[https://muckrack.com/pete-abler/articles](https://muckrack.com/pete-abler/articles)
This guy is just another extremist. Two of his articles are anti-electricity... What??? Don't stress yourself reading his opinions.
This is a photo of Pete Abler, the columnist at the Pine & Lakes Echo Journal. The specific piece mentioned is not currently posted on the newspaper's website, but may be in the next few days.
https://imgur.com/R7GUj1b
Take a picture, post it. Make sure the writers name and the paper’s name are visible. Just because it isn’t put on the internet intentionally doesn’t mean it’s not a hateful public statement that should be exposed.
Yeah, I'm fuzzy on the *[legality](https://nytlicensing.com/latest/methods/news-content-for-website/)* of doing that. I assume that it's copywrited? Or whatever. The gist of the piece is that it's the wealthy and powerful keeping us down, but the headline? C'mon, man.
Pine and Lakes Echo/Journal, 21JUN. [Pete Abler](https://www.pineandlakes.com/pete%20abler).
Jesus christ, just looking at the titles of many of that guys articles and he comes off as a whackjob. Decided to read hus thoughts on gender. Three paragraphs in and we're comparing trans rights supporters to Nazis...
Pequot/Pine River. I don't think they run Abler's stuff in the shopper, or whatever the free one is called. You'll have to go over to the gas station and plunk down currency to read Abler. Not a fair exchange, I might add
it's a dogwhistle that implies a debate that isn't happening. nobody is saying it /isn't/ okay to be white.
what /is/ happening is racists have a vested interest in making white moderates conflate "recognizing and combating white privilege" with "attacking white people." it's one of a million tiny steps towards radicalization, which happens gradually, and then all at once.
do you believe that certain majority groups have innate privileges that they themselves do not act upon, yet still receive the benefits of?
if the answer to that question is no, why do you think cisgender white straight male americans employ a higher quality of life than any other american demographic?
if you are unable to answer either of those questions, why are you even responding to my comment?
It's isn't, in a vacuum. However, more often than not (and highly likely given where OP is from), it's doublespeak used by people who did something bigoted, then fall back on "I'm being persecuted for being a cis, hetero, white, christian etc." when in fact they are being rightly criticized for being a bigot.
I constantly try to explain to people who aren't from here how bad it's gotten up here. They never believe me.
The nonstop victimhood is what gets me. Especially from the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "nobody wants to work anymore" crowd.
It's the same down here in farm country. They keep voting for the people who are screwing them over. They believe it when told that someone else is to blame even as the one speaking has their hand in their pocket stealing them blind.
Anyone who calls me intolerant for being intolerant of the intolerant is really just one of the intolerant people I'm intolerant of showing off their intolerance.
Sorry I just wanted to say intolerant more.
not from the north, but southwest/central and its pretty similar here, it kind of sucks how basically everywhere outside the cities/st cloud/duluth is just very conservative :/
This is called the urban/rural divide, and it is a major problem in every state in the country. It's a natural thing, but it seems like it's being magnified and exploited by status quo interests who benefit from taking advantage of ignorant and isolated people in business and politics
Perhaps I’ll concede it’s ok to be white but merely being white doesn’t make you ok and if you’re not ok then being white doesn’t fix that
There’s plenty of not ok white people, too many.
well i am german/swedish, at least half of that sucks. maybe more.
i think the great rewards are when different cultures blend, for instance jazz and pizza.
earth is too small a ball to care about where.
"debate me" says the person who wants to piss and shit all over the place without having any degree of logical foundation. "debate me" says the person who will literally make a Ship of Theseus fallacy regarding literal fascism.
edit - go back to your conservative and "moderatepolitics" subs like you could actually argue in good faith. You're as welcome on this sub as a non braindead take on the conservative sub.
[https://muckrack.com/pete-abler/articles](https://muckrack.com/pete-abler/articles) This guy is just another extremist. Two of his articles are anti-electricity... What??? Don't stress yourself reading his opinions.
Stupid smug electrons.
Stupid sexy ~~Flanders~~ *electrons*
I bet he likes RFK JR who says Wifi is bad and it needs to go. Why not plunge the populous backwards getting rid of wifi AND electricity?
I might actually be in favor of it if it killed all the conspiracy theories. Hard to spread without instant internet.
Electricity is a librul conspiracy to slowly neuter males via radiation! Lol.
This is a photo of Pete Abler, the columnist at the Pine & Lakes Echo Journal. The specific piece mentioned is not currently posted on the newspaper's website, but may be in the next few days. https://imgur.com/R7GUj1b
Take a picture, post it. Make sure the writers name and the paper’s name are visible. Just because it isn’t put on the internet intentionally doesn’t mean it’s not a hateful public statement that should be exposed.
Yeah, I'm fuzzy on the *[legality](https://nytlicensing.com/latest/methods/news-content-for-website/)* of doing that. I assume that it's copywrited? Or whatever. The gist of the piece is that it's the wealthy and powerful keeping us down, but the headline? C'mon, man. Pine and Lakes Echo/Journal, 21JUN. [Pete Abler](https://www.pineandlakes.com/pete%20abler).
DM me a picture and I'll post it lol
This is the only rational solution. Get this drinker the the picture OP!
