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Originally posted by jhe888:
Good.

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Imagine what life would be like in Texas wearing your hoop earrings and half assed makeup to the outlet mall with your bike shorts and no wig. How could you and your boyfriend "parade" around in public anymore in the other gender's clothes and face paint, like gods to be worshipped.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I wonder what the demographics were behind the sign.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
Stay out of southern Indiana, too.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Not sure what avocado toast is either. But ironically, CA avocados aren’t really that good. Not tasty and too fibrous.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:

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Originally posted by oddball:
Except for Sigforum members

I think you fit into the 'long suffering normal Californians' definition. I was very pleased when you escaped.

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Originally posted by slosig:

Re: avocado toast, make toast however you normally do, then take a ripe avocado and smoosh (technical term) with a fork similar to what you would do when starting to make guacamole. Personally, I just add salt, but some folks use all manner of seasonings, and some restaurants add fru-fru stuff.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by konata88:
Seems like they might not care much, for example, if conservatives are leaving.

It’s just speculation, but I strongly suspect the prime, and perhaps only motivator is the loss of money. I doubt they care if there are few conservatives there because they have so little influence over anything that matters, and they’re likely to be in the monied group. And as people in many more Rightest states mention time and again, the ones moving from California usually bring leftist views with them. They’re not fleeing the ideas, they’re fleeing their consequences.

Leftists tend to not identify what causes the horrible conditions they’re fleeing, and it’s not new; it’s been true throughout their history. In fact, it was a basic tenet of Marxism/Leninism that the utopian Communist state would not come into being until human nature itself changed and led to the rise of the “new Soviet man.” Until then it was necessary to run things by a dictatorship to control the ignorant unconverted who objected to the conditions the ideological practices caused. It wasn’t that the ideology and its practices were bad, it was people who were bad.

Like self-blinded followers of other beliefs and bizarre ideologies, leftists blame everything bad on everything except the ideology itself. That’s why more and more we’re seeing our own leftists claiming that places like the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, et al., didn’t/don’t practice “real” socialism and therefore cannot be used as examples of why we should avoid it ourselves.