"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"
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@wdlindsy @lolonurse @Variant488 Bookmarked a number of these for later reading. Too hard to do this all at once.
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lolonursereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @Variant488
It's not terribly different from a cheer squad or football team where everyone was on the same page, same team, had the same choreography or playbook, until some lunkhead decides to suggest the team captain or cheer captain want to sabotage their plan... it makes no logical sense- it's just stupid hormones, low blood sugar, or someone looked at someone in the wrong way, & the BS begins, for no actual reason.
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oldguycrustyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Indeed. I find your threads very informative.. Please know your work is valued.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to oldguycrusty last edited by
@oldguycrusty @Variant488 Thank you. I'm very grateful to you.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse @Variant488 You're right — it's succumbing to what is lowest and most animalistic in our natures, this need to think we're kicking people when they're down.
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@eraitch @lolonurse @Variant488 I understand the need to digest this material bit by bit. Overwhelming, these days.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Mike :nixos: last edited by
@codemonkeymike Branding problem is a good way to describe it. And that problem of branding Democrats in a maleficent way goes much further back in time than Biden and Harris. It's been going on for some time now, notably in the white evangelical community that is the backbone of Trump's support, where it has for years now not been uncommon to hear Democrats called demonic.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Doug is riding the mastodon! last edited by
@dougschuler I very much agree. Republicans have for some years now fought to keep education underfunded and to dismantle public education. We're reaping bitter fruits from their deliberate intent to keep many Americans undereducated.
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@Arqtec Thank you. Yes. I agree.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration Isn't it? It somehow sums up the cognitive dissonance the disinformation has succeeded in creating for a lot of citizens.
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@luv_wins Touché.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ms. Missy last edited by
@MsMissy So it appears.
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Minnesota Spy Clubreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
And dairy farms are HEAVILY dependent on immigrant (mostly undocumented) labor. The actual % of dairy farm workers is difficult to precisely ascertain - with some estimates of upwards of 85% of dairy workers as undocumented (and largely from Mexico or Guatemala).
A University of WI study estimated that "more than 10,000 undocumented immigrant workers perform an estimated 70% of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Minnesota Spy Club last edited by
@MNSpy Absolutely. There's really no agricultural region or enterprise in the US that's not heavily dependent on labor of immigrants, especially the larger operations. Ditto for the meat-processing industry.
