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AverageOldGuy

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1. Back when I was a little kid growing up in . . .

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:39 PM

Oct 13

. . . in a poor, crossroads, cotton-picking Mississippi town in the 1950's, I said "I hate (something, I forget what)." My sainted grandmother let me know "We don't use that word -- 'hate' is not a word that we use."

I have refrained from using that word. Until now.

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Back when I was a little kid growing up in . . . AverageOldGuy Oct 13 #1

There was a time when I wondered if calling them "Nazis" was too harsh. Buns_of_Fire Oct 14 #2

As so often happens--our far right takes its hints from the European far left DFW Oct 14 #3