They’re the same

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I wouldn't go down this route, painting all rednecks as Maga supporters is not fair to them or conducive to a good outcome.
- And there are plenty of MAGA dipshits who aren't rednecks. If you watched the Mummers parade today, you saw a bunch of Delco bigots who wouldn't know a tractor from a turnip truck. But those guys sure looked pretty in their dresses.
  
  Exactly, and a lot of the people who were at Jan 6 were from upper middle class suburban white america who flew in to DC taking time off from their cushy jobs to larp as revolutionaries.
  
  This is a big point. I briefly took a job in Northern California two years ago and met more openly-racist bigots and transphobes than I ever met in my Appalachian hometown
  
  I had no idea what you were talking about but JFC what a cringy bunch of freaks. The Wikipedia article had photos that turned my stomach.
- Just carrying on the long long history of punishing the workers who dared take up arms to defend themselves a century ago.
  Unlikely to change any time soon. That punishment has included the above derision, plastered all over all forms of media for decades. As well as generational economic punishment. GovCo shat on Appalachia from such a height they've never yet recovered and likely never will. Look at the response to the devastation from that hurricane.
  Only people on this continent that got a worse hand are the indigenous and black folks in southern states.
- It also didn't work for Hilary in spectacular fashion.
- So redneck agenda is different from MAGA agenda? Do tell.
  
  Redneck here. Fuck Trump and fuck you for thinking I support him.
  Hope this helps.
  
  Wtf is "redneck agenda," the farmers almanac?

Cody Barlow ain't no bigot
- who? Searching Cody Barlow was a bummer of different police scanner news stories. Cute reply to the tailgate temporarily suspended over my own ignorance.

Bullshit
I'm born and raised in Appalachia, my daddy worked in the coal mines and drove an 18 wheeler. Certified redneck enough that I confuse the shit out of my New England neighbors.
I went out and marched with striking nurses when Bernie put out the call, and I've never voted Republican in my entire fucking life.
OP, you need to learn what a redneck is.

Rednecks are historically left. Big on unions.
- Historically Republicans were instrumental in abolishing slavery. Today's version wants it back.
- Not the indiana kind.
  Source: I grew up a conservative indiana flatbilly.
- Mmmm political left and right don't align strictly on a union-supporting axis. Even left and right don't really mean much anymore, because the Conservative party isn't anchored to a specific set of ideologies the was Progressives are. A conservative will support a union when the union helps rhe conservative, will oppose the union when the union hurts the conservative, and will demonize the union when it helps them get elected by lathering up their base of voters.
  Progressives support labor rights, equitable pay, and regulations that protect the safety and liberty of the worker. Progressives will support those ideals even when it does not help them directly.
  Many people associate Communists and Socialists with the "left" and Libertarians and Free Market Capitalists with the "right". But there are conservative communists and progressive capitalists.
  
  Whaa? "Many people associate Communists and Socialists with the “left” and Libertarians and Free Market Capitalists with the “right”. But there are conservative communists and progressive capitalists." You can't be a conservative Communist, its oxymoronic, dito for the other one too. If you call yourself a communist and have conservative ideals u are not a communist and should change your believes or be removed for communist spaces. On the other hand if you call yourself progressive and support capitalism you aren't progressive as capitalism is inherently oppressive. You can call yourself whatever you'd like but you have to walk the walk too, to be it.

That's right jackass. Keep that bullshit going. Just like you were conditioned to.
Do not under any circumstances google, The Battle of Blair Mountain. That's where the term comes from. Asshole. And it doesn't mean what Hollywood has taught you it means.

I live in Oklahoma, drive an Old Green Truck™, have a lazy dog of unknown breed, and I work in a machine shop. Last week my neighbor and I rebuilt a motorcycle engine and put it in his bike. My wife and I have chickens. I'm a pretty sterotypical "redneck".
I've voted democrat in every election since 2000.
It sounds like OP is terribly confused, and is associating people from two different groups while they really have nothing in common, which is something MAGA dipshits also do.

Fuck off no they ain't.