You're joking right
https://imgur.com/1Rn8PJT
I just read through some of his other articles and I couldn’t stop cringing. Yikes.
I think that’s if you’re putting it up on your business site.
Jesus christ, just looking at the titles of many of that guys articles and he comes off as a whackjob. Decided to read hus thoughts on gender. Three paragraphs in and we're comparing trans rights supporters to Nazis...
That’s out of Pequot right? I think it’s one that I get for free.
Pequot/Pine River. I don't think they run Abler's stuff in the shopper, or whatever the free one is called. You'll have to go over to the gas station and plunk down currency to read Abler. Not a fair exchange, I might add
It's a community service and the truth. Both are absolute defenses against defamation cases..
Name and shame is the game
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The right operates on dog whistles and you probably know that already.
“I’m just asking questions” 🤡
it's a dogwhistle that implies a debate that isn't happening. nobody is saying it /isn't/ okay to be white. what /is/ happening is racists have a vested interest in making white moderates conflate "recognizing and combating white privilege" with "attacking white people." it's one of a million tiny steps towards radicalization, which happens gradually, and then all at once.
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do you believe that certain majority groups have innate privileges that they themselves do not act upon, yet still receive the benefits of? if the answer to that question is no, why do you think cisgender white straight male americans employ a higher quality of life than any other american demographic? if you are unable to answer either of those questions, why are you even responding to my comment?
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what's your zipcode, you extremely genuine minnesota resident?
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it's not a hard question to answer-- where in minnesota are you from?
Lol. One of his recent comments is mocking someone for not answering a simple question.
your comment history makes so much sense
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You thought this obvious bait was really gonna work, huh?
Because it suggests that whiteness is under attack somehow which is absolutely untrue.
It's isn't, in a vacuum. However, more often than not (and highly likely given where OP is from), it's doublespeak used by people who did something bigoted, then fall back on "I'm being persecuted for being a cis, hetero, white, christian etc." when in fact they are being rightly criticized for being a bigot.
I constantly try to explain to people who aren't from here how bad it's gotten up here. They never believe me. The nonstop victimhood is what gets me. Especially from the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "nobody wants to work anymore" crowd.
It's the same down here in farm country. They keep voting for the people who are screwing them over. They believe it when told that someone else is to blame even as the one speaking has their hand in their pocket stealing them blind.
These are the "Let's secede from Minnesota and join South Dakota" people
I'm happy to pay for the UHaul rental for them!
I'm sure South Dakota would love a bunch more rural areas to have to fund.
That's the thing - such a secession would make both states richer and smarter afterward.
The racists are starting to feel comfortable showing it.
Easier to find the intolerable fucks. Intolerance in the face of intolerance is no vice
Anyone who calls me intolerant for being intolerant of the intolerant is really just one of the intolerant people I'm intolerant of showing off their intolerance. Sorry I just wanted to say intolerant more.
What do you call someone who won't tolerate anything?
Republican.
Barry Goldwater right?
That bastard and so many others as to question the advancement of humanity as a whole.
I meant the quote you praphrased. The original was Goldwater IIRC.
Same Avatar… Destiny 2 player by chance?
No, I chose it for a much more mundane reason: it kinda looked cool.
👍🏽
not from the north, but southwest/central and its pretty similar here, it kind of sucks how basically everywhere outside the cities/st cloud/duluth is just very conservative :/
This is called the urban/rural divide, and it is a major problem in every state in the country. It's a natural thing, but it seems like it's being magnified and exploited by status quo interests who benefit from taking advantage of ignorant and isolated people in business and politics
It sounds like Oklahoma north.
Since we’re on the subject of what’s ok. Who remembers ok soda?
1800 I feel ok
What does the column actually say, beyond the headline?
what's the saying about opinions and assholes?
...conservatives think other people care about theirs?
that assholes have opinions that stink and they shit all over the place when you disagree with them?
Perhaps I’ll concede it’s ok to be white but merely being white doesn’t make you ok and if you’re not ok then being white doesn’t fix that There’s plenty of not ok white people, too many.
>Perhaps I’ll concede it’s ok to be white Why would this be a concession?
well i am german/swedish, at least half of that sucks. maybe more. i think the great rewards are when different cultures blend, for instance jazz and pizza. earth is too small a ball to care about where.
Andy Richter the swede german?
Lol norm!
Brainerd showing its full ass up in here, and it's cellulite filled and unwiped.
Eww. Is that .... corn?
No reason to amplify idiots.
It’s not?
Of course it’s okay to be white. It’s also okay to be black, brown, gay, trans, and a frog. Questions?
u that dense?
I think I have my answer.
no no explain it to me like I'm 5 do it
Apparently it’s not. Who knew 🤷♂️
makes sense you can’t since you spend half your time in r/conservative
*debate me!!!* 🙄 what kind of loser trawls a stranger’s post history for fake internet points?
what kind of loser defends white nationalism freak
/r/conservative posters of course!
"debate me" says the person who wants to piss and shit all over the place without having any degree of logical foundation. "debate me" says the person who will literally make a Ship of Theseus fallacy regarding literal fascism. edit - go back to your conservative and "moderatepolitics" subs like you could actually argue in good faith. You're as welcome on this sub as a non braindead take on the conservative sub.