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Good.
I just feel bad for the people who live in red states who are good people and have just been stuck through poverty with no way out.
I lived in Louisiana for five years. It was a hotbed of Linux users and developers surprisingly.
I knew a lot of good people living by a shoestring. A lot of people who never had the funds to make it out. I only made it out because I wasn't from there originally. If I had gotten stuck, things could be pretty bad.
I have an old friend from there with a daughter who will never function on her own and needs a feeding tube. It's already been so hard for their family. This will probably kill his completely innocent daughter and leave him and his wife devastated.
I'm in a red state and have spent my life holding my tongue when these people start spouting their bullshit.
I'm done being nice. Unfortunately, they are taking us all down with them, but you can bet your ass I'm going to be reminding them of that the entire time.
I'm also shoe-stringing it, I'm posting this from an extended stay hotel at $60 a day because my credit is shit. My biggest gift is my ability to read and take instructions, so watching the mouth breathing red hats getting laid off is a small, but sweet, consolidation to all this crap...
Hats off to you, and I wish you the best in these trying times. Folks like me are rooting for you.
i wish i could endorse this sentiment but red america is fully entrenched and who's going to die off are the people in community with red america who warned about this. red america won't recognize their mistakes until there's no one left to guide them to liberation from the system
Luigi showed their ire can switch on a dime, the only thing keeping them stupid is a daily media diet and listening to the dumbest person they know every day at work.
all the more reason the woke folk around them dying off is not great. they are reachable, but we're losing our ability to reach them
I second the sentiment.