Can we please remember the chief here isn't the problem... just a symptom?

That town is. If a town tolerates this shit it means the majority of its populace agrees.

That town is majority bigot, racist trash. We need to stop blaming people elevated to positions of power by communities... all they do is represent their communities.

"save us from going to a domestic"

End of shift?

Just a reminder police offend for DV at a rate higher than the public.

I 100% agree.

"The purpose of daytime running lights is to increase the visibility of your car, so that other drivers can see you on the road. At night, your headlights and tail lights are illuminated, which means that it's easy for other drivers to spot you."

And in hazardous conditions it should be common sense to make yourself as visible as possible.... but, humanity is flawed and we are a funny mix of self-possession, ignorance and lack of education.

Seriously though, ya halfwits: turn on your lights.

I was taught a N was any black person who wasn't acting white enough.

I grew up in the 80's and 90's.

I learned every bigoted slur I know at home before I heard it somewhere else. My dad brought home the latest racist joke he heard around the water cooler down at IBM.

Not Bob's Sister-Fucking Hut. Not the rock quarry. An electrical and computer engineer among other middle class, educated people who literally got their jollies of telling racist and sexist jokes because it gave them self worth or something.

They're not new.

They're just emboldened.

AGAIN.

My father died estranged from me as a result of his politics. One of the few things I regret was him not living enough to see it reported that the US Military gave black vets the shaft with the GI bill... the abuse started in WW2 and continued all the way through Vietnam.

Because I grew up listening to him shit talk black guys... they all just went back to the ghetto and didn't use that GI Bill to improve themselves like him and his white friends did...

While he and people just like him were the ones responsible for denying those benefits.

They've always been like this, the right wing. They just feel emboldened and since its getting WORSE we should take it as a sign that we need to do more than whatever it is we're doing.

I went to a RvV event attended by thousands where I was told by organizers and speakers to RUN AWAY from any counter presence.

Not to ignore, Not to not engage, to remaind peaceful... but to run away and cede the block. This can't be what we do. They shut down events. That's them winning. We need to stop letting them win.

Kentucky is a reliably red state and has been for a very long time.

Kentucky is a net loss for America and pays 2/3 of its budget with federal funds while taking back over 2.5 Xs what it pays into federal coffers.

They've been massively dependent for decades, across generations.

No Republican from the Reagan era ever called those mostly-conservative, 90%+ white at the time (86.5% today) a welfare queen.

Tell ya that much.

One of the biggest mistakes we're making in confronting this is trying to convince ourselves this a "new" or "different" conservative.

It isn't. They're just being more outspoken.

False. Some people understand that communities require low-income workers to function and don't hate the idea of those people living around them.

YOU do. These people do. I don't.

The corporations aren't responsible for these residents wanting to put up class walls.

No.

EDIT: People ARE responsible for their choices and beliefs within our systems. Its how we make progress: by better people believing in better things and making better choices. SOME people believe better things.

Because we have something people are abusing that the rest of society doesn't have the guts to stand up to.

"Its my service animal."

No, it isn't. Service animal actually means something.

There's the other flavor too... the one the patriot front folks like, with the cropped hair and clean-shaven storm-trooper vibe.

Sometimes people try to say "it's really just the very top .1% and the rich but not really rich people shouldn't be included.

This is the kind of stuff I like to remember when I'm told that.

I get not wanting to lose property value. I get wanting to have a nice community.

Segregating yourselves from that community while demanding access to all the good things just make people assholes.

The biggest thing stopping healthy American communities is the tiny percentage of people who are of means.

IF the child isn't communicating there's probably a reason. Like safety or acceptance concerns.

Also I doubt they have them on hand or that there was only one interaction. We should probably ask this child why they didn't go to their parents and why they had to seek safety and help elsewhere.

Unfortunately we can't make laws to keep children away from just men - with men being the overwhelming perpetrators of child sex abuse regardless of the gender of the child. And sex crimes in general, actually.

And violent crime.

And we can't really ban children from churches... I don't think. Maybe there's a way though.

Well, I think its clear why the child wasn't going to her parents with these identity issues.

And this is exactly why laws forcing disclosure are bad. These laws are about the PARENTS not the CHILD. They don't protect kids. If the kids aren't talking to those closest to them about these kinds of critical issues...

Try asking the kid why not. Then value their answer.

It's more that... can we trust him not to kill innocent people because he doesn't get his way, has to function within the rules of society, and gets his feelings hurt?

I don't see much about him that makes me trust that.

I feel bad for seeing the thumbnail and knowing what kind of whacko this guy was at first glance.

Edit: having such an easily recognizable fake-macho strut in a still pic is tough to pull off. This guy really needs you to know how tough he is.

Yeah, but at least they didn't sue themselves after writing a mail-in-voter expansion law like PA Republicans did. In the race to the bottom one side still leads.

How many of those trees are still growing?

What percentage are sold for wood pulp?

We are past the point of fixing things.

We are at the point of minimizing further damage.

And we will utterly fail because we are enslaved and beholden to a for-maximized-profit economic model and culture that refuses to value anything other than one more cent in the pocket at the end of the day.

Half of the country refuses to believe anything is happening. And the other half thinks their side are heroes despite none of them being able to name a single bit of environmental legislation with teeth.

Until we demand more - and we won't - because we can't come together enough - it will just keep getting worse.

Convince the people in denial - across the board. That's where to start.

Convince the people that "not Republican" isn't enough and denying things sure as hell aint working.