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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:29:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-13, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-01-13 07:16, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-12, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-12 02:54, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-11, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-11 04:10, RonB wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-10, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Apparently L.A. is burning because they quit making fire breaks on the hills
>>>>>>>> overlooking the city because "they interfered" with the migration of some
>>>>>>>> breed of mouse. And the water shortage is partly caused by the removal of
>>>>>>>> dams in north California. (That and they sent their "extra" fire equipment
>>>>>>>> to Ukraine.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 'Course, the fire chief is a lesbian whose main agenda is increasing
>>>>>>> "diversity" in fire fighters.  Sheesh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> California was almost a "paradise" when my dad moved their in the early 50s.
>>>>>> They've sure managed to screw that up in the following decades.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of beating the living Hell out of beatniks and variations of
>>>>> Communists, they tolerated them. Once Berkeley was taken over, it was
>>>>> downhill for the state.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said, I believe that there are a lot more conservatives in
>>>>> California than the election results suggest. These people don't believe
>>>>> in fair elections, and there is much reason to believe that there is
>>>>> rampant fraud there enabling the Democrats to stay in power even when
>>>>> the people want to get rid of them.
>>>>
>>>> The main thing I'm worried about now is that another big batch of
>>>> Californians will move to Idaho. Which would be (mostly) okay (except they
>>>> drive the price of property way up) if they didn't try to export the same
>>>> politics that turned California into a shithole into Idaho.
>>>
>>> I think that Californians feel the need to live in areas with lots of
>>> population, so Idaho is not likely to be a destination. Texas maybe, but
>>> not farm central.
>> 
>> We've gotten a LOT of Californians here. The city I live in (just west of
>> Boise) was, for a couple years, the fastest growing city in the country.
>> Mostly because of the influx Californians (plus some from Seattle and
>> Portland). Mostly they want to get out of the Woke shitholes they were
>> living in. The biggest downside is that they've driven the price of housing
>> way up. But I can't blame them for wanting to get out of California.
>
> I don't blame Californians for wanting to escape the state's woke 
> ideology, but I _would_ blame them for wanting to vote in the same kind 
> of people in Idaho.

So far they're not doing that — or at least they're not in the majority.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien