You ain’t kidding here. The amount of gas lighting going on is unbelievable. But I cannot see how this state of affairs can go on for long, this is simply not sustainable for any society. Policy that is based on allocating resources from contributing members to an ever growing number of freeloaders is only going to incentivise an increasing number of free freeloaders while disincentivizing productivity. Society will collapse under this model.
The gaslighting is off-the-charts from the local to state to national level, and it looks like the exact same script in Lewiston as London. They took an idea most people were behind, legal immigration, and just started pumping people in and getting them signed up for as many programs as possible. I’m unsure if other countries rig their elections in a similar way that Maine does, but I’m sure they are trying to everywhere it is possible.
It’s like everywhere in the west is to be viewed as an economic zone and people are interchangeable widgets. Honest leftists/Democratic Socialists will come out and say that they don’t view white people as even having a culture.
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I wouldn’t say there’s something as ‘‘white culture’’ since Spain, Italy or Germany, just to name a few examples, all have a different culture.
But I assume you (they) mean that every white person is cultureless, not that there is no unified ‘‘white culture’’. Like, culture now is braids and hip-hop.
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That may be an over-generalization for the reasons you explained, but the entire ideology is hostile to all of Western Civilization and all people who believe in ideas like freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, and citizenship itself. A black person in a MAGA hat can explain this treatment first-hand, and so could a “detransitioner” who now advocates against child mutilation surgeries as a “medical treatment” for children who are led to believe they were born in the wrong body.
It is also particularly anti-white. I would call it aggressively so at this point. They do little to hide it here in Maine, with open talk about “deconstructing whiteness”, which has certainly been happening.
And yes, I agree that hip hop is part of our culture, and so is the spirit that the genre grew out of. Here’s the most controversial rap artists of my childhood making a MAGA-themed rap video decades before Trump declared for the Presidency.
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The most ironic part is their agenda only succeeds because its pushed by whites.
There was no other way for it to happen in Maine.
Closing in on two decades in Maine, it is hard to overstate how isolated this place was from the rest of the USA when I first moved here. I know people who never saw a black person until they were well into adulthood. That’s how life in places like rural Oxford county was.
I grew up about an hour from downtown Chicago in Northwest Indiana, so seeing people of all different types was normal to me. I learned the basics of calculus from a Sikh graduate student at Valparaiso University who my mom hired as a tutor for me because he could tutor math very well and she was going all-in on getting me ahead. The same woman went on to become a locally prominent Trump activist in her retirement years. I still haven’t encountered a Sikh in Maine.
I think Maine was so eager to show how accepting and tolerant they were that they opened the door for shameless grifters to move in and take over the government, all under the guise of the magic words that are quite easy to learn. Diversity, Inclusion, and that really nasty Equity part of it all.
You want to be inclusive, don’t you? Only bigots and racists disagree!
So after the whole Taco trades thing, we are now calling Air Force One “Panda express.”
Since it serves orange chicken.
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What is the Taco thing about? Ive seen a couple of memes, but just glossed over them cuz I don’t know what its about.
TACO (Trump always chickens out) trade.
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I just had a chat with an ICE officer I know. There’s a lot of pressure for them to increase immigration enforcement numbers and it is having a bad effect on morale and also taking resources away from other important investigations. The local efforts of the Mills administration and local governments like Lewiston’s make their job much more difficult and much more dangerous.
There’s also an investigation going on right here in Lewiston that will likely get national attention if it proceeds and becomes public.
I suspect it is relating to how a local nonprofit owner has billed the state for millions of dollars worth of untraceable “translator services” while also running for President of Jubaland, Somalia and funding the private militia necessary for political success in that part of the world. That’s just my guess, and there is probably no shortage of other shady activities happening here in Vacationland.
Liberals are non contributing freeloaders
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I don’t think that’s true, though.
I would say they do champion and take up the cause of freeloaders and perpeatuate a culture of victimhood that do constitutes a good chunk of their voting block, yes.
