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@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space About the only thing I disagree with in any of that is your assessment of the liberal establishment as "as bad as the conservatives." They are bad, to be sure, but there's a beer-versus-heroin harm analysis. Maybe weed-versus-heroin. Point being, it's a false equivalence to indict them equally.
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@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space All that said, it's also worth stating that I'm a Cascadian separatist at heart, and I'm not really interested in "reconciling" with conservatives, any more than I would be interested in reconciling with the assholes in my extended family. They don't want us here. I'm keen to leave and take my tax dollars with me.