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Super long form article on the politics of water, housing, development, farming and immigration in Arizona where the legislature is almost fully captured by MAGA nihilists and where the kinda-hero of the story is a Mormon zealot who believes in the divine inspiration of the Constitution

We’re fucking doomed y'all

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Evidently the name of the county where Phoenix is located contains a slur.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh, I see. I remember now that we've run into this specific sremovedhorpe before, apparently it's like an obscure spanish slur. I guess it doesn't come up enough for the admins to have added an exception for it lol

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

How unfair to our Arizonan comrades!

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

Yet another reason I hate slur filters. If you need a filter to not make slurs then you're probably a piece of shit.

Context means a lot and this is another example of it