such countries, those that do are like the people she met. The rest are in prison or dead.
Why must we feel afraid to be proud of who we support and vote for? We should get in their faces and talk over them just as much as they do to us...
“ it’s a media narrative that got out of hand and inadvertently caused a mass hysteria event that we’re still not all the way through. ”
Inadvertently?
I don’t think so.
Euclid Avenue in Cleveland was once a beautiful street.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit has I believe five mansions still standing.
I’m sure it’s not hard to find once nice neighborhoods in Chicago.
No, she won't still say hello to you. I have had conversations with liberals/dems, and they all go the same way: the moment you challenge them on something, and throw a few actual facts at them, they say things like "I don't want to talk about this anymore", or "This is a pointless conversation."
They are the most closed-minded, intolerant people on earth. Ironically, they believe themselves to be just the opposite.
I’m in MA so can confirm.
I think it’s common knowledge that Conservatives can state Leftist viewpoints on issues with no difficulty. Why is abortion good? Why is the death penalty bad? Why should guns be banned? Why is green energy awesome? I know their positions on these matters just as well as they do, because their positions are hammered at me all day long.
Do they have any idea what my position is? No. It’s a mystery. Trump and all the other Conservatives are just Nazis. Consumed with hate. That’s all there is to say about it.
They might learn a little bit if they were willing to have a conversation. But I suppose that’s exactly why they aren’t willing to have a conversation.
Many Silicon Valley workers and executives might eventually feel more at home in India.
Many people not of European stock have a choice even after Election Day 2024.
Yes, I love them all, but I will not condone the behavior of all of them as some of them should be deeply ashamed of what they do.
And I will not pretend that all behavior is normal, and I won’t pretend that killing an innocent human being should be allowed.
Right size your business.
Retire if you can.
Spend down your assets.
Make sure your offspring have a skill another country would want.
When you encounter people like this, you simply nod your head and move on.
Because, they are psychologically impervious to reality. My next door neighbor is like that, a dumbass!
I can imagine, when the SHTF these people will be like animals trapped in a cage, running hither and yon, not knowing whether to sh*t or go blind!
>>> Then she said, “Things are getting so scary. November is coming.” I pretended not to know what she was talking about. I didn’t add to the conversation or pretend to agree. I just said, “And it’s so hot.”
“We do seem to have just gotten some hope,” she said. I imagine that to her, hope means Kamala Harris now has the nomination. Again, I said nothing. What could I say? “It was looking dire for a while there,” and that I took to mean Biden, she believed, could not beat Trump.
I didn’t say, “Can you believe Donald Trump was shot just 13 days ago?” I couldn’t say that. I could not ding her hope, what little she had. I quickly pivoted again, “I can’t believe Summer is almost over! It’s July!”
We’d reached a door we could not open, a conversation we could not have. I realized it was expected that I was in her tribe. I fit the demographic. I live in this town. It would never occur to her that someone like me might not agree with her that a Kamala Harris presidency represents hope. Quite the opposite.
I smiled, and we tried to continue our conversation, but I left shortly after that, leaving the odd conversation hanging in the air. She would no doubt think about it and wonder why I didn’t go further. Did she not understand what I meant, she might wonder. Would that thought take her further?
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Sasha... fits right in.
Most white liberals don't live anywhere near the problems which their bone-headed policies have created.
“Pilates ... is a type of mind-body exercise developed in the early 20th century by German physical trainer Joseph Pilates, after whom it was named.”
“Pilates uses a combination of around 50 repetitive exercises to spur muscle exertion. Each exercise flows from the “five essentials”: breath, cervical alignment, rib and scapular stabilization, pelvic mobility, and utilization of the transversus abdominis. Each exercise is typically repeated three to five times. As of 2023, over 12 million people practice Pilates.”
“Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates from Mönchengladbach, Germany. His father was a gymnast and his mother a naturopath.
“Pilates said that the inspiration for his method came to him during World War I, while he was being held at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man. Pilates spent four years there, working on his fellow internees, developing his method of a system of exercises intended to strengthen the human mind and body, believing that mental and physical health were interrelated.”
“Pilates can be performed on both a mat or on specialized equipment. Pilates often incorporates spring-based resistance machines known as reformers.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilates
I often play that same “Dogwhistles not received or reciprocated” game where I am, in Marin County, Ca.
I try getting to know the talker before I answer with any honesty, if I ever do. When I find someone with a good sense of humor or irony, I may judge them as not too fragile, and ready to hear a different point of view.
My mother called certain people “dyed-in-the-wool Democrats”.
My immediate neighbors to the west are of that type.
“I’ve been chatting with a woman who walks her dog around town. She’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. After I broke my arm, she advised me on how to exercise it back to health. She is a Pilates teacher. We always say hello and have been doing so for a while. “
What I fail to understand is that the vast majority of your suburban liberals like her are quite conservative in their personal lives. But when it comes to voting, they vote for the opposite. They act responsibly in their private affairs, but are quick to tolerate irresponsible behavior especially in those they see as the downtrodden.
The only thing I can attribute that to is that they’re infected with the disease of “pathological compassion” - the type of compassion that destroys the giver and the receiver. They have been “guilt tripped” into supporting the most destructive public policies in the name of “compassion”. And their highest aspiration is to see themsemselves as “nice, compassionate people”.
They are also incapable of connecting dots. To them cause and effect doesn’t exist.
See my tag line.