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[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@JoelWBerry I agree. I know a lot of folks who have embraced western norms. They’re also treated poorly for dissent- e.g. Jonathon Pettigrew

AND, discourse is still vital to increase personal agency and dissent from the narrative of leaders like Crockett, Howard professors, podcasters, etc

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@LeahRay44 You can buy a case of water for $5ish if you get it from a grocery store bound together in a pack.

The cold ones at the front are to get impulse dollars because you’re thirsty now.

But yes the water is safe here.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@ThrillaRilla369 My 6 kids are successful and respectful adults despite not spanking.

I don’t think spanking should be the default, and many kids don’t need it. I do think it CAN be a useful tool if the parent isn’t having a temper tantrum of their own. It should come from a place of love.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@ThrillaRilla369 I think it was harmful.

1. My parents went too far and were mean, I recognize that’s not how it is for everyone.
2. I was a sensitive kid who took well to mild correction, so it was overkill.
3. I had delays. I was never “bad” I was developmentally behind, and needed help/tools.

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@WarrenLNaida The real food here is so much better! I cry every time the tourists eat fast food 🤣🤣🤣

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@WolverinePhins @Jimomics We all have hard histories because equality is a brand new concept to humans.

Civilizational equality has never existed before, and we are trying to make it exist.

You can be mad at us forever bc we didn’t change humanity fast enough, or you can join us in making it work.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@WolverinePhins @Jimomics You’re not wrong that black people had it the worst in America.

You’re just wrong in believing white people all had privilege.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@WolverinePhins @Jimomics It’s 2026, ignorance is a choice. If you want to live in your own little make believe world where you have the only family lines that suffered, you can be loud and ignorant and alone because the rest of us know history

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@WolverinePhins @Jimomics My feelings aren’t hurt. I’m logically arguing, with data, your assertion that white people in America have never known adversity.

I’m telling you that you’re ignorant and only learned your own history and it’s given you a chip on your shoulder that doesn’t represent reality.

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@LeahRay44 I didn’t take my kids overseas, they backpacked Europe as teens and travel a lot in their 20s. I’m close to letting mine expire.

Folks on this app made it clear they hate seeing horrible Americans in their countries and Europe is the main place I travel now that I’m older, so🤷🏻‍♀️

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@LeahRay44 I think it’s largely a stereotype that we don’t travel. Half of us carry active ones, but they expire.

I think Americans are just most likely to travel overseas in our 20s-40s or 50s and let them expire. Less kids and older people keep them active.

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@vbspurs @FreddyLA7 Yeah, we have been called “flyover states” for my entire memory. We are all Moldova! 🇲🇩 😂

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@SemperFi0101 @MrAndyNgo @ProdigalThe3rd Maybe but Asians have plenty of reason to be mad right now, and honestly anyone in Chicago has that right.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@WolverinePhins @Jimomics The Western elite model is one of hereditary class structures. Only the higher born had that privilege you claim. The rest were born into a lower stations and lacked privilege here.

I just gave you two pages of words you can google to learn, but you want to sit in ignorance.

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@WolverinePhins @Jimomics I didn’t “ruin my privilege,” you’re just ignorant of history. My family came in to Pilsen in Chicago as Slavs. We were put in ethnic ghettos, not served in stores, and jobs said “Slavs need not apply.” I’m out now, but it takes time.

Your history ignorance is your choice, bro.

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@phidarryl @Jimomics Also, Google mining massacres

The great American experiment is one of equality. We just didn’t get it right at first, progress is never a straight line. But we’re here and we are freed from the hereditary slave class. What do you think peasants were? Hereditary slave class.

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@phidarryl @Jimomics It’s literally the experiment of our time. What does it take for it to succeed?

Also- what would you call it when miners aren’t paid in cash and instead trade in their work for housing, tools, and food, always at a deficit so they have no ability to leave / find different work?

[Magnolia @AdiMagnolia]

@phidarryl @Jimomics Also look up Slavs. The word for slave comes from us.

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@elsathora Because traveling Europe is similarly lovely for us. ❤️