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Yavin4
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July 6, 2016
Anyone here watching AMC's Preacher? If not, you should be.
Great show. I'm in love with Ruth Negga. She's great as Tulip.
July 6, 2016
"Dude, stop farting. That last one may have blinded me."
Dog: "I told you not to sit there."
July 5, 2016
Simple solutions to the whole Hillary email story
1. Don't allow government officials on any level to use personal devices nor personal emails to conduct official government business. They can only use government issued devices.
2. Build a robust data management system(retention, back-up, disaster recovery, archiving, data security, etc.) for all user generated data.
Problem solved. Move on.
July 5, 2016
Bulldog gets new bed
July 1, 2016
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/democrats-the-white-working-class-isn-t-voting-for-you-so-stop-pandering-to-them.html
Another point that the article misses. African Americans and Latinos are also largely working class, but they don't get lumped into the same demo. The racial implication here is that they don't work like their White counterparts do. They don't face the same economic anxiety like their White counterparts do. They get government support whereas their White counterparts do not.
Democrats: The White Working Class Isn’t Voting for You, So Stop Pandering to Them
Here’s the thing about white working-class voters: they have been fearful and reactionary for a long time—since before Brexit, or the recession, or NAFTA—hell, since before the Lost Cause. And liberals have been coddling their tender sensitivities for just as long. Yet they always vote for the other guys. And they’ve never needed an economic crisis or a failure of institutions to feel that way! Weird, I know! Remember the 1950s? The greatest economic boom in history, the time when the white working class had it better than they ever had before? Strangely it did nothing to at all to slow the raging anti-Semitism, homophobia, and fear of “communists” exhibited by the white working class during the McCarthy Era. Just as the widespread, sustained prosperity of the 60s and 70s somehow didn’t keep them from voting for Richard Nixon and George Wallace in huge numbers, or from rioting against school integration in the North. Huh.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/democrats-the-white-working-class-isn-t-voting-for-you-so-stop-pandering-to-them.html
Another point that the article misses. African Americans and Latinos are also largely working class, but they don't get lumped into the same demo. The racial implication here is that they don't work like their White counterparts do. They don't face the same economic anxiety like their White counterparts do. They get government support whereas their White counterparts do not.
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