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It is actually a term from the 1800's:
From the Urban Dictionary:
Crackers were poor white folk who lived in the south during the antebellum era. Given their name because of their staple diet of crack-corn, crackers were often hired by plantation owners in order to replace a slave in dangerous jobs. The high prices of slaves during the 1830s and 40s made It efficient to use a cracker rather than a slave. If a planter lost or injured a slave he would be pressed to buy another slave, but if the cracker got injured or died, finacially, the planter would have been unaffected. Crackers had a very low standard of living. Many of them lived in forests and dug holes in the ground to live in. despite their living conditions and their social status, crackers stilled believed they were better than the african slaves. Today, cracker is often used as a derogatory term for a white person for obvious reasons. It implies a person who lives in the utmost worst conditions and a person who no one really cares about.
So, as you say, there is nothing to identify them as American or Christian; they could just as easily be Dutch Zoroastrians.I rarely see anyone wearing a cross necklace and see Christians all the time. I'm a Christian woman and don't own one.
I'm just saying, most people don't wear symbols on them like some do, instead they choose to let their lives and character glorify God so that Christ is glorified among men in this way.
A normal outdoor gathering of very real American Christians can look just like that picture...
And a staged group of actors and models intended to appear to be "very real American Christians" would look exactly like that picture.I rarely see anyone wearing a cross necklace and see Christians all the time. I'm a Christian woman and don't own one.
I'm just saying, most people don't wear symbols on them like some do, instead they choose to let their lives and character glorify God so that Christ is glorified among men in this way.
A normal outdoor gathering of very real American Christians can look just like that picture...
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Definition of WISECRACK
a clever or sarcastic remark… See the full definitionwww.merriam-webster.com
There are comedy clubs called Wisecrackers, etc. Never heard of it being a racist term.
Cracker yeah but wisecracker??
It's an act of being deliberately dishonest. He knows what a wisecracker is, he's just engaged in bad faith acting.
-CryptoLutheran
There's some pretty funny wise crackers posting in this thread. Guffaw.
It's not being dishonest. It's a wise guy jokester.It's an act of being deliberately dishonest. He knows what a wisecracker is, he's just engaged in bad faith acting.
-CryptoLutheran
Of course, and "look like American Christians" is very telling as to what "American Christianity: is all about--that is, the culture not the faith.And a staged group of actors and models intended to appear to be "very real American Christians" would look exactly like that picture.
And, let's remember, advertising companies stage stock photos like that all the time.
Here's one:
And another:
And yet another:
Oops.
-- A2SG, just sayin'....
Evidently CPAC doesn't really know what is actually going on in Hungary or they wouldn't be so eager to have Trump hang out with Orban. Hungary has strict gun control, liberal family leave policies, free child care, Universal health coverage, low cost higher ed, outstanding public transportation and many other perks which are anathema to US conservatives.Hungarian PM Orban to meet ally Trump on March 8
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump this coming Friday in Florida, shortly after he openly endorsed his long-time ally's bid to return to the U.S. presidency this year.www.reuters.com
BUDAPEST, March 4 (Reuters) - Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump this coming Friday in Florida, shortly after he openly endorsed his long-time ally's bid to return to the U.S. presidency this year.
The right-wing Orban, who has regularly been at loggerheads with the EU over his anti-immigration campaigns and moves to put the judiciary, NGOs, and media under more state control, has been described by Trump as a "great leader".
Orban's conservative family policies have also earned praise among populist figures in the United States, and Hungary has hosted meetings of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in the past years.
Is a wisecracker deliberately dishonest?
No... Another interchangeable term for wisecracker is a smart alec
And I was being a bit of a smart alec and @returntosender knows it - hence the mention... Lol.
Other people? They might not know they are being wisecrackers which means they might not be a wisecracker at all.
Yeah, but he hates "teh gay" and likes Putin so it's ok to ignore all the other stuff.Evidently CPAC doesn't really know what is actually going on in Hungary or they wouldn't be so eager to have Trump hang out with Orban. Hungary has strict gun control, liberal family leave policies, free child care, Universal health coverage, low cost higher ed, outstanding public transportation and many other perks which are anathema to US conservatives.
Of course, and "look like American Christians" is very telling as to what "American Christianity: is all about--that is, the culture not the faith.
Yes, Orban is an autocrat with a stick in one hand, but he has a carrot in the other. Trump's supporters just want the stick.Yeah, but he hates "teh gay" and likes Putin so it's ok to ignore all the other stuff.
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