“You got me effed up”/ “What you not gon do” is accurate, but you should probably addend that when either is accented with a claps, things really just got to a nuclear level.

Idris as a male escort in Absolutely Fabulous (19:40):

Believe me, I share your outrage. But I respectfully suggest that you direct yours towards the hateful, dishonest, megalomaniacal Republican fuckwads in the legislature and their wealthy enabler who are actually running the state. The game has been hopelessly rigged by Citizens United.

Like I said before, the state legislature was bought by ultra-conservative billionaire Art Pope in 2010. Cf: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/state-for-sale

Ah, I didn’t realize you were specifically talking about the white people. I thought you meant all the people there. Yeah, there’s a long and (sadly) rich history of getting support from the second-to-lowest by making sure they see the lowest gets stomped more. Of course you can get them to support gerrymandering, by…

Nobody runs on a platform of “I’m gonna gerrymander this district until you’re all screwed”. That’s how they get into power in the first place.

But it’s a complex situation that requires a somewhat nuanced understanding, so ... by all means, keep ranting.

Clearly you missed the part where I explained that North Carolina is no longer a majority-rule state.

Anybody who says “Blue Lives Matter” is literally a violent-loving racist piece of shit who supports police brutalizing and killing black people, period. Unfortunately I have seen quite a few “Blue Lives Matter” signs here in Shit Louis, Misery. Guaranteed that plenty of (racist) people will come out and loudly…

You’re sneering at the wrong group of people. Democracy died in North Carolina a number of years ago for reasons that have nothing to do with its voters. 

this is the cause: gerrymandering is a huge problem in NC (and elsewhere) 

Not so confusing when you realize most of them practice a form of Christian nihilism.

The “enlightenment” didn’t get rid of feudalism, and the very concept that the world was overly “superstitious” beforehand is pseudo-historical tripe. It’s about falsely assuming the past was more primitive than it was. There’s no evidence levels of “superstition”, a poorly defined term, changed.

Okay but you can’t say that getting rid of feudalism and the shedding of some superstition wasn’t a bad thing. We are still saddled with the superstition of religion. How many fascist “patriots” wrap their flags around a cross? The false patriotism of fascists is medieval.

Patriotism is really just a performative aspect of nationalism, and nationalism is inherently majoritarian. In the US, that “majority”(in quotes because it doesn’t need to be an actual majority in numbers) has always been white and within certain boundaries.

The woman in that picture is not a patriot. She is a traitor. The essence of the American Revolution was about reason and The Enlightenment. It was about casting aside the fetishizing of idols and flags and the divine right of kings. These are ideals that our country has fallen far short of and still has a long way to…

That’s exactly what the “Racists Northen Cotton Consumers” said everytime the southern slave owners voluntarily freed the enslaved men and women.

Let’s hope he is identified and fired.

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