• FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    they were both children once, that's the only accurate part.

    i dont think Scranton can be considered a small town. 75k people. neither is Houston with 2.3m people

    • bloup@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 days ago

      Scranton was an industrial manufacturing powerhouse in the first half of the 20th century and still had a population of like 120,000 people by the time Joe Biden and his family moved away in 1953

    • prole [any, any]
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      6 days ago

      They're originally from a small town outside of Houston called Needville, but it's still just a 30-45 minute drive to be in the middle of Houston so not exactly "rural" compared to most of TX. Houston has tons of these little white flight towns around it

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        5 days ago

        I'm learning all sorts of things today. I thought Paris would be like...6 million people. At a few points in their history, the majority of France's population lived there. I think over half of all French lived within 10 miles around Paris when the revolution started? I'm probably wrong since I didn't realize how small its population is right now lmao

        • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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          5 days ago

          Youre intuition is right, France is extremely centralised, but you have only 2m living in Paris itself, on a population of 75m. It's one ultra rich city holding absolute power over the rest of the vast majority of the country. Even people who live in the "Île de France" (approx 12m people) aren't really much better in terms of everything. France is so imperialist that even internally they have a core/periphery dynamic

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      6 days ago

      a small town. 75k people.

      What are numbers compared to feelings? Biden already said that being middle class is a "feeling".

      Houston with 2.3m people

      Hmmm... We're gonna need a bigger feeling.

  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]
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    6 days ago

    https://xcancel.com/0liviajulianna/status/1854713523294945564#m

    I quit because I’m not a communist. I didn’t want to have meetings about how we felt about endorsing Joe Biden in MAY OF 2023! People like you spent more time bashing Biden than you did organizing against republicans. Go resist Trump’s presidency you helped make it happen!

    I didn’t like being lectured about “working class solidarity” from kids who went to private schools or who’s parents paid their tuition while I grew up in a trailer and was using FAFSA to pay for my community college classes. I do well for myself now and I’m able to support myself but seriously wish people would move on and stop acting like this at like 30 years old

    I’m not going to lie and pretend like I wasn’t a selfish asshole at 19-20 years old because of course I was. Being so young thrust into the spotlight with a large platform without much familial support is really hard! You have to adjust and grow. I’m glad I did and realized communism is a mental illness!

    Scratch a liberal... dem

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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      6 days ago

      What group was she a part of?

      And how does someone have so little self worth to shill for every shifty Democrat no matter what they do? It's like she has zero values of her own. Sad

    • gramxi [they/them]
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      6 days ago

      libs are obsessed with thinking that everyone who has better politics than them is a trust fund kid

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      6 days ago

      "The poor need to fuck off and die!"

      "Why isn't anyone voting for us?"

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      What is it called when you disregard peoples opinions based on their background?

    • Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      I didn’t like being lectured about “working class solidarity” from kids who went to private schools or who’s parents paid their tuition while I grew up in a trailer and was using FAFSA to pay for my community college classes. I do well for myself now and I’m able to support myself but seriously wish people would move on and stop acting like this at like 30 years old

      "Now that I've climbed up the ladder, pulling it up is based. Fuck you, got mine!"