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
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
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
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)
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
“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
Hey mods, next time you remove a comment for someone calling someone a name, make sure that word isn't the username of the user saying it.
I call people dumbasses so when they see my username of dumbass, they can call me a dumbass in return, I'm the "call someone a dumbass free card".
I think it's funny that I can call Rogan a little bitch (even tho Lemmy doesn't like that word) but calling someone a dumbass for being a dumbass and assuming I'm American in a dumbass way is too far.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people don't realize how rigged Texas is, or how recent it's redness is.
The Governor prior to Bush was a Democratic woman. Bush got elected off his name, then got the Presidency. In the Republican bump from that the Republicans got a majority in the Texas legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2003, which they used to massively gerrymander the state.
Prior to 2004, the majority of Texas reps.to Congress had never been Republican. Following the 2003 redistricting, it was over 2:1 Republican. They've locked down voting districts and attacked voting rights ever since to maintain their majority, while courting out-of-state conservatives to move to Texas and driving progressives away.
The reality is the Republicans got full control of the state government in a single legitimate election in 2002 and have spent the last 2 decades rigging the system to ensure they never lose that power.
The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn't vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.
Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it's important to not blame the wrong people.
Gerrymandering artificially shifts the political lines and, pushed far enough, it can have a domino effect even on elections not directly determined by district lines. Mostly because the new people in power will immediately begin messing with election laws or putting voting pressure on the people they "represent" in a bid to hang on to that power. Gerrymandering tips the balances, and when it tips too far for too long . . .
I see this "gerrymandering doesn't impact X" from so many Americans. It's a profoundly ignorant reductionist perspective, like they're incapable of understanding cause and effect on even the most basic level.
It's a hallmark of conservative narcissism, where they display zero empathy about anything unless it impacts them personally. It's as though they're incapable of imagination; of learning from any experience or perspective but their own.
I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It's disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won't openly admit that they did this.
I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.
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…
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.
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
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?
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"
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.
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.
Not sure what to tell you, live near the IA border and people to south to get cheep cigarettes and people come north to get weed products. Only complaints people have is the half hour drive of corn fields.
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.
Given the Democrats' long history of picking the worst possible candidate at any given time, I'm genuinely confused as to how Harris landed on Waltz instead of Shapiro.
Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.
Republicans move the country to the right. Democrats stop the county from rebounding left. A beautiful political ratchet that's been marching us further and further towards full blown fascism since the Nixon Era.
Fuck, it's so great to have you here as the only person in the planet to be able to timetravel and have that amazing 20/20 vision. You should use this powers for good and go back in time and kill Hitler or whatever.
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?
We had a local place near me selling red "make weed gas again" hats. I've been in one time since and it has been completely dead during normally heavy traffic times.
Like these idiots don't know or even cared what they voted for other than "I'm a dude, I can't vote for a woman"
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.
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.
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 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.
Having spent a number of decades in Minnesota I'd say Wikipedia pretty accurately captures Minnesota Nice.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
I feel so bad for normal decent Texans. Their politicians are among the worst in the world. I can’t think of a single Texas Republican who doesn’t deserve the death penalty.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
The state is comically gerrymandered and rigorously disenchrancised. We have majority black counties where a single voting location will have a seven hour queue, sky high incarceration rates intended to disenfranchise huge swaths of the public, and some of the most reactionary public TV and radio combined with the most poorly funded and badly administered education.
This is a controlled population. People will talk shit about Russia and North Korea. But Texas is running right along beside them.
Only question is how long until Texas fully embraces the kind of ethnic cleansing common to Israel.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns they like bragging about and FUCKING FIX IT.
Gerrymandered?...sure. And Texans approve. Not buying the "omg we're so helpless!" bullshit from the people who never shut up about how goddamn tough they are.
We have more snow and northern, humid heat. Summer average is 80s but peaks over 100 few times a year. So humid you can shower on Monday and still be wet behind the ears come Tuesday. And the mosquito is the state bird.