"Redneck" was literally a labor movement term before it became a insult for poor rural people. During the Coalfield Wars (1910s-20s), Appalachian miners—many wearing red bandanas as a union symbol ("red necks")—waged open war against corporately bought private armies and the US military. The Battle of Blair Mountain (1921) saw 10,000+ armed miners (called rednecks by both sides) fighting cops and strikebreakers in the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Socialists like Eugene Debs even rallied these "rednecks" as class warriors. The term got whitewashed later, but it started as a badge of honor for strikers.
Blair Mountain

This isn't helping, and it isn't true.

This is some full-on stirrin'-somes-shit probably-russian/chinese-originated bullshit meant to divide folks up. Real rednecks would never hand their liberty to some two-bit lyin sack of shit New York Billionaire landlord's son swindler like Trump

I’m a lefty to the bone and have been since I was a kid. I’ve spent most of my life in the south and have met some amazing redneck folks that don’t fit into this mold.
Basically, don’t put your potential working class allies into a box.

I've been described by people as redneck, but I'm not remotely MAGA
...and therefore I support Green Day dunking on MAGA instead of me XD

When I was dating, I laughingly told a girl I was "kinda redneck".
"Uh, exactly how redneck?"
"I loathe Trump and don't start me on January 6th. If that's what you're asking."
"Whew. Just checking."
- I like huntin', fishin', farmin', shootin' the revenuers that try to bust my still and steal my 'shine, and I stand in solidarity with my fellow workers against the evils of capitalism.
  Is that sufficiently redneck?
  (I don't actually like fishing; I think it's boring, and I don't like fish very much.)
  
  LOL, I'm on the water with my kayaks, canoe and little plastic boat, "Caught anything?"
  "Uh, no. Just stopping on sandbanks and drinking Keystones. Walking around the woods and such. Uh, how about you? Catch anything?"

Eat shit OP. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

This look MAGA to you OP?
Pictured:
/r/liberalgunowners patch
Ukraine patch
Imperial Storm Trooper AR-15 (OK, you kinda got me on that one.)
wife's Christmas present (hot pink Bersa Thunder .380)
Pilipino flag
20-yo hat, bought before assholes took over the flag
20-round mag, kinda prefer the 10s, standard 30s are a bit much for reasons
Not pictured:
Ukrainian flag
Dark-skin, green card-carrying wife. Not a US citizen, doesn't care much, maybe someday.
OK, the crushed Keystone cans scream redneck, but not MAGA.
To top it off, that's in Florida, where it's perfectly OK to paint us with a fat "conservative asshole who deserves whatever happens to them" brush.
And 01/06 gave me fucking PTSD thank you very fucking much. And I don't say that lightly.
(Glad I took a minute on this post! Found some cool new patches.)
- Gonna be straight, the hand guard doesn't scream MAGA, but it's kinda borderline fudd-y. :P A carbon fiber M-LOK hand guard and a low-profile gas block would be better, unless you're reeeeaaaaaalllllly attached to that A2 front sight post.
  I still prefer the 30 round magazines, since they're cheap, easy to find, and are better for making it through high round count matches without lots of reloads. :)
  As an aside to all of that, when I talk to younger people at matches--I'm probably about your age, maybe a little older--many of them are in favor of things Dems say that they're in favor of (except gun control). I think that's one of the sticking points for a lot of the younger rednecks in rural parts of the country.
  
  Imma be dumb here, but I think the holes in the hand guard are M-LOK? Not looking to attach tools there in any case.
  low-profile gas block
  Uh, you lost me, but I'm listening. LOL, this is why I went with a plain Ruger Whiteout. Still learning, but didn't want to fuck up rolling my own.
  And yes, I'm loving the A2 sight. Practicality aside, I saw this on sale and thought, "Huh. M16 in Star Wars? Sold." The light is a normal Olight I happened to have, but it glares on the front sight. Can't find it again, but someone posted a nice adapter that would throw it out further. Know what I'm talking about? Couldn't find one at the time.
- According to the US government, the most dangerous thing in this picture is that bag of Kinder Surprise chocolates

I'm so glad the libs don't push divisiveness. Those of you who upvote are the problem.
Go back in your ignorance tube.

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