God I hope so. Don't hope for the US to learn.
We didn't on guns after Sandy Hook so get some popcorn for the horror show to come for us.
Azal
joined 2 years ago
I live in Missouri. These people consistently vote on ballots measures that help them, then vote in people who will overturn the ballot measures "Because people didn't know what they were voting for."
What pattern does the people getting voted in have? The (R) next to their name.
Seen it in the past decade I've lived here. People won't learn.
Unfortunately on my research, while Home Depot is the worst on this one, so is Lowe's, Menards, and every other tool/home store...
Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.
I'm probably going to get shit on for this, but I've always supported Amazon until last couple years for one big reason, it gave competition to Walmart. Amazon's union busting practices were learned from the Walton masters, those of y'all who remember Walmart having butchers? The reason they're gone is they unionized and Walmart got rid of them. Walmart will invade a town, bullying them to build their store without having to pay for utilities or they'll move to the next down over, run that store at a loss until all competition is gone then if it's too small a town they'll close it down forcing people to go to the central hub. They have training for employees to get food stamps while actively avoiding letting people work full time to avoid giving benefits... things they've been doing since Amazon was a bookstore in a garage.
And if you're against Project 2025, the Walton Family was one of the three that proudly donates to the Heritage Foundation.
I am here to go against any of these big corporations and Amazon is number 2 on the list, both need to go down. But as someone who used to live in its hometown I'm just consistently baffled that Walmart is somehow teflon to the outright attempts to bring it down whereas Target and Amazon get them every time. If anyone wants to know on size of these companies, Walmart is number 1 company by revenue, Amazon is number 2. The next 4 companies are State owned by China or Saudi Arabia, and 7th had a CEO Luigi'd.
The Walton Family has heavily put money into The Heritage Foundation.
It's impossible to tell /s
Oh yea, it was mostly an agreement and add on.\
Getting shot with rock salt is no fun, though
I've not had to do it, but personally IMO, if you have to fire a gun due to self defense, I'm not a fan of less than lethal rounds. If things have gotten to "I need to fire a gun" it's buckshot where I'm at. But you say firing a shotgun in enclosed space will dissuade home invaders...
I think just the racking of a shotgun will do that. There are few sounds in the US that I think are as distinctive as a pump action shotgun being racked. Nor one that instills brownpants syndrome.
Republicans might be ok with the brain drain helping them stay in power, but I don’t see how the residents are ok with being left further and further behind
If I go off my state... they just cover their ears and scream real loudly and ignore the problem.
First… I’m not reading all that
So... seeing as I wasn't actually talking to you, beginning like that I'd like to know how the fuck you actually thought you'd get any message across beginning like that.
A good chunk of the post had absolutely nothing to do about the red/blue states or voting so go off I guess.
However
but are you aware that there are 2 congressional districts up for re-election this week to replace members who accepted cabinet positions
And how did that work out? Oh. People still voted Red? Double digit victories? I'm shocked I tell you. shocked.
They were damaged by the last administration. And the Bush administration. Their states are the ones which are hellholes that get shittier and shittier with jobs leaving out and poorer and poorer. It becomes more difficult to actually leave red states because affording to get the fuck out is nearly impossible. When they vote on something that makes things better, the state government overrides them saying they didn't know what they were voting on.
YET THEY ALWAYS VOTE THIS WAY
They will not figure it out. They are lost to the cult. I don't know what fucking Piece of Eden the republicans got hold of to control them but holy fuck living in a red state is just like that comic up there, they look at the person who says they hate them and says "He tells it like it is."
I'll express from someone living in a red state. The fuck am I going to do? I'm over half a thousand miles away from the state he's fucking with, and he's probably not there most of the time and again thousands of miles over, with all the power of money to get him wherever the fuck he wants to go vs my little car.
So build up support. A third of this country voted for this, and a third of this country sat out. So you've got a third that's actively angry about this, but scattered literal thousands of miles across the country. Kinda hard to gather to this. Sure we gather to protest but this administration isn't going to give two shits about it, this entire situation is proving that. But gathering and protesting IS the power we have so we're doing that. Unfortunately the cameras aren't on that because the people supporting this are the ones with the media.
As someone put it, most of us are slaves to our paychecks, living on the barest margin of survivability, and that's been the way for decades. Y'all get to see the chest thumping "America is the greatest place!" but lets be honest, most of us are so disaffected that what we're watching is the horror of a monster taking over, but the country we were raised in and told to love there will be very little sadness when its gone, just sadness for how evil it will become. But that living paycheck to paycheck means in order for me to go somewhere where I can maybe put up resistance because right now I'm surrounded by people who support this... and these are the people who have been arming up in ready for a war for years... would be to uproot completely, and even the bluest of blue states would happily let me die in a gutter if I don't have job. So either I stay and support people who will be hurt when it gets worse, or I become at best a martyr, or at worst, another statistic that the news may not even bother reporting.
The answers will vary, but why are we allowing this to happen? I'll say my answer, some of us have been fighting this for years, over a decade since the Tea Party got mad that a black man was president, have been struggling to change the trajectory of this ship away from the iceberg. But I've seen the people of my country as a whole grab the wheel, lock the door and say it's their god given right to drive into the iceberg. So at this point in the analogy I'm just gathering life preservers and making sure people have them on even as many of them will tell me the ship is unsinkable.
Something something "but Biden and Palestine!"