Like, “hey, you guys are oppressed and need us, vote for us and we’ll keep the food stamps coming. You let those guys win, you’re gonna have to pull your own weigh and be treated like everyone else, which is totally descrimination”.
But I would say most of those liberals are either well intentioned (albeit naive or misguided) people or people who try too hard to signal their tolerance, anti-racism, pro-lgbt/palestine/immigration stance.
These people, the protectors/allies, are usually productive members of society, I would say.
The opressed, not so much.
It is my understanding that blue states are bigger contributors on the federal level and partially support red states, do I have this wrong?
I’ve been saying the Replacement Theory has been well and alive for years. A lot of people write it off.
I cant fathom another reasonable explanation for why importing 20,000,000 non-citizens and dumping them strategically into purple states would be beneficial, if that were not the goal.
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I had some doubts. Once I saw it with my own eyes with a bunch of the old mill towns along the river, any doubt evaporated.
There was absolutely nothing, I mean nothing, for hatians and some others in a few of those run down old places. But they were planted there and cultivated with free housing, clothing, cars, food, everything.
They were wrecking cars all over the one town like a bunch of imbeciles. It was fucking ridiculous.
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So did I, but I don’t anymore. I don’t think it is a coincidence that taxes, inflation, and housing costs all skyrocketed together, all while we are importing vast numbers of people and using public funds to support them, including incentivizing having more children while receiving public benefits. Having more kids is a huge burden to honest, hard-working people in ways that it has never been before, while people on public welfare seem to be getting along fine by having large families. All of the immigration keeps HUGE pressure on the housing market, driving property value up into the stratosphere.
If Lewiston public schools became 50 percent Muslim with 2,000 students who speak no English by a natural movement of people who saw a legitimate business or employment opportunity and moved here to pursue it, I’d look at it a bit differently. As it stands, this disastrous outcome came about by using public money to entice state dependents to move here, then empower them to vote in our elections.
It depends which state you measure and how much you attribute the economic outcomes to voting patterns. Maine is very much a debtor state, taking in far more public money than it contributes.
I also think part of that is Socialists keeping their hosts alive and well enough to still have massive economic output, while taking credit for prosperity their ideas have nothing to do with. California became an economic powerhouse and was solidly Republican until 1992 or so, and it has been downhill since. It is hard to state how otherworldly cool a place like California seemed to a kid growing up in a cornfield like me during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Today, people are fleeing however they can, which is also happening in Maine, but our politicians are still trying to catch up to California in their method of governance.
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My grandparents. Big families too. There was plenty of work in the mines and mills.
But a burned out old mill town that has been in a state of decay since the early 80’s?
No freakin way.
Then the residents that were there got priced out by artificially inflated rent prices. Hard to compete with Uncle Sam!
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For the most part, yes. Thats mostly because blue states typically have the largest cities - which always skew left (sometimes radically).
The bigger the cities, the more businesses there are - and therefore the more GDP the state produces.
That being said, most red states are dominated by farmland.
Farmland recieves tremendous subsidies to keep produce cost low.
So the low population red states receive large subsidies to allow the large population blue states to get cheap produce.
It quickly becomes a macroeconomic discussion.
If California were a country, itd have the 5th largest GDP in the world.
Texas would have the 10th.
Its a complex subject, so you’re not wrong - there’s just a lot of nuances.
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Same here lol. I have relatives in San Diego and it did seem like a beautiful place.
Yeah, I noticed, we’ve been getting a lot of them here now recently (Californians, not Mainers, lol).
Interesting, I hadn’t considered some of what you said, especially the part about farmland subsidies.
Thank you for your input, my man.
Yours too, twojar.
Subsidies are not the same as federal aid. Sure, the farms get subsidies but, aid goes to states/individuals as welfare, healthcare, etc. Red states on average receive much more federal aid because they are poorer and rely on programs like Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8 etc.