• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    Idaho?

    Prediction: Literally everything they are complaining about, will be an instance where they’re unhappy about the will of the majority of Oregonians

    Brb

    Edit: Yeah pretty much

    Crook county voted for Donald Trump, a Republican governor, against decriminalising drugs and against restrictions on gun ownership. The state went the other way every time.

    Fuckin’ democracy

    They want to get rid of agriculture

    you need to drive an electric car

    Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that my government would say, ‘You can’t go to church.’”

    IDK, man. I do kind of get it; I think the underlying complaint is probably more just that no one likes feeling like everyone in their community looks at it one way, and there’s a force from outside preventing them from doing it that way when they mostly want to (like drug legalization, or having to wear masks or closing churches during Covid). That part honestly does make some sense to me.

    I’d be curious how much is some real agriculture or legislative issue where they actually were being overridden, and how much is culture-war bullshit that doesn’t impact their daily lives in any way except when they see it on the propaganda-news that’s trying to get them all riled up. But I had more sympathy reading about it than I thought I would.

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      7 months ago

      Crook County

      Nominative determinism strikes again.

      All of these come down to, “we want the right to keep fucking everyone else with externalities while enjoying the benefits of outsourcing those costs,” which, no sympathy. Grow up, people.