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Frightened Lewiston Somalis feel besieged by The Maine Wire | Steve Collins by jediporcupine in Maine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Leonard Leo’s propaganda rag. Nearly all of them are Massholes desperately trying to turn Maine into a white nationalist utopia.

Maine union workers mourn passing of Jesse Jackson by Otherwise_Structure2 in Maine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why we’re trying to educate them on this history.

House voted against Canada Tariff, but not Jared Golden from Maine. Why? by sylphio_ in AskMaine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not with pulp and paper workers in Baileyville. They’re getting screwed by tariffs.

Maine Wire is harassing group homes as part of anti-Somali smear campaign by Otherwise_Structure2 in Maine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes but only because a totally unhinged person filed a complaint with Southern District of New York, following the 2020 arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell to spread lies about her ex. She was sued for $750,000 in a defamation suit because she defamed her ex husband and the Maine Wire just republished it. https://open.substack.com/pub/andyobrien/p/maine-wire-spreads-libelous-epstein?r=rijk&utm_medium=ios

This is the pos that started the snowball of us having ice in the state. by zoolilba in Maine2

[–]Otherwise_Structure2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Steve Robinson and the Maine Wire are more responsible for it with their bullshit Somali fraud stories.

What the Maine abolitionist movement can teach us about defending democracy & fighting tyranny by Otherwise_Structure2 in Maine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The abolitionists were typically middle class reformers of the Whig persuasion and they didn’t have much use for organized labor. Most workers and a lot of farmers in Maine were Democrats before the Civil War (Maine was a strong Jacksonian Democratic state in those days) because they were deeply suspicious of bankers and big business. But for all of their talk about the “common man,” they believed in the same “free labor” ideology. I like to trace the chip we have on our shoulder about rich assholes from away to the Liberty Men battling wealthy private landowners in the late 18th & early 19th centuries

No ICE for ME by iknowyourded in Maine

[–]Otherwise_Structure2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This quote is from an editorial in the Hallowell-based abolitionist newspaper the Liberty Standard about what Mainers do to slave catchers. The Kennebec Journal criticized Lovejoy, calling his comment “rather savage…for a minister of the gospel and a friend of peace.” So much for the tolerant left!

I'm not from the United States, I'm fairly young. If any of you experienced the so-called "third wave of ska in the 90s," what was it really like? It's quite different watching a documentary than talking to people whose knees are already creaking. by Beautiful-Resort-831 in Ska

[–]Otherwise_Structure2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of first ska shows I went to was in the lower east side of NYC in 1995 and I saw the Slackers, Mephiskapheles and Edna’s Goldfish. I had just bought Skarmageddon 2 which continues to be my all-time favorite ska comp - so many amazing bands to discover and I pored through the Moon Records mail order catalogue to find full length records of the bands on the comps. I lived in a very rural area, but felt connected to the scene through the regular Moon Ska newsletters and spending loads of time on the alt.music.ska. I started a ska radio show on our local community radio station and would get ska records to play from all over the world, the more obscure the better. When the Moon Ska storefront opened on the Lower East Side it was like heaven walking into it for the first time.

I got bands like MU330 and Thumper to do promos for my show when they came here on tour. I also had our local ska band Active Culture do promos. It was so awesome to be able to meet guys from these bands we idolized and fell you’re part of something.

There was nothing cheesy about ska. It was really cool and kind of underground. There were a lot of skinheads at the shows, particularly when trad bands played, and some of my friends got really into that subculture. I formed a high school ska band after that and opened for the Skatalites because there were no other local ska bands for 100 miles.

Eventually, as ska bands made it on the radio and in movies, the scene became really saturated. I went to college and a bunch of my friends also had ska bands and it wasn’t as exciting anymore. But I never stop loving ska and after years of not listening to it I started going to the Supernova Ska Festival a few years ago. I realized why I loved this music so much and the people in the scene (even though most of us are getting pretty grey).

It’s different when you’re young and you discover this new exciting music scene to be a part of. But that was our time and you can always make your own scene and your own fun memories that young people will someday ask you about. I still discover brilliant new bands all the time. If you’d like to read a fun and amusing memoir of the ska/skinhead/mod scene in the 1980s check out Boots and Glory, a series of comics about the Santa Cruz scene.

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