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Minnesota GOP endorses antisemite Royce White in Senate Primary

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FireDragon76 said:
"Nice" is actually a pretty low bar, or it used to be, and often just means people will do the socially respectable thing but get back at you passive-aggressively later.
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There is an inside joke with people who moved here from other states that goes "Minnesota nice is Minnesota ice." There is a culture of being "nice" to people while hiding their disdain. Many of the more conservative churches believe that the love of Christ only extends to those who deserve it and that if you are poor, it's due to your own moral failing. Many don't believe in the propetual cycle of poverty and chalk it up to people not working hard enough.

I remember being on the middle school basketball team as a six-footer, getting massive rebounds. These old guys loved me when we got the victory but their daughters had to keep our friendship a secret or risk being disowned. One girl used to tell me what her dad and his friends and family used to say while watching basketball and it was thoroughly offensive but when they see me in school it was nothing but high fives and smiles. It was a good lesson to learn young.
 
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FireDragon76 said:
It doesn't surprise me that much that alot of people in the upper midwest would vote for Trump.

Having lived in the midwest and known people from there, "nice" is sometimes just performative. "Nice" is actually a pretty low bar, or it used to be, and often just means people will do the socially respectable thing but get back at you passive-aggressively later.

I used to go to church with Lutherans, some of whom were from the upper midwest. Some were probably genuinely warm hearted, but reserved, people, some I suspect were actually dirtbags hiding behind social respectability and cheap grace (I left the church because the church council president said things about homeless people that were against the clear teachings of Jesus, the Scriptures, and the early Church. I confronted several members of the church, including the pastor, and they told me it was my problem, not theirs).
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I’m from Nebraska, which isn’t the upper Midwest, but definitely pro trump and Republican.

My hometown was majority ELCA Lutheran of German background. Overall, the village council was moderate to conservative. It was a very small town, after all.
 
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rturner76 said:
There is an inside joke with people who moved here from other states that goes "Minnesota nice is Minnesota ice." There is a culture of being "nice" to people while hiding their disdain. Many of the more conservative churches believe that the love of Christ only extends to those who deserve it and that if you are poor, it's due to your own moral failing. Many don't believe in the propetual cycle of poverty and chalk it up to people not working hard enough.
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Sometimes it isn't even about a cycle of poverty per se. In alot of places, housing and rent isn't affordable.

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I’m from Nebraska, which isn’t the Midwest, but definitely pro trump and Republican.

My hometown was majority ELCA Lutheran of German background. Overall, the village council was moderate to conservative. It was a very small town, after all.
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Some were genuinely loving, certainly. The pastor we had years ago was exceptional, he went the extra mile and was a real spiritual father to me. So the experience wasn't all bad: Lutheran worship can be beautiful in its own right. I had some good experiences there too, some of a spiritual nature.

However, after COVID I returned and things were not OK. I did alot of soul searching and just decided it was time to move on. It was not an easy decision.

Like Abraham, I seem to wander alot.
 
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FireDragon76 said:
Sometimes it isn't even about a cycle of poverty per se. In alot of places, housing and rent isn't affordable.



Some were genuinely loving, certainly. The pastor we had years ago was exceptional, he went the extra mile and was a real spiritual father to me. So the experience wasn't all bad: Lutheran worship can be beautiful in its own right. I had some good experiences there too, some of a spiritual nature.

However, after COVID I returned and things were not OK. I did alot of soul searching and just decided it was time to move on. It was not an easy decision.

Like Abraham, I seem to wander alot.
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Oh, I see.

Take care.

Edit: Nebraska is the Midwest. It’s not the UPPER Midwest. My mistake.
 
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GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Royce White Owes More Than $100K Child Support​

When NBC News reported last month on Minnesota Senate hopeful Royce White’s history of ignoring child support obligations, he shot back, “All you liberals really just want to shame people with kids, because you’re anti-human as [all get-out]. That’s it. I love my children. And I’m current on my child support.”

According to financial statements provided by the mother of one of White’s children, however, White owes her more than $100,000 in child support payments for a daughter with whom he is barely involved.

The mother of White’s daughter shared images from Minnesota’s online child support portal showing White owes her $100,086.82, having made just one payment this year—$523.91, earlier this month.

White denied the woman’s claims, telling The Daily Beast, “I’m current on child support payments” in her case, as well as in a case with a second woman in which White was found in contempt in April.

I know I know, he's not running for pastor, just US Senator.
 
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I know I know, he's not running for pastor, just US Senator.
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But it does speak to the hypocrisy that exists in the evangelical right. Just like they will excuse Trump's payments for sex to a porn actress or his alleged sexual assaults, not to mention the lies. One would think the Christian Right would distance themselves from such a man but it only strengthens their resolve.
 
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In a post on Twitter from 2022 unearthed by Heartland Signal, White wrote that "the bad guys won in WW II" and then elaborated to say that "there were no 'good guys' in that war."

He then further said that "if you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the allied forces"
 
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essentialsaltes said:
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In a post on Twitter from 2022 unearthed by Heartland Signal, White wrote that "the bad guys won in WW II" and then elaborated to say that "there were no 'good guys' in that war."

He then further said that "if you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the allied forces"
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LOL!
"a link between liberalism and communism".
ROFL! That is some REAL deep in the woods kinda research into the relationship between Western Europe and the USSR.
 
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Trump vows to ‘remove the Jew haters’ if reelected during event commemorating October 7 attacks​

"We’re going to remove the Jew haters who do nothing to help our country, they only want to destroy our country,” he said during the event at his golf course in Doral, Florida.

"I will tell you that [anti-Jewish hatred is] not in the Republican Party,” the former president added.

The former president said at an event last month that he had not been “treated properly by voters who happen to be Jewish” during the 2020 election and said Jewish voters would hold some responsibility if he is defeated this year, while touting his record on Israel.
 
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