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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
09/11/2016 at 20:27 • Filed to: Life

Social observation after the jump.

Viper roadster for sale at a Mitsubishi dealer. Because why not?

I had an experience that totally reminded me why wholesome, churchgoing, suburban white people tend not to be close friends of mine. I took my niece to a classmate’s birthday party and the adults actively avoided me and my wife. This seemed to happen right after we mentioned that we were “uncle Steve, and aunt Christie” and that my niece’s mom was with her girlfriend. They were prepping for my niece’s birthday party.

I tried to make conversation with a few people but we were shunned when they found out we were with the lesbian’s kid. They were fine to our niece though. That was a relief.

Close-cropped beards (even on the women), camo ball caps, barbed wire tattoos, and cargo shorts all over. And they seemed to all be driving $50,000 pickup trucks.

These are the kinds of people who would call me a fag for driving a jeep that isn’t lifted.

I want none of that.

Send me to live among the freaks. Leave me with the artists, musicians, authors and poets. Let me commune with the queers, crazies, runts, and misfits. These are my people.

DISCUSSION (14)

wiffleballtony > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 20:37

Some “Christians” always fail to remember to not judge others. A true Christian couldn’t care less.

My citroen won't start > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 20:38

Amen to that.

NostalgicCarLife > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 20:43

Sometimes it feels like these people are 75% of America. Oh, and also 50 year olds who are barely literate but have a salaried job, and incessantly whine about youngins having everything handed to them on a silver platter. They have a pretty good overlap with that group.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 20:50

Good, we are friends then as I love all things weird and quirky in an automotive sense :P

I better not get mixed up with the people you were talking about though as I like Commie cars, so that would make me a ‘Murica-hating Commie bastard. :P

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > wiffleballtony
09/11/2016 at 21:25

Overhearing their conversations it just seemed like they couldn’t conceive that anyone would ever think differently from them. That almost made me feel bad for them. Almost.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 21:33

Keep living ‘you’ and everything will be cool.

I should fit in to that crowd and just cannot. The same people who spam the hell out of my feed with 2nd Amendment hysteria are the same ones horrified today that the Black Panthers had an open carry parade on the most sacred of “we’re the victims here!” day.

Come on over. We’ll have a beer and get this! I’ll introduce you... to my kids! duh-duh duhhh!

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 21:33

As a christian i can tell you they only say they are christians. not really living out what they supposedly believe.

Its funny because Jesus hung around all the time with people who society would cast out. He showed everyone love no matter what

Dru > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 21:37

Close cropped beards. Geez. Let it grow like Leviticus says.

Torq5teer > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 22:02

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

wafflesnfalafel > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 22:50

different is “bad”...

But you know what - there is some value in the message. Hold your head high and turn the other cheek.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
09/11/2016 at 22:54

I’m not a religious man. If you had to pin a label on me I would call myself an agnostic atheist with humanist ethics.

But some of my closest friends are devout Christians who don’t fit into the whole evangelical mold. And I have great conversations with them about morality, ethics, the meaning of life, as well as discussions about music and popular culture.

I don’t know where I’m going with this. But the Jesus of the bible hung around with all walks of life. He was a guide, healer, and teacher to whoever would listen and follow him. From well-off fishermen to poor lepers, he took any who would follow. Perhaps that’s a lesson we all need to learn.

I think I need to go bury my face in a book.

Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 22:55

You should stop by northwest Iowa some time. The population is 85% white, and 80% Republican in my county.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/11/2016 at 23:05

Yes Jesus didnt care who you were or what you did we are to follow Him and love all people as we love ourselves.

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30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Unfortunately there are many “christians” that dont act like a christian should act. I believe actions speak louder than words.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
09/12/2016 at 01:19

I am a Christian and although I do believe that morally, homosexuality is wrong, I also beilve that God created us with the ability to make our own choices.

This is how I explained it to a lesbian co-worker of mine, “I believe that homosexuality is wrong based on the bible, but I also believe you have freedom of choice. If you asked me to explain my my beliefs I’d tell you, but if you don’t want to hear I won’t tell you, and I’m not going to treat you any differently, because you arent different.”

Ridiculing people, or protesting against equal rights is the least Christian thing you can do. I will however admit that I’ve done it. I said somethings about “gender fluid” people, some generalizations. But I still have a hard time understanding that one.