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Re: Over in America...

Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 12:49 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Would be nice to think so.

That upset there though was in a statehouse by election, with what looks like a particularly bad Republican. Normally they'll come up with someone who says enough to keep the base onside but runs primarily as an outsider veteran or businessman.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 1:31 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Tubbs is right about that election being about the Republican candidate being even more of an arsehole than usual, but I do think this decision on Roe will have an effect maybe not to the extent in this election but certianly down the line.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 5:27 pm
by Bones McCoy
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Re: Over in America...

Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 8:45 am
by Samanfur
Oops!


Re: Over in America...

Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 3:53 pm
by Arrowhead
A pretty terrifying article on how Far-Right extremists are currently flourishing in Idaho...........aided and abetted, of course, by local GOP politicians.

Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho
A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty
By Christopher Mathias 17/05/202
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 4db7282bd6

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 5:13 pm
by Boiler
I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop :shock:

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 4:08 pm
by Arrowhead
Boiler wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 5:13 pm I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop :shock:
Sorry about that. It was a tough read, genuinely unsettling stuff. I really do fear for America right now.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 4:31 pm
by Boiler
Arrowhead wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 4:08 pm
Boiler wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 5:13 pm I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop :shock:
Sorry about that. It was a tough read, genuinely unsettling stuff. I really do fear for America right now.
No need to apologise @Arrowhead, you did warn us. The trouble is, I'm torn between "what on Earth can be done here?" and "fuck 'em, let themselves annihilate one another" where America is concerned. Either way, it does my nut in (to quote a certain fictional pub landlord).

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 5:29 pm
by Watchman
Individual states turning into Stalinist Russia, eventually their own paranoia will eat themselves

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 10:58 pm
by Bones McCoy
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Re: Over in America...

Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 10:38 pm
by Boiler
The Death Cult strikes again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-u ... a-61573831

Fifteen dead.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 10:49 pm
by Samanfur
Fourteen of them children aged 7-10.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 12:15 am
by The Weeping Angel
Someone I follow on twitter who lives in Texas.


Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 1:31 am
by Oboogie
America, where every life is sacred...right up 'til the moment of birth.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 5:16 am
by Samanfur
Death toll up to 21. 19 of them children.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 10:43 am
by Samanfur

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 10:44 am
by Nigredo
A state that forces people to have children only to watch them be murdered on a regular school day.

What an appalling state of an affairs.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 11:21 am
by Spoonman
"Thoughts & prayers..." :roll:

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 11:56 am
by Boiler
Samanfur wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 10:43 am Predictably, this didn't take long:

Uvalde, TX elementary school shooting: conspiracy trolls say it's a "psy-op"
... and Alex Jones is about to pay a very high price - literally - for saying what he did about Sandy Hook.

Re: Over in America...

Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 2:10 pm
by RedSparrows
Spoonman wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 11:21 am "Thoughts & prayers..." :roll:
Fucking virtue signalling, ey readers?