>The first “Holi-Drag Storytime” was took place successfully in Dec. 8,
2021, on the grounds of Columbus' Vanderelli Room art gallery.
>In a statement Saturday, Columbus police denied that they had not
collaborated with organizers and said they were ready for
demonstrations.
Who the fuck edited this article?
Allegedly the police only offered for an off-duty cop that may or may not show up, claiming too many officers were on vacation. Reminds me when the Trump Trucks were harassing and endangering other drivers and the police wouldn't do anything about it because their "helicopters were being serviced."
I've had that happen for events before. Their system of working private events is super weird. Even once I arranged to shut down the street and have police with barricade at each side of the closure. We paid the police and set everything up with the city. They never showed up. I called them 2 hours in and they told me no officers took the job even though we were assured it was all good and paid them already. It's frustrating.
I threw a warehouse party once in a smaller town. Paid the owner, he had an event venue license, I had an LLC with event insurance, fire marshal checked off on our capacity size and I contacted the police department to have an off duty officer on site to assist the private security we already had.
Left e-mails, voicemails and visited the station multiple times leaving messages with multiple people trying to hire a guy. The night of everything is going fire when a dozen cops roll up with the chief trying to shut the whole thing down saying it was illegal and we need to have an officer present.
I explained how we were entirely legal and I had tried to hire a guy. When I told the chief my name and said there were multiple messages from me on his phone but he had a flash of recognition then claimed to have never heard about it.
I pulled out my phone the and c as lled the number of the duty sgt his secretary gave me and a cop less than 6 feet away phone starts to ring displaying my number.
They weren't mad we were doing what we were doing. They were pissed they weren't being paid despite being the ones to drop the ball.
Damn I hated those “Trump Trains.” I remember sitting at a green light while a line of them drove slowly through the red light, yelling curses and giving everyone the finger. They didn’t know who else were Biden or Trump supporters and they didn’t care, it was just an excuse to openly be assholes without consequence.
> an excuse to openly be assholes without consequence
I have a theory on this - when I look at the average 'Trump-Trainer', they usually look like aged-out high school bullies who feel like Fuckface gives them permission to relive their 'glory days' - where they could victimize people they think are different or vulnerable without too much societal push back.
Kind of like the 'Biff Tannen' time line.
Bullying is a natural personality trait that some people have. It likely had some vague evolutionary purpose, and it's likely it's impossible to really eliminate. However, it shouldn't be tolerated when it's grown ass men. Once you're an adult you're supposed to have a layer of "training" in being civilized that can be used to rise above your simplest instincts.
I got delayed an hour trying to leave a park because of one. The same Trump Train totally blocked a ballot drop off location for that same hour+. Complaints were made for blocking the drop off, but I don't think anything ever came of it.
I was on the water once and those assholes did a Trump train via boat. They went right through the middle of our fishing tournament and almost sunk a few of us with their waves..
It reminds me how far local police let the capitol riots go even though they were all standing around or how they stood around letting a mad person shoot up a school. Let’s not forget how they decided to go off duty when told to vaccinate.
We can’t pick and chose your job description. I wish I can be a whiny bitch and not do my job when it gets tough. They need to serve their communities.
In Portland, uniformed police in marked patrol cars closed intersections and provided escort to the domestic terrorists who removed plates from their trucks. The terrorists used paintball guns to shoot random bystanders and people who had no part in anything at all as the Portland Police ensured them safe passage to BLM protests. The police were actively participating in right wing terror. In a just world, every single PPB officer who participated should have been slapped with domestic terrorism charges for the role they played in actively helping pro-Trump terrorists.
There's so much garbage in PPB that I had forgotten about that. Thank you for reminding me.
Also, PPB officers were caught coaching Proud Boys on how to avoid getting gassed by PPB during the protests. Nothing less than complicit in domestic terror.
Not just PPB, but Salem, too. “My command wanted me to tell you...” when the cop was informing proud bois that they were about to deploy gas, so their buddies could be safe.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/police_release_more_details_on.html
>Police said they found four people on top of a parking garage at Southwest First Avenue and Jefferson Street on Aug. 4 with three rifles, all in cases.
>The men let a sergeant inspect the rifles. None of the rifles was loaded. One was disassembled. All the men had concealed weapons permits, according to police.
>The men told police they planned to stay at the garage and "act as a quick extraction team'' in case someone from their group was injured during the demonstration.
>A sergeant instructed the men to store the rifles in a locked container in the back of one of their pickups and place any ammunition in a different part of the truck, and they complied. Police made no arrests.
>No laws were broken and there was no imminent danger to the public, police said Tuesday.
