Quit Pretending To Be Hicks

[Chloe]

The little pet names and cheesy word play annoys me sometimes. Things like "demonrats," "lame stream media," and things like that. Dehumanizing and dismissing millions of people and opinions is not what this country is about.

[jimmyz]

The little pet names and cheesy word play annoys me sometimes. Things like "demonrats," "lame stream media," and things like that. Dehumanizing and dismissing millions of people and opinions is not what this country is about.

You have to identify your adversary my name or label before you can denigrate them.

[Chris]

The little pet names and cheesy word play annoys me sometimes. Things like "demonrats," "lame stream media," and things like that. Dehumanizing and dismissing millions of people and opinions is not what this country is about.

Like hicks?

[Chloe]

Like hicks?

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[Chris]

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Isn't it the same thing you complained about?

[Chloe]

Isn't it the same thing you complained about?

In the OP she was talking about some of the things that conservatives say about the democratic party that annoys her and so I was just mentioning a similar thing that I find to be kindof cheesy that is said about a couple of things. You're not trying to play some sort of "gotcha" thing are you?

[Chris]

In the OP she was talking about some of the things that conservatives say about the democratic party that annoys her and so I was just mentioning a similar thing that I find to be kindof cheesy that is said about a couple of things. You're not trying to play some sort of "gotcha" thing are you?

No, just saying both are equally bad...or good.

[IMPress Polly]

If you (my detractors) can say Democrat Party, I can say hick, particularly considering that I'm not calling anyone here a hick (as you may have noticed I explicitly stated in the OP). One of the things that annoyed me about the expression on the day I posted the little rant originally was that I had just seen Common use the expression "Democrat Party" in the very same post where he was complaining about how "liberals" in the abstract were disrespectful people.

I agree with those who say that small-time farming is not practical in today's America. Taking my mom's farm, which she had to sell during the last recession, for example, between the various family members who were working it, we, on average, worked something like 14 hours a day for the proportional equivalent of $4.11 an hour in 2010 money collectively (I worked this out in 2010), the federal minimum wage for much of the time having been $5.15 an hour and the state-level minimum wage having been generally higher than that. That's not $4.11 an hour for each individual. That's $4.11 an hour for all of us combined to live on. That's what we could make off of farming itself. If my mom's case was at all a representative sample of small family farms in America, then you could literally make more money working an entry-level position in fast food or retail, which is why mom had to do wage-labor on the side. It was a joke. There's no way we could've made a proper living off of it. You have to be rich to be able to make a living off of farming today because otherwise you can't afford to produce on the requisite scale. You really have to do factory farming.

[donttread]

The little pet names and cheesy word play annoys me sometimes. Things like "demonrats," "lame stream media," and things like that. Dehumanizing and dismissing millions of people and opinions is not what this country is about.

Does that include "Donkepahant"? Because that is a one word description of the actual actions ( not rhetoric) of our supposed "two major parties"

[Chris]

If you (my detractors) can say Democrat Party, I can say hick, particularly considering that I'm not calling anyone here a hick (as you may have noticed I explicitly stated in the OP). One of the things that annoyed me about the expression on the day I posted the little rant originally was that I had just seen Common use the expression "Democrat Party" in the very same post where he was complaining about how "liberals" in the abstract were disrespectful people.

I agree with those who say that small-time farming is not practical in today's America. Taking my mom's farm, which she had to sell during the last recession, for example, between the various family members who were working it, we, on average, worked something like 14 hours a day for the proportional equivalent of $4.11 an hour in 2010 money collectively (I worked this out in 2010), the federal minimum wage for much of the time having been $5.15 an hour and the state-level minimum wage having been generally higher than that. That's not $4.11 an hour for each individual. That's $4.11 an hour for all of us combined to live on. That's what we could make off of farming itself. If my mom's case was at all a representative sample of small family farms in America, then you could literally make more money working an entry-level position in fast food or retail, which is why mom had to do wage-labor on the side. It was a joke. There's no way we could've made a proper living off of it. You have to be rich to be able to make a living off of farming today because otherwise you can't afford to produce on the requisite scale. You really have to do factory farming.

You still don't get the self-contradiction, caling people names for calling names?

And you don't have detractors, you have people who disagree with you.