Oklahoma here. The last bright spot we had was late 2000s with Brad Henry. A Democrat mind you. After Brad? Republican majority rule for years and years. What happened to the state? Oklahoma is a perfect example of Republican leadership and we are seeing it on the national stage now. Sad.
i think it was kentucky , the only reason it had a dem govorner is because a fully controlled R state wouldve ruined the state economically. because the last R gov did, they wouldve never allowed a D gov to run in a campaign if it wasnt for thier previous R actions.
As a person who knows little about Oklahoma from the States, I feel since the dust bowl and the native americans being "sent" there, it has been one of the least funded per capital states from the federal side of things. I can't remember many projects at all that have started and weren't sucked up by bordering states or someone like Texas simply because "we know who texas is, and they have people" or some shit. Oklahoma I'm sure could be great, we just need people to care about the people there
If you are talking about why companies don't come here, if we look at education as a factor, then the talent pool ain't here. We are 44th in the country for how many of us have a bachelor's degree.
But we are great cheap labor.
PLEASE Remember to vote REPUBLICAN so you can LOSE your SNAP Benefits, LOSE your ability to Travel during Christmas and HELP Kidnap Children! That's MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER then being Able to afford GROCERIES!
No, no. Those are all the necessary sacrifices so that you don't have to see those people in your neighborhood with darker skin than you anymore. It's a great deal!
I can remember when I was a kid, "socialism" was something bad the way it was talked about, but I had no idea why. As soon as I was old enough to understand what it actually meant I knew that was bullshit.
Younger generations don't have the same Pavlovian response to words like communism and socialism, so I think these boomer-ass losers are in for a rude awakening if they think they can continue to lean on that tactic.
for republicans always black and white, its one or thie either, they are uncomfortable there is variations in between, and even variations in one side or the other.
What they are worried about is that it works in new York. If it works there then they are gonna have to come up with a whole lot of new lies to convince their victims/constituents that it can't work in their home state.
Just like how they just lie about how America is apparently great again now. Everything has been amazing and perfect since January, and there's nothing he could be doing better. Food prices are all down, gas prices are super low now. We're all winning. Believe what you hear, not what you see.
I don't see why that would matter, 'Everyone else does it but we could never do it here' has been americas whole thing as far as social justice goes for as long as I've been alive.
Yeah, no. They aren't worried at all. They're just towing the line and trashing the other party as per their sides usual antics. Whether NY succeeds or fails, Republican constituents are simply too fucking dumb and loyal and will swallow whatever bullshit lie their party tells them. Worrying about what lie to make up is the least of the Right's worries.
There’s a very factual reason for why people would “go native” and never want to come back, many but not all Native American tribes and societies were very egalitarian
You'll be surprised. My observation as someone grew up in a communist country is that Americans who use "communism" as a threat to the world actually really love the PRC and will go out of their way praising the PRC.
Currently in the PRC, they would probably hate the idea that people they think are below them can live in an apartment for like 300 USD, eat out every day, and be seen enjoying themselves and dancing/gambling in the evenings.
Americans who use “communism” as a threat to the world actually really love the PRC
A large wealthy heavily urbanized and industrial country with high quality of life, a highly educated population, low instances of poverty and crime, and virtually no homelessness as a direct consequence of government policy.
It's everything Americans say they want when they talk about the American Dream.
What Americans couldn't handle was seeing all the non-white people in positions of wealth and power.
Native peoples setting domestic policy in a rich and powerful nation? An absolute nightmare for the American elite class.
Tbf neither do leftist American kids on Lemmy. I’m pretty sure Americans are dumb
Edit: im an indigenous person who actually lived under communism for a while, but yeah the white North American kids who grew up in America are telling me what communism is
Mamdani has a pretty easy job in that these people have painted him to be the personification of Satan. He doesn’t need to do much to prove them wrong. If he keeps the city running and it doesn’t fall into the ocean, he’s already a roaring success by Republican standards.
Nothing he can do will prove anything. Big Tech and Finance owned media will just lie over and over again. They'll never stop. New York's actual socio-economic condition won't be reported on, except in the most polarized "everything is horrible, please liberate our people from the tyrannical Mamdani regime" light.
You will be mentally tortured for watching TV or using the Internet until he is removed from office.
