It's what we were bred, raised, taught, and enforced to care about. Even the church goers because those adapted to the culture as well.

Trying to break that mold is... full of resistance. There's a class of people that have become aware of this, prefer it, and act to maintain this system.

There's no seeming about it.

It's not weird at all. It's perfectly normal for a state based on hoarding privilege and attacking the poor.

Do other, big countries that have substates that insist upon slavery do it that way? Or is moneyflow also a massive political nightmare and fragmented because part of your country insists on doing it THEIR way? I wouldn't think most countries had majorities of areas that were only founded solely on slavery and so never really evolved efficient or moral or coherent government or people./s

you see its about producing cannon fodder for the military, prison labor,+ low wage workers its by DESIGN. Also it helps shore up conservative voters, since many of them are undereducated, plus are more prone to religious indoctrination.

Right after 08' crash, so many people tried to join the military as a result of the crisis(at the same time the military was drawing down once obama got in the WH, people with no directions/bad economy will try to join the military, even if they are in college. I was in a forum about people joining military(how they are denying people too).

Blue areas do fund schools better, but i dont think its that good either, i believe it still underfunded and people who are struggling often get shunted to classes that are practically useless teaching them anything(its where they shunt the kids so it doesnt affect the metrics for funding for the school).

math and english(essay writing)proficiency is very deficient in students from the 2000s, i read recently from the teacher subreddit its alot worst now.

The US has always hated education. That's why the Department of Education was one of the first ok the chopping block.

"Would Jesus have litigated??"

What are the odds there is another victim, or two, who were too embarrassed, ashamed, or traumatized, to come forward?

Embrace moderates, get Republicans.

Which is such bullshit because I remember reading in the early 2000s that the Catholic Church had over $4 trillion in assets, they could afford to settle all of their claims for a fraction of that, a very small fraction of that, less than 1% of that.

He raped 14 girls and it states he was allowed to do this for years and is only receiving 15 years in prison.

Journalistic habit. You're supposed to say alleged until the sentence but afterwards you're just used to the phrasing.

they definitely are, on reddit last decade i saw one , where they basically ignored the accuser confronting the pedophile of the church(pastor) in public.

This 2021 article paints a damning picture.

Oklahoma coach preyed on players while school looked the other way, lawsuit alleges — The Oklahoman

Back in the bad old days of the 2009 recession, I got caught in the churn and wound up at a temp agency to make ends meet.
One of my assignments was driving about 6 hours a day, from gas station to gas station to “buy” cigarettes. I never actually bought anything. What I did do, however, was wait until they asked me for either my ID or money. If they asked me for ID, they got a green card. If they asked me for money with no sign of ID’ing me, they got a red card.
It was a voluntary program by Philip Morris to curtail underage smoking. I don’t know what actually happened to the cashiers. I was told no one got punished. (And folks reacted with disappointment, but not sadness or anger. Folks with green cards reacted happily, though. So I assume it was an Incentive-based program.) These interactions got logged, and I turned in the log sheet at the end of the day.

Because we’re victims of our own experience, that immediately came to mind. I feel like we need to start blindly testing if mandatory reporters are reporting things they witness. I mean - no idea how that gets worked out. Seems horrible.

This specifically is literally a town of 800 still owing 6 million dollars after they spent their little coffers and their insurance paid out what it was going to pay. They are literally taxing the home owners exactly what it cost to pay the settlement I doubt that is happening all over the place.