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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely keep my (polite) distance. They are telling you who they are - believe them. Yes, be polite; yes, smile and wave; yes, be there for them if there was an emergency but keep your distance from people like that.

And I agree - no matter what - do not let your children do over to their house. There will be firearms in that house. Most likely unsecured firearms.

Would you offer the same advice when the Muslim family moves in on the other side and the wife is wearing a hijab?

No, because I'm not a raging Islamaphobe, unlike you.

I'm actually a bleeding heart liberal, who's appalled at the hypocrisy on this thread.

You're appalled that so many people find nazis living next door to be..... appalling. The irony is sadly delicious

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Anonymous wrote:I had this flag in graduate school. I'm an economist, a libertarian, and at the time (early 2000's) the flag and symbol was broadly associated with promotion of civil liberties. Then around 2010, the Tea Party usurped my symbol for their numb-skullery.

I would never judge someone who has this license plate. They may just be a live and let live libertarian like myself.

As a Tea Party supporter, I am not sure that any of you clueless types have an idea about what the movement is/was. Basically, it started with a correspondent on CNBC complaining about the level of taxation and regulation in the bail-out packages. The movement recognized that the federal government has become so large and so involved in the minutiae of our private lives that there is no real FREEDOM. Guns are one aspect of the Bill of Rights, but I would be willing to bet that a substantial number of Tea Partiers do not own guns.

There are lots of people who feel that the current iteration of federal control is excessive. This doesn't make them bad neighbors.

While I concur with your factual accounting of how the "Tea Party" was born ("tea" actually stood for "Taxed Enough, Already"), I dispute the premise that we as Americans are overtaxed or there is no real "FREEDOM."

The USA is actually a low-tax nation relative to the rest of the developed world, and we have plenty of freedom. The perceived thread on "freedom" really had to do with resentment among some people that they couldn't be openly hostile to certain minority groups, hence the griping about "political correctness" (which normal people view as "common human decency." Anyway, you see where that resentment led us.

The other mistaken premise is that the USA is the only country with freedom -- that this is somehow some unique, sacrosanct feature, when in fact most of the world's countries have "freedom."

Anonymous wrote:Many of us have no problems with them

Because many of you are paid Russian trolls

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely keep my (polite) distance. They are telling you who they are - believe them. Yes, be polite; yes, smile and wave; yes, be there for them if there was an emergency but keep your distance from people like that.

And I agree - no matter what - do not let your children do over to their house. There will be firearms in that house. Most likely unsecured firearms.

Would you offer the same advice when the Muslim family moves in on the other side and the wife is wearing a hijab?

No, because I'm not a raging Islamaphobe, unlike you.

I'm actually a bleeding heart liberal, who's appalled at the hypocrisy on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely keep my (polite) distance. They are telling you who they are - believe them. Yes, be polite; yes, smile and wave; yes, be there for them if there was an emergency but keep your distance from people like that.

And I agree - no matter what - do not let your children do over to their house. There will be firearms in that house. Most likely unsecured firearms.

Would you offer the same advice when the Muslim family moves in on the other side and the wife is wearing a hijab?

No, because I'm not a raging Islamaphobe, unlike you.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of bigots in this thread. The plate likely means he's pro-gun. So what? There are a huge amount of armed people in Nova who don't have the plate.

Hi, you don't understand the meaning of the word "bigot."

It's not bigotry to dislike someone because they have a different political ideology than you. It may be close-minded or uncool, but it's not "bigotry." Disliking someone for what they say or the beliefs they hold is not the same thing is hating someone because of the color of their skin, their ethnicity or the people they love. Only someone who would use "bigot" in the way you did would also probably think it's logical to accuse a liberal of intolerance for refusing to tolerate intolerance.

Many of us have no problems with them

Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely keep my (polite) distance. They are telling you who they are - believe them. Yes, be polite; yes, smile and wave; yes, be there for them if there was an emergency but keep your distance from people like that.

And I agree - no matter what - do not let your children do over to their house. There will be firearms in that house. Most likely unsecured firearms.

Would you offer the same advice when the Muslim family moves in on the other side and the wife is wearing a hijab?

I would absolutely keep my (polite) distance. They are telling you who they are - believe them. Yes, be polite; yes, smile and wave; yes, be there for them if there was an emergency but keep your distance from people like that.

And I agree - no matter what - do not let your children do over to their house. There will be firearms in that house. Most likely unsecured firearms.

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. People really think libertarians are redneck white trash? The ones I know are hyper-educated.

I don't think they're white trash--but there is definitely a large swath of white supremacy jack booted idiots that dominate the "libertarian" moniker nowadays. Americans as a group have traditionally worshipped this ideology--it was an admirable one.

Hell, Thoreau was a libertarian "Civil Disobedience" is a paean to libertarianism. Today the typical "libertarian" is a wild eyed Ruby Ridge asshole who hasn't read anything but blog posts from Brietbart for years.

The flag has also been associated with the USMC. You know, the people who fight and risk their lives so you can sit at home and start ridiculous threads?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. People really think libertarians are redneck white trash? The ones I know are hyper-educated.

The willingness to make prejudicial assumptions not based on facts is apparently common on all sides of the political spectrum.

I said the ones I know. That wasn't an assumption.

I was agreeing with you. The assumptions are being made upthread that someone with such a license plate must be a rascist redneck, based solely on the presence of a license plate. Maybe they just like the color yellow or have a thing for snakes. Op won't know unless she opens herself up to friendly conversations with them.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here- The mom didn't seem very "redneck" and her kids were extremely polite. I'm not going to lie though, I have never seen anyone wear or display the "don't tread on me" sign that wasn't racist or very uneducated. Not judge mental as much as uneducated.

DH has a tea party plate. I really like real tree. He went to Yale undergrad/Harvard law. I went to Williams. We didn't vote for Trump, because, as PP indicated, he is the establishment (and because I don't think he is a good role model for our children). DH has guns though. And I am pretty judgmental, especially about people who call others uneducated immediately before misspelling "judgmental".

Oh. And DH isn't white.

Sure...

LOL. Exactly. Bullshitter post of the year.

Why? Why is this so inconceivable to you?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. People really think libertarians are redneck white trash? The ones I know are hyper-educated.

The willingness to make prejudicial assumptions not based on facts is apparently common on all sides of the political spectrum.

I said the ones I know. That wasn't an assumption.

Anonymous wrote:It's sad and pathetic how many people think this is something to joke about.

I guess they'd be making the same jokes if registered sex offender moved next door, too. Because that's just as funny.

What an idiotic statement......you're absolutely mental.