• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    4 months ago

    I actually really like it how the historically helplessly oppressed places are starting to get woke

    (Meaning, like, the old definition of woke)

    Parts of Georgia and Michigan are turning into these activist hotbeds + I’m here for it

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      4 months ago

      Tell me you know nothing of American political history without telling me you know nothing of American political history.

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        4 months ago

        ?

        “Historically” I meant like 1980-2015 or so

        Was I not aware? I thought the big liberal cities on the coasts were the centers of activism, and the middle and the Southeast mostly got preyed upon by the American Thatcherites, and either said “More please” or “Aaaaah it hurts” with none of this “Fuck you stop that” energy that’s coming into play now. But maybe I was unaware of an activist history there?