If he’d been the nominee they’d have had a much better chance of stopping Trump and fascism.
Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.
Fuck, it’s so great to have you here as the only person in the planet to be able to timetravel and have that amazing 20/20 vision. You should use this powers for good and go back in time and kill Hitler or whatever.
If only I had the technology. I would make an Arya Stark List.
Respectfully, your behavior is what’s killing the Democratic Party. Do you think this kind of tone and engagement attracts voters?
Given the Democrats’ long history of picking the worst possible candidate at any given time, I’m genuinely confused as to how Harris landed on Waltz instead of Shapiro.
Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.
Republicans move the country to the right. Democrats stop the county from rebpunding left. A beautiful political ratchet that’s been marching us further and further towards full blown fascism since the Nixon Era.
I was legit shocked to learn that Walz championed free school lunches as governor.
It’s the kind of no-duh low hanging fruit of traditional liberal populism that Biden Era Democrats can’t run away from fast enough.
Tim Walz is fucking killing it.
Ban THC but allow alcohol, tobacco, and guns?
BHA-HA-HA-HA!
THC can let people have introspection of themselves and the world around them.
Alcohol is a downer than dumbs you down. And a lot of it can weigh you down for if you need to fight against something.
Tobacco is an upper that you can do with other tasks, and is addictive. Tobacco is heavy in use in red states and the military.
Guns can be aimed at anyone for any reason no matter the justification.
So if you’re a government wanting to keep the working class poor, dumb, distracted, and needing to work for their fixes along with rent, food, anything medical, why give them acess to something that could break this?
Maybe I’m thinking too much on this.
They just banned them here in Alabama last week
But it snows in Minnesota. Fuck being cold.
The houses are warm and insulated (in general). The clothing keeps one warm between buildings. Friendly people.
Snow is around for less than 6 months a year.
“Snow is around for less than 6 months a year.”
I’ve seen snow maybe 4 times in my life enough to disrupt traffic and that was too much. 60° is pretty cold
It gets so cold here the air literally stings your face, even with no wind…but I’ve seen the rest of the country and I’m staying right here
i love how joe rogan and elon moved to texas from california for “freedom”
Texas has rich person freedom though
I feel so bad for normal decent Texans. Their politicians are among the worst in the world. I can’t think of a single Texas Republican who doesn’t deserve the death penalty.
Texas has been GOP governed for almost thirty years.
The town of Uvalde overwhelmingly voted Republican immediately following their tragedy.
This is what they want. And what they’re getting.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
Even the most vile Southerners are polite in the company of others.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
The state is comically gerrymandered and rigorously disenchrancised. We have majority black counties where a single voting location will have a seven hour queue, sky high incarceration rates intended to disenfranchise huge swaths of the public, and some of the most reactionary public TV and radio combined with the most poorly funded and badly administered education.
This is a controlled population. People will talk shit about Russia and North Korea. But Texas is running right along beside them.
Only question is how long until Texas fully embraces the kind of ethnic cleansing common to Israel.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns they like bragging about and FUCKING FIX IT.
Gerrymandered?..sure. And Texans approve. Not buying the “omg we’re so helpless!” bullshit from the people who never shut up about how goddamn tough they are.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns
And point them where?
At the Nazis. At Paxton. At Abbott.
Good luck with getting a firearm inside spitting distance of a state official.
How about firing distance?
Texas, you’re gonna upset Joe Rogan!
Love your name dumbass
See, this dumbass gets it! Sorry I meant generic idiot.
Holy shit you really are dumbass
Dumbass by name, dumbass by nature.
I don’t want to be a part of a Lemmy where we can’t call powerful celebrity fascist propagandists “dumbasses”. Maybe this is my green and gold streak showing but honestly, dumbass is so tame.
Nah I called a user a dumbass, but it’s always in jest because of my username, I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch tho, because he is a little bitch.
Ahh gotcha. I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch
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Why? Nothing is gonna change for him. Little americans when you upset their favourite rich people is when it’s getting dangerous
It was meant as a joke making fun of him for being a little bitch and getting upset over everything. He smokes a shit tonne of weed, making it illegal again will affect him lol.
Also, I’m Aussie dumbass.
Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He became a multi millionaire in California because of the infrastructure and people of California. Then instead of staying and playing taxes to give a bit back to the community, he took his money and ran to Texas.
A classic fuck you I got mine.
This is a tale as old as the Reagan Era Tax Revolt.
People getting rich on the coasts, then moving to Texas to become greedy shithead landlords has been common practice for decades
All the worst Texans are transplants
That is not why he is a piece of shit.
He is a piece of shit because he is a fascist propagandist. Who cares if he moved money? He enables fascists.
This is why you guys are where you are right now. You have accepted fascism like it’s normal.
AMERICANS HAVE NORMALIZED FASCISM BECAUSE OF JOE ROGAN.
