as soon as someone attributes an opinion/ attitude to an entire jurisdiction (the people of this town “cherish their way of life”) you can stop reading - ThreadSky

kerryhowley.bsky.social • 58 days ago

as soon as someone attributes an opinion/ attitude to an entire jurisdiction (the people of this town “cherish their way of life”) you can stop reading

Reposted from Mark Cuban

This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.

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cracked-pepper.bsky.social•57 days ago

Sounds like their lives are pretty fucking good already.

viewfromarchstreet.com•58 days ago

The perils of inductive reasoning

czarreed.bsky.social•58 days ago

I was actually distracted by the author referring to a long i sound as a “hard” i. That’s a new one on me.

jkuznicki.bsky.social•58 days ago

I can assure everyone that they do care about my way of life, and that they want to destroy it.

I wish that weren’t the case, but it’s a whole big thing with them.

theted.bsky.social•57 days ago

when i got to that my eyes rolled so far back into my head i could see the goblin piloting my body

jstephenclark.bsky.social•57 days ago

You seem highly triggered at any suggestion that gay people might ever experience discrimination, like it’s some benefit being denied you.

And if anyone tries to explain it to you, you spit “victim card” in their face.

jstephenclark.bsky.social•57 days ago

You can stop reading when the lecturer announces that his entire condescending “analysis” is based on visiting a relative’s cabin there.

pcollirigger.bsky.social•58 days ago

Honoring the rural culture by charmingly stereotyping them.

chaimkatz47.bsky.social•58 days ago

Why stop reading? I just put it in a little file in my brain labeled "The writer's thoughts projected onto others' variegated and unknowable inner lives"

kerryhowley.bsky.social•58 days ago

fair

davids8663.bsky.social•58 days ago

Their way of life will be hurt by Trump. Prices will increase. Some of the jobs they commute to will be lost. Dealing with Social Security will be harder. The main road in and out of this isolated small town is maintained by the state which may have less funds.

bungdan.bsky.social•58 days ago

And not for nothing, if people love and cherish life there so much why has the population fallen by half?

yukonjohn.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ditto for a generation, race, gender, or any combination of those three

righteoushazard.bsky.social•58 days ago

He showed up in someones (yall can find it if you want) mentions to say he stands by what he wrote. And fwiw, I am all for people talking about what is going down in their communities.

It is fkn weird tho to reify that experience into something it isn't. Bitch all our communities got problems.

jholbo.bsky.social•57 days ago

One might add: when what you are reading obviously has all the hallmarks of an ego-defensive wish fulfilment fantasy, it MIGHT be all true - true! - but ...

k9luna.bsky.social•58 days ago

The same way one cringes when a politician says “the American people want…” and clearly does not speak for every single person in the country.

quiz.baby•57 days ago

When there is this "all of us" you need to carefully watch, as there are some who disagree, but these are not one of us all, marginalized, criminalized, and put on a plane to the US concentration camps.

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