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ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?


That guy really loves flags

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes




imagine having whatever causes this

Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

one thing i always wonder about w/ people like that is who they get for their mechanic. if i was running a shop and someone rolled in with something like that, or one of those other unhinged cars w/ all the handpainted writing on it i'd just ask them to go elsewhere, because why would you deal with that

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Broken Machine posted:

one thing i always wonder about w/ people like that is who they get for their mechanic. if i was running a shop and someone rolled in with something like that, or one of those other unhinged cars w/ all the handpainted writing on it i'd just ask them to go elsewhere, because why would you deal with that

because you have AMERICAN OWNED and CHRISTIAN RUN signs out front, and you charge 40% more per hour than the other people who won't touch that poo poo.

they're constantly grifting each other

shoeberto
Jun 13, 2020

which way to the MACHINES?
There's a NAPA auto parts store in my new town that has the words "LIES LIES LIES" randomly in big letters in its front window and always has a bunch of cars with thin blue line stickers out front so I imagine there's gonna be plenty of sympathetic people around who are mechanics.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Napa is a notorious stealth-chud chain. not surprised.

SporkOfTruth
Sep 1, 2006

this kid walked up to me and was like man schmitty your stache is ghetto and I was like whatever man your 3b look like a dishrag.

he was like damn.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We've been driving out to the hinterlands a lot this year to hit remote bike trails and there's some real angry chud poo poo out there lol.


There's a little section of PA 271 between Ligonier and Johnstown (so in the country but not *that* in the country) with a giant 'TRUMP 2024 gently caress YOUR FEELINGS" sign posted on some guy's porch roof, it's like 12 feet wide.

we were up in the NW part of the state last weekend and there was a series of like twelve signs in a row in front of a business saying poo poo like

gently caress JOE BIDEN
WE "NEED" THE DON!
STOP JOELCIALISM NOW


but we were going too fast so I couldn't get any pictures and it sure as hell wasn't worth turning around for.

I was driving past your way last weekend to see vaxxed family and the number of "MAKING AMERICA SAFE FOR THE TALIBAN" billboards, featuring Ol' Joe's face photoshopped over a guy in Pashtun garb holding an RPG, on the PA turnpike was honestly impressive

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Jonny 290 posted:

Napa is a notorious stealth-chud chain. not surprised.

they're franchises right, they certainly don't seem to be a chain in the way that autozone or whatever is

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
more like napa know-nothings

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
lol trupm rally alert!!!!!!



fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

mediaphage posted:

lol trupm rally alert!!!!!!





hi james

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

i’m not giving you money either

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
lol there are people irl that see that and respond to it by giving them $7

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
a nice writeup about how cletus isnt the problem, it's the honda atv dealership owner on the local chamber of commerce

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites/620151/

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Shaggar posted:

lol there are people irl that see that and respond to it by giving them $7

there's a couple in my networks and they are insanely typecast

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
that was immediately followed up with another email

“HES ALREADY ENDORSED THESE REPUBLICANS FOR THE U.S. SENATE”

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
https://twitter.com/abhabhattarai/status/1441024812986601472

shoeberto
Jun 13, 2020

which way to the MACHINES?

graph posted:

there's a couple in my networks and they are insanely typecast

a 2012 prius with a "coexist" bumper sticker idling in a driveway next to a yard full of "BLACK LIVES MATTER" and "WE BELIEVE IN SCIENCE" yard signs while the Hamilton soundtrack plays. a cat is watching its owner from the window, and its name is Neville Longbottom. The owner chuckles to themselves in their car as they scroll through Oval Pawfice tweets.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

shoeberto posted:

Oval Pawfice tweets.

this is the common thread yes, lol

Pythagoras a trois
Feb 19, 2004

I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

Cat Face Joe posted:

imagine having whatever causes this

Owning a small business probably had some perks

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



here’s something fun from a paper i read today. when sinclair buys a station, the composition of the county commissions in the dma for that station shift 3% to the right. sinclair can literally flip close voting demographics with their constant garbage they flood the local news with.

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We've been driving out to the hinterlands a lot this year to hit remote bike trails and there's some real angry chud poo poo out there lol.


