The bill was created to crack down on the KKK originally. I’m not seeing any sources that it creates an exception for them. Come on, let’s not be like the right and just make shit up.
Yeah, my first thought is what’s the source. I wouldn’t put it past any GOP legislature to do this, but I came to the comments explicitly looking for a source.
Post has just been updated. It doesn’t explicitly exempt the KKK, but it does provide exemptions for organisations’ parades, rituals, initiations, ceremonies, celebrations, or general requirements. It also explicitly permits hoods under this exemption.
The KKK typically files the proper paperwork for their demonstrations and parades in advance. Under what circumstances do you envision them being denied permission to wear their hoods during a permitted demonstration without gifting a first amendment victory to the Klan?
I was under the wrong impression that it’s actually banned in the US, but it is not, from wiki:
As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League puts total KKK membership nationwide at around 3,000, while the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it at 6,000 members total.
It still isn’t a stretch. The KKK aren’t routinely rejected for parade applications in regions they’re active, they basically just need to add a line about wearing hoods to their application.
Fuck Nazis and fuck you for defending them. I don’t give a shit about the context, there’s no amount of time he could serve that would make him deserve even the tiniest ounce of power. Again, fuck you with a fucking cactus for defending him
It is. He doesn’t deserve shit for rights, no Nazi does. If you believe otherwise you can go fuck yourself, or let the Nazis you love so much do it for you
Remember, for the GOP, tax funds exist only to be looted by political cronies… if the money is being spent on things that actually benefit taxpayers, then there is less for them to loot, which they won’t abide.
The organization, funded entirely by taxpayers, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show.
That’s $120k/year if it was to a single person, but it’s to several. Feels like a non-story, he’s clearly not getting rich off of this.
So, if I’m reading this correctly, and the 10 seconds of looking further into it; in 2021 a group called affinity health partners (who from the looks of it are just fucking healthcare vulture capitalists, but I can’t confirm) bought the hospital, then shuttered it because of course they did. And now the locals are complaining that the govt did this to them, and also this article points out how this is bad for Biden? First of all, small towns in eastern NC were never voting for Biden, and more importantly, this isn’t about Biden it is another of example of how private healthcare is fucked in this country. Still drinking my coffee so hopefully that all made sense lol.
That sounds about right. Interestingly enough, they never even mentioned state lawmakers who needlessly waited over a decade to expand Medicaid, which made hospitals like this more likely to shutter. As a comment in the main thread made clear, this is very much a symptom of how fucked up our healthcare system is in this country, and how it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
However, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into the political side of the article’s framing, and I noticed this passage:
When Quorum Health shut down Martin County’s 43-bed hospital, citing “financial challenges related to declining population and utilization trends,” residents here didn’t just lose a sense of security. They lost trust, too, in the leaders they elected to make their town a better place to live. People like 73-year-old Bobby Woolard say they don’t believe any politicians – from the local county commissioners to the presidential candidates who will pass through this swing state with big campaign promises in the coming months – care enough to help them fix the problem. “If you’re critically ill, there’s no help for you here,” Woolard said on a sunny April afternoon while trimming his neighbor’s hedges. “Nobody seems to care. You got a building sitting there empty and nobody seems to care.”
I pulled up the voter registration in Williamston that seems to closely align with Mr. Woolard, as the name and address match records on Google. He registered as a Democrat for the first time in 2021. The first time this man ever voted in North Carolina was 11/08/2022. So if he’s 73 years old he was born in 1951, which means he was eligible to vote in 1969. This man spent fifty-three years sitting on the sidelines, and is now bitching that elected officials “don’t seem to care” and (for decades) made decisions about how the US healthcare system should be run, that are now negatively impacting his quality of life.
It could be that for fifty-three years Mr. Woolard let other people do his voting for him, and the elected representatives paid very close attention to what those people wanted. Seems like a perfect learning opportunity for Mr. Woolard to admit sitting on the sidelines is a terrible way to get what you want out of your elected representatives.
Maybe I’m just too naive or optimistic about the state of humanity, but I can’t for the life of me understand how people don’t understand that the real problem is that capitalism glorifies and rewards sociopathic behavior.
Probably preaching to the choir, but I don’t want an economic system built on deprivation and intentional scarcity anywhere resources that are fundamental human rights.
If it weren’t already controlled by the corporations, government’s single most important job should be to keep the greedy fucking billionaires away from healthcare, insurance, Internet access, electricity, etc.
provided permission shall have been first obtained therefor by a representative of such society, order or organization from the governing body of the municipality in which the same takes place, or, if not in a municipality, from the board of county commissioners of the county in which the same takes place.
I hope that’s not the case, cause that’s even worse.
@ShunkW says “I’m not seeing any sources” despite the Twitter handle where the receipts are available included in the image. They did no investigation, and they assume the pictured poster is making things up.
I update the post-text with a direct link to the twitter post, which includes a link to where the removed footage was, and has further documentation of how outrageous this is, link the bill, current bill text, and quote a relevant passage.
@ShunkW doubles down, pretends nothing has changed, and links an article that doesn’t validate anything they’ve claimed.
Even you agree that @ShunkW has terrible reading comprehension. Maybe you should give this a second look, rather than backing someone who has demonstrated an alarming lack of media literacy.
The text and changes to the bill is substantially outrageous, but the missing video implies there’s even more substance being buried.
Yeah, because only the KKK wears hoods, so this just has to be about them and nothing else. Besides…. Aren't you conveniently omitting the part where societies and organizations have to obtain permission? What the fuck, man. Let's not delve into the same “reading slightly wrong to produce outrage” BS we love to criticize the right-wing fearmongers for.
But still, forbid me to wear a mask if I feel under the weather is also bullshit. I understand that it’s better to stay home when ill, but realistically it’s not always possible
When masks were enforced during the pandemic I thought it was finally going to become the norm to wear a mask if you catch a cold. It was not, it appears, public health is less important than total surveillance
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