Please, enlighten me, what would posess someone to buy these things
other than some kind of sycophancy?
Please, enlighten me, what would posess someone to buy these things
other than some kind of sycophancy?
To support Trump! I'd wear them to support Trump, even though I hate high tops.
I'd wear them just so that people who see me walking around in them can accurately label me as a person who didn't vote for Biden.
So you would pay $400 for them? Rather than some $20 t-shirt that says "let's go Brandon" or a $15 MAGA trucker hat?
Even without those things, (and having no idea what you look like) I'm willing to bet just about anyone you run into would be able to identify you as someone who didn't vote for Biden with a better than 50% success rate.
But it's not a cult, right?
What happens if it turns out those shoes are made in China?
Please, enlighten me, what would posess someone to buy these things
other than some kind of sycophancy?
To support Trump! I'd wear them to support Trump, even though I hate high tops.
I'd wear them just so that people who see me walking around in them can accurately label me as a person who didn't vote for Biden.
Please, enlighten me, what would posess someone to buy these things
other than some kind of sycophancy?
To support Trump! I'd wear them to support Trump, even though I hate
high tops.
I'd wear them just so that people who see me walking around in them can
accurately label me as a person who didn't vote for Biden.
So you would pay $400 for them? Rather than some $20 t-shirt that says "let's go Brandon" or a $15 MAGA trucker hat?
Even without those things, (and having no idea what you look like) I'm willing to bet just about anyone you run into would be able to identify you
as someone who didn't vote for Biden with a better than 50% success rate.
But instead you will drop $400 on shoes that you dislike just so you can identify as a person belonging to a specific group.
But it's not a cult, right?
What happens if it turns out those shoes are made in China?
Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Miller <=-
This is a common mistake that leftists keep making. They think that conservatives are a collective brain, and we're not. There's dissent.
You know as well as I do that you will never wear those sneakers
in public. I do not doubt you would pay $400 for them (new), but
would most defininely question your sanity if you were to be so
stupid as to ruin them by wearing them in public. Especially since
the minimum value of those sneakers (new) is worth $7500+ today.
OTOH you could be the stupidest person in Fidonet ...
I didn't know they were $400. I'll wait until they show up at a discount store to buy them.
This is a common mistake that leftists keep making. They think that conservatives are a collective brain, and we're not. There's dissent.
That's because leftists **are** a collective brain. None of them can think for themselves. As soon as they do, they are no longer a leftist.
Ron L. wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-
Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Miller <=-
That's because leftists **are** a collective brain. None of them can think for themselves. As soon as they do, they are no longer a
leftist.
IB Joe wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-
The guys who bought them for 400 are now trying to sell them for $45,000.00
So you would pay $400 for them? Rather than some $20 t-shirt
that says "let's go Brandon" or a $15 MAGA trucker hat?
I'd wear them, but I didn't say I'd pay $400 for them.
Even without those things, (and having no idea what you look
like) I'm willing to bet just about anyone you run into would be
able to identify you as someone who didn't vote for Biden with a
better than 50% success rate.
How?
But it's not a cult, right?
It's not religious devotion to Trump, it's just political devotion.
After he serves another term, this bromance will be over.
What happens if it turns out those shoes are made in China?
This is a common mistake that leftists keep making. They think that conservatives are a collective brain, and we're not. There's dissent.
There's even dissent among Trump supporters. I support Trump, but
unlike Trump, I don't blame China for Covid (I blame the USA.)
Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Miller <=-
This is a common mistake that leftists keep making. They think
that conservatives are a collective brain, and we're not. There's
dissent.
That's because leftists **are** a collective brain. None of them can think for themselves. As soon as they do, they are no longer a
leftist.
You mean, like an NFT? Like them, no one's actually seen a pair of
Trump Shoes in the wild.
Wait, does this small aresnal I have mean I'm not a leftist anymore? Aren't I supposed to hate everything about guns?
Ok, jokes aside.. What would posess someone to buy those things? I thought Trump fought for "the working class"
I buy a pair of hiking boots every couple years that cost, at most, $150. I'll wear them until they start to fall apart, to get every last cent I paid out of them. (most of the time I will wait until I can find what I want on sale for around $80-$90)
Trump-assosiation aside, these are some ugly-ass shoes.
Please, enlighten me, what would posess someone to buy these things other than some kind of sycophancy?
like) I'm willing to bet just about anyone you run into would be
able to identify you as someone who didn't vote for Biden with a
better than 50% success rate.
How?
There's always a good chance you fit the sterotype. That's why they're sterotypes.
But it's far more likely you'll fall into the "Crossfit" "Vegan" and/or "Linux User" category.
It's not religious devotion to Trump, it's just political devotion. After he serves another term, this bromance will be over.
First, it doesn't have to be "religious" to be a cult. Plenty of cults were not religious in nature.
Second, to this day, people still talk about Ronald Regan with similar devotion.
There's even dissent among Trump supporters. I support Trump, but unlike Trump, I don't blame China for Covid (I blame the USA.)
I'm not talking about that. Trump is always railing on about China. How bad China is. etc. etc.
Are you saying you're also all in on the "Do as I say, not as I do?" thing? Hypocrisy is OK with you?
This is a common mistake that leftists keep making. They think
that conservatives are a collective brain, and we're not. There's
dissent.
That's because leftists **are** a collective brain. None of them can think for themselves. As soon as they do, they are no longer a leftist.
Wait, does this small aresnal I have mean I'm not a leftist anymore? Aren't I supposed to hate everything about guns?
Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-
At least the realize that there are people who don't conform. That
gives me hope that some day, many of them will realize that they don't have to conform either.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Mike Miller <=-
Critical thinking and debate are two classes sorely needed these days.
Ron L. wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Critical thinking and debate are two classes sorely needed these days.
Which is why you'll never see them in the Public Schools today.
At least the realize that there are people who don't conform. That gives me hope that some day, many of them will realize that they don' have to conform either.
I think that most of them will wake up. I believe that the ones who can already have.
But like any hivemind, anyone who has different-speak is a threat and an ememy of the hive.
Critical thinking and debate are two classes sorely needed these days
Which is why you'll never see them in the Public Schools today.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Dr. What <=-
There's a lot to be said for an impressionable body politic that reacts
to emotional manipulation - from both sides of the aisle.
I'm still an
optimist that thinks that a healthy, educated, employed populace makes
for a healthy country and think that's an ideal to work towards. It
feels like it's getting farther and farther away.
Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-
I heard the phrase "Critical Thinking Skills" a lot when I was in
school, and the world was a better, safer place back then.
I'm gonna ask my kids if that's even a grading section anymore,
anywhere in school.
Ron L. wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Kurt Weiske wrote to Dr. What <=-
There's a lot to be said for an impressionable body politic that reacts
to emotional manipulation - from both sides of the aisle.
Narrative. The "both sides" you are talking about is a myth. The only sides are the Elitists who think that they should rule, and everyone
else.
Aaron Thomas wrote to Ron L. <=-
I'm gonna ask my kids if that's even a grading section anymore,
anywhere in school.
I'm gonna ask my kids if that's even a grading section anymore, anywhere in school.
Schools (at least the ones I've had experience with recently) are
falling prey to Cults of Terminology. Instead of using exercises,
quizzes and tests, offering letter grades, let's make up a new terminology, built an education framework and patent it.
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