Leopards Ate My Face

Goldwater and Nixon's "Southern Strategy" has been paying dividends for Republicans for 60 years

My cousins live in the south. They chose that area because, in their words, it's "expensive" where I live.

Last week, they vented about the housing prices and groceries. Their house market is now the same price as the housing in my "expensive" area. But their area also has federal min wage at $7.25 an hour. Where my city is double.

and only them. Unfortunately, we all have to be brought down by their hateful stupidity.

Yeah, it might be, but MA has some of the most progressive social safety nets and policies in the USA.

Like, not to knock MA, but your mileage really varies based on which neighborhood you're in. The closer you come to NH, the worse things get. And Boston varies heavily by zip code, based on the prevailing income bracket.

Is the state better than West Virginia or Idaho or South Dakota? Sure. But its not some kind of paradise. You're still in a heavily privatized and financialized capitalist hell-hole. You just live closer to the money, and that's where we put all our nice things.

Worst part is a modern US Jesus would be all eat-the-rich anti-establishment, founder of a commune (or several as he travels), and get killed "by accident" in an ICE raid.

Remember the Hermain Cain Award subreddit?

Hundreds of documented cases of people vehemently refusing real treatment for a 'fake' disease, being immensely cocky and belligerent untill very nearly the end, and then, near the end... still somewhere between defiant, in denial, and delusional.

... Those are the private citizens in the US with the vast majority of the guns.

You are completely correct, many areas of the US will collapse into pockets of highly armed, highly religious cults, utterly bereft of anything resembling logic, beyond the sociopathic logic of how to run a cult.

Basically, a couple of David Koresh's for every county. Good luck!

And that quote is why I laugh at these fucking idiots. I genuinely do not have the capacity to empathize with people who are so idiotically and uncritically dogmatic.

Anybody who says "we're a God fearing family" should be immediately locked up.

Firstly because it's a meaningless platitude that doesn't actually make sense, and secondly because it actually means ";-) I'm a Nazi, but obviously I would get offended if you ever actually called me out on it".

No nice person has ever said that.

Who? The people who voted for him?

I also moved to a rural area after living in a city for 20 years, and there is a guy that lives near me that is a farmer and he has a giant hand made sign in his lawn that says "Unvaxed sperm is the next Bitcoin." You just can't underestimate how stupid people are. They'll be nice to you in person and then just butt chug newsmax and racist Facebook memes.