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why don't Trumpmos all just move to Montana if they want a white ethnostate?

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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  08/24/18
what if i'm a faggot cosmopolitan and don't want to have to ...
Claret sick university party of the first part
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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  08/24/18
fuck
Claret sick university party of the first part
  08/24/18
I used to live in the sticks and walmart was like 4 minutes ...
violent umber patrolman
  09/19/18
Why don't you just move to Haiti and enjoy the diversity?
histrionic jade theatre
  08/24/18
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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  08/24/18
Link to the most recent census data on your neighborhood and...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
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greedy stimulating home
  08/24/18
give us alaska, washington, oregon, california north of san ...
Wonderful mahogany newt
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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  08/24/18
Washington has a non-hispanic white population percentage ro...
Wonderful mahogany newt
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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  08/24/18
*smart* whites thought ending apartheid was good.
confused talented ladyboy partner
  08/24/18
lol both of those states are full of nigs u h1b monkey
impertinent tanning salon legal warrant
  08/24/18
You’re taking the blacks then?
Learning disabled becky
  09/02/18
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comical overrated gas station
  09/20/18
MFCR
exciting pit roast beef
  08/24/18
What about you get every state that’s votes to join you? The...
Dun fragrant station cuckold
  09/02/18
Lots of Indians
beady-eyed business firm shitlib
  08/24/18
*FORCIBLY BUSES IN SOMALIS AND ILLEGALS*
cream dog poop
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honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig
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impertinent tanning salon legal warrant
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Mischievous Aggressive Heaven
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Aquamarine garrison trump supporter
  09/02/18
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Fl...
Electric Internal Respiration
  08/24/18
still subject to US Law
honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig
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insanely creepy people who are hurt
  09/02/18
the Federal Laws make your OP silly
honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig
  09/02/18
Not unless minorities actually try to live there alongside w...
comical overrated gas station
  09/20/18
why don't you go back to Gookistan instead
Flickering Beta Hissy Fit Milk
  08/24/18
why don't you go back to india? oh right you're a self-hatin...
impertinent tanning salon legal warrant
  08/24/18
seriously, white power, brother, white power
mildly autistic masturbator
  09/02/18
Lol. Libs love diversity, but actively avoid the effects of ...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
Many libs live in diverse cosmopolitan areas
slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge
  09/02/18
lol, having a few ethnic restaurants nearby isnt diverse you...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
Where do you live? Even the nicer areas across the coasts a...
slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge
  09/02/18
D.C. and Seattle. Extremely lib cities. The minorities in...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
In your capitol hill neighborhood? I’m not surprised, given...
slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge
  09/02/18
These “professional minority” types you are fetishizing are ...
adventurous self-absorbed pisswyrm plaza
  09/02/18
You clearly must live in some dying, industrial town like St...
slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge
  09/02/18
St. Louis is very diverse by Lib standards
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
shut the fuck up Shashwat
gold outnumbered range
  09/02/18
North Arlington schools are vastly white and this is where e...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
Trumpmos don’t complain about H1 B Indians in the bay area? ...
slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge
  09/02/18
Of course we do, but that diversity/immigration doesnt pose ...
Pink motley telephone
  09/02/18
ROFL what do you to happened to capitol hill from 2008-16?
comical overrated gas station
  09/20/18
Subtle "Capitol Hill" zeugma
Rusted mad cow disease sound barrier
  09/02/18
fucking loved the hot dog cart at pike and broadway
sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap
  09/19/18
LJL thinking that there are hordes of "immigrant profes...
sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap
  09/19/18
This is a standard lib technique - take the top .5% of immig...
Pink motley telephone
  09/20/18
that guy definitely has to go back
sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap
  09/20/18
Why don't you move somewhere without white people?
racy bat shit crazy parlour
  09/02/18
Like his home fucking country. None of this makes any sense,...
adventurous self-absorbed pisswyrm plaza
  09/02/18
this is one of the saddest things of modern white existence....
adulterous aromatic stage
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Aquamarine garrison trump supporter
  09/02/18
Northern Michigan actually, but don't tell anyone
pale galvanic chad tattoo
  09/02/18
As images of dead Syrian children flashed across his televis...
beady-eyed business firm shitlib
  09/02/18
ITT: what the third world looks sounds and feels like
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  09/20/18
ching chong bing bong
sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap
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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:33 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677874)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:34 PM
Author: Claret sick university party of the first part

what if i'm a faggot cosmopolitan and don't want to have to drive 30 minutes to a grocery store

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677882)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 1:06 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36678140)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: Claret sick university party of the first part

fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681517)



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Date: September 19th, 2018 11:41 PM
Author: violent umber patrolman

I used to live in the sticks and walmart was like 4 minutes away

don't be a pussy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846069)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:34 PM
Author: histrionic jade theatre

