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the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social |
I'm hoping we don't have the earth-salting anti-southern problem here on Bluesky like we did at the other place but I'm glad this post is here as a sign for me to tap
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Carcinization Station
@desmigeo.bsky.social
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I love antineoconfederate Sherman memes, but moved to my SC hometown from comfy-Blue CO. Worried about MAGAchuds. Then wore a shirt saying "Peace Love Logic" and a guy in the checkout line said, "I don't say it to avoid a fight but more people here should be that way." The cashier said "heck yeah"
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Caliban Darklock
@cdarklock.bsky.social
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We have a BIT of it, but some of us are fighting the good fight because it CAN still be won here.
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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤
@fluxandflow.bsky.social
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If anything, I am upset by the policies and the politicians; I try to not assume that the population is unified behind them. "Florida Man" style stories are highly visibile, and sadly get generalized across the populace of the states.
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@jennifervestal.bsky.social
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Those of us in secure blue states need to find a friend in a red state and write postcards etc for
the senate races there. I wrote 500 postcards to Georgia last time (therapy for my anxiety) and man if I got just ONE person out to vote, it was worth it.
demcastusa.com/2021/05/12/y...
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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I love Southerners. They keep telling me “Well bless your heart.” ❤️
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rudetuesday
@rudetuesday.bsky.social
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There's a fairly large contingent of southerners here. I'm hoping that'll increase.
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Bill Bragin
@activecultures.bsky.social
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As a NYer, this argument felt like a slap (in a good way) the first time I heard it. “The South ain't Red, folks. It's suppressed. Don't pray for the South to secede. Ride down here and help fight.”
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The Babe with the Power 🇺🇸🇲🇽
@babewiththepower.bsky.social
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There was the same exact idea posted about T exas, was it last week? Whenever it was the GOP was doing their usual Election year "we want to secede!" to get the fanatics to vote and the knee-jerk smug shit-talking about the state was happening.
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Noblesse Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
@couldntbeme.bsky.social
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Related point: I hate it when people say “they voted for it” for things like abortion bans. Even setting aside voter suppression, the whole point of civil rights is that there are rights that a single, simple majority election should not be able to strip away!
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James Ratcliffe
@jratcliffe.bsky.social
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A corollary to this are the complaints that "blue states fund red states." While true, the way to "fix" that would be to slash programs that benefit the poor (which red states have more of) and slash taxes on the wealthy (who are disproportionately in blue states).
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unhinged eldritch abomination
@rhymeswithk.bsky.social
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unfortunately there's plenty of "just move if you don't like it" and "fuck them poors" going on but it's thankfully few and far between
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Nerd
@babayaga25.bsky.social
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As a Texan, it is deeply frustrating. I live here and see people struggle, then get to hear some East Coaster who voted for Eric Adams complain about Texas illiberalism.
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J.B. Zimmerman
@jbzimmerman.bsky.social
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nah man where we get our boiled peanuts then
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Georgiaontap
@georgiaontap.bsky.social
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Some of us are the baddies.
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AceCatLady
@acecatlady.bsky.social
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We kinda do. I've multiple times had to tell people their points of "you should just leave" to Southerners discussing our regional hardships aren't helpful. And that the issues we have here - prejudice and cowardice in leadership - are not unique to our region.
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Sock Puppet Pundit
@sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social
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I try to explain Georgia is not red. It's gerrymandered thanks to upper-middle class conservatives in white flight suburbs.
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Moon Cthulhu
@mwcpodcast.bsky.social
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I grew up in a rural part of a blue state, and many folks here have a legitimate beef with federal and state governments over the fact that dozens of towns have been left to slowly rot on the vine, and family farms have been allowed to just fold. Populists have a very easy starting place with them.
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objet petit ott
@isheoughtto.bsky.social
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we do
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Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
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So far, the lack of engagement software, seems to limit the scope of organized bigotry on Bluesky – there is nothing to say "let's you and him fight." Hopefully this will continue to be the case as the platform expands.
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LOREM OPOSSUM - Coward of Technology
@plaguedaemonart.bsky.social
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Similarly
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@reddog2.bsky.social
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Generalizing about people is usually wrong.
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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Well . . . it's not as big as on the other place anyway.
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Jogeran
@jogeran.bsky.social
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Even without the explanations "This place on a map turned red on the color maps that we're supposed to think are representative of the people living there! It's good that they're going through [X Natural Disaster" is such a Lib Analysis.
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@itsrev.bsky.social
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Reading a single history book on antebellum South is eye opening. I am struggling thru Masterless Men, which is a brutal account of how systems of control worked to keep down white people and slaves both, which included the intentional spread of racism
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Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
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The UK equivalent is the weirdos who post the "union of Celtic Republics" map which manages to imagine a seceding conglomerate of liberal people that misses out where most nonwhite people in the UK live.
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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beautiful part of the country where many of the most incredible people I have ever met make their homes shame about the politicians and repressive structures and eternal Jim Crow
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Karl "deadlight" Williams
@deadlight.bsky.social
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Hey, I'm from the UK and even I know that rednecks didn't get their name from sunburn or some other historical revisionism bs. Red socialistbandanas to mark them as union men! Workers and the oppressed of everywhere are one.
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Frostellicus
@maxellxlii.bsky.social
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I’ll tap the sign and suggest everyone read “the counterrevolution of slavery: politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina” by @profmsinha.bsky.social South Carolina was so illiberal and their elections, dare I say rigged, from the start that you can see its similarities to todays politics!
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