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In reply to the discussion: What is Southern Heritage? [View all]JonLP24
(29,722 posts)I live in Mesa, AZ (the most conservative city of +250,000 people) but also one hit harder than most by the housing crisis (larger city than Atlanta but all it is a sprawling suburb with nothing to do) so everyone around me is on economic hard times and usual places are retail jobs of what is left most of what used to be closed down and check cashing or loan places took their place. Taxi company and telemarketing firms (which are a pretty major employer in this area with Directv & Dish. Outside of that is PCC which telemarkers there solicit donations to the state Republican party. Anyway, a lot people here struggling but notice a lot people look all the way back fondly to the Reagan days. A lot of hate here not just of anyone different but anyone at all it seems. The world just seems a lot more cruel in my neighborhood and hate people who talk about the things we talk about.
What people here or some people here anywhere have an impression based on what they look for online, recently, have a belief that there is a secret government plot with the use of transporting military equipment in underground tunnels and internment camps will be opened up because after they come for the guns, Texas & oddly Utah are considered "hostile states" but the plan includes carving up Arizona and Nevada. All I did was say it doesn't make sense because DynCorp which is under an investment firm that also has an investment on "The Freedom Group" which manufactures civilian weapons such as the AR-15 and I was accused of being a liberal for simply that.
I think another time I said something that wasn't political or argument even about surge it was unrelated about data systems and algorthyms that someone mentioned was correct and noticed that Senturion was used to predict events based on prior events and Bush on a January 17th or close, 2007 speech "correctly predicted an increase in both US & Iraqi casualties" which is what happened during "The Surge" then a guy with him was grilling me over the name of the program I couldn't remember the official name but said it was well known as "The surge" and grilling about this or that was simply saying the guy was right there is a data system for forecasting armed conflicts so I went on way to the mail there I overheard like yelling and the word "reality" so I walk back out the entrance
and say simply he said something that I found to be true and that it was used for planning of "The Surge" and Bush made a correct prediction that there would be an increase on causualties for both sides but the reality was I was in Iraq in 2007 up until June 30th or so. 1 person died total from the unit April 13th from an EFP hitting the passenger side door (he started grilling me what an EFP is and said he "never heard of it" I'm like I gotta go and he calls me a "Jew" (which is a first as any religious accusations tend to be Morman though I'm none) and a Saddam gay lover though with a different word -- this was a few years ago. This was a few weeks ago so it was a surprise to find a Iraq war supporter in 2015 but the hate bothers me more than anything, didn't like what I had to say so they reflex with hate. Some places like here we have a long way to go.
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