Yep, I can confirm: Patrick Abraham's usage of "y'all" was definitely patronizing and inauthentic.
I immediately cringed somehow when reading his use of the term, because to my Maryland ears (we were South of the Mason-Dixon line!) it just instantly felt faked. I cannot say why, I guess that's just baked into my being, but the fact that others picked up on this too confirms my instincts.
Totally off topic, but for you yankees who feel smug about the term "y'all," (even my New Jersey cousins thought I sounded strange as a kid):
I recommend you consider how most other [Romance] languages have a pronoun for the 2nd person plural, and besides, other American terms of ours out there are much more cringe-worthy, chief among them for me: SODA POP. Ugh.
Back to Patrick's posts:
my friend, I think you're shocked by what you read here because the MSM, academia, and the entirety of our public institutions pretty much all tow the Progressive line, and so this is your redpill moment, if you allow for it.
You really should read through the entire thread, I did so when I joined back when it was at about 250 pages deep, and there really are intelligent, reasoned, analytical and critical posts here, and actually people from varied backgrounds (me being from the PAID RUSSIAN TROLL background :D ).
And unlike with social media you can actually have lengthy, interesting debates here, AND Mark is a much more reasonable censor than the Tech robber-barron troglodytes! :D
Anyways, Patrick, man, read up if you want to, but as our most recent token normie here, if you choose not to you will be demonstrating a preference for intellectual ignorance, which will further support the hypothesis that Progressive normies actually DON'T WANT free speech!
On this whole WHY THE HELL DO WE PAY TAXES debate from earlier this week, has anyone else had this observation or change of opinion?
I used to count myself among those who exhibit the "Conservative" tax viewpoint, that yes, our taxes are so idiotically and naively wasted on, among other things, wasteful welfare spending, wars, and duplicative programs, but nonetheless it is virtuous and patriotic to consider yourself a contributing taxpayer.
(I speak from experience as a former higher-ed administrator who saw duplicative Veterans programs constantly created, and academic administrators drooling to get their hands on that training grant money, often with no concern about the benefit to the Vets themselves. And I've seen plenty of people and family using welfare as that ubiquitous hand out instead of a hand up.)
Well, after all this CoVid craziness, I've lost that warm and fuzzy feeling that taxpaying is patriotic and admirable. After all of this (continuing) madness, I'd really like to find a way to give these phuckers as little of my money as possible, legally of course, but, hell, in war the lines get blurred.
Anyone else have a similar change of heart?