Sensible people don't watch corporate media. We know what they'll say about Mamdani because they've been useless for at least a decade and already slander NYC as much as they can.
Oklahoma, where if your family has connections to OSU athletics, like Jesse Mack Butler, you can rape and strangle girls with no consequences! He’s currently available on Tinder in the Stillwater area!
Good is a stretch. Less bad would be more accurate. Because at least every headline with Oklahoma in it wasn't "Oh great, what dumb shit did they do this time..."
This guy's Wikipedia page shows that in his entire life, his greatest achievement is beating up 3 people.
His entire political career can be summed up as Jafar from Aladdin; he has a fetish for hurting people, but has evidently never done anything ever to actually 'help' anyone in his electorate.
If I ever became noteworthy enough to have a Wikipedia page, I would be downright ashamed to have his. How the fuck is this person an elected representative?
There was that study that shows the more right leaning someone is, the less empathy they have for people, animals and things outside of their immediate few circles (friends of friends kind of thing).
Democrats are essentially just republicans as well but with a bit of pink/green washing/performative action going on so.
They can be summed up as:
Repub: I don't care unless it affects me and mine then I'll bleat asking why no-one is doing anything about it.
Dems: I'll pretend to care but won't actually do anything to tackle the underlying causes but will nod caringly with a bit of a sad face
Let me send him to my family back in China and Vietnam so he knows what COMMUNISM truly is! What a dumbass!
They are like 48th in education, the DUMB leading the DUMB! 🤦🏽♀️ (what Drumpf loves, uneducated people and stated it-hence why dumb votes for dumb via misinformation and fb propaganda), case and point.
People need to use critical thinking skills and research vs just blindly believing fb posts! It’s honestly embarrassing!!
He doesn’t even understand the difference between, “Communism vs Socialism”. 🤦🏽♀️
You can’t fix stupid but only can try to educate the dumb!
Oklahoma here. The last bright spot we had was late 2000s with Brad Henry. A Democrat mind you. After Brad? Republican majority rule for years and years. What happened to the state? Oklahoma is a perfect example of Republican leadership and we are seeing it on the national stage now. Sad.
We are 50th in education, not 48th. Can't even beat out Mississippi...
Thank God for Oklahoma!
Well done Mississippi, I guess
They love the poorly educated
i think it was kentucky , the only reason it had a dem govorner is because a fully controlled R state wouldve ruined the state economically. because the last R gov did, they wouldve never allowed a D gov to run in a campaign if it wasnt for thier previous R actions.
As a person who knows little about Oklahoma from the States, I feel since the dust bowl and the native americans being "sent" there, it has been one of the least funded per capital states from the federal side of things. I can't remember many projects at all that have started and weren't sucked up by bordering states or someone like Texas simply because "we know who texas is, and they have people" or some shit. Oklahoma I'm sure could be great, we just need people to care about the people there
I guess? But we are one of the top beneficiaries for federal dollars https://okpolicy.org/facts-and-figures-on-federal-grant-dollars-in-oklahoma-2024/
If you are talking about why companies don't come here, if we look at education as a factor, then the talent pool ain't here. We are 44th in the country for how many of us have a bachelor's degree. But we are great cheap labor.
PLEASE Remember to vote REPUBLICAN so you can LOSE your SNAP Benefits, LOSE your ability to Travel during Christmas and HELP Kidnap Children! That's MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER then being Able to afford GROCERIES!
-Senator Mullin!
No, no. Those are all the necessary sacrifices so that you don't have to see those people in your neighborhood with darker skin than you anymore. It's a great deal!
Just ask Fox https://www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-ran-ai-generated-racist
I'm embarrassed to say that I finally understand your username. 😂
The "he's a Communist!" shit isn't fooling New Yorkers anymore.
"Communist", "woke", "liberal" just words that mean "thing I don't like" to them
insert picture of car repair book cover "this engine is woke"
The oldie but goodie has made a comeback. "This engine is communist."
bugs bunny meme our engine
Doesn't help that they've been calling literally anyone with a D next to their name a communist or a socialist for decades now.
I can remember when I was a kid, "socialism" was something bad the way it was talked about, but I had no idea why. As soon as I was old enough to understand what it actually meant I knew that was bullshit.
