@BRValentine1983 @vanillaopinions your 88 year old mom is retarded.
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upper-lower-middle class retard Engelsist conservative left-communist CEO Yata Glasswerk LLC All opinions are of my mental illness & not of my employer (me)
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@vanillaopinions Crazy thought but … don’t be an assh*le. I’m not religiously observant but I know people, my 88 year old mom for example, who pray every day. It should be possible to be an atheist without being a jerk, though many atheists seem to find that a major challenge.
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@acfrostfell @vanillaopinions paat a point, constantly “observing” & “seeing” the water instead of living your life by seeing through the water to observe the world around you is indistinguishable from schizophrenia.
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@vanillaopinions you are like a fish forgetting it is in water
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@HughJanusJD @Itsukushimi777 @vanillaopinions yea, in the US they’re called “Unitarians” & it’s basically atheism with extra steps for the social benefits + community.
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@Itsukushimi777 @vanillaopinions Sometimes, but certainly not always. I think being smarter makes it harder to believe, but there have been plenty of extremely intelligent people who believe there is something more to life.
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@ffmpreg @TheAleksee @OregonMapGuy for whatever reason, i had never really considered that watermill centered settlements as a prototype for post-industrial society.
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@TheAleksee @OregonMapGuy Rural (but formerly home to some industry due to its proximity to rivers before the advent of electricity), German-speaking, and denominationally split about 50:50 due to a bizarre Lebanon-esque religious power-sharing agreement during the reformation.
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okay this canton is awesome
1971: 57% SP 🔴
1975: 65% SP 🔴
1979: 82% SVP 🟢
1983: 92% SVP 🟢
1987: 86% SVP 🟢
1991: 54% SP 🔴
1995: 84% SP 🔴
1999: 86% SP 🔴
2003: 67% SP 🔴
2007: 56% SP 🔴
2011: 62% BDP 🟡
2015: 52% BDP 🟡
2019: 63% BDP 🟡
2023: 43% SVP 🟢
OregonMapGuy, IQ 277@OregonMapGuy
This Canton votes overwhelmingly Socialist in the 90s
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@GeringerAdam this is just Finnair’s business model.
the squareheads figured it out.
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i’ve seen people make the FDR/Mamdani comparison but does anyone else feel Al Smith vibes🤔
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@jiagrapher @TheAleksee the Country Club Hills precinct doesn’t have 50% over $200k?
it def looks & feels much wealthier than North Hills or Hayes Barton/Five Points.
that used to be the one stubbornly red bougie inner Raleigh precinct that went pink & finally went slightly light blue in 2024 IIRC.
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@TheAleksee or is that actually high earning professionals imitating the mythical “downwardly mobile” college dropout founder-types imitating working class aesthetics?
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@TheAleksee isn’t the Silicon Valley dressed down look, the hoodie + jeans combo in particular, a product of high earning professionals imitating working class aesthetics?
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@300furrybears @TyErwin9 @TheAleksee technically most of those other examples also had separate urban medical schools, public teachers/normal colleges & minor “professional institutes”, essentially white collar community colleges.
but most didn’t have large full blown public research unis until the post-war period.
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@300furrybears @TyErwin9 @TheAleksee VCU’s historical presence in Richmond is limited to its roots as Hampden-Sydney’s medical school, later Medical College of VA.
VCU only emerged in the 1960’s as a merger of MCV & a minor satellite campus of William & Mary called the Richmond Professional Institute.
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@AlimKamat @Faj1791 @Jake_W your point regarding ATL being a black immigration magnet is also true & is a huge part of the intl migration that is making up for ATL’s slowing domestic growth.
but due to Trump 2 chaos, the future of all US metros as magnets for highly skilled immigrantion is now uncertain.
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@AlimKamat @Faj1791 @Jake_W yes, ATL’s true strength & talent magnet is as a meds + eds center, including it’s strong agglomeration of HBCUs, not entertainment.
while peak college threatens smaller college & HBCU centered economies, schools in ATL are better positioned to survive.
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This is a major example of why Georgia's trajectory is not going to be the same as Virginia's.
This is not to say it will be a reliably red state anymore, either.
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@JBSDC @ZaidJilani i would hope so, “20-years-ago” is a whole different country with a whole different discourse + context as to what constitutes “socially liberal”.
even more so regarding issues relevant to state level politics.
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@ZaidJilani Northern Cobb and even southern Cherokee are more socially liberal today than Fairfax was 20 years ago though.
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It’s not going to be as socially liberal as Virginia because it’s more religious. Northern Virginia is not Atlanta. But, if Georgia republicans refuse to moderate they will not win a lot of elections going forward.
Jake Walker@Jake_W
This is a major example of why Georgia's trajectory is not going to be the same as Virginia's. This is not to say it will be a reliably red state anymore, either.
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@ZaidJilani socially liberal is not how i would describe VA Dems.
VA has persisted as a strict law-and-order state regardless of party since the Byrd Machine days.
it’s always been way more anal about speed/traffic enforcement, vice & weed possession than neighboring states & still is.
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@AlimKamat @Faj1791 @Jake_W ultimately creative & entertainment job growth potential is limited & hobbled in states without Medicaid expansion & with restrictive unemployment benefits.
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@AlimKamat @Faj1791 @Jake_W the entertainment industry is fickle outside of LA + NYC & the future of creative jobs are uncertain even there.
before ATL, the center of the film industry in the south was Wilmington, which disappeared overnight along w the tax breaks.
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@PeterGr329 @TheAleksee true!
Nashville & Richmond also.
i think it comes down to large cities that didn’t get non-HBCU public unis until the 20th century, where local elites backed urban private unis to fill the void.
for whatever reason these pockets are way more intense + persistent in TX though.
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@learnedcorvid @TheAleksee It's kinda like that in New Orleans and Birmingham
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@TyErwin9 @TheAleksee the closest equivalents in large southern cities outside of TX are in cities that never had or didn’t get non-HBCU public unis until the 20th century & where elite-backed private unis filled the void like CLT, W-S, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Richmond.
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@TyErwin9 @TheAleksee i think this is a very Texas phenomenon bc outside of Austin, in the big cities private universities were established way earlier & are larger due to a lack of real public alternatives in urban areas until relatively recently.
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