Think about how great this country would be without shitty states like Alabama, Mississippi...

@Tennessean There are def things I like about Tennessee., I am a Techie, and while not formally employed yet by the industry, upskilling in such a way where i'll be useful to it.

Chattanooga, in particular, got so fed up with trying to beg the internet service providers to upgrade them to fiber that they built their own community fiber project and Today the city uses fiber optic internet at bargain-basement prices.

@Peaceandnamaste No. Don't do that. Nature didn't put you in that body, you did. You volunteered to be born like this.

@Tennessean Listen I don't want to encourage self loathing on the basis of just being born in the wrong place. I pick on Alabama, but it's not people's fault for being born in a shitty state.

@BetweenKittensandRiots yeah but I'm jealous of those that live in Tennessee, I resent Mother Nature for putting me in Alabama instead of Tennessee. Mother nature is evil for doing this to me.

@Tennessean I don't begrudge anyone from the south for being born there, I begrudge the south for not renouncing their ancestors the same way I don't take kindly to Japan's ancestor worship of their own, I am a huge weeb and fan of Japanese Imports that sports a literal onkyo and drives a Toyota but, I will note my Dissent on one key aspect of Japanese Culture, they were the villains during World war 2, and they should at least acknowledge the toxicity of what their ancestors did during the war. But of the south, during the civil war, I begrudge the south for lying to the nation and trying these "heritage not hatred" arguments, and "The war was not about slavery it was about state's rights" yeah, state's rights to decide for themselves whether slavery should remain legal.

if I were to post a political rant about such topics I'd say one area in which I disagree with the mainstream consensus is I am wholy tired of level of government oriented political outlooks as in, I look kindly on the oberfell rulings legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states as questions relating to discrimination should be up to the federal government to outwardly impose on the entire nation like it or not and NOT left up to the states to decide for themselves.

I care not which level of government discriminates and oppresses those I care about, damn them to hell for doing it.

Anyway, I was born in the Pacific northwest, and despite the medias misgivings and misrepresentation of life in Portland they tend to only report on the disruptions of a Few Rioters in the very heart of Downtown while there's a surrounding metro area that dwarfs the city proper made up of Portland suburbs, and I live on the utterly sleepy western end where you almost welcome riots downtown because the local news is so uneventful so it's like finally something they can report on.

it's not southern culture or anything that i dislike, it's the souths political stance.