By having a minority vote them in. Voter turnout is notoriously low in many southern states, especially the reliably red ones.
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As long as the "they" you refer to is "the... people that elect [backwards governments]" as you put it - I'm in total agreement.
The majority of southerners didn't elect anyone though. Its specifically lumping the people most harmed by those backwards people in with them that I don't want to happen. That distinction may seem obvious enough to you to not be worth mentioning, but I promise it isn't obvious to everyone.
I'll be the first to criticize the government and policies that have dominated the southern states for centuries. However many many people in the south don't support those governments and are harmed by those policies. Please do call out the problems - attack those in power and send a message that their conduct is unacceptable. I only ask that you don't generalize the people stuck in the region by economic conditions and a culture that's hostile to them.
Sure hope this thread doesn't devolve into hating on people who live in rural areas or the US south generally.
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Idk man, one seems like too many to me.
Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures. Fuck colonialism and fuck the police. Fuck fascists and the libs that enable them.
Dude my very first sentence was "Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures." How can you think that I support China or Russia?
Fuck all imperialist and hierarchical power structures. Fuck colonialism and fuck the police. Fuck fascists and the libs that enable them.
IPT admins will ban literally anyone for literally any reason, then tell you they'll reinstate your account if you donate. This is their business model and they've been doing it for many many years. Aside from predatory donation fishing, there's a ton of very low quality content on IPT. The kind of stuff that would be banned on any respectable private tracker.
You're completely discounting the struggles of the many people that have fought their entire lives against persecution and for self determination. There is a long and storied history of this in the US south and it continues today. Just because the job isn't done yet doesn't mean nobody's working to stop fascism.