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There's hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
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YEAH
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**** hell Meatball
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The Man City and Arsenal results were fantastic. But it's looking like it might have been our peak.
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We really look like a dull blade at times. Really hope we bring in some fresh blood.
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I endorse this sentiment
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Pretty sure this is a category on Porn Hub.
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Choke artists painting another masterpiece here.
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Oh dear. Get Zany on.
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We should buy Trafford when Burnley go down. He'd be a good backup
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I've got the Pau-wer! I'll get my coat
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Traore would've buried that
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Ollie having a great game so far, hope he gets a goal.
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Exactly, the only reason for VAR is if something looks clearly off. Otherwise, you're undermining the referee and destroying the flow and enjoyment of the game.
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I try to avoid his opinions, tbh..
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Why the automatic VAR check? **** off!
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Nice one.
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Emery looks exhausted
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Scoref before halftime plz
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Ftfy
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A good opponent to experiment against. Let's see.
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We're going to score 5 today
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@TheAuthority Rural Trump supporters are a huge segment of the population that has been crippled by the collapse of domestic manufacturing and completely left behind by the information economy. They see a younger and more ethnically diverse population outpacing them and thriving with skills they can't access. So I think that's where a lot of the resentment factors in. Their default status in the society as white people is waning and it terrifies them. Obama embodied all their fear and paranoia. Obama becoming President was like a slave revolt to them. A lot of these rural communities are disconnected from one another, or at least they were disconnected. The internet has changed all that. They've created a vast online community, and harnessed a bit of power as a kind of social movement, with real world impact like Q-anon and January 6th, etc. Although they might be isolated in small towns, they are now part of a massive network of disaffected people, creating an echo chamber of resentment, paranoia and propaganda fed to them by Fox News and Right Wing radio. I should note that obviously there are plenty of rural Americans who haven't joined the Trump cult and who get unfairly stereotyped as ignorant rednecks. It must be extra lonely out there for people who despise Trumpism. To answer the question you asked, it was definitely our sick society that shaped Trump and it was our dysfunctional body politic that allowed a degenerate sociopath like him to become President, and incredibly, might actually allow it again which shows you just how broken the whole system is and how nihilistic half the population is that they will follow Trump straight into the abyss and pull the entire country right down with them.
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Absolutely, that's why I said "self professed piety". Their embrace of the degenerate Trump manifestly invalidates their advertised moral principles and exposes what they actually are. They are, in fact, the anti-Christ. The Evangelical American community was once fairly apolitical if you can believe it. But now, in their thirst for power and dominance in the political sphere, they've anointed a prophet one of the most vile, wretched and contemptible public figures this country has ever produced.
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The night Obama humiliated Trump to his face at the Correspondent's Dinner was the moment that Trump decided to run for President, I'm truly convinced of that. Trump ran on revenge the first time, and his followers wanted him to get it, for himself, and for themselves through him. It's the same exact scenario now as it was in 2015. He wants revenge again, and so do his mouth-breathing fanatics. For them it never had anything to do with governance or policy, it was always very tribal, very primitive, and purely based on negative emotions. They need him as a psychological salve, to protect them from a more assertive and visible non-white and non-hetero population, and they depend on Trump to throw punches for them at the coastal liberals in media, tech and education. His victory was like winning the World Cup for them. And they want that feeling again, and if it means voting to completely abandon American democracy for a conman who will install himself as dictator, they'll happily do it. And their enthusiastic accommodation of fascism renders their so-called patriotism and love of the Constitution utterly false, and it renders their self-professed Christian piety just as illusory.