Why don't you just move to Haiti and enjoy the diversity?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677883)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 1:06 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36678145)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:14 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

Link to the most recent census data on your neighborhood and the two nearest neighborhoods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732563)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: greedy stimulating home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681553)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:39 PM
Author: Wonderful mahogany newt

give us alaska, washington, oregon, california north of san francisco, idaho, utah, montana, wyoming, colorado, north dakota, south dakota, nebraska, kansas, iowa, minnesota, wisconsin and the upper peninsula and you'll never see us again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677923)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 1:07 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36678151)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 1:14 PM
Author: Wonderful mahogany newt

Washington has a non-hispanic white population percentage roughly equivalent to that of Arkansas and far greater than that of Mississippi. Oregon has a non-hispanic white population percentage higher than all of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36678203)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681512)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:07 PM
Author: confused talented ladyboy partner

*smart* whites thought ending apartheid was good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681536)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: impertinent tanning salon legal warrant

lol both of those states are full of nigs u h1b monkey

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681541)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:11 PM
Author: Learning disabled becky

You’re taking the blacks then?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732545)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:04 AM
Author: comical overrated gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846237)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:12 PM
Author: exciting pit roast beef

MFCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681567)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:05 PM
Author: Dun fragrant station cuckold

What about you get every state that’s votes to join you? The number would be >0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732472)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: beady-eyed business firm shitlib

Lots of Indians

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677937)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: cream dog poop

*FORCIBLY BUSES IN SOMALIS AND ILLEGALS*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677943)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681519)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: impertinent tanning salon legal warrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681545)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:14 PM
Author: Mischievous Aggressive Heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733334)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 5:29 PM
Author: Aquamarine garrison trump supporter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733639)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 12:42 PM
Author: Electric Internal Respiration

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_Cascadia.svg/1200px-Flag_of_Cascadia.svg.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36677944)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig

still subject to US Law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681516)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 12:52 PM
Author: insanely creepy people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732360)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: honey-headed step-uncle's house filthpig

the Federal Laws make your OP silly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732436)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: comical overrated gas station

Not unless minorities actually try to live there alongside whites.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846249)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: Flickering Beta Hissy Fit Milk

why don't you go back to Gookistan instead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681522)



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Date: August 24th, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: impertinent tanning salon legal warrant

why don't you go back to india? oh right you're a self-hating turd who feels totally self-actualized whiffing shrew farts all day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36681552)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:07 PM
Author: mildly autistic masturbator

seriously, white power, brother, white power

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732501)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:13 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

Lol. Libs love diversity, but actively avoid the effects of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732557)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge

Many libs live in diverse cosmopolitan areas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732587)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 2:11 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

lol, having a few ethnic restaurants nearby isnt diverse you dumb faggot.

Try putting your kid in 60% colored schools and living on a street with mostly minority neighbors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36732822)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge

Where do you live? Even the nicer areas across the coasts are chock full of minorities, mostly immigrant professionals

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733287)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:10 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

D.C. and Seattle. Extremely lib cities.

The minorities in my capitol hill neighborhood are being run out. My lib friends with kids are “waiting until the local schools are better” (i.e. more white) before moving their kids from private schools.

Only been in Seattle for a short while, but everywhere I go is 90% white with minorities being homeless or city workers.

Your professional minorities are the exception, not the rule.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733309)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge

In your capitol hill neighborhood? I’m not surprised, given the current administration. There is a very real chance that will swing back to minority heavy come 2020. Look at Nova or southern maryland. All minority professional types

Seattle is pretty white and has been that way for a while

If you look at NYC or the bay area, it’s heavily minority

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733341)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:18 PM
Author: adventurous self-absorbed pisswyrm plaza

These “professional minority” types you are fetishizing are rare as fuck and you look like an imbecile trying to push this forcememe. I HTH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733355)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge

You clearly must live in some dying, industrial town like St Louis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733384)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:35 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

St. Louis is very diverse by Lib standards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733416)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: gold outnumbered range

shut the fuck up Shashwat

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733475)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:22 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

North Arlington schools are vastly white and this is where everyone with a family wants to live in Arlington. South Arlington schools are shit and coincidentally, heavily minority.

NYC is a mega-world-metropolis. San Fran minorities arent the type that Trumpmo’s complain about.

I guess my point is that Not all diversity is equal. Libs want to believe all diversity is like their Indian doctor or asian programmer buddy. Cons recognize that diversity is more like the Baltimore hoods or south chicago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733368)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:29 PM
Author: slimy deep preventive strike indian lodge

Trumpmos don’t complain about H1 B Indians in the bay area? They don’t make “gook” jokes? What planet are you living on again?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733400)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Pink motley telephone

Of course we do, but that diversity/immigration doesnt pose a fundamental threat to America.

Mass third world immigration does.

