Frank Rich: "No Sympathy for the Hillbilly"

[Antonio the Sixth]

i am btw not sharing this piece cause i TOTALLY AGREEE!!!!!....i just thought it would be a lovely, controversial-as-fick, part of the debate.

Whatever "debate" this disgusting garbage of a column contributes to is not a debate we should be having in the first place.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good to see some pushback against the bizarre media fellation of Trump voters because they once drove a truck.

Yes, clearly the most serious problem with the mainstream media these days is that they pay too much attention and are too sympathetic to economically disadvantaged groups. That explains everything!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good to see some pushback against the bizarre media fellation of Trump voters because they once drove a truck.

Yes, clearly the most serious problem with the mainstream media these days is that they pay too much attention and are too sympathetic to economically disadvantaged groups. That explains everything!

Airhead journalists are weekly dispatched in their millions to empty diners in Michigan or whatever to ask fat guys in MAGA hats if they still like Trump and then return to write fawning pieces about how this noble working man thinks lynching is good. This genre did not exist before November 8th and does not exist for any other demographic. Not sure where you got the rest of your wild extrapolation from but I understand the urge to sermonise.

"The urge to sermonize" tends to be a byproduct of having meaningful political views and at least generically caring about the deleterious impact that the smugness of the socio-political group I happen to be a part of ends up having on the goals said group is supposed to be championing. You could try that sometimes.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The fact that people like you simply cannot accept that not everyone agrees with universal healthcare or socialism must be hard for you, considering the majority of the population disagrees with socialism.  I guess this is like a socialist safe space.

You're the one who made an entire thread to whine that none of the two parties was a good fit to your Socially Liberal Nice Guy brand of social Darwinism. Projecting much?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, I'm glad you're given up on your sense of entitlement and accepted that you don't get to define the sphere of acceptable political views! Baby steps, I guess.

[Antonio the Sixth]

"Your own paycheck" is only your own because the State has built institutions that makes it possible for social parasites like you to accumulate wealth at the expense of everybody else. The State giveth and the State taketh away.

[Antonio the Sixth]

"The State giveth" is a bizarre response to whatever NSV is on about but we are all by now familiar with macho bluster about 'parasites' and guillotines etc from forum leftists.

How kind of you to always stand up for poor upper-middle-class people oppressed by leftist bullies!

It must be the first (and hopefully last) time someone describes me as "macho".