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Became isolated during the pandemic, realized I was an asexual aromantic, now I read fan-fiction all day. Are you in Minnesota? Join the Minnesota Discord and come to a bonfire or a group walk!
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It's tempting to look around and wonder why people aren't angrier, but America has had it's poorer communities systematically dismantled by the War on Drugs and by union busting before that.
The necessary culture for resistance is being regrown, mutual food aid programs for example, it's not flashy.
J6 serves as a benchmark for what you can do and still get pardoned if you win.
Republicans across the US know they can even kill cops as long as it gets the win.
I've no doubt there will be another organized coup this time, but even without that it will be widespread.
What sucks is these are the same cults people have been screaming about for decades, finally reaping the benefits of all their tax free political donations and "community building".
America has had a cult problem since the end of the civil war, we refused to address it, now we're all in the cult.
You have to ask yourself how much you trust the people who report meeting with him for whatever reason.
Any reporters still allowed in the White House are probably not trustworthy 😞 sometimes Trump meets with people who don't like him much like Zelensky, maybe they would blow the whistle... maybe.
When Trump dies he may rise again through an AI powered "deadbot". I expect his social media posts at least to continue indefinitely, even full blown video speeches are not off the table based on the AI of Scott Adams.
Yeah what is happening now is no fluke, even the passing of Citizens United was no fluke. Instead this is a decades long plan for the south to rise again and the Christian Nationalists to have their revelations.
We refused to enforce our laws all this time and are now acting surprised 🤷♂️ FAFO for us.
People should have been calling them worse than BlueMAGA since before MAGA existed. Our deep systematic issues will never be solved by electing the right person, because only a monster can make it to the ballot in the first place.
I recommend voting tactically, using history as a guide.
To be frank, in the US we live in a genocidal country, with genocidal monuments, and celebrate genocide in countless ways, the idea that any candidate for our leader will not be some sort of genocidal shitlord is rediculous in my opinion.
Unfortunately the war machine cannot be stopped by mere voting, and that hope has led us here.
The question people should have asked is not, "Which candidate opposes genocide." but rather "Which candidate can be most influenced through protest."
It's fine to hate all the candidates and be tactical.
A report by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing calls for accountability and support.
Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison will testify under oath Wednesday morning before a U.S. House oversight committee examining fraud in Minnesota.
Republicans are expected to use the hearing to question top Minnesota Democrats about fraud in state government programs.
Coco Casey of Buxton Books in Charleston, South Carolina, recommends "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls," by Grady Hendrix.
Like, when god or jesus says that stuff about love and kindness you better smile and nod if you don't want your city turned to fucking salt.
See anyone who grew up reading the bible like it was full of metaphors might not get this yet, but in the US a lot of us were sat down and made to read that book and accept every word as literally true, each event as history.
The god you meet doing that is just abunch of abusive personality traits.
right wing pastors are screaming, crying, throwing up because John Piper posted a Bible verse on the everything app.
Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.
We have been tolerating cartoonish levels of racism because it's monuments rake in tons of cash, laser light shows over the faces of confederate heros carved into a sacred native landmark levels of cash.
What they are thinking is a common phrase in the US, "The south will rise again."
It's annoying how people who talk the most shit about how they hate pedophiles wont hesitate to call their kid a liar when someone they trust is accused. It's always "No he's a good person he wouldn't do that, kids just tell stories."
My personal conspiracy theory is that unless we get lucky his death will not be obvious, and "Trump" will continue to exist in the form of social media posts and AI generated videos.
Trump would fail a turing test so the bar for replacing him with one of these new so-called Griefbots is not high.
This...isn't chess, it's a different game that "...makes you feel like a chess master."
Truth is the enemy of tradition, and for those who were born into power tradition is everything.
It's why corporal punishment for children is still so popular in the US, fear is the mind killer.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident.
I recently heard someone describe the end of the US Civil War as an occupation that never ended, the war continues.
The reactionary response to DEI is an example of a longstanding conflict in US streets that has resulted in events from the burning of Black Wall Street to the murder of George Floyd.
The hardest part about punishing the Nazis was much of what they did and believed was inspired by the US in the first place, so it was a little awkward judging people for doing something you wanted to do yourself.
We ended up giving many of them positions of power in the private sector instead...