Worse yet, people think we’re in this mess because “Harris didn’t go on Rogan!” and fascism is spreading “because the left doesnt have a Rogan!”
Occam’s Razor: Americans are just horrible christofascist monsters amd should be utterly destroyed
Take a breath.
If you run around calling everyone a fascist no-one will take you seriously.
Rogan is not an elected official nor really active in anything to rise to the level of fascist. He’s a piece of shit moron, but if he’s a fascist that everyone and no-one is.
Your user name is very telling about why you believe what you believe. You probably say that Elon did a “roman” salute.
If I wanted the advice of a fascist I would have asked you.
Goodbye Mr fascist apologist.
God damn son, you can’t possibly be this stupid. You’re calling me a fascist now lol look at my comment history and realize that my point is more true than ever.
You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…
You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…
I’d say the opposite seems more true to me. They don’t “call everyone a fascist”, you just counter every accusation with that line, no matter how true it really is.
DO
NOT
EVER
DEFEND
FASCISTS!!
EVER!!
He called one person a fascist whom spreads fascist propaganda
So what word would you prefer for someone who intentionally provides a large platform for fascists to spout their rhetoric and misinformation, thus helping them gain power?
I think you are placing the bar for facism a bit high friend. You don’t have to be in government or influential in any way to be a fascist. You can be a homeless person who hasn’t spoken to another person in a year and still be a fascist. You can also be a fascist without believing that you are…
Fascism is both a set of beliefs taken to an extreme and actions wittingly or not done that furthers the power or reach of an organized group who holds those beliefs. More or less it means facism can be something you do rather than something you believe strongly in. Your rank and file facist is tricked into the position.
Joe Rogan is either a facist or a puppet/ tool of facists that serves as a algorithm kidnapper into their pipeline to normalize their veiw points. Whether Rogan himself holds these beliefs personally is kind of irrelevant. It is the use to which he has been put and the damage is done.
This is not how being a fascist works.
Is Tim Walz Canadian?
Tim Walz is the governor of Minnesota. (Wikipedia)
That’s Tim Horton.
We had a local place near me selling red “make weed gas again” hats. I’ve been in one time since and it has been completely dead during normally heavy traffic times.
Like these idiots don’t know or even cared what they voted for other than “I’m a dude, I can’t vote for a woman”
make weed gas again
I can’t figure out what this means
It means all the stuff they can buy under the farm bill isn’t very strong and they want the real stuff
I assume it means smoking the weed (turning it into gas).
Gas is a slang way to say it’s potent / strong.
Potent / strong (and especially fresh and not properly cured) weed can smell almost like Dow made it in a chemical plant in Jersey.
Diesel is a common descriptor for genetics
“High grade”
No way would I encourage anyone from that shitty state to move to my state. Stay there and deal with the mess you made.
you do realize people can’t choose where they were born or what living situation they’re forced into, right?
Like Guatemalans etal ?
I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It’s disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won’t openly admit that they did this.
I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.
That’s how I’m starting to feel about the USA as a whole, but there’s no place that I can think would take my family easily.
A lot of people don’t realize how rigged Texas is, or how recent it’s redness is.
The Governor prior to Bush was a Democratic woman. Bush got elected off his name, then got the Presidency. In the Republican bump from that the Republicans got a majority in the Texas legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2003, which they used to massively gerrymander the state.
Prior to 2004, the majority of Texas reps.to Congress had never been Republican. Following the 2003 redistricting, it was over 2:1 Republican. They’ve locked down voting districts and attacked voting rights ever since to maintain their majority, while courting out-of-state conservatives to move to Texas and driving progressives away.
The reality is the Republicans got full control of the state government in a single legitimate election in 2002 and have spent the last 2 decades rigging the system to ensure they never lose that power.
This was pretty much the Koch brothers’ playbook. Building from grassroots up.
The blue print for what’s come after across the country.
You know that not everyone in Texas voted for this shit, right? Many people voted against it, and many can’t vote because they were underage at the time, undocumented or disenfranchised.
So kindly, take your bad take and get fucked.
The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn’t vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.
Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it’s important to not blame the wrong people.
Gerrymandering makes no difference for Governor and presidential elections.
Ya sure 'bout that.
Gerrymandering artificially shifts the political lines and, pushed far enough, it can have a domino effect even on elections not directly determined by district lines. Mostly because the new people in power will immediately begin messing with election laws or putting voting pressure on the people they “represent” in a bid to hang on to that power. Gerrymandering tips the balances, and when it tips too far for too long . . .
I see this “gerrymandering doesn’t impact X” from so many Americans. It’s a profoundly ignorant reductionist perspective, like they’re incapable of understanding cause and effect on even the most basic level.
It’s a hallmark of conservative narcissism, where they display zero empathy about anything unless it impacts them personally. It’s as though they’re incapable of imagination; of learning from any experience or perspective but their own.
