AxExRx

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • AxExRxtoPolitical MemesWhy u mad?
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    2 days ago

    Funny story. Back in the day, Massachusetts found a loophole- there was a case in my town, where a couple slave catchers showed up, and grabbed the wrong guy- the son of a buisness owner and prominent black family.

    They were immediately besset upon by a mob, and got thrown in jail. There were riots, and people threatening to burn down the jail ( a 1room shack with just the 2 slavers in it)

    When they were brought in for arraignment, judge decided on a summary judgment, claiming it was too dangerous for them, to either be released or held in custody for a trial.

    He opted to impress them I to service, on a whaling ship, which was a 90% black crew.

    Yep, he litterally made them slaves ri a black man. They were both ‘lost at sea’ within 2 months.




  • AxExRxtoFediverse memes@feddit.ukUhhh.... Sorry
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    2 days ago

    Maybe im still too fresh off of reddit, but the linked mod’s definition of brigading and vote manipulation seem pretty tortured…

    Brigading logically implies a brigade… like a concerted effort by many people, usually coming over from the same place. To mass manipulate the content of another place.

    And on reddit, ‘vote manipulation’ referred to using bots/ multiple accounts to downvote others while upvoting oneself. See the whole unidan thing.










  • AxExRxtoMicroblog MemesAssigned baby at birth
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    4 days ago

    From what I understand, they’ve been using the ‘normal’ system for most legal things since the 60s, and that was just how they socially talked about age, until it was abandoned in 2023.

    The old system also added a year on New years, not on your birthday. Meaning a baby born 2 days ago would be 2 years old if they were born on December 31. Apparently, laws do still keep that standard for some age based regulations, like school, drinking age, voting age, and draft. Which kind of makes sense; everyone born in X year gains those things at the same time. A less arbitrary cut off date for schools, no awkward math whe checking IDs, just born in ‘04, you’re good.’

    Still seems confusing having 3 ages in different contexts though.