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To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
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Unfortunately yeah my vote was pointless and local elections too. I ended up getting a runoff for my city council District, both candidates use pictures of them with Ted Cruz in their advertising. That'll sober you right the fuck up.
So the only down ballot election was the one for one city council seat?
You must have had a tiny, tiny ballot.
Buddy what kind of down ballot races did you think there where in my area? In an area in which two Maga Republicans who split their vote still won enough of the votes that they were the only two options in the runoff. I want you to think critically about what kind of fucking candidates are running in my area and what kind of vote totals they must have been getting.
I don't know... state legislature? Mayor? County council? County clerk? City clerk? At-large council members? Sheriff? Judges?
I'm sure I can come up with others. Or were they all vote-splitting runoff elections?
Wow you really failed at my request to think critically didn't you?
dudes just naive and likely not in a deep red state
I lived in Indiana before I emigrated a week and a half ago, but nice try.
really deep south there lmao
I can see you know nothing about Indiana, like the fact that the whole state was run by the KKK for decades. Or the fact that the KKK was literally started there. Or the fact that it is not in any way unusual to see a business called Kathy's Kountry Kitchen even today.
But sure, I've never encountered any of the bigotry they have in the South, just the intense bigotry in Indiana, which is exactly the same.
In fact, worse. Because my friends in an interracial relationship get a lot less shit now that they live in Atlanta.
that’s like saying the kkk started in oregon and then expecting people to take you seriously when comparing it to the south
then you bring up atlanta, this is why I said you were naive
but anyway I’m done, I really don’t care enough to continue
Yes. Atlanta. Famously not in The South at all. What with that big mountain with Confederate generals carved into the side just outside of town. Totally not a Southern place.
Or is it because it has those people in it?
lmao no dude no
it’s because holding up atlanta as the example for the south being not a racist shit hole is just fucking stupid and anyone living here would understand why
you started this being naive and ignorant, now you’re just making shit up with strawman arguments
giant fuck off to you
You asked me what kind and I told you. Now you're criticizing me for it?
Why did you ask me a question if you didn't want me to answer it?
Ooof
Yes, I agree. Asking someone a question and then getting pissed that they answered it is a big 'oof.'
Who's mad friend? Projecting?
I'm pretty sure only one of us has been needlessly hostile this whole time and it wasn't me.
You know, since all I said was that I've thought about Gitmo in the last 20 years.
No earthly idea what you are talking about.