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  • bestagon@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzDammit
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    3 months ago

    The old home I grew up in still had original wood trim complete with years of partial diy restorations that gave it an incredible visual depth. It was such a highlight of my time there because everyone else’s in town was covered in the same white paint. The only story it could tell was how good/shit the previous owner was at painting












  • Propaganda efforts large than we can imagine operating for decades. How has the rural poor identity morphed from union men and worker solidarity to backing military and police? It got too dangerous and they stomped it out with myths of foreign adversaries. I’m of the mind that we need to reach across political lines to overcome this, we can’t allow them to split the country evenly in half or we’ll be in a deadlock forever that just lets them do what they want. It can seem herculean but there are shades of it when a CEO is killed on the streets or a bunch of politicians work together to protect pedophiles; political identity fades and it becomes more obvious that it’s us against them

    Also a lot of the most disenfranchised are kept from voting at all. Either they have to work, polling place is too far away and they don’t have a car, polling place getting changed, don’t have a permanent address