"More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"

[Joe Capitalist]

It's not an excuse it is reality. Regardless. I still support others right to reject it too. They are less afraid, my action was not for them.

I've been through this argument before with another poster. My motivations may be different than yours, but they are understandable to anyone except a sociopath.

I got to choose something, you get to choose something, the reason I do it whether or not you would for that same reason is not what is up for debate. That is what I support, folks get to choose.

And the "Authoritarians" you can't find are the ones clapping over fascist rules in France and hoping for more of them here.

So, I still don't get it.

You said: "I did that so you, yes you personally (and others like you), would not be so afraid." I'm still trying to figure out who 'and others like you' refers to. You want to enlighten me?

Explain to me how YOU getting the vaccine makes me 'not afraid'? And until you can, it's not reality. it's an excuse. And a pretty lame one at that. It doesn't even make any sense. It's almost as if you're embarrassed to admit you got the vaccine to protect yourself because it doesn't fit with the far right wing mantra. Are you afraid they'll kick you out of their club? Is that it?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Right, I have long argued here that New York & California are mostly Republican majority in it's White Christian origin population.
But because of minorities it props up the Democrats in those states.

It's more the urban Progressive Whites than anything else that drives the Blue areas. They simply bribe minorities to join them in voting with social-welfare programs. The White Progressives are like AOC in that they don't know shit about anything other than some office-type job where they make big bucks pushing paper or doing things like stock trading. If technology collapsed tomorrow, they'd starve to death.

Only in regions where minorities dominate such as the Southern border counties or urban ones with a Black majority, do you see them voting Blue and then its because their own leaders tell them too.

 

[Damocles]

So, I still don't get it.

You said: "I did that so you, yes you personally (and others like you), would not be so afraid." I'm still trying to figure out who 'and others like you' refers to. You want to enlighten me?

Explain to me how YOU getting the vaccine makes me 'not afraid'? And until you can, it's not reality. it's an excuse. And a pretty lame one at that. It doesn't even make any sense. It's almost as if you're embarrassed to admit you got the vaccine to protect yourself because it doesn't fit with the far right wing mantra. Are you afraid they'll kick you out of their club? Is that it?

Less =/= not. You are arguing with yourself.

My choice is a very Buddhist choice. Some folks are afraid of Coronavirus, so I chose to be part of the testing of a vaccine so that something could eventually be made that could assuage their fears. It's a compassionate choice, made consciously to help others get over their fears. Some did not want to participate in testing, because they were afraid that unapproved vaccines can cause side effects, I chose to take that risk in their behalf...

You seem very fearful. You ask what "folks like you" means... Folks like you are the ones that want others to do something to make your life better rather than you doing what is necessary to make your life better and letting them freely choose whether that same choice is right for them or to take a different path that they believe is better.

Personally, pretending to laugh a lot doesn't make it seem like you are winning in this case, you just seem like you cannot find a way to put yourself into the shoes of another that may think differently than you. I do that (think of how others may feel/believe), then I act in what I believe is the most compassionate way, it is what I believe is the right thing to do personally. I do not believe that forcing others to act like me is the right thing to do... Both of these things are true.

 

[BattleofHodow]

It's more the urban Progressive Whites than anything else that drives the Blue areas. They simply bribe minorities to join them in voting with social-welfare programs. The White Progressives are like AOC in that they don't know shit about anything other than some office-type job where they make big bucks pushing paper or doing things like stock trading. If technology collapsed tomorrow, they'd starve to death.

Only in regions where minorities dominate such as the Southern border counties or urban ones with a Black majority, do you see them voting Blue and then its because their own leaders tell them too.

Lol.... I grew up in Putnam County, NY.

Most people there were Whites of Italian or Irish roots with even more recent roots in NY urban centers like the Bronx, Yonkers, Brooklyn, Mount Vernon, Queens, New Rochelle.

The closer the roots to urban centers & to Europe the more Republican they tended to be.

 

[BattleofHodow]

It's more the urban Progressive Whites than anything else that drives the Blue areas. They simply bribe minorities to join them in voting with social-welfare programs. The White Progressives are like AOC in that they don't know shit about anything other than some office-type job where they make big bucks pushing paper or doing things like stock trading. If technology collapsed tomorrow, they'd starve to death.

Only in regions where minorities dominate such as the Southern border counties or urban ones with a Black majority, do you see them voting Blue and then its because their own leaders tell them too.

