The Politics Thread-trying to be more inclusive

The company I'm at just never enforced Covid rules. Not caring is a whole lot cheaper than moving to Texas and being a whiny bitch.

Honestly will never understand how normal people are not flipping out about this. Like, this is so grossly insane but assholes will cheer it on instead of using tax money to make their lives improve

The problem is so many pro-police people are also anti-protest people so they probably would see something like this and just think "Fuck yeah, run over those liberals next time they block traffic and lock arms".

The complete militarization of so many police departments across the country is just insane.

White moderates like order more than anything, and police with tanks provide the illusion of order

Wtf? Bunch of babbling.

It's amazing how much is mentioned about Biden being old and senile, and meanwhile Orange Julius gets a free pass despite the obvious cognitive decline and babbling.

Because leftist criticism of American left-of-center politics always seems to conveniently omit the fact that Republicans exist, and that Republicans implicitly view anyone to the left of them as "communist fascist marxist" sub-humans even if they claim otherwise.

Its not what they say, its what they do. Nikki Haley is voting for Trump after all.

I think you've got it backwards. Or at least, speaking for myself, leftists are supposed to be friends with the left of center people, and it's a "with friends like these" type of situation.

How many times can you kick a person before they stop being kicked? We are finding that out in real time with a bunch of people on the left.

And to be clear, I agree with you generally - I will hold my nose and vote for Biden as the better of two bad options, but that's mostly because I live in a state that could go either way. The modern Democratic party has a ton of issues and lots of us would like for them to work for our vote as much as they work for never Trump Republican votes.

"I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself"

Well, that does it. I’m no longer voting for Hunter Biden.

So Hunter is just going to get pardoned in December, right?

All the crime water fountains…haha

It’s the MAGA-right wing trying to push a narrative that the Twin Cities are some burned out hellhole after George Floyd’s murder and subsequent protests. They have that “film” called The Fall of Minneapolis further pushing propaganda and lies. My parents visited last month and we spent a ton of time driving around doing touristy things and at every point my parents thought every neighborhood was lovely. We even drove thru George Floyd Square and spent time at some shops in that neighborhood.

I was in Austin, Texas for work last week. I got this question in various forms from quite a few people when they found out I was from Minnesota. We obviously get the questions about cold weather but quickly people wanted to know about crime / violence and then weirdly Ilhan Omar. One guy was utterly shocked when I explained the demographics of the Twin Cities; he was so sure that it was all white and couldn’t understand how someone like Ilhan Omar could get elected.

I also overheard a boomer guy at the pool talking about traveling to Vancouver and hating it because it felt like being on a different continent…knowing Vancouver is super-diverse, the context was pretty clear.

And from my hotel room, I could look down and see Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership (which was mostly closed every night) and it made me think, this is their “Liberal Mecca”??? Austin was a bigger shitthole than most of the other big cities I’ve been too.

The vibe I got was almost Westworld-like:
“Come to Austin, Cosplay as a Liberal”