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hydrolastic

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9. Yes the vote needs to be gotten out but also the culture needs to be changed
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 10:58 AM
Apr 2023

At work in my shop I drive out of the city. Most of the guys drive in from rural areas. in big diesel powered trucks BTW. On the break room table are magazines with women holding firearms. One guy is a air pistol fan and proudly argues with the others about how his legal version of a firearm is just as deadly as theirs. Almost all of them proclaim to know sections of the second amendment by heart. They trade and talk about the various reasons they own different firearms. Most own several firearms. All of them including a woman spout various forms of simplistic political theories.
A few months ago when Biden didn't give the Ukrainians certain weapons they were going on about how we need to give them cruise missiles so they could hit Moscow. "That would show Moscow who is boss!"
It about an emboldened out of control party. Its literally a culture that is embedded into the rural areas.
Just my experience as a whole. One day the woman was thinking she was being clever asked about the various trials she didn't understand. The conversation ended when after I had explained that there are several investigations and that the juries will decide the cases she asked. How do you know the jurors are not bought off?.
I don't know how to get the culture changed. I do know you can't challenge them. It always ends up in a escalated non informed argument. I wish I knew where it came from but they deny watching fox news and point to the fact that they get the news from yahoo or other news services. I believe its the basic Republican party that is corrupted. The compassion for people is missing, its about money and power!

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