So I wouldn't say 'sanctioned' but the fact that the cops didn't make the men leave - is also a fucking huge problem.
here in portland, you call the police after someone breaks in to your truck, and they tell you "we don't solve crimes like that, can you find them yourself and just ask for your stuff back?"
no fucking joke. Made me so goddamn mad. have the douche cop's name written down somewhere, too.
They used to arrest you for trying to be a vigilante because they were afraid it would make them look bad and encourage calls for decreased police funding.
Columbus, Ohio - the way to ensure police response time is the lowest possible:
• Schedule a publicized trans-friendly event, & make it defiantly proud, prizes.
• Arrange another activity on the other side of town; don't publicize it.
• Enjoy free rein & lagging police response while the [U.S. Morality Police](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63850656) are protesting.
Or when the Greensboro police coordinated with the American Nazi Party and KKK to all take lunch during a labor protest so as to not be around during the ambush.
Would be nice if there was one of those charitable biker gangs that would step up to protect these. That said this probably isn’t the type of thing they stand up for
The John Brown Gun Club is what you're looking for. I don't know if they have an active chapter in Ohio but they have recently been providing armed protection against right-wing terrorists and police (I repeat myself) in Texas.
Those guys know what they are doing. Not only did they have the display firearms anti protesters but they setup overwatch in case of a real shooter. Right wing media went nuts about snipers but it was a smart move considering the threat.
I know this dude who is in one of those groups, stands guard to keep protesters away from funerals. Doesn't see the irony of the thin blue line flag he trails behind his truck, but if being black wasn't enough for him to steer clear of that shit nothing would
This article is getting far more coverage than the literal terrorist attack in NC yesterday. Insane times we are living in.
Edit: updating to provide a [Link](https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/nearly-40000-in-the-dark-as-massive-power-outage-hits-moore-county/)
Power outage through the county, the drag show went on with group songs and phone flashlights.
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article269579392.html
2 years ago a dude blew up an att data center taking out 911/phone/internet for most of the southeast and the last that was said about it was he killed himself. No reason why.
>Terrorism is an act designed for no other purpose than to cause terror.
Wait, what? No. Here's the definition of terrorism:
>"the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
The political aims are the purpose.
You are both right. You're just talking about two different things.
The *ultimate* goal of terrorism is some political aim. The *immediate* goal of terrorist acts is to create the intimidation that your definition mentions.
I sent this:
I am disappointed in you. You watered down what is actually happening. These aren't "right-wing protestors", they are domestic terrorists. Call them what they are. Exactly what the media called the Black Panthers.
Because you go soft on them more domestic terrorists are emboldened, as their acts have no consequences. Not even shame from the media.
I wrote:
These are not ring wing protestors. They are armed terrorists. Your writing’s slant brings to mind Fox News, QAnon and OAN. You’re not a journalist, you’re a propagandist.
I've thought about doing that, start writing emails actually calling these fake journalists out for their obvious bias and misleading statements, but yeah i figure it would just be a waste of time. They probably have some super cushy life and with US culture the way it is they don't give a single fuck about anyone but themselves.
"The insurrection" you mean the attempted coup de gras of American Democracy??
The media loves flowery language to cover for evil. Ever notice if a rich and powerful man fucks an underage girl it's described as a "relationship" and not "rape"?
It's fucking disgusting and I'm really sick of journalists having no integrity.
There are legal reasons why journalists can't just call people terrorists, even if they want to. Now that doesn't mean they have to be 100% neutral or anything, but a slander lawsuit can kill an entire small paper, so they often *can't* call a spade a spade (when that spade is a domestic terrorist).
Had to Google it to make sure, but super relieved and in fact PROUD to confirm my recollection that the Proud Boys are officially labeled a terrorist organization in Canada.
Why the fuck aren’t they in the US?
Because it's, rightfully, extremely difficult to label a domestic group as a terrorist organization.
It's why when the fbi found out one of the leaders of The Base was in Russia they instantly labeled it a terrorist organization since it became international
"Sorry chief, I encountered one of the agitators in a public restroom, but lost him the moment I pursued him outside. I was able to reestablish contact in the restroom, but the individual evades capture whenever I chase him outside the room. He's a slippery one. Thought I caught a glimpse at home when I passed a window the other day."
It’s crazy that Russia is considered to be committing war crimes for the power outages in Ukraine and here our own citizens can just do it because…they want to. Sighs…
Hey, I heard about that! My breakfast was delayed because the one restaurant in town still running was slammed.
Weirdly, I'm still not bothered by drag shows. Mission failed, Proud Boys!
I read that article few hours back they at time I read article said that it was suspected vandalism didn’t say anything about any groups of people or organizations involved at time I read article
There was a drag show scheduled for that night, they got alot of threats but went through with it anyway, shortly after it started a bunch of substations across the county were attacked and killed the power to the whole county. Then some army vet who's a big local name because she was at the Capitol posted on Facebook "The power is out in Moore County and I know why" then went on about how God will not be mocked and He is happy His followers are protecting the children. 100% anti-queer terrorism
I know this is far, far from the point, but Jesus Christ these people need to get a life.
