Spending money at Amazon is worse than spending money in Idaho.
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everywhere has that though.
i canât even tell you how many âFloGrownâ stickers i saw while visitng my mother in florida. she lives in an area that is entirely propped up by senior transplants pensions and social security, yet ânativesâ are still mad that all these north easterners are down there. itâs like theyâd rather the area collapse than see New York license plates.
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My city is the most hated in scotland 
and I generally think weâre 1 of the most friendly places in the UK tbhâŚ
But tbf we do have history⌠
In recent times the young folks have found it much better and easier to travel here for college and Uni though and itâs helped get rid of the violent image we definitely deserved.
People are actually doing this?
I hear a lot of californians (usually/almost always trumpers) complaining about CA and threatening to move. I have yet to see a single one that actually does it. My response is always, âDonât let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, less traffic for meâ
Sacramento has a pretty bad reputation for white supremacy too. When I was in Berkeley and friends with people in the Ska/Punk/mod scene it seemed like all the Nazi skinheads that would show up at parties would be coming from Sacramento.
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âFake newsâ is a phrase first used to describe russian disinformation used to boost trump during the 2016 campaign, and was later co-opted by trump to describe any piece of information which conflicts with a gut reaction to any given topic.
This article could not fit more perfectly into the latter definition.
SLC has an openly gay mayor.
So you went on a road trip to visit national parks and drove right by a state that has a bunch of awesome ones because reasons?
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Theyâre all up here in Reno, from what I can tell.
Four seasons, fun stuff to do outdoors when you retire and sell your $1.5 millions teardown you paid 250 K for 20 years ago and no state income tax. Lots of N. Cal. retirees up here. For the most part itâs a positive - lots better restaurants and cultural stuff, although the traffic is getting bad (for us)
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No. We visited them. They were great too. Thanks for asking.
Iâm not of an economist to understand it, but Iâm convinced that that useless dwarf prick Friedman deserves to be buried face down in dog shit for eternity for his âthe ONLY function of business is to make $$ and fuck everyone elseâ. He gave a free pass for every turd of a human being who runs business like that, and all the scumbag politicians that kissed his wrinked old ass.
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This isnât as big of a problem if one accepts that the role of government is to aggressively regulate business and protect society from its worst impulses. Itâs horrible if paired with the idea that government is supposed to maximize the economy.
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Xposting from LC perhaps for more replies. Not sure if this is the right thread though
Being in D.C. can be a bit tilt inducing for anybody closely aware of their countryâs history.
Having a tour guide in The Capitol state that the painting âThe Baptism of Pocahontasâ is supposed to symbolize cultural unity between Native Americans and Pilgrims when it was really cultural imperialism was truly infuriating. I think the tour guide added the bit about how Pocahontasâs family looked in the painting as a hint that it wasnât. Makes me think he added that information himself, being aware that what he was told to say was complete bullshit but couldnât give the real story in detail without risking getting fired.
While the guide pretty much knew bits and pieces about every person represented by a statue in the Capitol, he skipped over any information about Huey Long when he pointed out his statue. It was annoying because heâs a really fascinating figure and fought hard against unfettered capitalism and kowtowing to corporate figures through the Share Our Wealth program. These days, those policies would be shouted down as being communistic and would likely paint America in a bad light in the eyes of foreign tourists. Itâs a shame that he was asssassinated before being able to fulfill his presidential aspirations in order to push that program forward. I thought pushing into the nuances of the SoW program would frustrate the 50+ people on the guided tour who had probably never heard of it. So, I passed on asking about him.
It makes me wonder what people in other countries think when they go through museums of their own history. Do they think that foreigners who visit them are being misled or arenât hearing the full story? I wonder what they would add to a museum if they could do so.
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Idk what people in other countries think but I can say with high confidence that < .01% of Americans know who Huey Long was so they wouldnât think much of anything about just having his name mentioned on your tour.
I love hitting up different museums when going to DC, like once a year or so. I just read the Newseum closed, which makes me sad because that was a solid place. Great views of the city from their outdoor roof patio area too.
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I was listening to a video playing in this museum that said that we as a nation need to have a discussion of the benefits that have come and continue to come to white people as a result of previous injustices.
I think the irony is that the museum that appears to try to encourage people to do that is actually a sign of the unwillingness of white people to have that talk. They mention a lot about the great activists, the risks they took and their accomplishments but rarely if ever mention individuals who actively oppressed and hated them.
The developers of this museums likely feared angering the white people who visit and creating separation among the crowd. On the surface, that appears understandable but the fact that impulse exists is a problem because it leads to concealing part of AA history.
You canât talk about Superman properly without mentioning Lex Luthor. You canât talk about the Allies without mentioning the Axis. And you canât talk about African-American history without mentioning their oppressors.
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I think you mixed up the Axis and the Allies there.
And obviously I canât really add to the topic. Foreigner tourists kind of already have a pretty strong idea of how shitty part of my countryâs history isâŚ
Oh yes and I have heard the name Huey Long but couldnât tell you anything about him, but have a vague idea from the context of him being brought up.
But to me, the German History Museum appears to more openly and honestly acknowledge it. I remember there even being audio exhibitions specifically targeted at children. I mean I could never imagine having slavery being explained by child voice actors to children in America yet German VAs were doing that for Hitler.
Of course, Iâm not as knowledgeable about German history. For all I know, maybe certain things about your countryâs history are underrepresented or omitted so people like me know less or nothing at all about them.
I remember some pretty frank depictions of the slave trade in the American History Museum back in the day, and Iâd be surprised if the new African American History Museum pulls a lot of punches when it comes to Americaâs past.
Never saw the Newseum because lol Iâm not paying $20 when there are blocks of free museums nearby. In hindsight it seems like an absurd exercise in self-congratulation.
Oh the museum of AA History was definitely more willing to âgo thereâ, so to speak. But even they had their limits.
Just the lack of discussing the actions, motives, and identities of their oppressors was surprising. There was a bunch of information about specific abolitionists but nothing specific about the people who wanted to keep slavery and saw AAs as an inferior race. You think theyâd at least mention George Wallace referring to his actions in trying to keep the south segregated.