why would i get in a raging political argument with my family when I can get in a raging political argument with the online accounts with whom I have a parasocial relationship?

I cough like this all the time now

I don’t think the civil war was completely nonmaterial. The slaveholding south was genuinely scared of even the moderate abolitionism espoused by Lincoln who wanted western states to be free states. This would tip the scales in congress in favor of free states in time, allowing for the abolition of slavery by law. The slaveholding south saw their power eroding, which is why every compromise for new states was extremely contentious and why Kansas ended up in civil war in the lead up to the real civil war. So I don’t know how correct it is to say the south left for no reason, since Lincoln really did represent a threat to their interests (albeit an extremely moderate one)

The only thing stopping him, he said, was that people in Texas “believe in democracy.”

sorry fellas, stop the balkanization celebrations, the gop is just as civility brained as the libs

they’re not poisoning the blood they’re just invading our white nation

The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she’s from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn’t even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called “Puntland.” Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as “Puntland.”

Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.

edit: Puntland didn’t even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar’s family was in the United States

edit 2: furthermore, I’d love to see EndWokeness’ source for “largest Somali population in the west” because I don’t think that’s true either. I’m pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.

hit or miss, I guess she doesn’t miss huh

But did you take into account that there is at least 24 hours between each win?

They’re right, except Wednesday and Avatar 2 is also fascist/reactionary art 😤

Community is when you have a maid and a driver

There are also climatic regions and cultural regions and historical regions though, which makes this way too simplified. I will argue for northern Kentucky, esp Louisville, as being part of the Midwest, but this is for historical/cultural reasons. But the core of Appalachia as part of the Midwest? No. Tennessee also makes no sense.

Also that map is weird. The Great Lakes flow into the North Atlantic by way of the st Lawrence river, the Ohio flows into the Mississippi and ultimately the gulf. There are two watersheds that are really part of much larger watersheds (st Lawrence and Mississippi). Not sure which is supposed to be the Midwest but based on this map the core of what we consider the Midwest today would actually be part of a different region than Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago

edit: wait, is it just me or does this map make no sense. Where is the Mississippi watershed? Surely they’re not implying that minneapolis is part of the lake michigan watershed?

edit 2: okay okay, it looks like the mississippi watershed is like the same color as the huron-michigan watershed except topographical or something. And also I just didn’t realize how close the borders of the mississippi watershed come to lake michigan. Map makes sense, although the labeling could be better.

edit 3: furthermore, the post is wrong because they’re saying regions should be based off watersheds, but they’re using two watersheds and the upper half of a third to define the “midwest.” I’m not sure if they’re saying the great lakes or the Ohio watershed could be considered the “midwest,” but neither makes sense to me. If the Ohio watershed is the midwest, then appalachia is part of the midwest while detroit, cleveland, chicago and milwaukee are not. If the great lakes/st lawrence is the midwest, then most of Ohio and Indiana, including Cincinnati and Indianapolis, are not the midwest, while Montreal and Quebec City are the midwest. And furthermore, if watersheds are how we define regions, Minneapolis and New Orleans are part of the same region.

Furthermore, how do we define watersheds? The map is showing three watersheds, but really the Ohio river watershed is part of the Mississippi watershed. So is the entire Mississippi watershed part of one region, including the Missouri and Ohio watersheds? That would be a gigantic region. Or are we splitting them up, which begs the question, if we’re splitting up the watersheds, why not split them into even smaller watersheds? Why not have the Salt River tributary as a region and the Tennessee River as another?

But really this map is showing one watershed since ultimately all of this water flows into the Atlantic. So why not have everything east of the continental divide as a single region? You can see how complicated things get.

Oh yeah sorry misunderstood. Yeah I was just reacting to the phenomenon of the Taylor swift Stan specifically

I feel like this is a new phenomenon though? I grew up with Taylor Swift, like I was in 8th grade when the Kanye VMAs things happened, and I definitely remember her being a huge artist and a lot of people being into her, but on this level? Like Beyhive, Barbz level, defend her to the death stans? That I don’t remember.

look, the faildaughters need representation too

I s2g I’ve explained to my boss at least like 5 or 6 times one of the issues with one of the programs we have to use and she never fucking remembers. Its not an issue that is gonna obstruct our work (although I wish the programmers could fix it, though I know there’s more pressing issues), but it is something you need to be aware of. Yet without fail after like a week she’s gonna completely forget until she brings it up in one of our meetings again and I’ll need to explain yet again that yeah the program has that issue we’ve know about it for a while.

At what point does “old people are bad with technology” stop being an excuse, and it just becomes “old people refuse to listen to anyone they consider their inferior.”

first undergraduate class in 2024 supposedly

c/fakenews is where i go to get my news

shoes on is the norm, but some homes prefer shoes on

lol, better keep those shoes on i guess

Eldridge Cleaver back from the grave