No, you should band together and grind the system that only presents evil options to a halt.

Lol apparently the juicy stuff is every meme my friends have shared with each other for the last several years

Well, directly funding genocide is one that SO many people have been calling out as a mistake for over a year now.

Nah it’s super easy. Moose tracks 100%

Thats a setting you can change, and not a bug but the intentional default behavior because MMS is much more expensive than SMS in many parts of the world

Fuck yea, animal liberation all the way. Not sure why you’re using that to defend capitalism tho. Doesn’t really feel like a good faith comment to make.

You can not be an anarchist while supporting the hierarchical system of capitalism. Full stop.

They both got silver if I’m not mistaken

You’re completely discounting the struggles of the many people that have fought their entire lives against persecution and for self determination. There is a long and storied history of this in the US south and it continues today. Just because the job isn’t done yet doesn’t mean nobody’s working to stop fascism.

By having a minority vote them in. Voter turnout is notoriously low in many southern states, especially the reliably red ones.

I will condemn any bigot, fascist, reactionary, colonizer, and religious or ethno-nationalist.

Believe it or not though, those people are a loud minority in many parts of the south. When you generalize people based on what region they’re from, good people get caught in the crossfire.

Yes genocide is clearly the answer. /s

As long as the “they” you refer to is “the… people that elect [backwards governments]” as you put it - I’m in total agreement.

The majority of southerners didn’t elect anyone though. Its specifically lumping the people most harmed by those backwards people in with them that I don’t want to happen. That distinction may seem obvious enough to you to not be worth mentioning, but I promise it isn’t obvious to everyone.

No victim complex. I hadn’t seen anything here that I found distasteful. I don’t have a problem with the OP either. I said what I meant and nothing more. “I sure hope this thread doesn’t devolve…” doesn’t mean that it has or even that I expect it to. I have seen it before in this community however. Some people build up this idea in their head of the southern states being filled with hateful fascists, and they’re right to a degree. Its also filled with pockets of disenfranchised and oppressed people. Maybe I’m an optimist or idealist, but that’s the view I like to hold. I just like to try pushing the conversation away from attacking southern/rural people who are wholely harmed by the policies of a loud minority of bigots.

Nice to see some nuance. This is how you criticize the establishment powers in an area plagued by fascism.

I’ll be the first to criticize the government and policies that have dominated the southern states for centuries. However many many people in the south don’t support those governments and are harmed by those policies. Please do call out the problems - attack those in power and send a message that their conduct is unacceptable. I only ask that you don’t generalize the people stuck in the region by economic conditions and a culture that’s hostile to them.

Sure hope this thread doesn’t devolve into hating on people who live in rural areas or the US south generally.

Idk man, one seems like too many to me.

I didn’t stutter. Fuck every liberal enabling the rise of fascism.

In popular discourse it generally is.