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    11 days ago

    Anyone still listening to JRE know what he thinks about it? I wonder if he went full hypocrite at this rate or still has some principles.

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      The houses are warm and insulated (in general). The clothing keeps one warm between buildings. Friendly people.

      Snow is around for less than 6 months a year.

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        “Snow is around for less than 6 months a year.”

        I’ve seen snow maybe 4 times in my life enough to disrupt traffic and that was too much. 60° is pretty cold

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          It gets so cold here the air literally stings your face, even with no wind…but I’ve seen the rest of the country and I’m staying right here

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        Come fly into the twin cities and take a look around. There’s tons of different neighborhoods and you can drive to the major other cities in a day. Duluth is great and got a whole different biome from the Twin Cities. You can go to Rochester which is growing fast and has the Mayo Clinic if you need or want to work medical care. I love stillwater since it’s a small town close to the twin cities but not really a suburb. You can’t really go wrong.

        Also to note Minnesota has three different ecological biomes in it. Prairies, coniferous forest and deciduous forests. So you can pick your landscape and see others nearby

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        The cities are cool, and like any major metropolitan area, every neighborhood has its own vibe. Duluth is a REALLY cool city, and totally worth a look. But I ended up in this small, off the freeway, city called Northfield. It’s really nice. There are plenty of jobs, lots of services, the rent is okay, and there are two liberal arts colleges here, which means that this tends to be a really progressive area

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          Northfield is progressive or the whole area? I would think you go 5 minutes in any direction and that sentiment would change.

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            There are plenty of MAGAS around. My old suburban district used to vote republican by a decent margin. That’s changed and we’ve elected Democrat to us house for a few cycles. But that democrat was Dean Philips. Northfield is about about 30 minutes out of the metro and is going to be very maga around it.

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              I’m familiar with Northfield but I’m also familiar with Randolph, Elko/New Market, Farmington and those areas don’t scream progressive to me which is why I was curious.

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                No, they’re not. They’re all a lot more rural. I don’t think many people consider Northfield because it’s out of the way and off the freeway (and surrounded by nothing), which is one of the reasons I think it is the way it is hahaha

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        Get to know other transplants to Minnesota ahead of time or find a way to meet some once you move. Native Minnesotans are notoriously tough to befriend; many Minnesotans have friend groups that go back to primary school and can be kind of standoffish at first.

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          Nah, we don’t have friends groups that go back to primary school

          Wait does that include middle school and highschool too?

          And we aren’t standoffish! Just don’t face us directly if talking, that’s rude you ain’t a cop. And keep your opinions uncommitted. It’s rude to express anything that can give the impression you have a strong opinion or feeling about something. Why are you guys talking so much anyway, there’s perfectly good hotdish goin to waste.

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            It’s not but it’s not really an insult either unless your a dick who’s misusing the term.

            Minnesota nice is a cultural stereotype applied to the behavior of people from the U.S. state of Minnesota, implying residents are unusually, reserved, and mild-mannered compared to people from other states. The phrase also implies polite friendliness, an aversion to open confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a direct fuss or stand out, apparent emotional restraint, and self-deprecation.

            Having spent a number of decades in Minnesota I’d say Wikipedia pretty accurately captures Minnesota Nice.

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              This got reported. I think you’re walking the line of rule 5, but you haven’t crossed it. Let’s enjoy the weekend everyone.

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              If Minnesota Nice was a compliment it would just be called nice. People confuse polite with nice. The best way to describe it is “nice to your face”.

              It’s a special kind of nice.

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                Here I thought a good way to describe it was as a cultural stereotype applied to the behavior of people from the U.S. state of Minnesota, implying residents are unusually courteous, reserved, and mild-mannered compared to people from other states. The phrase also implies polite friendliness, an aversion to open confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a direct fuss or stand out, apparent emotional restraint, and self-deprecation.

                Minnesota Nice does not mean “nice to your face” but you seem like one of those people who wants to use it as an insult instead.

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                  Your invalid assumption is that those actions make someone nice. It makes them polite. If you live here you’ve surely encountered the case where someone suggests getting together outside of the shared context you are currently in (like work). You know damn well that the correct answer is non committal. “yes we should do that soon”. Under no circumstances was this a real invitation and you do not start suggesting dates.

