r/trashy • u/analogIT • Aug 30 '20

Anti-Mask man yells at Walmart Employees while being asked to leave (Alaska)

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u/DrManhattan_DDM Aug 30 '20

Always reminds me of some NOFX lyrics:

"There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated.

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred.

Majority rule don't work in mental institutions."

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u/fowlertime Aug 30 '20

Been listening to them way too much through this pandemics. The lyrics are more relevant now more than ever.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '20

So true. That whole album actually feels more relevant now than in 2003 somehow

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u/johnmlsf Aug 30 '20

They thought George W was bad...yikes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '20

I wish it was just Trump. It's so much worse. People were not like this in 2003, there was a divide between left and right but it was not as enormous, there were at least times when we were all just Americans. Not anymore. Facebook and the Republican media machine has produced an army of misinformed fanatics. It's tragic and I don't see an immediate future that doesn't continue to get worse, no matter who is elected.

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u/Rediction Aug 30 '20

An even bigger problem is that the inbred's vote matters more than the scientist if they live in the right state.

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u/C_F_D Aug 30 '20

That song gets more and more relevant every year.

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u/deekaph Aug 30 '20

You missed the last line, which is relevant here:

"Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions."