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aconsent t1_ja93ogp wrote

Reply to comment by FITM-K in Maine's newspapers doing the right thing by dj_1973

So you are yourself admitting that you don't care enough about context to actually watch a video (crikey!). A perfect example of the typical lazy keyboard warrior who wants to be told what to think. Thus you are falling in line with the woke mob because 'pOpUlAr'.

With regard to your other so-called 'sources' - all of which are perfectly aligned with if not the leaders of your woke mob, please do us all a favor and tune in to a source that disagrees with them if you are too lazy to do the work yourself.

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mymaineaccount46 t1_ja92tmj wrote

Reply to comment by thesilversverker in Maine Child Care Subsidy by Dry-Date-6730

I think you're numbers remain high. I take vacations, I have savings and the house that I had that mortgage at was a 3 bedroom near a Public transit line (not in Maine.) It was on the smaller end but still in a major metro area.

Also at 400 a month food we eat almost exclusively fresh fruits veg's and meat. I won't buy processed nonsense.

Sure if you want a McMansion you need more money but this has been doable as recently as the past few years. You just have to fight lifestyle creep and actually set a budget. You don't need an over 6 figure household income to be perfectly comfortable, and able to take vacations, with kids.

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shopgirl56 t1_ja91kd9 wrote

Reply to comment by MikeLowrey305 in Info on cannabis cultivation & cannabis jobs in Maine by MikeLowrey305

I just posted 2 articles under your question - the industry is booming and every municipality has a number that are allowed ' i.e. Rockland has 8 dispensaries- Portland has 40 - id look into b4 giving up - there are enough maine breweries in this state to put a brewery on main street of every single town - they did an article on it - no one says that is saturated (or maybe they do but ive not heard) id do a deep dive b4 you give up - appearances can be decieving

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FITM-K t1_ja8y7fo wrote

Reply to comment by aconsent in Maine's newspapers doing the right thing by dj_1973

So I actually did watch some of this, and it's mostly complete bullshit.

For example, around ~8:30 he's claiming that most news stories about this didn't list the reason he said those things. Bullshit. The story linked here mentions the reason, and so does every other article I've seen about it. Just for fun, I checked articles from CNN, Reuters, and the Daily Beast – all of them explain why he said it, and that he was responding to that Rasmussen poll, what the poll said, etc.

~13:30 - now he's talking about the economics of cartooning, fucking kill me

16:50 - here's the part where he intimates that any black people who are mad at him are mad because they hate white people, not because of what he said. "You can tell by the comments," he chuckles, offering zero evidence or support for that statement.

17:45 OK, so here he seems to be trying to argue that what he said is just "don't hang out with people who don't like you," and that because people don't disagree with that general idea, that means nobody actually disagrees with what he said, just with "the way he said it". But that's not what he said at all. He's saying white people shouldn't be near black people because – per this poll – a small percentage of black people think it's "not ok to be white." He's not saying stay away from those people, he's saying stay away from ALL black people.

21:00 and now we're at the classic right-winger thing where they pretend EVERYONE agrees with them, but just secretly, because they're too afraid to say it. The fact that almost no one actually agrees doesn't matter because they're "NPCs".

Throwing in the towel around 25 minutes because that's as much of this prick as I can stomach, even at 2x speed. I saw absolutely nothing that explains or justifies what he said.

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FITM-K t1_ja8uoju wrote

Reply to comment by aconsent in Maine's newspapers doing the right thing by dj_1973

> You said it yourself 'just some of what he said'. That is actually the defnition of LACK of CONTEXT:

So you would only consider it acceptable reporting if they print the full transcript to that 70+ minute video, and the follow-up? lmao.

There's plenty of context to understand:

  1. What he said
  2. Why he said it

So instead of vaguely demanding more context, why don't you explain to the class specifically what missing context you're talking about?

You know, the "context" that makes it OK to say that white people should "get the fuck away" from black people, and that it's irrational for a white person to try to help a black person?

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