There's a little section of PA 271 between Ligonier and Johnstown (so in the country but not *that* in the country) with a giant 'TRUMP 2024 gently caress YOUR FEELINGS" sign posted on some guy's porch roof, it's like 12 feet wide.

we were up in the NW part of the state last weekend and there was a series of like twelve signs in a row in front of a business saying poo poo like

gently caress JOE BIDEN
WE "NEED" THE DON!
STOP JOELCIALISM NOW


but we were going too fast so I couldn't get any pictures and it sure as hell wasn't worth turning around for.

i saw an entire bumper facade whatever you call it big hunk of plastic mysteriously torn off with a biden/harris sticker in a ditch

sending a different kind of message

didn't want to slow down either

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

i saw an entire bumper facade whatever you call it big hunk of plastic mysteriously torn off with a biden/harris sticker in a ditch

sending a different kind of message

didn't want to slow down either

when i lived in az a friend of mine came out to his car one morning to find a lady attempting to scrape the obama sticker off his bumper with a kitchen knife.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Sagebrush posted:

when i lived in az a friend of mine came out to his car one morning to find a lady attempting to scrape the obama sticker off his bumper with a kitchen knife.

lmao of course

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
when i was a kid i stole a dole/kemp sign out of someone’s yard.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
i've never had a lawn sign or a political bumpersticker

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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hobbesmaster posted:

they're franchises right, they certainly don't seem to be a chain in the way that autozone or whatever is

chuds buy napa franchises, i guess is a better way to state it

shoeberto
Jun 13, 2020

which way to the MACHINES?

Mr. Nice! posted:

here’s something fun from a paper i read today. when sinclair buys a station, the composition of the county commissions in the dma for that station shift 3% to the right. sinclair can literally flip close voting demographics with their constant garbage they flood the local news with.

I gotta wonder though how long that strategy is gonna have legs. I don't know anyone under the age of 50 that watches local TV news.

Not that it's a total non-issue, it's still awful, but it seems like diminishing returns.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Stereotype posted:

i've never had a lawn sign or a political bumpersticker

the closest ive come was a jesus vinyl window decal when i was 16 and trying really hard to convince myself not to be gay lol (all my friends were (mostly not great) church people)

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


yeah, it's called making a bullshit excuse to save face. you can get a vaccine at walmart without an appointment now

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
a friend of mine couldn't keep those darwin jesus fish on his car for more than a few weeks in college

people mostly ripped them off of his car at the grocery store

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

akadajet posted:

yeah, it's called making a bullshit excuse to save face. you can get a vaccine at walmart without an appointment now

it's understandable when it comes to undocumented people who exist outside of the system, but the "oh i don't have time and/or a car" is bullshit. you can walk in anywhere now, even in the ghetto or the rear end end of nowhere, and basically have your pick of vaccines, the whole thing only takes a minute or two, and if you can somehow manage to get to work and the grocery store, you have no excuse

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


shoeberto posted:

I gotta wonder though how long that strategy is gonna have legs. I don't know anyone under the age of 50 that watches local TV news.

Not that it's a total non-issue, it's still awful, but it seems like diminishing returns.

Once you've established permanent minority rule it doesn't matter anymore!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Pennsylvania has a 15% voter registration advantage for Democrats over Republicans. the areas that are Republican are extreme minority population areas, the Philadelphia + urbanized collar county area has a higher GDP than the entire rural county inventory of the state combined.

You just need to keep the game up long enough to maintain a legislative minority majority that can neuter at-large elections in the state. Once you're done with that, and you can control redistricting, it doesn't matter. Turns out demographics aren't destiny after all, if you can make the mass of land in a state completely unbearable to anyone but your hardcore base.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


There's a weird idea among liberals that elections will continue as they always have in this country in our lifetime and our parents' lifetimes. Conservatives are openly telling us that they will not and that they will do everything they can to make sure that votes don't matter.

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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graph posted:

a nice writeup about how cletus isnt the problem, it's the honda atv dealership owner on the local chamber of commerce

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites/620151/

wyman's a smart guy, i'm surprised shatlantic published him

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


image text goes here

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

make sure that votes don't matter.

so what you're saying is elections will continue as they always have in this country in our lifetime and our parents' lifetimes

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Stringent posted:

so what you're saying is elections will continue as they always have in this country in our lifetime and our parents' lifetimes

There was a 50 year window where we pretended they mattered. lol

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Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
tori you read today's post on the next election? this dude's argument is the exact same as yours and i just don't understand why dems are not ccaring.

https://archive.is/I0qLb

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