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On 1/4/2025 5:04 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 14:33:10 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/4/2025 12:20 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:30:07 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
>>>>>> see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
>>>>>> wall and see what sticks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al
>>>>>> who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are
>>>>>> like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
>>>>> bother.
>>>>
>>>> PS: I can do my own tech support, plumbing, and car repair, and the
>>>> overwhelming majority of Americans aren't farmers. And robots and
>>>> migrant labor don't vote.
>>>
>>> Do you generate your own electricity, pump your own water, kill your
>>> own chickens, do your own surgery and nursing, chop your own wood to
>>> heat your house?
>>>
>>> Keep bees for wax and honey? We did that.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Are we operating under the premise that there are only conservatives in
>> the service industry sector, and the trades?
>>
>> I don't have much further to add to this (somewhat confusing) scenario
>> if that's the case because I reject the premise as being silly. There
>> are no leftists in medicine or nursing, now?
>>
>> I didn't start studying electronics seriously until my late 20s, and
>> didn't make any money at it for years after that. I've had lots of jobs
>> over the years, washing dishes, delivering papers, stocking shelves,
>> tech support, sales, senior care-giving..
>>
>> Not sure what grudge you think I have against the "working class", I
>> _am_ the working class!
> 
> But are you a hoi polloi ?
> 

Deplorable is is deplorable does, man. What am I supposed to tell people 
who think violent crime "is way up" when it's been going down for 50 
years and that children are regularly getting sex changes, or whatever 
nonsense some significant fraction of citizens choose to believe today. 
"Yeah, you're right?"

Plenty of very well-to-do people seem to believe the same nonsense, so 
it's not really a class-thing.