Staten Island & other Italian neighborhoods in NYC mostly went with Trump.

As for the heavily Anglo Upper East side.
Although they went more against Trump slightly, they did go for W. Bush.

Other than that an awful lot of the progressive ( White) neighborhoods in NYC went heavily against Trump or W. BUSH?

A lot of them are Jewish, LGBTQ or Hipster.

Hipsters aren't necessarily a from NYC same with LGBTQ with large numbers venturing in from other areas.

 

[Joe Capitalist]

Less =/= not. You are arguing with yourself.

My choice is a very Buddhist choice. Some folks are afraid of Coronavirus, so I chose to be part of the testing of a vaccine so that something could eventually be made that could assuage their fears. It's a compassionate choice, made consciously to help others get over their fears. Some did not want to participate in testing, because they were afraid that unapproved vaccines can cause side effects, I chose to take that risk in their behalf...

You seem very fearful. You ask what "folks like you" means... Folks like you are the ones that want others to do something to make your life better rather than you doing what is necessary to make your life better and letting them freely choose whether that same choice is right for them or to take a different path that they believe is better.

Personally, pretending to laugh a lot doesn't make it seem like you are winning in this case, you just seem like you cannot find a way to put yourself into the shoes of another that may think differently than you. I do that (think of how others may feel/believe), then I act in what I believe is the most compassionate way, it is what I believe is the right thing to do personally. I do not believe that forcing others to act like me is the right thing to do... Both of these things are true.

Wow! Did you, by chance, go to the Donald Trump School of Writing? Sorry, but I still don't get it. All I'm reading is incomprehensible rambling.

I was never afraid of getting the virus or the vaccine. My son participated in the Moderna study and I was very proud of him in doing so.

I seem very fearful? Either you have some sort of telepathic power that enables you to assess a person's inner feelings on an Internet forum or you're just making shit up to try to save your argument.

Methinks it's the latter.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Lol.... I grew up in Putnam County, NY.

Most people there were Whites of Italian or Irish roots with even more recent roots in NY urban centers like the Bronx, Yonkers, Brooklyn, Mount Vernon, Queens, New Rochelle.

The closer the roots to urban centers & to Europe the more Republican they tended to be.

Middle Class Whites who 'work for a living' like in skilled trades or similar jobs tend to vote Republican. They are self reliant sorts that don't need or want government meddling in their lives. The sort that wants the social-welfare state are those that work in some skyscraper office job doing something for lots of money that doesn't produce anything tangible. They tend to live in condos or apartments. This sort thinks that those of lessor means live like they do only that their lessor means makes it necessary for them to have government support to make ends meet when the truth is they can get by fine doing things for themselves that the Progressive "elites" can't fathom like changing out a non-working garbage disposal...

Example from today in my own life:

AC died this morning about six AM. Smell of smoke in the house. Me and the kid (he's in college but lives at home) searched the house for signs of fire. Called and got a non-emergency response from the fire department (no sirens and such--unnecessary). They checked too.
I went up on the roof where the AC is about eight AM and found that the start capacitor for the compressor had smoked. I put the high efficiency swamp cooler back on to give the house some cooling while I waited for the AC guy to come.
Called my AC guy (Carlos who's Hispanic) to come over when he could to fix it, rather than do it myself (its raining off and on here today). He came about noon and replaced the part and cleaned up the wiring, etc.

Cost me $120 cash no invoice to get that done.

The Progressive know-nothing response would have been a panic call to 911, followed by a call to some maintenance company to find and fix the problem. I could envision a $1000 + bill resulting from all that. That Progressive would assume based on their experience that's how it goes for everybody, while my experience tells me they're full of shit and got took because they're technical / real world illiterates.

 

[Althea]

"More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/briefing/delta-variant-spread-red-states-us.html

"Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/delta-variant-surge-covid-cases-500483

"The Delta variant is hitting red states hardest as the US's vaccine divide widens"
https://news.yahoo.com/delta-variant-hitting-red-states-132500281.html

"As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths"
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as...n-reluctance-will-mean-thousands-more-deaths/

"Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83% of U.S. Cases"
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210720/delta-variant-now-accounts-for-83-of-us-covid-cases

And as an epitome of the stupidity behind it - “I’d rather have a dangerous freedom than a comfortable safety" - Arkansas state Sen. Trent Garner (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/delta-variant-surge-covid-cases-500483)

Natural selection

 

[BattleofHodow]

Middle Class Whites who 'work for a living' like in skilled trades or similar jobs tend to vote Republican. They are self reliant sorts that don't need or want government meddling in their lives. The sort that wants the social-welfare state are those that work in some skyscraper office job doing something for lots of money that doesn't produce anything tangible. They tend to live in condos or apartments. This sort thinks that those of lessor means live like they do only that their lessor means makes it necessary for them to have government support to make ends meet when the truth is they can get by fine doing things for themselves that the Progressive "elites" can't fathom like changing out a non-working garbage disposal...

