• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Bruh even if you pay attention in history class, red state American education is pretty shit.

    People were set up to fail, the Internet gets a lot of hype for connecting the globe, but it does more connecting some teenager in Iowa or Appalachia with the the rest of America.

    That’s what conservatives are so pissed about, up until very recently they were isolated and if someone was born there, they had no idea what the rest of the country was like. You only knew the 10 people who lived within 50 miles and all went to the same church

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My favorite are the trucks that have both the don’t tread on me flag and the thin blue line flag stickers on their trucks.

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    4 months ago

    You should have let me know you were driving through WV. I’d have offered to grab a drink with you or something.

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    4 months ago

    As a resident of a rural red hat area, can confirm the accuracy of the Venn diagram.

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    4 months ago

    Yeah, but to be fair, history class in high school is overrated.

    I spent most of my AP US history playing a translated Final Fantasy III NES ROM on my second hand palm pilot. (Then again, fear of flooded world will make you vote blue; maybe Biden will restore power to the crystals?)