If you avoid any political track with nut jobs, you'll be in a room by yourself.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason McKemie" <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 5:47:04 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT mildly political Yeah, the nutjobs ruined that designation. I used to partially identify as libertarian, I don't do that anymore. On Thursday, May 19, 2022, Sean Heskett < af...@zirkel.us > wrote: Here in ColoRADo voting libertarian ends up getting people like Lauren Bobert elected lol :-/ On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 9:15 AM Josh Luthman < j...@imaginenetworksllc.com > wrote: <blockquote> It's not a throwaway vote!!!! You have to vote libertarian if you want a libertarian! On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:06 AM Sean Heskett < af...@zirkel.us > wrote: <blockquote> <Say in the voice of Mr. Mackey from South Park> Mmmkay everyone, all you “woke” people are tried and cranky, y’all need to go back to bed and get some rest. -Sean (For the record I’m registered independent , socially liberal, fiscally conservative, I would vote libertarian if it wasn’t a throwaway vote) On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 8:53 AM Chuck McCown via AF < af@af.afmug.com > wrote: <blockquote> Well, maybe their thin skin needs some toughening up. Everyone could use some more grit. In my experience, those that feel compelled to “call out” people never affect positive change. And frequently they harm themselves in the trying. Becoming toxic themselves to those they are trying to shame/expose/coerce/educate/put down. What good does it do to tell some red necked construction worker that he is being racist? I just avoid those with views I abhor. And I try to teach by example. But I never call anyone out. At work, if they are my employee, I address the concern in private. If they don’t change I fire them. Social justice warriors are idiots in my opinion. They invent a noble cause with which to enshroud themselves while acting out in socially impolitic ways, a good reason, in their mind, to be an anarchist. Look at antifa and proud boys. Exact same people, doing the exact same things, for the exact same reasons. The ONLY difference is some contrived battle line they are trying to advance. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 7:42 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT mildly political You stirred the liberal hornets nest now, Chuck. On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM < dmmoff...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> Weirdly opposite here. My brothers are vocally alt-right. All ex-military, all purport to be Christian. One is dead from substance abuse and suffered a variety of mental health issues. The surviving two are always broke, angry, and unhappy. I feel like I have to tiptoe around them so they don’t fly off the handle about anything. …..and I’m not at all “woke”. I just know it’s not for me to pass judgement. On the other hand, this is NY. Maybe they feel like they’re the rebels fighting the evil liberal death star. Maybe your kids in Utah feel like they’re the rebels fighting the evil Republican death star. From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com > On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6:11 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown < ch...@go-mtc.com > Subject: [AFMUG] OT mildly political Woke, broke, in therapy and crazy unhappy. That is how I would describe some of my kids. The alt right unwoke ones seem to have money and happiness. Never expected I would not be able to speak my mind at family dinners just to be able to still see some of my kids. Feel like I was convicted in absentia, thrown in the hole for a lifetime sentence, but taken out of solitary confinement now and then at their whims just so they could claim to have compassion on me for a half hour walk in the woods. Maybe longer if I pay for dinner. Odd times.... I loved my parents and grandparents. Never felt they had to earn it. Never would have thought of condemning them for the things they said. Funny, I have a sister that lives 1000 miles from me. Our families were separate all while the kids were growing. But some of hers have done the same things to her. Using the exact same vernacular. 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