Example from today in my own life:

AC died this morning about six AM. Smell of smoke in the house. Me and the kid (he's in college but lives at home) searched the house for signs of fire. Called and got a non-emergency response from the fire department (no sirens and such--unnecessary). They checked too.
I went up on the roof where the AC is about eight AM and found that the start capacitor for the compressor had smoked. I put the high efficiency swamp cooler back on to give the house some cooling while I waited for the AC guy to come.
Called my AC guy (Carlos who's Hispanic) to come over when he could to fix it, rather than do it myself (its raining off and on here today). He came about noon and replaced the part and cleaned up the wiring, etc.

Cost me $120 cash no invoice to get that done.

The Progressive know-nothing response would have been a panic call to 911, followed by a call to some maintenance company to find and fix the problem. I could envision a $1000 + bill resulting from all that. That Progressive would assume based on their experience that's how it goes for everybody, while my experience tells me they're full of shit and got took because they're technical / real world illiterates.

I think you might have a point, But most of this resides on ethnic lines.

Adirondack region of New York is one of the most rural, impoverished & presumably blue collar regions in NY.

It is more blue than urban Staten Island or suburban exurban high income Putnam County, NY.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...vYYLmMA0=&shth=OIP.MUIS1o_Z6fWn3EbZ44JCCAHaEs

 

[archives]

Right, I have long argued here that New York & California are mostly Republican majority in it's White Christian origin population.
But because of minorities it props up the Democrats in those states.

You do realize that few people live in those areas colored red on the maps? Wyoming is colored all red, looks like a lot, yet their population is less than metro Buffalo, NY

New York and California, along with many other Blue States, are not a "mostly Republican majority," and it has nothing to do with minorities

 

[archives]

I think you might have a point, But most of this resides on ethnic lines.

Adirondack region of New York is one of the most rural, impoverished & presumably blue collar regions in NY.

It is more blue than urban Staten Island or suburban exurban high income Putnam County, NY.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...vYYLmMA0=&shth=OIP.MUIS1o_Z6fWn3EbZ44JCCAHaEs

Adirondack region of New York is not blue collar, nor does it have much of a population, in fact, it is largely a public park, actually, the largest public park in the country

 

[BattleofHodow]

You do realize that few people live in those areas colored red on the maps? Wyoming is colored all red, looks like a lot, yet their population is less than metro Buffalo, NY

New York and California, along with many other Blue States, are not a "mostly Republican majority," and it has nothing to do with minorities

New York city was 32% White in 2019.
Of those Whites some are actually minorities, Jews, Muslims, Arabs, LGBTQ.
Who vote way more Democrat than Whites of a normal Catholic or Protestant background.

The only borough that is majority those kind of Whites being Staten Island voted Trump 2 times.

 

[BattleofHodow]

Adirondack region of New York is not blue collar, nor does it have much of a population, in fact, it is largely a public park, actually, the largest public park in the country

I didn't say it was all blue collar.
But, compared to a lot of NY. Absolutely.

 

[Into the Night]

"More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/briefing/delta-variant-spread-red-states-us.html

"Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/delta-variant-surge-covid-cases-500483

"The Delta variant is hitting red states hardest as the US's vaccine divide widens"
https://news.yahoo.com/delta-variant-hitting-red-states-132500281.html

"As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths"
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as...n-reluctance-will-mean-thousands-more-deaths/

"Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83% of U.S. Cases"
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210720/delta-variant-now-accounts-for-83-of-us-covid-cases

And as an epitome of the stupidity behind it - “I’d rather have a dangerous freedom than a comfortable safety" - Arkansas state Sen. Trent Garner (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/delta-variant-surge-covid-cases-500483)

Fake News.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Adirondack region of New York is not blue collar, nor does it have much of a population, in fact, it is largely a public park, actually, the largest public park in the country

I'm sure the people who live there are amused by your view......and happy to fleece you of your money......