• TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The KKK did NOT endorse Hillary in 2016, nor Biden in 2020. Guess who they endorsed, Mr. Perry? Pro-Tip: He’s running on your side this year and is currently grousing in a courtroom as they determine if he broke the law or not…

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      5 months ago

      They don’t care if their claims are true. Lies spread more easily than the truth.

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        5 months ago

        No, actually, he really believes it. It was said in a closed door meeting, not to a crowd of people.

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    5 months ago

    The wack part of this is that he said it in a closed door meeting with a few of his peers or staff, not to a crowd of people. That shows he actually believes this bullshit.

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      5 months ago

      Believe might be a strong word. He probably just says things like this to drown out the suffocated, croaking voice of his conscience

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    5 months ago

    They keep saying shit like this but not one of them will wear a Hillary t-shirt to a Klan rally and livestream the results

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    5 months ago

    Perry then defended replacement theory,

    “I ain’t racist, they’re racist.”

    Immediately proceeds to do a racism

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        iOS autocorrect generates them. I discovered this while attempting to use vim in an embedded terminal emulator.

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          That’s kind of evil. I hate it when I paste source code from a document and I have to fix non-ASCII characters that some overly clever UI inserted.

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    5 months ago

    …Who does he think is joining the current incarnations of the KKK? Does he really think that the people in the current KKK are Democratic voters? Really?

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    Apart from the huge logical leaps, the KKK’s agenda so closely aligns with the GOP’s and Trump’s, can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat? Being a democrat is like an excommunicable sin for these groups.

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      can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat?

      A lot of local politics takes place in these very well-financed and well-organized partisan units that operate independent of the national scene. A big part of the Democratic Party in West Virginia has always kinda sucked - putting up guys like Joe Manchin and Jim Justice (who won as a Democrat and immediately flipped to Republican) - without any real respect for popular sentiments in the state. Kentucky Party Democrats put up a “Pro-Trump” candidate Amy McGrath in 2020. Ohio Democrats (other than Sherrod Brown) are almost universally awful, in their habit of supporting climate denialism and copaganda. My own mayor, John Whitmire, has been friendly with Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, and the Bushs since he took office in the state senate in 1983.

      So yes. I can very easily imagine a batch of die-hard Zell Miller democrats camped out in a backwater Florida county that think their party has been taken over by Woke Soy Antifa Communists like Joe Biden.

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    What is happening now is we’re importing people into the country that want to be in America … but have no interest in being Americans, and that’s very different and to disparage the comments is to chill the conversation so that we can continue to bring in more people that we never met that are un-American,” Perry said, according to the recording.

    TBH, a lot of migrants to the west do not share my progressive, secular values and that bothers me a bit. It’s also forbidden to speak of on the left. To be intolerant of misogynist and homophobic religious nutters from elsewhere is racism of course. Obviously it’s not a conspiracy, just economics driving people to where the money is, but can we not admit that it has an effect on the culture?

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      To be intolerant of misogynist and homophobic religious nutters from elsewhere is racism of course.

      To write off the “other” as “misogynist and homophobic religious nutters” is about as white supremacist as it gets here in the dear ole’ west - it doesn’t surprise me that leftists aren’t interested in what you have to say.