• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    If I’m under 20 and in Nebraska, this would really make me rethink voting for the same dickheads and morons my parents voted for.

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      12 hours ago

      Something something immigrants something something libtards something something fuck your wife and eat your dog vote Maga.

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    That’s a good way to get your young workforce to leave the state.

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    23 hours ago

    In Nebraska you’re old enough to vote or die for your country at age 18 or 19, but don’t you dare think you’re worthy of earning the regular adult minimum wage.

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      the military do source thier Cannon fodder from poor red states, however they dumbed them down so much they cant even pass the asvab.

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        pass the asvab.

        Oh man, I made a mistake taking the ASVAB. I had no plans of joining the military, but was encouraged to take the test anyway. I got 99s or 97s in all the general categories and a 99 in Electronics (my program of study at the time). I had Air Force and Navy recruiters chasing me for months. Navy recruiter said he wanted me for a nuclear technician. It took close to a year for the last attempt to contact me ended.

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        Time to have a rewatch

        My partner showed me this a couple years ago. Now, we’ll be talking or I have a thought and the conclusion is “America” to which the follow-up is “want to put it on?”

        It hits me harder each time I watch it especially how things have further eroded since then

        Edit: I was curious and checked out the comments. They were surprisingly wholesome but I didn’t scroll too far. However one sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I found something that made me do a double take:

        From:
        https://allthatsinteresting.com/jim-crow-photos
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Geary

        "A racist pro-Clymer campaign poster for the 1866 governor's election."

        The text from that image reads

        THE TWO PLATFORMS

        Every RADICAL in Congress VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. Every RADICAL in the Pennsylvania Senate VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. STEVENS, FORNEY & CAMERON are for NEGRO SUFFRAGE; they are all Candidates for the UNITED STATES SENATE. NO RADICAL NEWSPAPER OPPOSES NEGRO SUFFRAGE GEARY said in a Speech, at Barrisburg, 11th of Angust, 1866-“THERE CAN BE NO POSSIBLE OBJECTION TO NEGRO SUFFRAGE”

        It’s the writing style. If that is the type of material that one reads in their formative years it makes sense that it’s emerging again in the twilight years

        Ps. I’m sorry I spent so much time on this it just struck me and I had to explore. Made me sick at some points. To be clear, I support everyone’s right to vote but the above quoted message was demonizing that sentiment. Also to be clear, Geary was a white man and won that election