Fuck means testing.
Also this video is :wholesome: AF
This is how you protect the kids .
I'm increasingly believing the balkanization posting. Seems like what state you live in will have a genuine difference in your quality of life (or already does, for trans people especially)
Which I think GOPers are all too happy with, since they’ll have their own impoverished fiefdoms like the Dixiecrats did in the deep south.
Weren’t the northerners in favor of abolishing slavery because it was terribly inefficient in productivity and profits? The south basically wanted slaves because of sadism. If they Balkanize today they’re just gonna roll back to cruelty for cruelty’s sake and then fail lol
at the time the south completely dominated the government, and by leveraging their ownership of political power they were able to maintain and expand their slave state. They did not want to abolish slavery as this was the main avenue of exploitation in the less industrialized south, and the north would have a severe advantage. The impetus for the northern capitalists to abolish slavery was because of the desire to expand, and the south was constantly getting in the way of their unfettered development by way of the legal system which the south also owned.
The republicans representing the northern capitalists actually divided up the south and placed garrisons there to keep the southern democrats in a disadvantageous state, and this led to many of the progressive developments of black reconstruction, with black reconstruction being backed by the northern republicans. It wasn't until the north began to suffer from labor resistance did the collaboration between the republicans and democrats become officiated and the republicans and democrats agreed to help each other by focusing on the labor resistance in the north and black resistance in the south respectively, while dividing up the struggle between white and non-white workers to the workers unfortunate ignorance.
The republicans pulled the army out of the garrisons to crush labor while the democrats used their new privileges unhindered by the north to destroy black reconstruction.
I've seen people describe the Civil War and Reconstruction as the USA's 1848 revolution and I kinda think your description aligns with that.
Sadism and greed. Wealthy landowners were desperate to freeze time so they wouldn't ever have to lose profits or spend money on changing how their farms worked. Behind the mask it's always been Old Man Capitalism...
Seems like what state you live in will have a genuine difference in your quality of life
This is already true regardless given climate change.
I'm skeptical of succession happening, but I do think that basically the central government will weaken in authority in terms of control at home. I don't think the US is any time soon going to stop projecting power to the rest of the world and the decentralized states will agree to that. I basically just think states will do their own thing at home and those things will effect your quality of life.
Michigan, a state I had wrote off as doomed to fall into maga hell before the midterms but got its first dem majority in 38 years, passed sensible gun reform that will require cops to remove guns from homocide risk individuals or loose their job, expanded the civil rights act to include LGBTQA, repealed the abortion ban, and ended right to work ALL ON THE SAME FUCKING DAY THIS WEEK. All of which has major support from the voters from what I can tell.
I'm honestly just shocked that the Democrats actually did something instead of sitting on their hands
Me too, I think the midwestern states have realized they have an opportunity and are taking it. In Michigan The MSU shooting and the insanity of the right leaning candidates and neighbors of most people seems to have finally broken the camels back in the state (also the bast amount of COVID deaths being from republican areas in the state didn’t hurt either).
Like look up the republican governor candidate who was hand picked by Trump she’s hilariously crazy.
Edit: I should also mention that a huge chunk of the Michigan DNC is now composed of/heavily influenced by what in the US political compass would be considered left wing orgs who have done a great job of organizing, protesting, but then also working within the party when the time calls for it to secure changes and security.
Interesting. I never thought Michigan was a state I’d consider moving to. I’ll see how it evolves by the time I graduate and start a career
Look it ain’t perfect. The top of the state is still deep red and Grand Rapids area is still controlled by Devoss’s awful family the leftists groups on t he ground there are what this site would call “lib adjacent” for working with the dems and giving ground a bunch but it’s def better then a lot of Midwest states.
Also Michigan is fucking beautiful, lots of nature and parks, Detroit is cool, and it will be the least affected by climate change.
North Michigan is deep red because it's impoverished, neglected and has little to no public infrastructure support outside of the tourist spots. I mean, the wineries ARE rather pretty...
actually UP voted more for Biden and dems.
The biggest swap was suburban areas before like around Treverse city.
It’s most likely that the republicans have been too overtly gleeful about making life worse for their base, and it backfired for now.
It’s why everything with the GOP is about attacking trans people. As they are an easy target.
The election denial stuff def played a huge roll in Michigan too.
There were so many of them! Also the fact a couple republicans did election fraud while screaming about how the 2020 election was stolen really turned off a lot of center right people.
I talked to a bunch of folks that’s till live in Metri Detroit and it also appears that the suburban center rights who embraced their weirdo neighbors over Trump support remembered that their neighbors were indeed weirdo crazies and have really wanted to avoid being associated with them anymore.
It’s been a cycle really Michigan suburban kids move to chciago, chicagoans move to the UP or upper Michigan,
Thank you based Michigan. At the risk of my liberal soft spot for electoralism showing, finally dems at least attempt to govern, attempt to keep their promises. California dems are complacent as shit, and they do fucking nothing. Look at the high speed rail, this can't be just that the US is magically cursed to have every HSR project fail, considering that the US invented it IIRC. Since they're in no rush, they're taking their sweet time and all it does is federally give the GOP more and more ammo. Not to mention Biden spending most of his term twiddling his thumbs because everyone went back to brunch.
Thank you Michigan, when balkanization comes, may you prosper.
It might have something to do with the huge population of Islamic immigrants pushing Michigan's voting demographics in a progressive direction.
Ehhhh that Muslim population had always been there, and it’s currently said Muslim population pushing the book banning
Everyone I know from Dearborn is a MAGA fan or thinks trans kids need guns.
Yeah that checks out for me too. Most of the progressive Muslims I know/volunteered with were in Hamtramck
Illinois just became the first state in the union to introduce vacations.
MN :left-unity-2: IL :left-unity-2: MI
(Couldn't find the arm clasping meme, although left-unity Great Lakes Territory would be cool)
Congratulations Americans, my third-world country did that in the sixties.
This is why the left's position on electoralism should be "critical support, but it isn't nearly enough" instead of "that's useless and you shouldn't do it." People will rightly point to stuff like this and contrast it with the (to date) accomplishments of non-electoral tactics.
Sometimes I read r/QanonCasualities to keep up with what everyone's favorite cult and their long-suffering libs are up to. Apparently one of them just reported an old friend of theirs to the feds for stalking this guy, the governor. Said this friend would park outside the governor's house at all hours of the night, noting the times and routes of his security detail. Knowing the :frothingfash:, it was probably something to do with the couple of small Ws Minnesota has racked up recently.
Those people are an interesting mix, the qanon relatives. Many are blueanon russiagaters, some are "Trump and the GOP are the problem" 2017-era throwbacks, some are aw-shucks earnest dopes who grew up in chudland but are still not so sure about this new adrenochrome thing their fiance is talking about, and some are teetering painfully on the precipice of getting it.
So sad that the radical left will be forcing the great people of Minnesota to pay for the lunch of the millionaires and billionaires children.
