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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Careful who you vote for, dudes
Date: 08/01/24 11:12 AM
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Being a dedicated Fox viewer, I saw it live. If you don't watch regularly, you are unaware this is sort of Jesse's schtick.

It's a misogynist joke and it's not funny. You've been conditioned to like humor made at the expense of 'others.'

I have in-laws and friends who were avid Rush listeners/Fox watchers.

They listen to those "jokes" and internalize them. Those 'jokes' validate their biases.

-Rush funny good smart man, Lib-girly stupid bad men, Lib women bad feminazis, and now 'immigrants take black jobs'. 'I like accountants who wear yarmulkes'. Pardon my French but, Hah f*cking hah.

It's obvious it has done the same to you. You internalize the humor, the jokes, such that they shape your perception of the world.

So while you call them jokes, and criticize others for a lack of humor, they ain't jokes. They fortify bigotry and racist, sexist, misogynist beliefs.
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