Its not productive for either side to merge the two

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733403)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:07 AM
Author: comical overrated gas station

ROFL what do you to happened to capitol hill from 2008-16?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846262)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: Rusted mad cow disease sound barrier

Subtle "Capitol Hill" zeugma

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733377)



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Date: September 19th, 2018 11:57 PM
Author: sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap

fucking loved the hot dog cart at pike and broadway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846185)



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Date: September 19th, 2018 11:54 PM
Author: sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap

LJL thinking that there are hordes of "immigrant professionals" living in any nice neighborhoods in NYC. you fucking faggot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846156)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:00 AM
Author: Pink motley telephone

This is a standard lib technique - take the top .5% of immigrants and treat them as the same as the 99.5%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846208)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:03 AM
Author: sinister 180 mad-dog skullcap

that guy definitely has to go back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36846232)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:33 PM
Author: racy bat shit crazy parlour

Why don't you move somewhere without white people?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733408)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:35 PM
Author: adventurous self-absorbed pisswyrm plaza

Like his home fucking country. None of this makes any sense, just go back if you don’t like it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733415)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 4:39 PM
Author: adulterous aromatic stage

this is one of the saddest things of modern white existence. A white, urban, city is so inconceivable today that the only option for whites is Montana.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733435)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 5:31 PM
Author: Aquamarine garrison trump supporter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733644)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 5:28 PM
Author: pale galvanic chad tattoo

Northern Michigan actually, but don't tell anyone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4060086&forum_id=2#36733635)



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Date: September 2nd, 2018 5:32 PM
Author: beady-eyed business firm shitlib

As images of dead Syrian children flashed across his television this month in Montana, David LeBleu prayed it would finally change minds.

"Could this be our chance?" he wondered.

LeBleu, 73, had been campaigning for a year to bring refugees to his tiny mountainside town of Whitefish. But in conservative Flathead County, he was making little headway.

Donald Trump had won the county with 65% of the vote in the presidential election and found widespread support there for his "America first" message and pledge to halt refugee resettlement nationwide. In that sense, the region wasn't much different from a broad swath of the nation.

If the deaths of "beautiful babies" — as Trump had put it — in what the U.S. said was a poison gas attack couldn't sway people, LeBleu figured nothing could.

"They don't like newcomers here," he said. "They want to just keep things the way they are, in the past."

LeBleu himself is a newcomer, part of a wave of liberal-minded transplants drawn to Whitefish, population 6,357, for its natural beauty and slower pace of life. He moved from Long Island, N.Y., three years ago, following his daughter after retiring from teaching high school social studies and losing his wife to multiple sclerosis and cancer.

He was delighted that people would "talk to you on the street and ask how you were doing." As a lifelong Christian, he was pleased to see churches everywhere.

But the faith that dominated northwest Montana was far more conservative than LeBleu had ever experienced.

To him, being a Presbyterian meant a life of public service and openness to other cultures. Back in Long Island, he sat on a refugee council at his church and once housed a Vietnamese refugee and her two sons. He joined churchgoers for a trip to refugee camps in the Middle East, and his church hosted a Coptic Christian priest from Egypt and a pastor from Syria.

But in Whitefish, the Presbyterian churches he visited were more interested in the Bible than the wider world and didn't share his passion for women's or gay rights.

LeBleu finally found a spiritual home alongside other liberal transplants at the Whitefish United Methodist Church. It was already working internationally to pay the salaries of Christian pastors in Angolan villages.

Its motto — "open hearts, open minds, open doors" — was prominently displayed on its website. To LeBleu, those were words to live by.

He saw an opportunity early last year after a photograph of a drowned Syrian boy went viral and a group of mothers in Missoula, a university town 130 miles down the interstate, were so moved that they launched an effort to take in refugees. Their plan to bring refugees to Montana for the first time in decades ignited a statewide debate and a string of demonstrations on both sides of the issue.

LeBleu's response was to try to bring refugees to Whitefish.

He put out a call in church for volunteers. There were enough like-minded residents — the town had voted for Hillary Clinton — that he had no trouble finding support.

But it was a different story 17 miles south in the county seat of Kalispell, a blue-collar town of 20,000 known for its gun manufacturers and conservative churches.

Kalispell quickly became a hub of opposition to resettlement — and, on a rainy March morning last year, the site of a tense standoff.

LeBleu and about 70 pro-refugee activists, many from out of town, gathered in a park there with signs reading "Friendship not fear!" and "Stability, opportunity, peace for ALL." Across the city's main drag, a dozen or so Kalispell residents stood with their own placards warning of the problems they believed Muslims would bring: "Europe's murder and rape epidemic is REAL, not 'fear'" and "Kalispell NEEDS SHARIA LAW."

Some of the men carried guns.

LeBleu was encouraged by the competing rallies. His side was bigger.