And that's why education is communism to these assholes. If people know how to think they will see how terrible republican ideas are.
Republicans: "He's a communist!"
Dirty liberal/leftist/progressive New Yorkers: "Good"
Pffft.
Look up Fiorella LaGuardia, considered New York's best mayor ever.
He ran on a Fusin Ticket of the socialists, the Republicans, and the Communists.
Younger generations don't have the same Pavlovian response to words like communism and socialism, so I think these boomer-ass losers are in for a rude awakening if they think they can continue to lean on that tactic.
A senator that doesn’t know the difference between a communist and a democratic socialist clearly has no place in our government.
A solid portion of Americans cannot tell he difference
Well, they do love the uneducated
No they don't, they love the stupidity.
https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4
for republicans always black and white, its one or thie either, they are uncomfortable there is variations in between, and even variations in one side or the other.
or even from a socialist from a dem socialist. i doubt any of thier voters know either.
A senator that doesn't know the difference between a democratic socialist and social democrat doesn't, either.
What they are worried about is that it works in new York. If it works there then they are gonna have to come up with a whole lot of new lies to convince their victims/constituents that it can't work in their home state.
They'll just lie about it working in NY and say it's not.
Say it's not, even in the face of irrefutable proof, and their brain dead supporters will eat it up and parrot it.
Just like how they just lie about how America is apparently great again now. Everything has been amazing and perfect since January, and there's nothing he could be doing better. Food prices are all down, gas prices are super low now. We're all winning. Believe what you hear, not what you see.
Did you hear about the massive improvement on egg prices and it's $0.12 a dozen now!
Yup like I said new lies. A whole lot of them.
I don't see why that would matter, 'Everyone else does it but we could never do it here' has been americas whole thing as far as social justice goes for as long as I've been alive.
Yeah, no. They aren't worried at all. They're just towing the line and trashing the other party as per their sides usual antics. Whether NY succeeds or fails, Republican constituents are simply too fucking dumb and loyal and will swallow whatever bullshit lie their party tells them. Worrying about what lie to make up is the least of the Right's worries.
they have since resorted to thier lazy basic racism wedge.
That is always the case.
This post is horribly misleading. Oklahoma ranks last in education. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2025/07/24/oklahoma-schools-ranked-nearly-the-worst-in-the-nation-in-new-study/85310196007/
Trump does like his followers stupid.
I forgot he actually said he loves the poorly educated.
Edit: In front of thousands of them and on TV / social media to further millions. And they elected him twice.
Edit 2: Three times by their count.
Lol, thanks for that.
Is this a great state or what? /s
"This is gonna be really bad for you" says the senator in a heaping pile of his own shit.
The Incan empire would blow their minds. Note their economic systems were extremely egalitarian.
There’s a very factual reason for why people would “go native” and never want to come back, many but not all Native American tribes and societies were very egalitarian
You'll be surprised. My observation as someone grew up in a communist country is that Americans who use "communism" as a threat to the world actually really love the PRC and will go out of their way praising the PRC.
Currently in the PRC, they would probably hate the idea that people they think are below them can live in an apartment for like 300 USD, eat out every day, and be seen enjoying themselves and dancing/gambling in the evenings.
A large wealthy heavily urbanized and industrial country with high quality of life, a highly educated population, low instances of poverty and crime, and virtually no homelessness as a direct consequence of government policy.
It's everything Americans say they want when they talk about the American Dream.
What Americans couldn't handle was seeing all the non-white people in positions of wealth and power.
Native peoples setting domestic policy in a rich and powerful nation? An absolute nightmare for the American elite class.
The fact that NYC has over twice the population of his entire state is kinda funny.
They don't even know WHAT communism actually is
Communism is when my guy doesn't get to run things. And the less control I have, the more Communist everything is.
Tbf neither do leftist American kids on Lemmy. I’m pretty sure Americans are dumb
Edit: im an indigenous person who actually lived under communism for a while, but yeah the white North American kids who grew up in America are telling me what communism is
Blind and deaf maybe. But Americans never shut up.
Mamdani has a pretty easy job in that these people have painted him to be the personification of Satan. He doesn’t need to do much to prove them wrong. If he keeps the city running and it doesn’t fall into the ocean, he’s already a roaring success by Republican standards.