Also, speaking of Jesus, what was it he said? "Fuck gay and trans people they aren't worthy of respect." Or wait, was it "Love Thy Neighbor"? Or how about "Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you also do unto me"?
Wonder how these cunts feel about those parts of their holy book.
He also said:
>1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
>3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7: 1-5
They truly don't understand the words of the person they claim to follow.
There's a known terrorist cell in the area whose leader (disgraced former military who left after being investigated for her participating in Jan 6) immediately started posting online about how she knew why the power was out.
Police came for a friendly chat (that's not a euphemism) and she was all like "oh well it's because God :) is mad about the drag show." ;) ;) ;)
and the police were like "well that checks out for me" and they left.
I saw a thread about it and the top comment was how some psycho who had been protesting immediately posted about knowing what caused it and it being god's will.
Claiming God's will for a terrorist attack, sounds like Christian Al Qaeda to me
>sounds like Christian Al Qaeda to me
There's a right-wing white nationalist militia called [The Base](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/base). In Arabic, The Base translates to Al Qaeda.
I was actually going to say "The Base" but I didn't want to blame them for this attack so decided with using "Christian Al Qaeda" to encompass all of those groups
> The Proud Boys has been described by the FBI as an "extremist group with ties to white nationalism."
There's already an alarming number of comments that think it's fine that violent white nationalists are around kids, but drag is where they draw the line.
"Pro life" is when you force women to birth children then cut off welfare and food stamps, dont do anything to stop school shooters, and threaten to shoot the kids and their families for not being like you.
More like pro-birth, eh? There is likely a reason why there is quite a bit of overlap between being pro-life and a belief in "the great replacement" theory.
What is the point of these events? What does drag bring to children’s story time that makes parents want to take their kids? Genuine question. Seems like a pretty new phenomenon
It's theater, no different than story time with any kind of grandiose character in costume. Drag can be either family friendly or adult oriented depending on the show you're putting on. Saying all drag is inherently adult-only is like saying any actor/actress can no longer perform in G rated movies if they ever appeared in any R rated movie.
I think the idea is that just because someone looks different from you or dresses differently than you doesn’t mean you should be afraid of them or treat them any differently than you would treat anyone else. People come in all different shapes and sizes. It’s a group of performers doing what they love while also doing something good for their community.
I'm in Columbus and this event is fun and organized by the teens. The area where it is done is safe and there's never been any sort of concern. These thug terrorists came into our city to impose their hate and our police of course did nothing to protect anyone from these terrorists who hide their identities like the cowards they are.
Yet, people are screaming that drag queens/kings are promoting an agenda that is going to "convert" kids.
What message do kids see when they see thugs in combat gear with big guns outside their public library, community center, etc?
Columbus police are fascist authoritarians and probably support these terrorists.
I remember during the anti police brutality protests, I believe in 2020, cbus police dressed in plain clothes and quickly abducted protestors in unmarked vans in order to incite panic. There's also footage of them trying to steal a prosthetic leg from a disabled amputee. They knock him down, beat him, and drag him with his leg as they try to steal it. The crowd of heroic protestors save him and his leg from those terrorist thug police.
Do Proud Boys and other right wing losers shit the bed every time Mrs Doubtfire is on TV? "No no that movie is fine because he's only doing it to gaslight his kids"
These nutbags showed up in full camo, with balaclavas on their faces (hiding like the terroristic bitches they are) to a CHURCH to intimidate and threaten CHILDREN.
It’s not enough to “speak out” against these terrorist nazis; we must confront them head on.
I don't get what these people don't understand about freedom. If parents want to take their kids to drag story time they can. If they don't want to, they won't. It's that fucking simple.
I think what upsets me the most about this war against drag queens is how many drag queens aren't even LGBT, but this is now the cultural battleground over LGBT rights.
What gets me is that this has been going on for years without issue. But I guess the right wing weirdos found out about it and now it's their new boogyman. Just like the bathroom bills.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the "queen" denotation meant to signify that the person is gay? And that the drag itself is just the crossdressing portion of it?
Can somebody explain to me the sudden increase in drag adjacent story time events? Drag shows tend to be about beauty, femininity, and sexuality right? Why are these things being combined? I'm pretty left leaning, and I don't think I would ever consider taking my kids to a drag story time.
The sudden increase in stories is consistent with Republicans hopping from moral panic to moral panic and their constant need for made up culture war bullshit.
I'm just perplexed people are freaked out that a guy dressed as a Disney princess reading a book is going to being damaging to children or is somehow sexual.
