@tobi 😅 As a catchphrase Larry the Cable Guy, but it was definitely a #Southernism before. I always understood it as "Get 'er done", with the 'er almost being a variable capable of representing just about anything. Usually a job that needed doing. Clear as mud, right? 😂
I just remembered something. My parents are so #Country#Southern & backwards that circa 2000 I had to tell them that "furniture can be oriental, but people are Asian".
To their credit, they listened and changed their vocabulary.
I know that a lot of people aren't fans of Christianity, and especially the writings of Paul. That's very understandable.
This passage in any context is pretty dope, right?
If you were trying to reel someone back in from #ChristianNationalism you might reference that in addition to some good 'ol Red Lettered Sermon on the Mount.
(For the unitiated, it's usually pronounced First Corinthians, not One Corinthians.) 😅
I would definitely put myself in the #RedStateInsurgents camp, even though Georgia is shading purple. I grew up in rural Tennessee and my heart in in the Appalachians.
I am certainly of the mind-set that the best way forward is for any leftist/progressive that can live and/or move to a red area to do so. I think of this idea as "Making it Purple".
I also see the Fediverse as the ideal tool for organizing this and giving those people way more connction and resources than has ever been possible.
For that reason, I'm somewhat focused on being progressive in the South while posting using #TVAC. However, our struggles are the same and it's all one fight.
I look forward to reading this thread and keeping contact with you!
Tyler Childers wonders what would happen if the white mountain folk that he knows were faced with the same situation as many minorities.
"How many boys could they haul off this mountain
Shoot full of holes, cuffed, and laid in the streets
'Til we come in to town in a stark ravin' anger
Looking for answers and armed to the teeth
30 aught sixes, papaw's old pistol
How many, you reckon, would it be, four or five?
Oh, would that be the start of a long, violent history
Of tuckin' our tails as we try to abide?"
"Daddy worked hard, mama worked harder
Propped up on pain pills and pride
They were just kids wen I came in this world
And I was just a kid when they died
They'd fight about money, they'd fight about fightin'
They'd fight about nothing at all"