Our maybe they have a right to legislate the types of products sold in their state… you know “states rights” and all that stuff you like

Hey Maxi, seems legit - why you got to get me so hard

I have trouble reading this as sarcasm - I mean… yes

Having read Mark Twain’s autobiographical travel log, I love that he himself is a bit of bigot - stereotyping quite a few of those peoples he meets on the way.

Albeit in a fairly human way and with a bit of irony about it. Great writer interesting human.

Amazing!!

Lol, were you alive 20 years ago? same shit

My friend, I said I was surprised at the tactics not at the goal.

I’m tuned in to the situation, but appreciate the links

Maybe so police can pull people over from out of county

It’s not about”progressives” it’s about the average Joe voter who (in some ways rightly) couldn’t see a difference enough to make voting (an unnecessarily difficult chore) worthwhile.

The second problem, is that there is no collective class consciousness. At best there is maybe a collective unconscious feeling. Progressives often ascribe a much greater awareness than is warranted to the proletariat. Ironically after likely doing no organizing other than debating each other in closed left wing YouTube and Reddit threads.

in addition to mineral deposits they also have natural gas and historically a good amount of people in the developed cities well trained in math, programming, and technical sciences.

They could have been an economic powerhouse in 21st century if they weren’t beholden to Putin and oligarchy.

I know it’s an an olde, but I like this photo the more I see it. There is something heart warming about it

Sounds comfy. Could depend on the spinal support and alignment though. A cot keeps you off uneven ground. FWIW

My man, you need a better bed. I get this whenever I sleep on a shit bed somewhere.

If you’re camping take a cot

GTFO

Correct.

In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.

So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout