Zombie-Mantis

The North-South divide transformed into a rural-urban divide over the course of the 20th century, especially following the Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts of 1964, and the subsequent Southern Strategy employed by the Nixon (and subsequent Republican) campaigns. The strategy appealed to southern whites, as well as whites in suburbia and rural communities, which a lot of the Midwest and heartland states are. On top of that, add-on the collapse of Midwestern industry, with the capitol flight being blamed on Democrat policy, and you get a severe cultural shift towards neo-Confederate sympathy.

Edit: I could’ve added a bunch more about the media industry, especially Fox and right-wing talk radio, but I can only waste time in the bathroom at work for so long before the boss notices.

Edit 2: fuck shit fuck also the Democrats sucked ass for a long time and culturally associated themselves with cultured, cosmopolitan urbanites, dropping the old-school working class blue-dog persona they had during the New Deal.

He’s a fascist, and is disgusted by European Social Democracy. This is why they’re aligning the US with Russia, because they’re a fellow fascist oligarchy.

It’s really not that complicated.

There’s a lot of people who didn’t follow his twitter shenanigans closely, and only knew him as the “Tesla electric car guy,” but since the election he’s been in the spotlight.

He said that, yes.

And oddly enough, “Unscrupulously Sourced Remains” is a casual sex group! /s

Looks like Elon was chewing on the wires again

Would be better if it was Mastodon, but I suppose I shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good, and good riddance to Twitter, indeed.

Try explaining how to do that to your non-techie relatives, especially the older ones who like reading. Yes, this makes is more difficult to switch.

You know why. We all know why.

I think you misread their comment, they’re asking for a separate €100 billion in climate spending.

Ah, so this is why they can’t afford the old, more generous pensions? Got it.

Something-something Last of us…

Lol. Lmao.

Good luck with that, bud.

Not killing people, it seems.

We’d already been testing the atomic bomb before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Also, Germany had already surrendered a couple months before we bombed the Japanese, they were the last hold-out of the war.

Ibf it was high-speed at the time, we’ve just surprised it since… Super-duper speed.

For negotiating with Russia? It makes sense, they’re an actual ally of Russia’s that they rely on. We can waggle our finger at them all we’d like, & they could do the same to us, but that doesn’t mean much. If China has something to say on the matter, however, their words would carry more weight.

Also, as others have pointed out, Beijing has been making lots of moves to become a key negotiator in places where America (or the west at-large) have failed (or are otherwise unable) to step in.

They’re happy to do it in their own nations, too, it’s just harder to get away with on home-turf.