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Madjack's avatar

Pretty unnecessary description of the Republican crowd in your intro. Those yucky “Americans”. 20-30 years ago I said that if Al Gore came out for nuclear power it would scare the shit out of me because it meant they really believed in the climate apocalypse/hoax. Agree that the housing crisis is mostly a drug/mental health crisis. I believe life starts at conception, but can claim no certainty on this. What I do know is 1. Life starts at some point. 2. You cannot take innocent life. 3. Therefore you should err on the side of caution

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Scuba Cat's avatar

Had a little bit of that elitist coastal dickhead contempt for the plebes quality, didn't it?

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Sharon F.'s avatar

I agree. Weren’t there any well-dressed Republicans to be had in California? And taking a jab at the Inland Empire.. where people have moved so they can afford to live?

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Madjack's avatar

I just spent four years living in a ghetto. It taught me not to judge people on exterior items. There were some highly articulate and intelligent people in that very beaten down area.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Those of us who grew up hard but became successful know better than to judge the people we lived and worked with when we had nothing. Some of the smartest, best people I ever knew worked those hard jobs that I don't have to do anymore.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

To me there are few things worse than forgetting where one came from.

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Dana Jumper's avatar

Yeah, I thought that, too. Kind of like a real disdain for anyone not "whatever-this-author's-version-of-cool" is. Seemed pretty dismissive of the whole thing.

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