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    11 days ago

    it’s not about the weed, it’s about making more excuses to detain/arrest/murder brown people

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      Legalized weed makes everything safer, crime goes down, people are dealing with addiction less, drinking even goes down, all of these things are terrible for the police

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      “You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

      We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

      Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

      ~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

      https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional

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      Ding

      Not a full ding ding ding, but a bit of ding

      It’s definitely about the brown people, but it’s also about religious control over people. Soon buggery will be prohibited for some bullshit reason, divorce will be outlawed again so that Texas finally finally can get back to its racist roots of the 1800’s. All we need then is some good ol’ slavery to finish it all off

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        Religious piousness is the excuse, it’s the cover story. You don’t really think those mega church pastors believe what they say and then fly around in golden jets do you? It’s about the power they have over people.

        EDIT: after reading you comment more carefully, yes we agree

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        yep, that’s why they’re trying to swap the meanings of “education” and “indoctrination”-- accuse schools of “liberal indoctrination” and take over all the boards so they can force their own “education” which is literally the textbook definition of indoctrination

        from the party of “god gave us free will!!!” which is also the party of “you will believe in jesus or else”

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          Buggery

          The criminal offense of anal or oral copulation by penetration of the male organ into the anus or mouth of another person of either sex OR copulation between members of either sex with an animal. (Emphasis mine)

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        Sodomy/buggery is technically still illegal in Texas

        It’s unenforceable because the Supreme Court overturned the states ability to enforce the law but they’ve still never removed the laws. The last attempt was in 2023 and failed. They have arguably fought to protect the laws on the books for a time like now, when they could challenge and overturn the 2003 decision made in Lawrence v Texas and suddenly reenact all of those laws at once without having to re establish a legal framework once a sympathetic supreme court opens the floodgates for homophobia

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        May I introduce you to the Texas Prison System? They clean our highways, do hard labor, work for our universities doing landscaping,

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      True, but they DO still like denying fun to themselves and their same-race underlings as well.

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    Man, when even weed money can’t move past your draconian and shitty religious doctrine. Conservatives are a plague on society’s progress.

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      Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He became a multi millionaire in California because of the infrastructure and people of California. Then instead of staying and playing taxes to give a bit back to the community, he took his money and ran to Texas.

      A classic fuck you I got mine.

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        This is a tale as old as the Reagan Era Tax Revolt.

        People getting rich on the coasts, then moving to Texas to become greedy shithead landlords has been common practice for decades

        All the worst Texans are transplants

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        That is not why he is a piece of shit.

        He is a piece of shit because he is a fascist propagandist. Who cares if he moved money? He enables fascists.

        This is why you guys are where you are right now. You have accepted fascism like it’s normal.

        AMERICANS HAVE NORMALIZED FASCISM BECAUSE OF JOE ROGAN.

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          Worse yet, people think we’re in this mess because “Harris didn’t go on Rogan!” and fascism is spreading “because the left doesnt have a Rogan!”

          Occam’s Razor: Americans are just horrible christofascist monsters amd should be utterly destroyed

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          Take a breath.

          If you run around calling everyone a fascist no-one will take you seriously.

          Rogan is not an elected official nor really active in anything to rise to the level of fascist. He’s a piece of shit moron, but if he’s a fascist that everyone and no-one is.

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            So what word would you prefer for someone who intentionally provides a large platform for fascists to spout their rhetoric and misinformation, thus helping them gain power?

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            Your user name is very telling about why you believe what you believe. You probably say that Elon did a “roman” salute.

            If I wanted the advice of a fascist I would have asked you.

            Goodbye Mr fascist apologist.

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              God damn son, you can’t possibly be this stupid. You’re calling me a fascist now lol look at my comment history and realize that my point is more true than ever.

              You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…

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                You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…

                I’d say the opposite seems more true to me. They don’t “call everyone a fascist”, you just counter every accusation with that line, no matter how true it really is.

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            I think you are placing the bar for facism a bit high friend. You don’t have to be in government or influential in any way to be a fascist. You can be a homeless person who hasn’t spoken to another person in a year and still be a fascist. You can also be a fascist without believing that you are…

            Fascism is both a set of beliefs taken to an extreme and actions wittingly or not done that furthers the power or reach of an organized group who holds those beliefs. More or less it means facism can be something you do rather than something you believe strongly in. Your rank and file facist is tricked into the position.