I like living in MN. Yes, the winters can get long. But during the winter, it's not necessarily snowy all the time. Yes we get storms. But for most of the time, it's too cold to get snow. Mainly sunny days that look nice out, but are actually -20 F - 20 F. Sometimes snow, sometimes gloomy and cold. January average temp is 10 F.
this combined with them really pushing to make recording the police a felony
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
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
May I introduce you to the Texas Prison System? They clean our highways, do hard labor, work for our universities doing landscaping,
They have to be killed
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
They have to be killed
Buggery is anal penetration of an animal.
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
https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
to be exact, to fill up those 70+ for profit prisons in texas.
It has been all along.
True, but they DO still like denying fun to themselves and their same-race underlings as well.
As a Canadian, I can't believe how sad the US has become, and they're regressing in freefall mode.
You ain't seen nothing yet!
- Reaches into pants and grabs a massive mound of turd and then rubs it all over own face -
Yeah, you're triggered now, you idiot. I'm so free!
- Coughs in sepsis -
New HHS guidance recommends against the term “sepsis”. We’re goin full humors now, boiiiiiii
You forgot to mention something about "woke" and "radical" something or other.
That's Texas, it's different.
Texas is the beta test for the rest of America.
One star, because it wouldn't let us put zero.
Just change hotel to state
Man, when even weed money can't move past your draconian and shitty religious doctrine. Conservatives are a plague on society's progress.
Texas, you're gonna upset Joe Rogan!
Hey mods, next time you remove a comment for someone calling someone a name, make sure that word isn't the username of the user saying it.
I call people dumbasses so when they see my username of dumbass, they can call me a dumbass in return, I'm the "call someone a dumbass free card".
I think it's funny that I can call Rogan a little bitch (even tho Lemmy doesn't like that word) but calling someone a dumbass for being a dumbass and assuming I'm American in a dumbass way is too far.
Lol you mods are dumbasses.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
This is not how being a fascist works.
He called one person a fascist whom spreads fascist propaganda
DO
NOT
EVER
DEFEND
FASCISTS!!
EVER!!
I think the big complaint about him is that he is a propagandist that supports fascists.
Thanks for the input, fascist.
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.
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....
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.
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
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.
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.
Ahh gotcha. I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch
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Love your name dumbass
See, this dumbass gets it! Sorry I meant generic idiot.
Holy shit you really are dumbass
Dumbass by name, dumbass by nature.
Why? Nothing is gonna change for him. Little americans when you upset their favourite rich people is when it's getting dangerous
May as well get used to the cold weather by moving north since we will have to run to Canada next.
Easier to secede to Canada if you share a border
i love how joe rogan and elon moved to texas from california for "freedom"
Texas has rich person freedom though
No way would I encourage anyone from that shitty state to move to my state. Stay there and deal with the mess you made.
A lot of people don't realize how rigged Texas is, or how recent it's redness is.
The Governor prior to Bush was a Democratic woman. Bush got elected off his name, then got the Presidency. In the Republican bump from that the Republicans got a majority in the Texas legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2003, which they used to massively gerrymander the state.
Prior to 2004, the majority of Texas reps.to Congress had never been Republican. Following the 2003 redistricting, it was over 2:1 Republican. They've locked down voting districts and attacked voting rights ever since to maintain their majority, while courting out-of-state conservatives to move to Texas and driving progressives away.
The reality is the Republicans got full control of the state government in a single legitimate election in 2002 and have spent the last 2 decades rigging the system to ensure they never lose that power.
The blue print for what's come after across the country.
This was pretty much the Koch brothers' playbook. Building from grassroots up.
The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn't vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.
Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it's important to not blame the wrong people.
Gerrymandering makes no difference for Governor and presidential elections.
Ya sure 'bout that.
Gerrymandering artificially shifts the political lines and, pushed far enough, it can have a domino effect even on elections not directly determined by district lines. Mostly because the new people in power will immediately begin messing with election laws or putting voting pressure on the people they "represent" in a bid to hang on to that power. Gerrymandering tips the balances, and when it tips too far for too long . . .
I see this "gerrymandering doesn't impact X" from so many Americans. It's a profoundly ignorant reductionist perspective, like they're incapable of understanding cause and effect on even the most basic level.
It's a hallmark of conservative narcissism, where they display zero empathy about anything unless it impacts them personally. It's as though they're incapable of imagination; of learning from any experience or perspective but their own.
I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It's disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won't openly admit that they did this.
I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.
That's how I'm starting to feel about the USA as a whole, but there's no place that I can think would take my family easily.
you do realize people can't choose where they were born or what living situation they're forced into,, right?
Like Guatemalans etal ?
We're still paying for their goddamned Feb '21 weather event on our power bills!
I'm surprised you don't have idiots replying to you while locked in a loop of saying "But Austin is libral though!" over and over.
I definitely have idiots replying though lol
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!
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.
Michigan dispensaries are the shit!
I was down in the US for a festival and made some Michigan friends who had the best dabs I’ve ever tried in my life.
Forest fam? 🙂
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.
I’ll believe it when I see it. They’re dragging their feet in a way that seems like malicious compliance.
The res near me (in Minnesota) has a fully legalized shop open now.
I live in the cities. I’m not driving that far for weed lol. I don’t even have a car.
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
That is good to know car or not. Thank you.
As of now my maye is pissed to have to go to Wisconsin to get real bud or real edibles.
Wisconsin does not allow weed sales.
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
Is it hemp derived or recreational Marijuana?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Wisconsin
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?
They sell delta 8 flower.
The gummy thing is stupid. People will just eat enough to get 100mg if they want 100mg.
The seltzers especially skirt it by having multiple servings in a can.
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.
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"
Aren't there weird laws that require bars to have a pot of soup cooking during business hours, even if nobody ever orders it?
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.
Playing games with people's freedom. The freedom the people voted for.
And these are the so called "good guys?" Get fucked democrats, you find a way to fuck people over even when they vote to stop the fucking.
Well, it’s better than Texas.
Ofc it's an MLtoid loser saying this shit. Piss off.
That tracks. I’ve listened to a Search Engine podcast about how many weed shops are in New York on every road, the US fucked up licensing so badly
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.
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
Not sure what to tell you, live near the IA border and people to south to get cheep cigarettes and people come north to get weed products. Only complaints people have is the half hour drive of corn fields.
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.
Tim Walz is fucking killing it.
If he'd been the nominee they'd have had a much better chance of stopping Trump and fascism.
Alas, they don't want to stop Trump or fascism.
Given the Democrats' long history of picking the worst possible candidate at any given time, I'm genuinely confused as to how Harris landed on Waltz instead of Shapiro.
Republicans move the country to the right. Democrats stop the county from rebounding left. A beautiful political ratchet that's been marching us further and further towards full blown fascism since the Nixon Era.
I was legit shocked to learn that Walz championed free school lunches as governor.
It's the kind of no-duh low hanging fruit of traditional liberal populism that Biden Era Democrats can't run away from fast enough.
Fuck, it's so great to have you here as the only person in the planet to be able to timetravel and have that amazing 20/20 vision. You should use this powers for good and go back in time and kill Hitler or whatever.
If only I had the technology. I would make an Arya Stark List.
Respectfully, your behavior is what's killing the Democratic Party. Do you think this kind of tone and engagement attracts voters?
Ban THC but allow alcohol, tobacco, and guns?
BHA-HA-HA-HA!
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.
We had a local place near me selling red "make weed gas again" hats. I've been in one time since and it has been completely dead during normally heavy traffic times.
Like these idiots don't know or even cared what they voted for other than "I'm a dude, I can't vote for a woman"
I can't figure out what this means
"High grade"
It means all the stuff they can buy under the farm bill isn't very strong and they want the real stuff
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gas
I assume it means smoking the weed (turning it into gas).
Gas is a slang way to say it’s potent / strong.
Potent / strong (and especially fresh and not properly cured) weed can smell almost like Dow made it in a chemical plant in Jersey.
Diesel is a common descriptor for genetics
Everything you said is right, but I'm genuinely curious about the diesel bit.
What is diesel?
I’d bet the gas slang came out of using “diesel” to describe genetics.
But the smell of the bud is almost “diesel fuel” in aroma with its nasal hit.
https://www.leafly.com/strains/lists/flavor/diesel
I only just got the bit about "skunk" after seeing one as road kill and having my windows down.
Rest in power little weasel homie✊.