Nothing he can do will prove anything. Big Tech and Finance owned media will just lie over and over again. They'll never stop. New York's actual socio-economic condition won't be reported on, except in the most polarized "everything is horrible, please liberate our people from the tyrannical Mamdani regime" light.
You will be mentally tortured for watching TV or using the Internet until he is removed from office.
Sensible people don't watch corporate media. We know what they'll say about Mamdani because they've been useless for at least a decade and already slander NYC as much as they can.
It's not a matter of sensibility, but availability.
He could be deader.
He's really nowhere near dead enough imo
Markwayne was named after his two paternal uncles. My guess is his mom didn't know which one was the actual father.
Brutal
Too bad BLM already burned New York to the ground amiriiight!?
Good response from "thejeffmann." As long as the Oklahoma Oblast is red run, it will continue to fail. The dumbfuck Mullin never met a true communist.
Oklahoma mentioned!
oh
Oklahoma, where if your family has connections to OSU athletics, like Jesse Mack Butler, you can rape and strangle girls with no consequences! He’s currently available on Tinder in the Stillwater area!
It's basically never good anymore
It was good at some point?
Well at one point there weren't any colonizers living in it and the natural prairie existed.
Good is a stretch. Less bad would be more accurate. Because at least every headline with Oklahoma in it wasn't "Oh great, what dumb shit did they do this time..."
…oh …k
This guy's Wikipedia page shows that in his entire life, his greatest achievement is beating up 3 people.
His entire political career can be summed up as Jafar from Aladdin; he has a fetish for hurting people, but has evidently never done anything ever to actually 'help' anyone in his electorate.
If I ever became noteworthy enough to have a Wikipedia page, I would be downright ashamed to have his. How the fuck is this person an elected representative?
Oklahoma is as red as Massachusetts is blue. It’s just that kind of state.
What does he mean by liberal states going blue? Aren't they already blue by definition?
Well, you have sky blue, dark blue and navy blue, and then you have scary liberal communist blue. They're not the same.
What about Prussian blue, I want to wear a pickelhaube.
Any of them got a nice Cerulean?
i think he means "I'm not gonna panic just because nyc voted the democrat in", even as he's literally panicking about that very thing.
"I'm not going to panic over NYC going blue any more than I'd panic about the pope being catholic"
damm he got cooked so hard the kitchens on fire
The Midwest isn't real.
America isn't real. I just refuse to believe
It was always just a fever dream... Sometimes a nightmare.
The USA don't exist.
Markwayne Mullin is insecure about his height, too.
He's just a widdle guy?
Being normal and having human empathy and compassion is the opposite of being a Republican. Who knew?
Also, Democrats suck as well. They're beholden to the billionaire class, but don't seem to actively want to cause harm to the rest of us.
There was that study that shows the more right leaning someone is, the less empathy they have for people, animals and things outside of their immediate few circles (friends of friends kind of thing).
Democrats are essentially just republicans as well but with a bit of pink/green washing/performative action going on so.
They can be summed up as:
Repub: I don't care unless it affects me and mine then I'll bleat asking why no-one is doing anything about it.
Dems: I'll pretend to care but won't actually do anything to tackle the underlying causes but will nod caringly with a bit of a sad face
Let me send him to my family back in China and Vietnam so he knows what COMMUNISM truly is! What a dumbass!
They are like 48th in education, the DUMB leading the DUMB! 🤦🏽♀️ (what Drumpf loves, uneducated people and stated it-hence why dumb votes for dumb via misinformation and fb propaganda), case and point.
People need to use critical thinking skills and research vs just blindly believing fb posts! It’s honestly embarrassing!!
He doesn’t even understand the difference between, “Communism vs Socialism”. 🤦🏽♀️
You can’t fix stupid but only can try to educate the dumb!
They don't research... It is 'funniest joke must be true.'
I don’t even think they could spell “research”.
Americans still don't know what communism is.
Gotim
the same senator ran/ or hid from 1/6 rioters in the capitol hill, instead of greeting his "compatriots".
OKlahoma was infamous for the unabomber, that counts for something?
Read the manifestos. He took out his anger on randos, unfortunately.
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Give them the same agreements people made about Trump in 2016. He's an outsider. He'll run it like a business. Give him a chance.