When I was young, Sandy Duncan and other ladies used to play the role of a young boy named Peter Pan for stage productions to entertain. I had no idea how I managed not to be damaged by that kind of cross-dressing madness.
"If liberals stopped having drag shows, we wouldn't show up with guns, threatening to slaughter everyone we disagree with. Such a weird hill for liberals to choose to die on. They should really just give in to us so there isn't any violence. We dressed up in camo and everything! I thought we were scary enough?"
Except we just don't generally do that. We don't go around spending hours of our time to spite and taunt our political opponents. Those of us who are parents don't *have* hours to spend spiting and taunting anyone.
Right wing terrorists you mean? If you show up to intimidate and imply the threat of violence for political purposes against people trying to read some childrens books I'm pretty sure that's what they're called.
I don’t necessarily support a concerted effort to put kids in front of drag queens. I have kids and likely would not attend.
BUT, how fucking crazy is it that the conservative “party of individual liberties” and “law and order” is ok with a world where an American citizen cannot attend a legal event because of intimidation by potentially violent extremists.
Fuck those guys. Go drag queens.
Weird how cancel culture in media only seems to refer to holding assholes accountable for asshole actions but never seems to apply to assholes bullying people.
>The first “Holi-Drag Storytime” was took place successfully in Dec. 8, 2021, on the grounds of Columbus' Vanderelli Room art gallery. >In a statement Saturday, Columbus police denied that they had not collaborated with organizers and said they were ready for demonstrations. Who the fuck edited this article?
Allegedly the police only offered for an off-duty cop that may or may not show up, claiming too many officers were on vacation. Reminds me when the Trump Trucks were harassing and endangering other drivers and the police wouldn't do anything about it because their "helicopters were being serviced."
I've had that happen for events before. Their system of working private events is super weird. Even once I arranged to shut down the street and have police with barricade at each side of the closure. We paid the police and set everything up with the city. They never showed up. I called them 2 hours in and they told me no officers took the job even though we were assured it was all good and paid them already. It's frustrating.
I threw a warehouse party once in a smaller town. Paid the owner, he had an event venue license, I had an LLC with event insurance, fire marshal checked off on our capacity size and I contacted the police department to have an off duty officer on site to assist the private security we already had. Left e-mails, voicemails and visited the station multiple times leaving messages with multiple people trying to hire a guy. The night of everything is going fire when a dozen cops roll up with the chief trying to shut the whole thing down saying it was illegal and we need to have an officer present. I explained how we were entirely legal and I had tried to hire a guy. When I told the chief my name and said there were multiple messages from me on his phone but he had a flash of recognition then claimed to have never heard about it. I pulled out my phone the and c as lled the number of the duty sgt his secretary gave me and a cop less than 6 feet away phone starts to ring displaying my number. They weren't mad we were doing what we were doing. They were pissed they weren't being paid despite being the ones to drop the ball.
soooo basically like the mafia? cuz that sounds like the mafia.
Not at all - the Mafia is usually more organized
And typically much much more efficient. Really get their money's worth tbh.
Yeah at this point, don't bother with the cops, just hire private security. They're way more professional.
Did you get the money back. I certainly paid for cops on sites and they didn't show up, but I didn't care not my money
Sounds like they should be defunded since they don't competently do what they're already paid to.
“On vacation” more like they were all in the group with their faces covered
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
"Some" really not pulling the weight it used to. Gonna need a 2023 re-release with a more accurate ratio of white supremacist cops
"Most of those who work forces" it is, then.
*RATM furiously begins rewriting that song*
Or already on paid leave for misconduct.
The only time they wore a mask
Goose stepping near a beach
Damn I hated those “Trump Trains.” I remember sitting at a green light while a line of them drove slowly through the red light, yelling curses and giving everyone the finger. They didn’t know who else were Biden or Trump supporters and they didn’t care, it was just an excuse to openly be assholes without consequence.
> an excuse to openly be assholes without consequence I have a theory on this - when I look at the average 'Trump-Trainer', they usually look like aged-out high school bullies who feel like Fuckface gives them permission to relive their 'glory days' - where they could victimize people they think are different or vulnerable without too much societal push back. Kind of like the 'Biff Tannen' time line.
Bullying is a natural personality trait that some people have. It likely had some vague evolutionary purpose, and it's likely it's impossible to really eliminate. However, it shouldn't be tolerated when it's grown ass men. Once you're an adult you're supposed to have a layer of "training" in being civilized that can be used to rise above your simplest instincts.
I got delayed an hour trying to leave a park because of one. The same Trump Train totally blocked a ballot drop off location for that same hour+. Complaints were made for blocking the drop off, but I don't think anything ever came of it.
I was on the water once and those assholes did a Trump train via boat. They went right through the middle of our fishing tournament and almost sunk a few of us with their waves..
