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While that is hot, it ain't newsworthy hot. In Texas it's considered normal summer weather. Helps to have A/C.

I know plenty about my own country, thank you. I know we spent over a century fighting off savages who brutally murdered us and abducted and raped our women and children. I know that we never would have attempted to settle "their" land if they had already settled it with civilized infrastructure like buildings, bridges, and improved roads. Their roads were more similar to animal trails than European roadways.

It wasn't until recently that we stopped calling them savages and started feeling sorry for them. A lot of people want to whitewash history, but the truth is we rescued this land from savages, and historical documents make no bones about it.

What makes the meme conservative is that it combats the stereotypical leftist viewpoint that all immigrants equally valid as the Pilgrims and pioneers. The natives had no law libraries which Pilgrims and pioneers might access to verify the legitimacy of their claims. By contrast, illegal immigrants invade a developed country with plenty of established infrastructure and enforceable laws.

As for stumbling on this in the Hot sorting view, hahahahaha, sorry.

What leads a non-conservative to join a group of conservatives? You have the rest of the fediverse to hate on us. Why are you here?

Maybe so, but you're going to have to do better than Wikipedia citing USA Today to make a compelling case for it.

The Left seems to collectively envision a future in which everyone is fully dependent on the government to survive. I suspect efforts like this drug deregulation are a means to that end. There's some threshold of homelessness, say 50% or 60% of the city's population, above which they'll step in and say "enough is enough, we need public housing for everyone." At that point they'll enact civil forfeiture to seize all private housing, and the entire city population can be housed in tenement "projects". Boom, homeless problem solved. And as a bonus, they have 100% of the population voting Democrat if they're sober enough to vote. With everyone in public housing, they can run it like a prison, with metal detectors and strip searches to prohibit gun ownership. Municipal wifi can prohibit access to "far-right extremist" news sources. Public meal programs can ensure that nobody eats meat, and everyone gets their shots. Basically paradise on earth, and Portland is leading our progress.