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   that one JNL (jordinn@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:37:16 JST that one JNL

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   This kind of move doesn't happen as often as you'd imagine- New England really puts the pro in provincial- but for the kids who do relocate MA to RI during their school years, or vice versa, the social studies "founding story" culture shock must be INTENSE. The MA history core curriculum is to this day extremely problematic both factually and spiritually and it's not an exaggeration to say that having it inflicted on our kids was among our 95 theses on leaving. The mythos, THE LEGEND 😂 🙄

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     that one JNL (jordinn@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:37:17 JST that one JNL

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     In these parts the MA-RI state line is a wobbly and thrice-contested thing; it is not uncommon for those from the adjacent MA side to be back and forth across it several times a day. Despite this, I have never heard ANY acknowledgement of this history.

     Me: Y'all, do you hear what they are saying about you?
     MA:As our forefathers instructed, we shall not dignify this with a response

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     that one JNL (jordinn@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:37:20 JST that one JNL

     I'm spending a few minutes on New England's south coast, and continue (as someone from far away from any of these places) to find it hilarious and remarkable that Massachusetts likes to inscribe on rocks and monuments a story of how its white settlers were persecuted by England so they set up a new AND BETTER nation, and Rhode Island does exactly the same but its story is that it was persecuted by Massachusetts.

     This is greeted with a stoic silence from MA that I imagine has lasted 350 years