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BOSSHOG

(39,661 posts)
1. I thought it was only immigrants who sold drugs on the street
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:28 PM
Oct 4

Now we find out it was the peckerwoods AKA trump supporters.

Can you say PECKERWOOD without giggling?

BOSSHOG

(39,661 posts)
5. Oh Brewens
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:41 PM
Oct 4

I hurt myself laughing at your peckerwood humor. However it is a question for the ages. Which should be studied and tested until we get to the bottom of the peckerwood quandary.

marble falls

(61,996 posts)
10. It's a slur for poor whites in the south. It was fighting words in Akron, Ohio - the largest city in ...
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:59 PM
Oct 4

... West Virginia - schools in WVA taught the three Rs, readin, ritin' and the route to Akron or Route 21.

haele

(13,413 posts)
12. They've been around a long time - used to deal in Meth
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:40 PM
Oct 4

The chapter down here would contract themselves out to bigger gangs to be the mules for cross-border human and firearms trafficking.
Useless slacker bois with sadistic streaks who couldn't even manage to hold down day-labor work.

Back when I worked the shipyards, some of my crew and some subs knew gang members and would occasionally talk about them.

Haele

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
15. Partnership made in hell
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:32 PM
Oct 4

The Fucklebutts were probably fine with the Mexicans as long as they stayed on their own side of the border, taking fentanyl from China and manufacturing it into lookalike prescription pills and lacing every other street drug with it. They were the importers and manufacturers of the raw material. The Fucklebutts were the wholesalers and distribution network.

The W.O.D. is not working. It has to be rethought.

Klarkashton

(1,943 posts)
2. I've always suspected that dope and guns were part
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:34 PM
Oct 4

Of what was going on with the proud boys. It made no sense why else there would be those big gatherings of those those bastards otherwise. The trump patriotic shit was a perfect cover.

BOSSHOG

(39,661 posts)
7. One thing we'll never run out of is hate
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:54 PM
Oct 4

There are those amongst us who are turbocharged by it for no apparent reason.

Think. Again.

(17,324 posts)
11. I think it's gotten worse in my lifetime...
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:32 PM
Oct 4

...and I look for what's causing that, and the only thing that makes sense to me to is the lack of "value" that people put into life in general.

We are living much more comfortable lives now, with an absurd amount of excess everything. Friends, neighbors, community, etc. are much less important when the population thinks they can just buy whatever they need or want.

As a species, our survival depends on the cooperation of those around us but when we lose sight of that through a false sense of independent security, other people are no longer important, so it's easy to disregard the pain of others.

But I don't know. I do know I fear for us though. Our position as a dominant species here on the planet might have an closer end date than we realize.

marble falls

(61,996 posts)
8. I remember back when calling someone a peckerwood or a peckerwood bastard was an invitation to ...
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:55 PM
Oct 4

... a serious beating. No one claimed it for themselves but everyone had an opinion of who was one. White trash was just a step up.

Figarosmom

(2,351 posts)
14. Why on earth would anyone call themselves PECKERWOODS?
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:23 PM
Oct 4

So now they can join their partners in crime the Mexican prison gangs. I wonder how they keep them from over throwing the prisons ?

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