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I've taken several sick days over the years because I didn't want to be around if *that* recently fired guy decided to come back to work uninvited tomorrow...
We keep skipping over the bit of the conversation where the NRA's funding comes from Russian oligarchs. We just carried on like it didn't happen. They're definitely not just running a decades old destablilization campaign on behalf of foreigm adversaries.
There was an active and well-documented effort to de-emphasize civics and critical thinking in public education across the red states after the Vietnam war. It's far easier to contol the narratives and world views of smaller communities.
It's not that people in rural communites are dumb, or not suffering, but they *are* being actively manipulated because the strong enforcement of social views and norms in smaller communitites is easy to manipulate and weaponize, and people are intentionally not taught to how identify and critically examine authoritatian messaging in the same way.
I hope we can all come together around tearing down corporate greed, private equity and tax evasion by the hyper-rich that's really crushing the working class. We're all getting fucked pretty equtably on those fronts, and they're real human issues we can agree on.
Comment by No_Foot at 06/12/2024 at 22:54 UTC
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Some great comments here 👍