If they're into biodiesel it could be turning hemp into fuel.
Why is Texas so communist? Freedom haters the lot of them.
I moved to Minnesota from San Diego 5 years ago and it feels like a better decision every single day
Aiming my way there from Ohio within the next year, any recommendations?
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.
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.
Could maybe get used to that.
Sounds just like Ohio to me.
Maybe, I haven't spent enough time in Ohio to judge but being from Minnesota that is the #1 thing I hear from transplants. There's even been articles written about it.
Just remember that Minnesota Nice is not a complement.
It's not but it's not really an insult either unless your a dick who's misusing the term.
Having spent a number of decades in Minnesota I'd say Wikipedia pretty accurately captures Minnesota Nice.
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.
😮 Oh no.
Why don't you take a day to have fun.
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.
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.
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.
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
Northfield is progressive or the whole area? I would think you go 5 minutes in any direction and that sentiment would change.
Northfield is progressive. All around are farms. But it's not all that far from the cities, either.
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.
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
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.
I know where Northfield is which is why I was asking. I grew up in that part of Minnesota and figured that area would mostly still be rural red.
Does Northfield still smell like cookies every once in a while?
Yes it does :)
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
Does it also have the Miracle Whip Faith Healing Center?
Lol
That's the sort of thing someone might pay a stupid amount of money to make a sandwich shop nearby and name it that
That’s a storming good idea.
I love to see Rosharan curses in the wild ❤️
I’m trying to adopt it, I think it works so well and can potentially clean up my speech a bit. 😅
I'm sure you can find one nearby
I feel so bad for normal decent Texans. Their politicians are among the worst in the world. I can’t think of a single Texas Republican who doesn’t deserve the death penalty.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
Even the most vile Southerners are polite in the company of others.
The state is comically gerrymandered and rigorously disenchrancised. We have majority black counties where a single voting location will have a seven hour queue, sky high incarceration rates intended to disenfranchise huge swaths of the public, and some of the most reactionary public TV and radio combined with the most poorly funded and badly administered education.
This is a controlled population. People will talk shit about Russia and North Korea. But Texas is running right along beside them.
Only question is how long until Texas fully embraces the kind of ethnic cleansing common to Israel.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns they like bragging about and FUCKING FIX IT.
Gerrymandered?...sure. And Texans approve. Not buying the "omg we're so helpless!" bullshit from the people who never shut up about how goddamn tough they are.
And point them where?
At the Nazis. At Paxton. At Abbott.
Good luck with getting a firearm inside spitting distance of a state official.
How about firing distance?
Texas has been GOP governed for almost thirty years.
The town of Uvalde overwhelmingly voted Republican immediately following their tragedy.
This is what they want. And what they're getting.
I’m not saying there aren’t some lunatics in Texas, but I don’t think the majority wants these traitors.
I’m not saying there aren’t some lunatics in Texas, but I don’t think the majority wants these traitors.
What’s Minnesota like? I grew up in snow but now reside in the southern heat and I don’t like it.
We have more snow and northern, humid heat. Summer average is 80s but peaks over 100 few times a year. So humid you can shower on Monday and still be wet behind the ears come Tuesday. And the mosquito is the state bird.
I like living in MN. Yes, the winters can get long. But during the winter, it's not necessarily snowy all the time. Yes we get storms. But for most of the time, it's too cold to get snow. Mainly sunny days that look nice out, but are actually -20 F - 20 F. Sometimes snow, sometimes gloomy and cold. January average temp is 10 F.
Summer, we do have humidity and heat.
Snowy
Kinda. It's not snowy in terms of sheer snow fall like the West Coast or the Rockies, but it's cold and once the snow falls, it's there till spring.
We had highs in the 40s earlier this week. But had a day a few weeks ago where it was 90s. We don't get as cold for as long in the winter any more.
True. My in-laws live near Brainerd, and they don't get to use the sleds or the ice house near as much as they used to.
Is Tim Walz Canadian?
That's Tim Horton.
Tim Walz is the governor of Minnesota. (Wikipedia)
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.
he went from weed to horse ROIDS.
That would really piss me off. I hate having reasons to go to Oklahoma.
I like the cold…
Texas is Gilead