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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 17:45:19 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>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.

You invent people as targets for your need for contempt. You would
have been an ardent Nazi in the 1930's Germany. Tribal.