2d ago

You're not better

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28805785

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My neighborhood is better because it has Pride flags instead of rebel flags and BLM chapters instead of Klan chapters.

It’s not that I don’t recognize there are good people there worthy of assistance. It’s that I doubt our ability to help them. The fascist powers there are too entrenched to uproot. We need to focus on the places the battle is winnable first. Then if we succeed we can turn to the South.
- "Put on your oxygen mask first before helping other passengers"
- Fascism is a cancer. If you don't cut off the necrotic, metastisized flesh, it will infect and kill the whole host.
  I'd rather blue states direct their tax dollars into programs to help political refugees escape red states. Red states are welcome to do the same and use their own funds to get the fascists out of here. They can frame it as "Christian refugees", idgaf as long as it removes the cancer
  
  At this point, I support just dissolving the US completely. The Constitution you learned about in school is dead and buried, and John Roberts killed it. Every four years we now hold an election for national dictator. This nation just isn't worth saving. It had a good run, but frankly, we can do better. We can write far better constitutions than what the Founding Fathers managed. We have a lot more experience and a lot more examples to draw from.
  I support granting all 50 states independence. Then they can come back together into whatever new nation or nations they want to form. The US as a functioning democracy no longer exists. We're just playing pretend that we still live in the same nation.
- So very agreed.
  You can't help people who don't want help. And a large portion of the South not only doesn't want help, but inflicts harm on the rest of the US. It's fixable but not near term.

Well ackhshually - a neighbourhood with wood fired pizza & craft beers is definitely better in my book than one without. It's just quality of life innit ?
- And I am sure you can find both in all the red states. Fuck, Austin alone would probably give all the west coast a good run for its money.
  
  You have clearly not been to the west coast.

My neighborhood is better because it has brick oven pizzerias and craft breweries.
I'm in Atlanta.
- I am a little north of Atlanta, but even in the metro it feels like you can't help but accidentally be near a brewery at all times.

As long as the people in charge of those states continue to implement regressive policies - including voter disenfranchisement - yes, I will write them off.
Once the people in charge of those states either do a complete 180 (ha, right), or are removed from any position of power (by any means) and replaced with progressives, then we can talk.

I have to protect my own state from red states, and help you idiots out too? Nah fuck you we are no longer in this together

Like they don't have brick oven pizzas and craft breweries in the South.

Ima be real not that many people in the south fight any of the policies, most peoole here don't give a shit or make excuses for why the policies aren't actually that bad. Plus the truth is people do vote for this shit, look at kerville in tx they denied help from the federal government cause it was woke and all that now they are suffering the consequences. Of course not every person in the south is some far right nuthead but ima be real they are the majority hence why it is the way it is here.

Decries marginalization by other marginalized groups.
Closes with ironically tone-deaf fuckstick yap that undermines initial point.
Typical. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Does no one even grasp the definition of "logical fallacy" anymore? Fuck.
- That requires an education system that hasn't been forced into failing generations of people.
  
  You're not wrong, but the further OP is from grade school age, the less it's entirely the system's fault...

As someone who lives in a southern state, there's a bunch of us that hate the shit here. Please move here and help us outnumber the others.
- Sorry, I already had to flee a southern state when you rat bastards decided to take my civil rights away. You're on your own. At this point I'm in favor of just dissolving the US completely, granting all 50 states full independence, and letting them come together in whatever new nation or nations they wish to form.
  You are no longer my countrymen.

They had their chance in the 1860s, they had their chance in the 1960s, at what point do you give up giving them more chances and write the whole thing off as a bad job.

Fuck the south

Lol somebody’s man. This reads like a low-effort version of Sweet Home Alabama, a song written because Neil Young’s Southern Man dared to politely ask the souther states to be better during a time of bonkers racism.
As others have said, it’s not the fucking pizza and you know it.

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