Recent comments in /f/Maine

HumpSlackWails t1_j8b0nga wrote

I grew up in the 80's and 90's.

I learned every bigoted slur I know at home before I heard it somewhere else. My dad brought home the latest racist joke he heard around the water cooler down at IBM.

Not Bob's Sister-Fucking Hut. Not the rock quarry. An electrical and computer engineer among other middle class, educated people who literally got their jollies of telling racist and sexist jokes because it gave them self worth or something.

They're not new.

They're just emboldened.

AGAIN.

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costabius t1_j8aqn99 wrote

Climate change is doing us a favor with this one, the jet stream is like a wave that travels around the pole with the peak of the wave dipping south into the US. It used to be a pretty shallow wave that came down across the midwest and arced back up across the great lakes before passing over New England. Right now, the is a few hundred miles wide and stretches down to Texas. So, as it passes, Northerly winds will take the crap ion Ohio up into Canada, then southerly winds will carry the crap to the south. Basically, if it's unseasonably warm here we are fine, but in the 5 or so hours before a big temperature drop, if we get some snow, it might have some crap from Ohio in it.

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HumpSlackWails t1_j8anp2j wrote

My father died estranged from me as a result of his politics. One of the few things I regret was him not living enough to see it reported that the US Military gave black vets the shaft with the GI bill... the abuse started in WW2 and continued all the way through Vietnam.

Because I grew up listening to him shit talk black guys... they all just went back to the ghetto and didn't use that GI Bill to improve themselves like him and his white friends did...

While he and people just like him were the ones responsible for denying those benefits.

They've always been like this, the right wing. They just feel emboldened and since its getting WORSE we should take it as a sign that we need to do more than whatever it is we're doing.

I went to a RvV event attended by thousands where I was told by organizers and speakers to RUN AWAY from any counter presence.

Not to ignore, Not to not engage, to remaind peaceful... but to run away and cede the block. This can't be what we do. They shut down events. That's them winning. We need to stop letting them win.

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SaifurCloudstrife t1_j8ak0kv wrote

My thing is that both sides refuse to work together because of some stupid tribalist bullshit. The fact that I had to fight as hard as I and other gay people did for the right to marry the man I love, not have to worry about my housing or employment and more because of the GOP constant homophobia says a lot.

There's a lot of good points that the GOP has, but the extreme over-abundance of hyper-religiousity is a major problem for me.

As far as war mongering, that is a problem on both sides of the aisle state and federal. Maybe you can help me understand the problem with free trade. As far as screwing working Americans, I'm seeing the Left trying to get minimum wage to a living wage, where it was always meant to be. Maybe not a comfortable living wage, but one where you could live with it. That's not a bad thing.

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TonyClifton86 t1_j8aiqv3 wrote

Reply to comment by Norgyort in Dogs in grocery stores. by Norgyort

You have no idea of the level a dog may or may not have.. no more than I can tell how your kid is gonna act in the store. Kids are way worse because at least most dog owners keep their dogs on a leash for their safety & others, the same can not be said about children & they have hands unlike dogs.

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