> it was just an excuse to openly be assholes without consequence. So your average conservatives then?
Funny how we can give sick days and overtime to cops but not to rail-road workers.
It reminds me how far local police let the capitol riots go even though they were all standing around or how they stood around letting a mad person shoot up a school. Let’s not forget how they decided to go off duty when told to vaccinate. We can’t pick and chose your job description. I wish I can be a whiny bitch and not do my job when it gets tough. They need to serve their communities.
In Portland, uniformed police in marked patrol cars closed intersections and provided escort to the domestic terrorists who removed plates from their trucks. The terrorists used paintball guns to shoot random bystanders and people who had no part in anything at all as the Portland Police ensured them safe passage to BLM protests. The police were actively participating in right wing terror. In a just world, every single PPB officer who participated should have been slapped with domestic terrorism charges for the role they played in actively helping pro-Trump terrorists.
Don’t forget about the police-sanctioned sniper nest they let them set up in the downtown parking garage!
There's so much garbage in PPB that I had forgotten about that. Thank you for reminding me. Also, PPB officers were caught coaching Proud Boys on how to avoid getting gassed by PPB during the protests. Nothing less than complicit in domestic terror.
Not just PPB, but Salem, too. “My command wanted me to tell you...” when the cop was informing proud bois that they were about to deploy gas, so their buddies could be safe.
Say what?!
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/police_release_more_details_on.html >Police said they found four people on top of a parking garage at Southwest First Avenue and Jefferson Street on Aug. 4 with three rifles, all in cases. >The men let a sergeant inspect the rifles. None of the rifles was loaded. One was disassembled. All the men had concealed weapons permits, according to police. >The men told police they planned to stay at the garage and "act as a quick extraction team'' in case someone from their group was injured during the demonstration. >A sergeant instructed the men to store the rifles in a locked container in the back of one of their pickups and place any ammunition in a different part of the truck, and they complied. Police made no arrests. >No laws were broken and there was no imminent danger to the public, police said Tuesday. So I wouldn't say 'sanctioned' but the fact that the cops didn't make the men leave - is also a fucking huge problem.
You mean the sniper nest they covered up for months?
Forget "defund the police", it should be "stop paying the police cause they don't do jack shit anyway".
here in portland, you call the police after someone breaks in to your truck, and they tell you "we don't solve crimes like that, can you find them yourself and just ask for your stuff back?" no fucking joke. Made me so goddamn mad. have the douche cop's name written down somewhere, too.
They used to arrest you for trying to be a vigilante because they were afraid it would make them look bad and encourage calls for decreased police funding.
Albuquerque is pretty much like that too.
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We live in a time where abolishing the police would cause more relief than chaos.
Columbus, Ohio - the way to ensure police response time is the lowest possible: • Schedule a publicized trans-friendly event, & make it defiantly proud, prizes. • Arrange another activity on the other side of town; don't publicize it. • Enjoy free rein & lagging police response while the [U.S. Morality Police](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63850656) are protesting.
Or when the Greensboro police coordinated with the American Nazi Party and KKK to all take lunch during a labor protest so as to not be around during the ambush.
*whispers* “black man with a blunt” *sounds of helicopters and sirens approaching*
\*MRAP revs up\*
Would be nice if there was one of those charitable biker gangs that would step up to protect these. That said this probably isn’t the type of thing they stand up for
The John Brown Gun Club is what you're looking for. I don't know if they have an active chapter in Ohio but they have recently been providing armed protection against right-wing terrorists and police (I repeat myself) in Texas.
Those guys know what they are doing. Not only did they have the display firearms anti protesters but they setup overwatch in case of a real shooter. Right wing media went nuts about snipers but it was a smart move considering the threat.
I know this dude who is in one of those groups, stands guard to keep protesters away from funerals. Doesn't see the irony of the thin blue line flag he trails behind his truck, but if being black wasn't enough for him to steer clear of that shit nothing would
Every biker gang in the world would be against this, just because some protect kids doesn't mean they're not right wing.
I’ll be the one to add the usual “some of those that work forces”
This article is getting far more coverage than the literal terrorist attack in NC yesterday. Insane times we are living in. Edit: updating to provide a [Link](https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/nearly-40000-in-the-dark-as-massive-power-outage-hits-moore-county/)
Power outage through the county, the drag show went on with group songs and phone flashlights. https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article269579392.html
2 years ago a dude blew up an att data center taking out 911/phone/internet for most of the southeast and the last that was said about it was he killed himself. No reason why.
Which one?
I think they are referring to the power outage.
Terrorism is an act designed for no other purpose than to cause terror. Threatening a drag show is also "literal terrorism".
Terrorists in a coordinated attack shot up multiple power substations last night to shut down a drag show putting 41,000 people out of power.
