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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"
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:04:39 -0800
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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 ?