The States 2: States Rights for Me But Not for Thee

[Kepler]

Normally, when two very drunk young white boys get questioned after the bar, I would be scared.

I love these babies. Please watch til the end, the last line is fantastic

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1prefix/two_minneapolis_dudes_giving_their_thoughts_about/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

These guys are now my spirit animal.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

These guys are now my spirit animal.

everytime a story comes on about another maga loving business shutting down, I want a clip of that kid screaming "they voted for this"

 

[Handyman]

The Downballot (@the-downballot.com)

Polls closed in SC at 7 PM ET. Results here: https://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/125770/web.345435/#/summary Still *super* early, but in the uncontested #SD21 (around Trump+50), write-ins are currently getting 42% of the vote against Republican Lee Bright.

bsky.app

 

[Kepler]

Never let them run unopposed.

 

[Slap Shot]

Can someone provide a summary of the supposed ‘Somali fraud’ in Minnesota, up to and including this daycare-gate that received “millions but isn’t even open”? I honestly don’t care to try to wade through what’s real and fake.

 

[Kepler]

Can someone provide a summary of the supposed ‘Somali fraud’ in Minnesota, up to and including this daycare-gate that received “millions but isn’t even open”? I honestly don’t care to try to wade through what’s real and fake.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/minnesota-somali-fraud-scam-investigation-overview-99afc1

Factually itself is rated by Media Bias Fact Check as pretty straight:

Factually - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or

mediabiasfactcheck.com

I don't know who bias and fact checks Media Bias Fact Check. Like a dictionary I assume at some level all knowledge is self-referential, but that does not invalidate the possibility of truth or falsity.

tldr: One right-wing think tank (Manhattan Institute) made allegations. All the right-wing sources then echo chambered these allegations, reporting on them as if they were fact, with increasing zeal and alarm. Dump's Nazi DOJ got involved, and started throwing legal hands.

My guess: there's marginal fraud every time money changes hands in larger amounts (cf. Dump's entire career). There's gotta be fraud here too. Because beneficiaries are the wrong color and religion for the MAGAts that then gets promulgated as both "massive" and also "terrorist," Because they aren't exactly subtle in their xenophobia. And it is going to be statistically true that if Muzzies get money some will find its way to Muzzie extremists in exactly the way that some fractional amount of Irish money will go to the IRA or white southern money will go to the Klan or Evangelical Christian money will go to gay porn. So when eventually the feds do find somebody who stole money that will "prove" the entire evil conspiracy WAS REAL ALL ALONG MAN.

You can do this with any statement and create a "consensus" about it within a controlled, epistemologically-closed space like the right wing sphere.

Original fringe source: The Moon is not real, it is a projection.
Partisan media, stage 1: Many are reporting...
Stage 2: It is common knowledge...
Stage 3: Why do our opponents still deny..?
Stage 4: The ongoing cover-up...

This is always how the RWNM has played the game, but social media allows this cycle to occur in a couple days now. From an original assertion to a Blatantly Serious Criminal Cover-up, no facts required.

I'm not a student of it but I assume this is the general evolution of almost all the worms in MAGAt brains.

 

[Slap Shot]

https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/minnesota-somali-fraud-scam-investigation-overview-99afc1

Factually itself is rated by Media Bias Fact Check as pretty straight:

Factually - Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Yeah I was up to speed on most of that, but this seems to suggest there was a lot of fraud but there's no evidence any of the stolen money funded terrorists. I mean great, but still? Also that was written before this latest day-care hubbub.

 

[Kepler]

I missed the daycare one. Gotta go exploring now.

Lemme guess. Slaves on Mars?

edit: Welp for a start here's the kid who started it all. Two days ago and it's already blown up on NYP and the Dumpies are going to seize on it. Andy Warhol was right.

 

[walrus]

Maine has a similar issue? in the Somali community in Lewiston. Some Somali dude set up a company that supposedly got paid for stuff it didn't do. Being pushed hard by Maine Wire which is a right wing media company .

 

[St. Clown]

Can someone provide a summary of the supposed ‘Somali fraud’ in Minnesota, up to and including this daycare-gate that received “millions but isn’t even open”? I honestly don’t care to try to wade through what’s real and fake.