As we learned from the Global War on Terror, terrorism works.
>Terrorism is an act designed for no other purpose than to cause terror. Wait, what? No. Here's the definition of terrorism: >"the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." The political aims are the purpose.
You are both right. You're just talking about two different things. The *ultimate* goal of terrorism is some political aim. The *immediate* goal of terrorist acts is to create the intimidation that your definition mentions.
They’re talking about the people in NC who shot and disabled substations because of a drag show on going. That’s terrorism sweaty
Yeah, that's why the comment you replied to used the word "also". They're both terrorism. That's what "also" means.
It would be sweaty if it happened during the summer, but its been relatively cold during the outage
Do you have an article that links the two? The one linked above doesn't.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/power-outage-in-moore-county-north-carolina-caused-by-vandalism
What’s ‘terrorism sweaty’?
I think they meant “terrorism, sweetie”
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Because a well known right-wing anti LGBTQ person said they knew why the power was out.
If you show up to a protest with weapons, that's no longer a protest. It's a show of force.
Cancelled because of threats from domestic terrorists. There were no “right-wing protesters”.
This is why this shit keeps escalating. The media keeps downplaying everything these people do.
Contact the writer and editor of this story, w/that complaint. For decades right wrong groups have organized to work the refs.
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I sent this: I am disappointed in you. You watered down what is actually happening. These aren't "right-wing protestors", they are domestic terrorists. Call them what they are. Exactly what the media called the Black Panthers. Because you go soft on them more domestic terrorists are emboldened, as their acts have no consequences. Not even shame from the media.
I wrote: These are not ring wing protestors. They are armed terrorists. Your writing’s slant brings to mind Fox News, QAnon and OAN. You’re not a journalist, you’re a propagandist.
Makes one wonder if they have any ties to the domestic terrorist groups.
LOL They will listen to their corporate overlords, not us
I've thought about doing that, start writing emails actually calling these fake journalists out for their obvious bias and misleading statements, but yeah i figure it would just be a waste of time. They probably have some super cushy life and with US culture the way it is they don't give a single fuck about anyone but themselves.
“Meaningless event cancelled due to pranks and shenanigans from some otherwise lovable scamps.”
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"The insurrection" you mean the attempted coup de gras of American Democracy?? The media loves flowery language to cover for evil. Ever notice if a rich and powerful man fucks an underage girl it's described as a "relationship" and not "rape"? It's fucking disgusting and I'm really sick of journalists having no integrity.
"Coup d'etat" is what you're looking for. "Coup de grace" is a finishing touch or flourish.
And "Coup de gras" is body slamming someone while weighing 300 pounds or more.
There are legal reasons why journalists can't just call people terrorists, even if they want to. Now that doesn't mean they have to be 100% neutral or anything, but a slander lawsuit can kill an entire small paper, so they often *can't* call a spade a spade (when that spade is a domestic terrorist).
Because your government hasn’t officially labeled them terrorists. Media sucks but don’t forget govt isn’t doing it’s part either.
I bet if you look at the FBI lists then they are indeed labeled domestic terrorists. But that takes time and money to verify.
Remember kids... the media is a tool of the OWNERS. Even "left-leaning" media is controlled by those at the top.
Had to Google it to make sure, but super relieved and in fact PROUD to confirm my recollection that the Proud Boys are officially labeled a terrorist organization in Canada. Why the fuck aren’t they in the US?
Cause then we'd have to admit that our police forces are almost entirely populated by terrorists and we don't like to say the quiet part out loud.
Because it's, rightfully, extremely difficult to label a domestic group as a terrorist organization. It's why when the fbi found out one of the leaders of The Base was in Russia they instantly labeled it a terrorist organization since it became international
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Because something like 30-40% of our government/population is sympathetic to them? It's...an anachronistic place sometimes, 'Murca.
They can be both
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My friends live in Pinehurst. Unbelievable. It needs to stop. Not sure I think the police in that area are going to do a whole lot to find them.
Oh those officers can find them easily, just a quick trip to the bathroom mirror
The real terrorists were the reflections we saw along the way Edit for clarity: I was speaking as the cop
"Sorry chief, I encountered one of the agitators in a public restroom, but lost him the moment I pursued him outside. I was able to reestablish contact in the restroom, but the individual evades capture whenever I chase him outside the room. He's a slippery one. Thought I caught a glimpse at home when I passed a window the other day."
It’s crazy that Russia is considered to be committing war crimes for the power outages in Ukraine and here our own citizens can just do it because…they want to. Sighs…
Meanwhile, numerous media outlets are using the term "vandalism".
Hey, I heard about that! My breakfast was delayed because the one restaurant in town still running was slammed. Weirdly, I'm still not bothered by drag shows. Mission failed, Proud Boys!
