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b_b · 2507 days ago · link · · parent · post: Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.

Is he familiar with Medicare? How about real estate depreciation? Department of Defense contractors? Recipients of all of these programs routinely vote for candidates that support their continued existence, the difference being that old people, developers, and defense contractors have actual political power.

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steve · 2507 days ago · link ·

I'm sure he is... I'm also sure he only thinks of public assistance in forms that he, or his immediate family doesn't receive. He's just an angry conservative who thinks "they" are all out to get him.

and the "they" is a moving target.

+discuss+discuss

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b_b · 2507 days ago · link ·

My uncle once tried to claim that renters shouldn't have the right to vote for the same reason. Hate to generalize, but those people are all the same (salty old white dudes).

+discuss+discuss

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steve · 2507 days ago · link ·

salty old white dudes

yep... but strangely this dude's a little younger than me...