• @_number8_
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    it sucks so much fucking ass living in a state that goes red 30 seconds after polls close, seeing other states pass progressive legislation that makes a meaningful, material, positive difference in people’s lives – while we’re urgently rushing through fucking trans panic book banning horseshit

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      1 year ago

      And the great part is that the more blue states pass reforms that are needed everywhere, the more it becomes a red state problem that no one in a blue state has any incentive to try to fix on a national level.

      Of the 8 Democrats who made their utter contempt for workers known by voting against the minimum wage increase, all but two were from states that have a minimum wage higher than 7.25/hr. And the two were both from the same state.