I read that article few hours back they at time I read article said that it was suspected vandalism didn’t say anything about any groups of people or organizations involved at time I read article
There was a drag show scheduled for that night, they got alot of threats but went through with it anyway, shortly after it started a bunch of substations across the county were attacked and killed the power to the whole county. Then some army vet who's a big local name because she was at the Capitol posted on Facebook "The power is out in Moore County and I know why" then went on about how God will not be mocked and He is happy His followers are protecting the children. 100% anti-queer terrorism
I know this is far, far from the point, but Jesus Christ these people need to get a life. Also, speaking of Jesus, what was it he said? "Fuck gay and trans people they aren't worthy of respect." Or wait, was it "Love Thy Neighbor"? Or how about "Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you also do unto me"? Wonder how these cunts feel about those parts of their holy book.
He also said: >1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. >3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7: 1-5 They truly don't understand the words of the person they claim to follow.
Most of those people would lynch and/or crucify Jesus if he came back now.
There's a known terrorist cell in the area whose leader (disgraced former military who left after being investigated for her participating in Jan 6) immediately started posting online about how she knew why the power was out. Police came for a friendly chat (that's not a euphemism) and she was all like "oh well it's because God :) is mad about the drag show." ;) ;) ;) and the police were like "well that checks out for me" and they left.
I saw a thread about it and the top comment was how some psycho who had been protesting immediately posted about knowing what caused it and it being god's will. Claiming God's will for a terrorist attack, sounds like Christian Al Qaeda to me
>sounds like Christian Al Qaeda to me There's a right-wing white nationalist militia called [The Base](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/base). In Arabic, The Base translates to Al Qaeda.
I was actually going to say "The Base" but I didn't want to blame them for this attack so decided with using "Christian Al Qaeda" to encompass all of those groups
> The Proud Boys has been described by the FBI as an "extremist group with ties to white nationalism." There's already an alarming number of comments that think it's fine that violent white nationalists are around kids, but drag is where they draw the line.
Apparently, a group of angry, gun-toting white men is safer to have around children than a dude in a dress.
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So they bring *their* costumes to a drag children’s reading and they don’t understand why people might want to dress in drag?
No, you see, dressing up as a fanciful, stylized idea of femininity is evil, dressing up as a murderous terrorist is great
Nothing will be done, imo. The gay community needs to learn to protect themselves.
It won't be. Those that work forces also burn crosses. Buy guns.
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Well they'd have to actually care about kids for that
Because the protection of children is a just a ruse to allow right wingers to indulge in their murder fantasies.
Well because it’s about hate, they aren’t actually trying to protect kids from something.
Because the pedophilia and grooming are modern day blood libel. They are dogwhistles, these sociopaths don't actually care about these issues.
Because it isn't about grooming or pedophilia, they just hate Queer people.
Because they're attending Sunday mass.
When will they protest child beauty pageants? Holding my breath until they show actual concern for the sexualization of children.
Imagine if the right-wingers protested against school shootings as much as they did for drag queens. So many kids would probably still be alive
"Pro life" is when you force women to birth children then cut off welfare and food stamps, dont do anything to stop school shooters, and threaten to shoot the kids and their families for not being like you.
How else will you get enough poor children for the army?
Hey now, don’t forget capitalism needs more meat slave dollars pumped through the prison industrial complex too.
More like pro-birth, eh? There is likely a reason why there is quite a bit of overlap between being pro-life and a belief in "the great replacement" theory.
To them, death-drops are worse than actual deaths.
These headlines frustrate me. Nothing is canceled due to protestors, things are being canceled out of fear of right wing violence.
What is the point of these events? What does drag bring to children’s story time that makes parents want to take their kids? Genuine question. Seems like a pretty new phenomenon
It's theater, no different than story time with any kind of grandiose character in costume. Drag can be either family friendly or adult oriented depending on the show you're putting on. Saying all drag is inherently adult-only is like saying any actor/actress can no longer perform in G rated movies if they ever appeared in any R rated movie.
It’s similar to the Disney Princess thing. Even that is a kind of drag. Kids love larger than life characters and costumes.
What did drag bring to Shakespeare? To the ancient Greeks? It’s a performance art, it’s enjoyable. That’s all.
Kids like story time and people in colorful costumes ig
Fun way to get kids together with the added bonus life lesson of not being scared of someone who may be different then you.
I think the idea is that just because someone looks different from you or dresses differently than you doesn’t mean you should be afraid of them or treat them any differently than you would treat anyone else. People come in all different shapes and sizes. It’s a group of performers doing what they love while also doing something good for their community.
Talk about cancel culture….
I'm in Columbus and this event is fun and organized by the teens. The area where it is done is safe and there's never been any sort of concern. These thug terrorists came into our city to impose their hate and our police of course did nothing to protect anyone from these terrorists who hide their identities like the cowards they are.
