redfox

one of the marginalized groups

You're a double or triple then...:)

the people who elect these bigots know exactly what they stand for, and they support it. South Dakota has a really problematic history But anyone who supports Republicans here knows exactly what they’re getting

Do you think that is a majority, or just a powerful/extreme small group?

I don't know anything about SD, so I'll have to google what you're talking about.

I can’t legitimize their worldview by having anything to do with them beyond what my work requires

I can relate to this in a small way. I'm probably way more conservative then most average/stereotype lemmy users, but I find that the view points of people I work with are far more extreme/right than mine. I'm maybe barely right, or right in some things, and left in others? Who cares. I just cannot for the life of me see how they can only view things/people from one side. When they rant about left/D things, I point out the same things about right/R things, it's like they lose their minds. It's all fake news and brainwashing, but they don't see the hypocrisy in anyway. I have no idea how.

I am still hoping the whole region isn't as bad as I'm led to believe. That's the reason some of your view points are helpful.

invalidating

Understood, Wasnt intended or criticism.

More maga I guess, and the recent proposed legislation in the cited articles the person referencing them used to justify their opinion/feeling that Republicans wanted them dead/gone.

I tend to agree with the nice and kind part of Midwest, with exception that it seems like we're becoming more hard-line against things people call woke or alternate life styles.

I'm using a universal 'we' since, and I think you're right - there's a difference between urban city thinking and rural community thinking.

I have a whole theory about the city thinking and rural thinking having to due with ownership or property, but that's a whole other thing...

Agreed.

Makes sense. Thanks. I have heard of R7. Had not heard of Qualys.

So it's your belief or feeling that the major motivator and shift in politics related to religion and acceptance was over a pivotal issue of abortion? In this SDs case, the abortion issue opened the door for trading values from one party to the devotion to another?

Would you say that shift was in spite of not everyone being fully committed to the rest of the GOP/R's values? You suggested they overlook all the things they don't generally agree with, or as much with, just to support the abortion ban?

These people don’t think people like Noem and Trump go far enough. It’s actually important to understand that even the “nice church people” types believe this. They support much more extreme policies than what we’re seeing.

Holy shit, what do they want, a culling?

There's some mega churches around me, but they are very modern, kid glove, and do the whole 'come as you are'. That's not the same thing as accepting people in the letter community, they still think those people are living wrong, but they are generally more compassionate about it.

Edit, I think some of those churches would love to have letter community people attend, but that's because they'd hope to love on them enough to have them change their life. I honestly believe they'd be doing it out of genuine concern or 'love', regardless of whether that's misguided or not. How misguided and crazy that sounds to people usually depends on how they feel about these people's lives and if you accept them for who they are or not.

Example, I think most of the common mega church people around here would follow the Bible's parable about the adulteress and 'let the person without sin cast the first stone' approach. God in that example shows he cares about her more than the bad thing she did first, then calls out people for a lack of compassion and thinking what they were doing wrong was more OK than her, but lastly said 'go and sin no more' which was basically 'try to stop doing this'. My post isnt about religion, I'm just using this as an example to illustrate that I think there's varying degrees of people/religion/bigotry and I am not sure if regions are all the same.

What you're describing sounds far more extreme to me than people around me in Indiana, but again, I might be missing things.

Edit: I forgot to say this, but this is only responding to the contents of your post. Your link takes me to the kbin login page.

crap, I'll fix it, hold on. It was supposed to be someone speaking of their oppression. Edit, I think I got the link right. It opened in a different browser for me this time.

@[email protected] @[email protected] How is the general population?

In the midwest, we are called the Bible belt. We are also accused of being the biggest bigots, with terms like neo Christianity or religio-fascists. I like to think/pretend that law makers are a little more extreme or loud than the general population, but they still pander to a base that elects them, so that negates my idea to some extent. Maybe the process of legislating looses nuance and empathy because it's difficult to do that in law? I'm not sure. Maybe I have an unrealistically rosy view of the region. I'm not in a group that would feel oppression or hatred for who I am unless I go to places with people who do, then I get labeled or target by those because I look like their oppressors (which is ironic, but understandable).

Indiana had the religious freedom act, which was a huge black eye. I could write a huge rant on cake lady. The short version is my refusal to accept her ideas as Christian/religion based, not mine anyway. IMO, Jesus never treated anyone like shit other than the Pharisees, whom he constantly schooled for 'missing the point'. I think she was just a plain old fashion bigot, and I wish she would have just said "I don't like gay people". I wouldn't have to agree, but at least she'd be honest and take the proper heat for it.

Unfortunately, I know there's plenty of criticism for the Midwest, conservative region that probably has some roots in religion, but I'm not sure if it's just because of religion or the negative manipulation of it. Example: Islam is inherently bad and violent, or it was corrupted to manipulate people to violence and hate?

I think it's because people (some) are all talk. We bitch about corporate greed and stuff like this, but when it comes down to it, when you need a new electronic device and one's half the cost, which one do people buy?

The one with ads and that's made by slave wage third world workers, or the one that's twice as expensive?

As a whole, we tend to be garbage and materialistic...

I won't be buying Roku either.

Thanks

Good info, thanks.

I am familiar with ACAS, which is why I am testing the products.

Fully capturing all the capabilities of scanning, auditing configuration seems like you could put countless hours into the implementation.

I imagine the ROI is high based on what I've seen.

Would you agree?