I wouldn’t mind it if they’d stop fucking oppressing people

Tell me more of this anti monarchism thing, my credit card number is 5683 3692 3539 1643

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It’s always sunny does veep. The west wing is America as we envisioned ourselves once, but it only works when we all try to be our best and follow decorum and actually want the country to be better.

If you’re different or a democrat the republican party hates you and wants you to suffer. They will accept less success in exchange for your pain. There is no west wing liberal fantasy with that as one of the parties, just the gang ruining the time of everyone around them.

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Yeah but a republican might. You have to understand that they’re ideologically opposed to the government having and using money. Even in places they demand government attempt to turn a profit like USPS and Amtrak (which I’m theoretically not opposed to them doing if they provide vital services at a good price and quality) it’s with the ultimate goal of spinning them off into private companies

Yeah it does. Firstly, outside the former confederacy segregation wasn’t as sticky of an issue. That’s not to say we aren’t racist, we’re just less comfortable announcing it. In the Midwest people of his generation would be using euphemisms. Like I’m in my 30s and spend most of my life in Ohio and never heard an old person in that region call for segregation even when they’re shitfaced, instead they talk about drugs, crime, “inner city types”, and rap music when they want to be anti black.

American bigotry has very regional flavoring and southern is notoriously shameless.

The other big thing is that the Christianity he’s rejecting sounds like southern Christianity. Every region of the US has it’s vibes of what they mean when they say Christian.

So yeah it’s everything he reads as foreign to me as an Aussie. The mason Dixon line feels to many Americans as much a cultural divide as the border with Canada, though ontarians have always seemed more reasonable than southerners.

Here’s the last archive.

CW: everything but misogyny, it’s remarkable how little misogyny there is in a schizophrenic screed against Jewish, black, queer, and educated people

The time cube is the most southern schizophrenic thing I’ve ever read

Republicans can end this shutdown whenever they’re ready to

Yeah, Poland to North Korea was just the most extreme case I could find. With direct distance from Warsaw to Pyongyang is 7556km, there is no driving option, while Caracas to Buenos Aries is 5101km. All three of these cases are most of a hemisphere, including inhospitable terrain.

And for comparison, direct route from Caracas to Washington DC is 3316km. We have a naval station in Virginia, as well as one in Florida (also one in Illinois which would be way more amusing if we hadn’t just torpedoed our relationship with Canada). San Juan, Puerto Rico, a place where all people born are full US citizens is 890km from Caracas.

Bah there’s only two countries between them. Next you’re gonna tell me Canada and Guatemala are far apart or Poland and North Korea

Edit, I’m dumb, Venezuela borders Brazil

Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren’t anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.

I’d rather accidentally feed people who don’t need it than accidentally not feed people who do need it. Especially in a country where many people who qualify for government assistance don’t take it because it’s seen as shameful.

Listen I’ve never been to California, I don’t really believe all the stories of people shitting in the street there, but I’ve spent years in Columbus and I really don’t believe stories of people shitting in the street there

Refusing to breathe is the instinctive response to being unwillingly hooked up to nitrogen as a means of execution. This causes co2 buildup in the blood and an agonizing death.

There is no humane form of execution.

Nah I’m married and contrary to popular opinion my wife has standards

I’ve never seen human shit on the street there. The homeless can’t afford to live there anymore and live in Lancaster these days

Unless I’m on a federation starship I don’t want to live in space. I want to live on earth where my species belongs