@SrRochardBunson@redstateinsurgents As a German that doesn't sound good. We had a 'Secret state police'. GeStaPo or Geheime Staatspolizei was the name in the time of the Nazis. Maybe you should try to stop the fascism of the GOP. Just saying...
Folks. This might be #NorthCarolina's next governor. No joke.
Heartland Signal:
At Moms for Liberty's Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings.
"...It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes."
21 of 26/ SUMMARY: This throat grabbing-gripping-holding behavior of North Carolina coach Mack Brown toward South Carolina coach Shane Beamer was not an accident. Along with his invasive and controlling tricep gripping, this was maintained and it was deliberate.
25 of 26/ A spouse or partner who grabs-grips-holds-squeezes-chokes/strangles you/your throat — even once, without consent — with extremely high likelihood will repeat the behavior. Statistically, your life is in danger. Get out of any such relationship, ASAP.
Basically this amounts to a hostile takeover of the RNC...
And hammers home the final nail in the coffin of the republican party..
They are now full fledged MagaParty... the GOP is officially dead.
Trump will be able to launder party donations directly to his pockets and no funds will be released to those running for office without a full loyalty pledge to trump.
Police at the University of #NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill are responding to an “armed and dangerous person on or near campus,” according to an alert from the university on Monday.
Via Dave Wasserman, who confirms my lack of confidence in winning the House back:
New: NC Republicans just passed a new gerrymander that could flip the state from 7D-7R to as lopsided as 11R-3D. It dooms Reps. Kathy Manning (D) in #NC06, Wiley Nickel (D) in #NC13 and Jeff Jackson (D) in #NC14 and puts Rep. Don Davis (D) in a Toss Up #NC01. #NorthCarolina
Love people? Thats snowflake. Accept people as they are? Build your relationship as equals?
Be kiiii-iiinnnnd all the time, respect people, recognize they are valuable like yourself???? Snowflake loser snowflake loser.
Senate Bill 90 dropped a whole bunch of changes last night. Most of it incredibly terrible for lgbtq children. Also portions of it read pretty bad for any child in an abusive house. I havent seen a single article summarizing the sheer number of terrible things in the bill yet.
Some of it is repetition from other states some of it is all new.
The clause that parents get auto-notified and get to block a student from joining any school club. Assuming LGBTQ student alliances are the targets there.
Sounds also like a new council will be setup to oversee all educational standards in the state, and theyve set it up that mostly current GOP controlled positions in the state will nominate most of it's members.
@jdb820 You haven't found the right corners of the fediverse yet. There are definitely servers filled with radical leftists, some-to-many of which range from fight fire with fire all the way to be-prepared-for-violence.
I feel like you run a degree or two hotter than me on this scale. But I am ready for some "fight fire with fire", within reason.
@w7voa And it’s a goddamned good thing that REPUBLICANS refuse to keep kids/teens/young adults safe because FREEDOM to FUCKING kill anything that MOVES. Go, GOP, go. you fucking gun lobby tools
Recently in Alabama, the Republican legislature refused to comply with a federal judge’s order to create fair voting maps that better represented Black voters. It had to be enforced by court order.
The wife and I spent 10 minutes picking green beans this morning. This is one of two filled bags that we got in that short amount of time.
We have tons more that still need to be picked, and even more that aren't quite ready yet.
It's nice having a little garden in the back yard!
@bethroots Age certainly plays an issue. I'm nearing that age myself I feel at times.
I've gotten lucky that the deer haven't done anything. I saw some tracks early on after the beans started coming up, but they just haven't messed with them, thankfully.
I've often thought about starting up a Mastodon instance for the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, NC area.
Not sure what exactly I'd name it/call it
Since I co-admin this instance, I would want it to to be hosted similarly as this one with MastoHost but would love to find someone reliable that could moderate and help run it if necessary.
Just curious if there would be much interest in an instance like that.
I feel Mastodon needs more instances that are focused on various places in the USA like this.
I just personally don't know how many people here on the #Fediverse would be interested in being on an instance that is focused more on the Triad or how many others would want to be on an instance with many others from within the same area of the US.