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Thoreau was a pretty evolved feminist who has been somewhat unfairly slandered for the laundry thing (and tbh estrogen could have fixed her) Also pretty sure Thoreau washed his ass

Not really

Who isn’t mid in their 20s to some extent? I sure was

I’m collecting examples of these targeted drone attacks on civilians here: map.faineg.com/public/index...

Targeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT PictureA global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022.map.faineg.com

No one can even find the original letter where he allegedly said, apparently.

oh god remind me about the structured data revolution

Yeah I feel like this is super intuitive to everyone who has actually seen a risen creek

thankfully I have not seen someone trying to claim using “y’all” is appropriation in quite a long time (but I have seen it)

hahahaha yes

I mean sure, I was also skeptical, but they’re not doing the bad thing so now it’d be a good idea for us to, even begrudgingly, acknowledge that they did what we wanted for once

Hell, out of curiosity I’ve been looking and apparently no one can even find the original letter in which Benjamin Hawkins supposedly used the phrase “creek don’t rise”

Quite frankly this is the exact kind of well-meaning but massively over-zealous policing of language that we could all stand to do less of.

there is a point at which pretty much every popular phrase in the English language could theoretically be interpreted in an offensive way, and personally, I require way more solid evidence than I’ve seen on “talking about creeks rising is inherently problematic.”

Well, if the creek don’t rise

I am very much going to continue to keep saying “the creek don’t rise,” thank you for your concern.

i think it’s way less confusing for everybody to just call them conservatives or maybe centrists

I have seen zero compelling evidence whatsoever that references to creeks rising is a racist term. People in the South to this day talk about creeks, as in bodies of water, rising and impeding travel because they do that sometimes. bsky.app/profile/fain...

yeah like…the creek does in fact rise sometimes, they’re known for that

The word “Creek” derives from Old Norse and was in use by colonists in the Americas by the 1570s: it was then used by the colonists to refer to the Muskogee people that they first encountered at the previously-named Ochese Creek: www.etymonline.com/word/creek

Creek - Etymology, Origin & Meaning"narrow inlet in a coastline," altered from kryk (early 13c.; in place names from 12c.),… See origin and meaning of creek.www.etymonline.com

Idk about the Midwest but it’s very common in the South and it’s spelled “creek” on lots of maps