I’m surprised you don’t have idiots replying to you while locked in a loop of saying “But Austin is libral though!” over and over.
That would really piss me off. I hate having reasons to go to Oklahoma.
Anyone still listening to JRE know what he thinks about it? I wonder if he went full hypocrite at this rate or still has some principles.
he went from weed to horse ROIDS.
What’s Minnesota like? I grew up in snow but now reside in the southern heat and I don’t like it.
I like living in MN. Yes, the winters can get long. But during the winter, it’s not necessarily snowy all the time. Yes we get storms. But for most of the time, it’s too cold to get snow. Mainly sunny days that look nice out, but are actually -20 F - 20 F. Sometimes snow, sometimes gloomy and cold. January average temp is 10 F.
Summer, we do have humidity and heat.
We have more snow and northern, humid heat. Summer average is 80s but peaks over 100 few times a year. So humid you can shower on Monday and still be wet behind the ears come Tuesday. And the mosquito is the state bird.
Snowy
Kinda. It’s not snowy in terms of sheer snow fall like the West Coast or the Rockies, but it’s cold and once the snow falls, it’s there till spring.
We had highs in the 40s earlier this week. But had a day a few weeks ago where it was 90s. We don’t get as cold for as long in the winter any more.
True. My in-laws live near Brainerd, and they don’t get to use the sleds or the ice house near as much as they used to.
I’ve got some mates who live in MN and you’re limited to 10mg edibles and drinkables, no regular Delta 9 bud, and weak solvent vape pens (no resin or rosin)
Their shitty republican neighbor state has real bud and more than 10mg consumables…
MN is almost there re:pot, but not quite!
That’s because the DFL took advantage of a VERY brief Trifecta in the state government to pass legal weed, and now they’ve had to spend years waring through Republican jiggery pokery in order to even get an official management body to oversee licenses and regulation.
MN is a state where businesses couldn’t sell alcohol on Sundays only until a couple of years ago. We’re weird about very specific things.
It’s perfectly understandable. A Minnesotan mustn’t be too joyful. “It could be worse” are the words for a Minnesotan to live by. Allowing alcohol on Sunday brings it uncomfortably close to “I’m doing great”
I live near a dispensary and they sell a lot more than that, I think it’s only hemp that’s restricted. Edibles and stuff you can buy the pound of you can swallow the taxes.
My mate has to go to WI to get 20mg+. No shot of getting at Minnesota and it fucking sucks that it takes all of her break to go get it
That’s just the hemp stuff. They just passed legal weed a couple of years ago and are still setting up the market but we should have dispensaries open this year.
I’ll believe it when I see it. They’re dragging their feet in a way that seems like malicious compliance.
The res near me (in Minnesota) has a fully legalized shop open now.
I live in the cities. I’m not driving that far for weed lol. I don’t even have a car.
It doesn’t help if you don’t have a car, but there is a tribe that opened (or is opening) a dispensary just outside the metro. Down by Welch village i think
As of now my maye is pissed to have to go to Wisconsin to get real bud or real edibles.
Wisconsin does not allow weed sales.
That’s strange, I know someone who lives near the border and goes to WI to buy bud and 25mg drinks. I guess they’re imagining it
Is it hemp derived or recreational Marijuana?
Valid question! I don’t live there. But she goes over because you can only get 5-10mg in MN, but she is able to get stuff in WI that makes her much higher. I haven’t dabbled in weed in a long time so I don’t know the specifics, but she laments that she has to make the drive when she wants something strong. Whatever it is, it has much more THC and she can buy it near the border, but not in MN!
I recently acquired a live rosin pen tho and have used it once. That should be sold everywhere. It’s incredible and tastes so nice.
Quick edit: she has sent me pictures of retail packaging eights that she has picked up, and it’s legitimate bud. I wanna say Hudson? Would that place be any different than other places in WI?
They made a shit show out of the licencing. First they sold permits, but then decided they were going to favor minorities in the licencing process. Royalty pissing off people who had already paid the huge fee. The new scheme got struck down in the courts. Now nobody knows what’s happening with it. Except the tribes, who are the only people able to commercially grow at the moment. Total shit show, a Minnesota classic.
But you can grow your own.
Playing games with people’s freedom. The freedom the people voted for.
And these are the so called “good guys?” Get fucked democrats, you find a way to fuck people over even when they vote to stop the fucking.
Well, it’s better than Texas.
Ofc it’s an MLtoid loser saying this shit. Piss off.
Come to Michigan. Help us go from a swing state to a solid blue, and enjoy some of the cheapest high quality legal weed you can find.
Michigan dispensaries are the shit!
I was down in the US for a festival and made some Michigan friends who had the best dabs I’ve ever tried in my life.
Forest fam? 🙂
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