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  • I think it’s one of those cases where whoever gets the nominated, the right wing agitprop machine will work overtime to throw wedges into the opposition and fins reasons for people to be Righteously Mad.

    So there has to be some space for disagreement and common goals. Not ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ but at least ‘we are broadly going in the same direction and we can at least move the Overton window’.

    It is an iterative game. Newsome, asshole or not, makes space for a slightly less right wing asshole next time. Take the long view.



  • I speculate that one equivalent is that city people tend to be more accustomed to manipulation and generally interacting with other humans, especially strangers. Your average rural person probably never meets strangers in a typical day. So if you’re a rural person in the city it’d be unbelievably overwhelming, forcing you into a defensive posture.

    It also marks you as a rube. You might be perfectly intelligent and well educated but you’re vulnerable to being taken advantage of.

    City people may come off as cold, manipulative, scary because of it. Unscrupulous people can take advantage of you more easily. You’re a mark.







  • Rob Bos@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.ml•"We're totally different sides!"
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    Having us as one state - jamming Quebec, BC, Ontario, etc all together would be a recipe for disaster above and beyond all the other disasters involved. It would be like, I don’t know, merging New York and Georgia into one state.

    The FLQ alone would instantly revive and start up their bombing campaigns again.

    And be real, they would never give us status as states. We’d be Puerto Rico North at best until the violence died down in a century of terrorism and genocide.