Yes, a handful of Somali were implicated in some fraud to steal welfare program moneys. This may be, at least in part, a re-hashing of the group that was discovered three or so years ago, but has since grown to include more people. In addition to the Somalis, there are other people implicated completely unrelated to the Somalis. No, thus far there have been no direct connections to terrorist groups. Current estimates are around $9bn in total fraud.

 

[Handyman]

Yes, a handful of Somali were implicated in some fraud to steal welfare program moneys. This may be, at least in part, a re-hashing of the group that was discovered three or so years ago, but has since grown to include more people. In addition to the Somalis, there are other people implicated completely unrelated to the Somalis. No, thus far there have been no direct connections to terrorist groups. Current estimates are around $9bn in total fraud.

If they were in Florida they coukd run for Senate...

 

[Jimjamesak]

If they were in Florida they coukd run for Senate...

Usually involves a scheme implicating the University of Miami football team too.

 

[Handyman]

Politico (@politico.com)

HHS freezes all child care funding for Minnesota http://dlvr.it/TQ4npG

bsky.app

Its going to be funny when stuff like this is ignored when the media pretends Minnesota is going to go Red...

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Yeah I was up to speed on most of that, but this seems to suggest there was a lot of fraud but there's no evidence any of the stolen money funded terrorists. I mean great, but still? Also that was written before this latest day-care hubbub.

they always omit that Trump removed some of the checks to distribute money faster. and the MN repubs last year blocked more funding going to the agency investigating fraud.

the bots are really, really busy.

just a reminder for the NH people who may forget: the leader of the Feeding our Future Scandal

 

[Kepler]

Utah. The clock that's right twice a day.

The other time was when they solved homelessness by... just giving people homes. Hey, guess what? It worked.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Utah. The clock that's right twice a day.

The other time was when they solved homelessness by... just giving people homes. Hey, guess what? It worked.

Alaska has had red stripe IDs for over a decade now.

 

[Kepler]

Alaska has had red stripe IDs for over a decade now.

It's a damn good idea. Drunk drivers should go to the wall.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Alaska has had red stripe IDs for over a decade now.

Was there a singular event that forced Alaska's view on booze or was it more of a general realization over time on how destructive it had become up there?

Just seeing (from a distance) how it's talked about when you travel to the interior or through outlets like Deadliest Catch seems like it's become it's own monster up there, even when compared to how groups like Mormans view it down here in the lower 48.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Was there a singular event that forced Alaska's view on booze or was it more of a general realization over time on how destructive it had become up there?

Just seeing (from a distance) how it's talked about when you travel to the interior or through outlets like Deadliest Catch seems like it's become it's own monster up there, even when compared to how groups like Mormans view it down here in the lower 48.

Yeah, there’s definitely a negative view towards alcohol and it’s especially true in the rural areas. Alaska has some of the strictest alcohol laws in the country, highlights include:

All alcohol has to be sold in a separate store, no beer and wine in the grocery store.

Any area where alcohol is being served has to be completely separated and access restricted to people of legal age (unless accompanied by a parent). This means sporting events and concerts have to have separate “wet” and “dry” sections.

Communities can ban alcohol if they wish. Dry villages are a thing (and so is bootlegging).

And that’s just the stuff off the top of my head.

 

[Kepler]

Yeah, there’s definitely a negative view towards alcohol and it’s especially true in the rural areas. Alaska has some of the strictest alcohol laws in the country, highlights include:

All alcohol has to be sold in a separate store, no beer and wine in the grocery store.

Any area where alcohol is being served has to be completely separated and access restricted to people of legal age (unless accompanied by a parent). This means sporting events and concerts have to have separate “wet” and “dry” sections.

Communities can ban alcohol if they wish. Dry villages are a thing (and so is bootlegging).

And that’s just the stuff off the top of my head.

How much of that was/is driven by "drunken Eskimo" racism?

Other places I know that come down hard on DD: NM and OK. Entirely coincidentally, they have the second-highest and third-highest native population percentages. After... Alaska.