But letters to the local newspaper, the Daily Inter Lake, turned out to be a better indicator of public sentiment.

"Once those refugees are here, all we can do to protect ourselves is hope and pray they do not harbor sympathy for Islamic terror ideals. Beyond that, we are at their mercy," one Kalispell resident wrote in a letter to the editor.

"Many of the refugees are being planted as representatives of Islamic terrorism. Europe is proof of this," wrote another.

The Flathead County commissioners took sides last spring, sending a letter to the U.S. Department of State saying they could not "support the relocation of refugees without a legitimate vetting process and an analysis of refugee impacts to our local community."

Kalispell seemed gripped by worry. In August, the newspaper reported that a woman called police to report that seven refugees appeared to be moving into an apartment building. They turned out to be workers.

It wasn't until a few weeks later that the first refugees — a family of six from the Democratic Republic of Congo — arrived in Missoula. More families soon followed.

Bikyeombe Abwe, left, Joel Makeci Ebuela and three of their five children -- Maua Shukrani, 8, Betina Sango, 6, and Mtabi Makeci Ebuela, 12 -- perform gospel music at Holy Spirit Church in Missoula, Mont. The family arrived in the U.S. last September from a refugee camp in Tanzania. (Christina House / For The Times)

LeBleu tracked their journeys on Facebook, where churches and humanitarian groups would post updates.

He figured the opposition would fade away as people saw that the refugees weren't committing crimes, didn't have diseases and didn't want to impose Islamic law — and in fact were mostly Christian.

He figured wrong.

On the presidential campaign trail, Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric was intensifying — and riling up fear in Montana. Trump's victory only invigorated opponents to refugee resettlement.

It was hard for LeBleu not to read some letters to the editor as personal attacks.

"How long do we have to tolerate leftists from other states coming here to bring 'refugees' from alien cultures to our cities? Cultures so far removed from our own that assimilation is impossible," said one in December.

By the time Trump took office, LeBleu was on the verge of giving up.

His church committee stopped meeting and he started spending more time with his fiancee, a Montana native and a liberal like him. He saw more of his daughter, who runs the kitchen for a mountain guide company, and her two children.

But he still struggled to parse how people who called themselves Christians could oppose refugee resettlement.

At his church one Sunday in April, he listened to a sermon about judgment. "We sometimes criticize others unfairly," the pastor said. "Only God, who is aware of all of the facts, is able to judge people righteously."

LeBleu asked himself if he needed to try harder to understand the other side.

But he tried to avoid places like Liberty Fellowship, a church in Kalispell where that same day the pastor preached that Americans should focus on their own problems and not the rest of the world.

Some congregants said in interviews that they wanted to keep out refugees precisely to preserve Christian values.

"If enough people want to advance sharia law, it will happen," Jerry O'Neil, a 73-year-old retired legislator, said after a Sunday service in April.

He insisted that Muslims would have so many children that soon they would outnumber Christians and take over Montana politics.

Former state legislator Jerry O'Neil, 73, has concerns about refugees resettling in Montana. “If enough people want to advance sharia law, it will happen,” he said.

Former state legislator Jerry O'Neil, 73, has concerns about refugees resettling in Montana. “If enough people want to advance sharia law, it will happen,” he said. (Christina House / For The Times)

Another church member wondered if "forced multiculturalism" could breed violence.

Three months into the Trump presidency, 81 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq and Syria now live in Missoula.

"I have high ambitions," said Joel Makeci Ebuela, a 33-year-old Congolese teacher who came with his wife and five children and recently started a part-time job as a greeter at Wal-Mart. His 12-year-old son joined a soccer league.

The family lives in a three-bedroom apartment and has taken advantage of clothing donations and English and driving classes offered through a charity. "I trust America because they help," he said.

No refugees have come to Flathead County, where the debate rages on.

In Kalispell, ACT for America, a chapter of a national organization identified as a hate group by civil rights organizations, recently screened "Islam Rising," a film by far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

In Whitefish, Love Lives Here, a pro-refugee group, held a training session in April on "best practices in confronting anti-Muslim bigotry."

LeBleu does what he can, collecting clothing, diapers and other supplies and donating part of his Social Security and pension to help the refugees in Missoula. He said he may try to start up the church committee again with the hope of still bringing refugees to Whitefish.

He celebrated when the governor recently vetoed a state bill to ban Sharia law, saying it would add to a "nationwide surge in hate crimes."

He was also encouraged after the gas attack in Syria, when Trump said that "no child of God should ever suffer such horror." Maybe that would persuade people. But then he slipped back into a feeling of hopelessness.

"Does the president really care?" he said. "Does anybody?"

"People get to the point where they are numbed. Sadly, I think this is where we are. Nobody is going to change their mind."

jaweed.kaleem@latimes.com

Jaweed Kaleem is The Times' national race and justice correspondent. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.



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