I would love to actually see the city, especially the Nintendo World store, wish I could have seen it back when it was still the Pokemon Center.

Niskayuna is all right by me, if I were rich I would consider it a second home.

You definitely have my condolences for the southern larpers. I am an actual Southerner and I can tell you that if they came down here, well would be like an actual weeaboo going to feudal Japan... they would get their ass kicked.

As for the Confederate flag, it's a difficult and sad story. I actually thought all the flags were heart warming, almost bought a Confederate flag dream catcher for a friend of mine.

I know you won't believe me because no Northern or ever believes me. But there was a time when that flag legitimately had more to do with barbecue then a sincerely held belief that a black man was a form of obsolete farm equipment.

Then people started calling it racist, it always had that stigma, but it wasn't something you brought up in polite conversation until Dylann Roof happened... then they started the flag bans and now I only see being flown by Trump Supporters trying to silently advertise their klan meetings.

I miss when the flag was sinply misunderstood, but the second the Tea Party Started waving it on the lawn of the first black president as an intimidation tactic.. that's when I knew we lost it, it was only a matter of time before that stigma became too heavy to bear.

On Reddit this story would get me downloaded to oblivion, but people tend to understand more on Lemmy and actually hear the other side out.

That flag used to be so beloved as just a symbol of the south that back when I worked at Walmart and they announced they'd no longer carry the flag, the first person to complain about its loss was a black coworker.

Honestly I hope one day that it can quietly be put back on the shelves and people think of The Dukes of Hazzard instead of Birth of a Nation.. but I know better.

I feel your pain about the southern larpers, because I'm a real southerner, and look I understand that we lost the Civil War and that it's good that we lost the Civil War, but still... I can't help but feel like I'm watching a god damn Minstrel Show anytime Larry The Cable Guy opens his mouth... and I know that the court of public opinion says that I'm wrong for feeling that way.

Maybe in some Cosmic sort of way this is some strange punishment for the sins of the plantation owners...

Doesn't make it suck any less. I mean it wasn't the Common Man Who halted reconstruction, it was the rich people who basically ran the Bible Belt who just didn't want their subjects to be able to walk on their own two feet.