            Joe Rogan is either a facist or a puppet/ tool of facists that serves as a algorithm kidnapper into their pipeline to normalize their veiw points. Whether Rogan himself holds these beliefs personally is kind of irrelevant. It is the use to which he has been put and the damage is done.

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      I don’t want to be a part of a Lemmy where we can’t call powerful celebrity fascist propagandists “dumbasses”. Maybe this is my green and gold streak showing but honestly, dumbass is so tame.

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        Nah I called a user a dumbass, but it’s always in jest because of my username, I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch tho, because he is a little bitch.

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      Why? Nothing is gonna change for him. Little americans when you upset their favourite rich people is when it’s getting dangerous

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        It was meant as a joke making fun of him for being a little bitch and getting upset over everything. He smokes a shit tonne of weed, making it illegal again will affect him lol.

        Also, I’m Aussie dumbass.

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      THC can let people have introspection of themselves and the world around them.

      Alcohol is a downer than dumbs you down. And a lot of it can weigh you down for if you need to fight against something.

      Tobacco is an upper that you can do with other tasks, and is addictive. Tobacco is heavy in use in red states and the military.

      Guns can be aimed at anyone for any reason no matter the justification.

      So if you’re a government wanting to keep the working class poor, dumb, distracted, and needing to work for their fixes along with rent, food, anything medical, why give them acess to something that could break this?

      Maybe I’m thinking too much on this.

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    I’ve got some mates who live in MN and you’re limited to 10mg edibles and drinkables, no regular Delta 9 bud, and weak solvent vape pens (no resin or rosin)

    Their shitty republican neighbor state has real bud and more than 10mg consumables…

    MN is almost there re:pot, but not quite!

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      I live near a dispensary and they sell a lot more than that, I think it’s only hemp that’s restricted. Edibles and stuff you can buy the pound of you can swallow the taxes.

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        My mate has to go to WI to get 20mg+. No shot of getting at Minnesota and it fucking sucks that it takes all of her break to go get it

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      Come to Michigan. Help us go from a swing state to a solid blue, and enjoy some of the cheapest high quality legal weed you can find.

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      MN is a state where businesses couldn’t sell alcohol on Sundays only until a couple of years ago. We’re weird about very specific things.

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        It’s perfectly understandable. A Minnesotan mustn’t be too joyful. “It could be worse” are the words for a Minnesotan to live by. Allowing alcohol on Sunday brings it uncomfortably close to “I’m doing great”

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      That’s just the hemp stuff. They just passed legal weed a couple of years ago and are still setting up the market but we should have dispensaries open this year.

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            That’s strange, I know someone who lives near the border and goes to WI to buy bud and 25mg drinks. I guess they’re imagining it

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                Valid question! I don’t live there. But she goes over because you can only get 5-10mg in MN, but she is able to get stuff in WI that makes her much higher. I haven’t dabbled in weed in a long time so I don’t know the specifics, but she laments that she has to make the drive when she wants something strong. Whatever it is, it has much more THC and she can buy it near the border, but not in MN!

                I recently acquired a live rosin pen tho and have used it once. That should be sold everywhere. It’s incredible and tastes so nice.

                Quick edit: she has sent me pictures of retail packaging eights that she has picked up, and it’s legitimate bud. I wanna say Hudson? Would that place be any different than other places in WI?

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        I’ll believe it when I see it. They’re dragging their feet in a way that seems like malicious compliance.

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              It doesn’t help if you don’t have a car, but there is a tribe that opened (or is opening) a dispensary just outside the metro. Down by Welch village i think

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      They made a shit show out of the licencing. First they sold permits, but then decided they were going to favor minorities in the licencing process. Royalty pissing off people who had already paid the huge fee. The new scheme got struck down in the courts. Now nobody knows what’s happening with it. Except the tribes, who are the only people able to commercially grow at the moment. Total shit show, a Minnesota classic.

      But you can grow your own.

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      That’s because the DFL took advantage of a VERY brief Trifecta in the state government to pass legal weed, and now they’ve had to spend years waring through Republican jiggery pokery in order to even get an official management body to oversee licenses and regulation.