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[–] [email protected] 70 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

it's close because racism, jeebus, and guns. it seems like it should be more than that, but it isn't. broke uneducated GOP voters literally don't care about anything except for some combination of the above 3 things, because that's what the 1% propaganda machine told them to do

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Gay panic is passe, it's trans panic now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Gay trans furry fascist communist Muslim atheists. Somehow the paradoxical bogeyman keeps folding in new and contradictory traits.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And the Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns. So it’s really just the racism that’s the distinguishing factor.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns

and yet the bleating of "they're trying to take yer gunnnnnnns" and "war on christmas/christianity" never ever fucking stops

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s insane.

And it’s far more likely that if the GOP had total control, they’d institute a national religion (good luck having your flavor picked for that one) and that they’d take away all the guns to protect their power (since there is clearly nothing they’d avoid doing if it meant getting/keeping power).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They'd probably be thrilled to give up their guns if it was GOP taking them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

OMG, you’re right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The guns thing. There is a rather large swath of rural, liberal gun owners. If you’ve ever lived in a locale that lacks enough ambient light for you to see your hand in front of your face at night, you get it. If you live in a place where you can hear a car approaching from more than a mile away you get it.

Let my handgun have a normal clip (average 9mm is 15 bullets) and we’re probably golden. And yet. DEMs lose moderate libs on this single issue.

Yes, I own a handgun. Off the shelf with no mods it holds 18 per clip standard and comes with 2 clips.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

i live in the mountains in a town of ~3000. i can drive 30 miles without seeing a traffic light. and i also have a gun

i'm still voting D, because i see that as a boneheaded thing to acquiesce to trump over. though to be fair, there IS NO valid defensible reason to vote for that incompetent pluted bloatocrat rapist coward

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

I have several. Not once have I actually felt like someone was coming to take them. Beto shot himself in the foot saying he would, especially in Texas.

I like common sense gun laws. I took classes for my concealed carry. I can pass a test about the care and feeding of firearms any day of the week. No one except me has access to my guns.

Of course I'm voting blue. They ain't coming for my guns. And even if they were I'd still vote against Trump and fight them on it.