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Both right wing and extreme right wing!

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just more insidious

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"with hookers...and blow!"

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Bad enough around Richmond, TYVM!

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They're going to find the racist asshole who did this, I have no doubt about that.

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Yep. One of my friends in Texas is almost 50 and she still refers to her brother as her Bubba. My daughter always called her brother Butter.

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Folks remarried; children born; property inherited or bought, then sold, destroyed, or redistributed; spoilers printed out for all to see; convicts reappearing in prisons - if the prisons are still there; and where the hell do all the reappearing crops and other plants fit?

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Yeah, but those sponsors would still try to sell Valvoline and Dewalt tools and Monster Energy Drinks to racists, up to the point where their companies got directly caught in a scandal. And then they'd say, "what?! We didn't know what was going on! This situation doesn't represent our values! We support ALL black lives!" And then go on selling tools.

I don't know how popular Bubba Wallace is or how much sway he holds over NASCAR, but I admire him a great deal. He's a bright spot in this current cyclone of despair and misery. He's smart, he's accomplishing real progress, and he seems like a class act.

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Driving on the 405 is a sport.

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The garage area has to have cameras! Don't the teams keep their expensive cars there?

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Drumpf's response: I need some new zingers for my rally in Arizona this week!

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Bubba Wallace and NASCAR doing in weeks what the NFL couldn't pull off for years. Who'd a thunk?

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Exactly. I was about to say the same thing. Too many valuables there not to have cameras. I mean, if one team wanted to play dirty they could go in and mess with other teams' cars even. Gotta be cameras.

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Natural consequences are rough.

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Reconstruction was effectively canceled after Lincoln was assassinated. Had Lincoln lived, he was all for treating the southern states kindly, welcoming them back into the fold and getting them back on their feet. But. Nope.

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They always leave the nooses anonymously- like some racist tooth fairy. I’m sick of it. If you want me to know how you feel about me as a black man? Say it to my face. Don’t be a fucking coward. Don’t make comments when there’s one of me and you’re with five of your friends* Approach me-man to man-and call me that to my face.

*true story. I did as dancing with my them girlfriend at a bar here in Ft Wayne years ago. I’d put my beer on the ledge off near the dance floor. These three guys were eyeballing us. I go to take a drink and one of them had put a cigarette out in my beer. We finished dancing, walked off the floor.. and I just happened to run into three black guys who I didn’t know and shared what happened. Those white dudes vanished the minute they saw I had back up.

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