I live in Spokane. I was recently shooting the shit with a stranger, 50-something guy. Not five minutes into the convo I had to learn about how he'd re-discovered his "T"(estosterone) as a result of some specific exercises and how he felt better than ever as a result. I then heard some ordinary removed about "kids these days" (being disrespectful) and then on to a grouse about how public school teachers were targeting young students to convince them that they were the opposite of their birth sex ... in other words, to "turn them trans". He had grandkids, and these teachers were a threat to them. At this point I was just thinking "WTF" and turned on the grayrocking machine, but later started to wonder where all this came from (the T hobby, disrespect, trans conspiracies) and all I could think of was online "influencers" of some kind. The guy looked/seemed pretty "normal", but apparently was a host to various kinds of angers that could be channeled, by the right forces, into very specific beliefs and quite possibly, actions.
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grayrocking
TIL, there's a name for like 85% of my persona.
what the fuck word is removed referring to here
That's odd. I don't remember what word I used there but whatever it was I'd be surprised if it was censorship-worthy. b.i.t.c.h.i.n.g maybe?
Your instance does filter out the word 'bitch', under the stance that it's commonly used as a gendered slur iirc.
Which is fine and all but the implementation is utterly context-less word matching.
While they were grappling on the front lawn, Wolfe said he was able to wrap his leg around Jones’ leg, grabbed either end of the bat and pressed it against his neck, causing him to pass out.
While they were on the ground, Wolfe said Jones asked him if he could say something. He said Jones’ comments didn’t make a ton of sense, but he told Wolfe he was drunk and that he was looking for a certain address that Wolfe learned later was a business.
What in the fuck… what a bizarre ending to this melee. Glad the victim is in one piece.
Own a gun and use it.
I've been warning folks for years that right-wing media has been slowly convincing their sheep to accept violence against perceived leftists. We need to be prepared for that inevitability.
Skirmishes have begun.
Sadly I'm not surprised. I'm in a blue state and still get hate and threats.
Jesus Christ dude, I'm glad he's ok, that's fucking insane what happened there
He said some might say he should remove the pride flags to prevent vandalism.
“I don’t have to have pride flags out, but I feel like as a transgender man, when I put pride flags out, it’s not just saying this is who I am,” Wolfe said. “It’s telling other people in my community there are people here just like you and you can feel safe in this neighborhood. Well, I mean obviously that’s not really the case.”
That’s heartbreaking
Solidarity brother
Thanks for enabling this kind of environment, non-voters.
You empower the bigots with your inaction.
Because voters voting on a voting machine not owned or operated by the government but ran by a megacorp with Republican ties are to blame for the four years after an election
Citizens against other citizens while the ones who own everything continue to hold power and turn fellow citizens against one another
before blaming non voters... id blame votera who voted for this, and are still in support of it.
a lot of them are powerful and own media networks, so they can influence others
I'll blame both.
Spokane is, at best, purple. Recent congressional elections had one Republican and around 10 Democrats or independents. That sycophant Baumgartner won again. Washington may have been the only state that went more blue during the last presidential election, but that was in spite of the eastern part of the state going more red. May as well be Idaho, but the thought of joining Idaho sickens me.
Spokane City itself is blue. The problem is the city is in district 5 which is made up of a lot of rural counties and is very red. Spokane has a population of 260,000 but the district has a population of 800,000.
Baumgartner doesn't give a shit about Spokane. His voters are out in the counties.
Also, it seems like on any given day half the license plates in Spokane are from Idaho.
Let’s blame both. The ones who actively voted for this and the ones who let it happen by not voting.