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Al isn’t a serious poster. ... Some people really deserve to be on the block list.
The funny thing about Thriller is how low information he is. I'm blocked meaning he couldn't see a single word I wrote and yet he has an opinion on it. I almost wonder if after this next election which is likely to contain a large amount a news he won't agree with, if his curated feeds and blocks will be so effective that he'll be like a WWII Japanese soldier guarding a random island in the 1950's not knowing the war ended.
 
Being blocked gives you the option to read posters occasionally, and you didn't start off on his block list.
Exactly this. It's also not that difficult to follow your discussion with him. You've asked him the same question about the Texas GOP at least four times now. His refusal to answer it, is an answer. It tells you a lot about his character and maturity (or lack thereof).

It's not like we're arguing about what the appropriate income tax rates should be. We're arguing about just basics about democracy. He's pro authoritarian because he thinks his "team" will benefit by overthrowing our democracy. Which is honestly pretty deplorable.
 
I'm blocked meaning he couldn't see a single word I wrote
Are you really dumb enough to not realize that you can still see peoples posts when you have them on ignore?

For instance, i have you on ignore yet still read (and quoted) your post.


Edit: Just saw that one brow beat me to it.


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That is correct. I don't live in your world but I did spend some time growing up there including at one point a spot not too far from where you grew up just outside the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. I've lived in big cites, residential suburbs, and small towns, in rich areas and extremely poor ones. I spent some of my time growing up in schools that were almost totally white, a school that was designated the most ethnically mixed school in the nation, and as an expat in a true authoritarian nation in a very unwhite part of the world where I went to the equivalent of elementary school. I've lived in these places, not just visited, but lived. Where I choose to live now is an area that is either minority-majority or straight up majority Hispanic depending on where you are drawing the boundaries.

It is weird to me when you talk about massive groups of people as if they are a single cartoon character who has decided to go by they/them pronouns. I also wonder if news penetrates at all the bubble constructed around some of the people here, occasionally you included. I obviously recognize your tired "demographics is destiny" argument that was popular 10 years ago, but actual history has happened since then. When Glenn Youngkin beat Terry AcAuliffe to become Virginia governor, the Hispanic population was the most likely to vote for Youngkin. Florida has gone from a perpetual swing state where hanging chads made the difference, to one that is safely conservative thanks almost entirely to the Hispanic population there. Texas too is now only conservative because of the Hispanic population after white tax refugees from California strengthened the leftist voting block. Texas just had a district that had never been won by Republicans ever in history, one that is 85% Hispanic, flip to Republican. Even in California in the heavily Hispanic California Central Valley, it is solid red.

I have heard variations of your same "the political right is white supremacist and can't handle the browning of America" from LogGrad, FishOnJazz, JazzGal, Thriller and many others. Even left-leaning outlets like CNN and MSNBC have been airing segments noting the erosion of support among minority voters for the Democrats. It isn't 2008. The whole idea of the they/them melaninated American cartoon character in your head being unswayed by the train wreck the Democrats have caused does not say good things about those who continue to voice that obviously false idea.

Here is a reality check: Currently Joe Biden has lower approval on his handling of the economy than did Jimmy Carter at this same point of his presidency. A sizable chunk of those people who disapprove of Joe Biden's handling of the economy have brown skin. Deal with it. The damage being done to the democrat brand by the obviously-in-decline Joe Biden and the choices made by this democrat controlled house are going to have a long lasting electoral impact.
Many Hispanic people, possibly the majority of them(?), are "white." They are also generally very conservative. If the Republicans had a halfway humane stance on immigration, which could still be protective and stringent and even kind of nationalistic, they'd have an absolute slam dunk on their hands with the Hispanic community. Many Hispanic people are holding their nose and supporting Republicans.
 
Being blocked gives you the option to read posters occasionally, and you didn't start off on his block list.
What one has the ability to do and what Thriller does are different things. There is no way he reads what I write. He doesn't even pay attention to people like Red and LogGrad as evidence by his reposting the Eric Greitens RINO hunting advertisement and asking if anyone had seen it. Thriller's world of information consists of the hottest takes on Twitter about Op/Eds biased hard enough to gain traction in a saturated market. What he thinks is reality is a filter of a filter of a filter. He may be a nice person and I certainly wish him no ill will but he is miles from being the type of person who would go to the lengths you say are available to him.
 
Many Hispanic people, possibly the majority of them(?), are "white." They are also generally very conservative. If the Republicans had a halfway humane stance on immigration, which could still be protective and stringent and even kind of nationalistic, they'd have an absolute slam dunk on their hands with the Hispanic community. Many Hispanic people are holding their nose and supporting Republicans.
Maybe. I can only relay what I see in my circle, and as for being "white" I don't even know what the word refers to any longer. No one where I live is breaking out skin color charts and neighbors are neighbors. If anything, where a person lives now is far more judged than ethnicity.
 
Maybe. I can only relay what I see in my circle, and as for being "white" I don't even know what the word refers to any longer. No one where I live is breaking out skin color charts and neighbors are neighbors. If anything, where a person lives now is far more judged than ethnicity.
Yeah, once the Italians were let in the "white" club it was basically no holds barred.
 
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