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How millennials killed American cheese

scooter84 said:
You're right on one point and that is that the "Republican" party has moved. I and others like me are more accurately called conservatives these days - not republicans. But we don't have a party.
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Why be so wrapped up with party labels? Who gives a shit. Vote your conscience. If you think the Republican Party is a bunch of bums, vote the bums out of office.
 
scooter84 said:
What's the alternative? I'm not going to run myself. And I sure as fuck aren't going to vote for a Clinton or a socialist.
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LOL, so you are responsible for this shitshow of a presidency.

What a joke.

You and everybody who voted for that tool deserve to be mocked for it. Call it no option, call it cowardice, I don’t care. But this mess is on reasonable conservatives like you, scooter
 
Strickland33 said:
LOL, so you are responsible for this shitshow of a presidency.

What a joke.

You and everybody who voted for that tool deserve to be mocked for it. Call it no option, call it cowardice, I don’t care. But this mess is on reasonable conservatives like you, scooter
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I still prefer it to the alternative offered at the time. And so do a lot of people.
 
scooter84 said:
I still prefer it to the alternative offered at the time. And so do a lot of people.
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Woof. Then you deserve all the shit you get for it. In 2020 Trump is going to run against someone not named Clinton, and it’s not going to be a surprise who you prefer. That’s says a lot about you, because Donald Trump is an absolute piece of shit person.
 
scooter84 said:
What's the alternative? I'm not going to run myself. And I sure as fuck aren't going to vote for a Clinton or a socialist.
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Because of the lies fomented in your conservative ecosystem.

Here’s a good read from a woman who left the tea party for the Democratic Party. She actually read the Bible all the way through for the first time, decoupled her faith from conservative capitalism, and met new people who challenged her old ideas.

“2018 was the year I changed my mind”
In a year of hyperpartisanship, I did the unthinkable — I changed my mind about politics.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/12/20/18149173/change-my-mind-partisanship-2018

I’ve spent the past decade of my life as a conservative activist. I helped organize a 2,000-person rally at Austin City Hall to hear then-Gov. Rick Perry jokingly advocate for secession, and went on to lead dozens of activist trainings, government protests, and campaign activities for Americans for Prosperity, a Tea Party organization, in Texas.
I believed the Democratic Party was the enemy of freedom, and that the Obama administration was a threat to the values on which our nation was founded. I saw it as my moral responsibility to advocate for limited government, low taxes, and Christian values at all levels of society because I believed these led to the greatest freedom and opportunity for everyone.
But this November, for the first time in my life, I walked into the voting booth and voted for a Democrat: Beto O’Rourke.

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In 2015, I decided to read the entire Bible on my own. I read from Genesis to Revelation in one year. I was astounded that so much of what the experts emphasized as good, godly living was not at all what God had in mind.
For the first time, I saw that overall, God cares most about how humanity treats its fellow humans. Before, the driving force of my political activism was a faith that said God wants us to live moral lives. I, along with the Republican Party, would define morality in narrow terms: heterosexual marriage, abstaining from vices, obeying the law, and not being a financial “drain” on society.
But now I see that God cares most about how those of us with power, privilege, and means help those who are poor, widowed, orphaned, a stranger in the land, in need of justice and/or mercy, and who are frantically searching for truth and love.

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There was also my friend Lydie, whom I met in a Bible study in Washington, DC. Lydie voted Democratic, which was a novelty to me. We were walking to get coffee in Dupont Circle one night, and a homeless man approached us. All my life, I was warned never to give money to the homeless, because it disincentivizes them from getting a job. In my conservative evangelical mind, the most loving thing to do is withhold money and offer a sandwich and directions to a Christian homeless ministry instead. Lydie handed the man a $10 bill and, after noting my stunned expression, said, “God says to give to the poor, so I do it. It’s not up to me to judge how they spend the money.” There she was, Jesus in action, treating a fellow human with dignity and love.

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My transformation feels threatening because it calls my fellow evangelical Republicans’ identities into question. If someone who has championed their values goes out and says, “No, I was wrong,” then they may be forced to face some hard questions. The fear is that if they are wrong too, then their whole belief system falls apart, and their identities are gone.
I call this kind of thinking “sweater faith”: If you pull on one small string, the whole faith unravels. I used to have a similarly fragile faith. But by digging into the hard questions and searching for answers outside of my small conservative bubble, I developed a deeper faith, one that has given me a greater capacity to love than ever before.
 
My hometown has the only working cheese plant in the state. So there's that. It has a viewing room so you can actually watch cheese being made. Crazy, right?
 
They’re still making cheese? I saw some headline about a million pounds of cheese in storage or something like that.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
Woof. Then you deserve all the shit you get for it. In 2020 Trump is going to run against someone not named Clinton, and it’s not going to be a surprise who you prefer. That’s says a lot about you, because Donald Trump is an absolute piece of shit person.
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Don't try to predict what I am going to do - you don't know me, though I am sure you think you do. I agree that Trump is a piece of shit person.
 
scooter84 said:
Don't try to predict what I am going to do - you don't know me, though I am sure you think you do. I agree that Trump is a piece of shit person.
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Let’s circle back when we have our nominees, and you let me know.
 
scooter84 said:
I'm hoping Trump is not one of them.
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So you’re for impeachment? That’s the only way Trump isn’t the GOP nominee. Trump’s reelection merged with the RNC.
 
mako1331 said:
My hometown has the only working cheese plant in the state. So there's that. It has a viewing room so you can actually watch cheese being made. Crazy, right?
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Tourists do love it.

Cheese making used to be a significant industry across western North Carolina. During World War I, the mountains were turning out nearly a million pounds per year. It routinely beat Wisconsin cheese in agricultural competitions with the Avery and Yancey County cheeses being considered some of the best the nation was producing.

I've sometimes wondered if reviving the cheese industry could be an option for the local economies since the region still hasn't recovered from the closure of the textile and furniture factories. It could never fully replace those vanished industries but every little bit could help. Besides the West Jefferson cheese, I've seen cheese in stores that is being produced in McDowell and Buncombe Counties. I assume those are smaller operations.
 
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