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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" 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: wzambon ✶❂🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: "I love the poorly educated."
Date: 08/11/26 6:35 PM
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Really? It doesn't seem that difficult to parse. Not all that much different from Joe Biden saying, "I love the Irish," or George Bush saying "I love the folks in the military."

No. Your examples are not the same thing. The words chosen convey something positive, whereas the term “poorly educated” does not.

There ARE positive and alternative ways to refer to the same group of people, or speak to them directly.

“Instead of going further in school, you went to work”

“Of course you were educated! In the school of life and hard knocks.”

“Instead of books, you picked up wrenches and welders’ torches.”

“Poorly educated? My foot!”

But Trump is incapable of speaking affirmatively about groups he personally knows nothing about- except that he hoodwinked them into voting for him.
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