Lieutenant_Joe

Lieutenant_Joe t1_iugg0en wrote

Reply to comment by Firm_Rock6519 in Maine by Stephen King by Jvncvs

Kinda like how most films set in Maine aren’t actually filmed here

Just googled it and apparently some of it was filmed in an apartment complex in Colorado, but yeah, most of it was in London, an airport outside London, an American legion post in SoCal, and Glacier NP.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iuer1aq wrote

I sometimes feel like Mainers are better at geography than the average American, and then I remember the people I went to high school with who thought Pennsylvania was a different country

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iubykhx wrote

Alright, now I know you’re an asshole. I’m autistic too. I would have hoped you’d know better than to just assume someone’s brain chemistry after spending any significant period of time as an autistic person on the internet, but I guess not. Whatever your last response is gonna be is none of my business; you’ve been my only waste of time in this whole thread.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iubq9m2 wrote

I’m not vilifying them. But we can talk about it; I will say they’re the least likely to struggle in life based on what they were born as, rather than their personalities, accomplishments and every other thing that makes them an individual. The rest of us have to deal with various degrees of “You suck and I wish you didn’t exist”, often from/influenced by people in power. There are obviously people who wish straight white male christians didn’t exist, but they generally aren’t people who have the ability to influence the quality of life of entire demographics. Not in this country.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iubhct2 wrote

Sorry, but I’m of the opinion that sarcasm stops being funny when you have to explain that it’s sarcasm. I’ve largely stopped using it on this site because Reddit now immediately assumes you’re being sincere without the /s, even if you’re as obvious as you possibly can be.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iubfopi wrote

You’re fine. I’m just sick of the “we’re all in this together” line. Sure, that might be true, but some people are trying to throw others off the raft based entirely on what they were born as rather than who they’ve become. I desperately wish those people weren’t in here with the rest of us. It fuckin sucks.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iubd4bi wrote

I doubt they’re sorry. I wouldn’t be.

You were one of two comments who responded to me at the same time, and I immediately started arguing with you while immediately relenting with the other person because you said something that annoyed me: “we’re all neighbors here.”

When I was growing up, one of the people I rode the bus with was a self-proclaimed white nationalist. Still is one, last I checked, which was a few months ago. I moved within that town at one point and got new neighbors, but one of those was a family of Californians who hate anyone who isn’t like them and have logged to erasure a public trail system on private property in the town after buying the property from the old, infirm lady who used to own it.

Do not ask me to be pleased about calling nationalistic xenophobes my “neighbors”. Those people don’t want us to exist, man.

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iua3nkt wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Money in politics by riefpirate

Because he made the Maine GOP spend 60% of its budget in 2020 on trying and failing to get ranked choice voting repealed while a third of the state’s small businesses shut down due to Democrat COVID policy. Anybody who’s dumb enough to miss such a golden opportunity for the sake of his own ego straight up doesn’t deserve to win, especially against someone like Jared Golden who makes a genuine attempt at appealing to everyone in spite of how polarized we’ve become. If Bruce wins anyway, then Maine’s second district fucking deserves him.

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