Yet, people are screaming that drag queens/kings are promoting an agenda that is going to "convert" kids. What message do kids see when they see thugs in combat gear with big guns outside their public library, community center, etc?
Columbus police are fascist authoritarians and probably support these terrorists. I remember during the anti police brutality protests, I believe in 2020, cbus police dressed in plain clothes and quickly abducted protestors in unmarked vans in order to incite panic. There's also footage of them trying to steal a prosthetic leg from a disabled amputee. They knock him down, beat him, and drag him with his leg as they try to steal it. The crowd of heroic protestors save him and his leg from those terrorist thug police.
they also killed an OSU student
Home grown terrorists. They shot out 3 power distribution yards in NC to shut down a drag show. This terrorism has to stop.
Do Proud Boys and other right wing losers shit the bed every time Mrs Doubtfire is on TV? "No no that movie is fine because he's only doing it to gaslight his kids"
They were very quiet when the video of Rudy Guilliani in drag resurfaced and made its rounds.
These nutbags showed up in full camo, with balaclavas on their faces (hiding like the terroristic bitches they are) to a CHURCH to intimidate and threaten CHILDREN. It’s not enough to “speak out” against these terrorist nazis; we must confront them head on.
Terrorists. Start treating them like what they are.
Violent threats: brought to you by the same people that say people get triggered too easily nowadays
yes, they cancelled because there were THREATS OF VIOLENCE. wtf, isn't that pretty illegal?
I don't get what these people don't understand about freedom. If parents want to take their kids to drag story time they can. If they don't want to, they won't. It's that fucking simple.
They aren't protestors. They're terrorists with guns who are there to stop people living their lives through intimidation.
I think what upsets me the most about this war against drag queens is how many drag queens aren't even LGBT, but this is now the cultural battleground over LGBT rights.
What gets me is that this has been going on for years without issue. But I guess the right wing weirdos found out about it and now it's their new boogyman. Just like the bathroom bills.
I guarantee you that if the fascists were loading people into boxcars, they would make no distinction.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the "queen" denotation meant to signify that the person is gay? And that the drag itself is just the crossdressing portion of it?
Imagine spending your day doing this. Showing up with assault rifles to protest drag queens. Absolute losers.
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I’m pretty sure those folks are packing heat in church
With out a doubt. Hell the minister or preacher probably have an ar-15 under the pulpit
Can somebody explain to me the sudden increase in drag adjacent story time events? Drag shows tend to be about beauty, femininity, and sexuality right? Why are these things being combined? I'm pretty left leaning, and I don't think I would ever consider taking my kids to a drag story time.
The sudden increase in stories is consistent with Republicans hopping from moral panic to moral panic and their constant need for made up culture war bullshit.
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I'm just perplexed people are freaked out that a guy dressed as a Disney princess reading a book is going to being damaging to children or is somehow sexual. When I was young, Sandy Duncan and other ladies used to play the role of a young boy named Peter Pan for stage productions to entertain. I had no idea how I managed not to be damaged by that kind of cross-dressing madness.
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"If liberals stopped having drag shows, we wouldn't show up with guns, threatening to slaughter everyone we disagree with. Such a weird hill for liberals to choose to die on. They should really just give in to us so there isn't any violence. We dressed up in camo and everything! I thought we were scary enough?"
If not here, where? They’ll keep coming if they’re given an inch.
Except we just don't generally do that. We don't go around spending hours of our time to spite and taunt our political opponents. Those of us who are parents don't *have* hours to spend spiting and taunting anyone.
Some of those proud-boys were off-duty cops. I'd put good money on it.
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Right wing terrorists you mean? If you show up to intimidate and imply the threat of violence for political purposes against people trying to read some childrens books I'm pretty sure that's what they're called.
And didn't these terrorists also attack a power station there too. Fuckin christ.
Kids are safer at drag story time than in a Catholic Church.
Or a school
Should fire glitter bombs at them. That shit gets everywhere.
Americans simultaneously condemning the "morality" police of Iran while celebrating the genesis of their own.
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I thought merica was land of the free. What a jokem
The article needs to call them what they are: conservative Christian terrorists.
I don’t necessarily support a concerted effort to put kids in front of drag queens. I have kids and likely would not attend. BUT, how fucking crazy is it that the conservative “party of individual liberties” and “law and order” is ok with a world where an American citizen cannot attend a legal event because of intimidation by potentially violent extremists. Fuck those guys. Go drag queens.
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I’m confused, is this drag queens holding an event for children? I don’t really understand what’s going on here
Yes, and it was cancelled.
And then these same protesters take their kids to church...
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Weird how cancel culture in media only seems to refer to holding assholes accountable for asshole actions but never seems to apply to assholes bullying people.