flexghost.

West Virginia is introducing a bill to make being transgender near a child a crime

Defined as “any transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances or display to any minor.”

So trying to erase our #transgender citizens from public life because…🤷🏻‍♀️

Currently, West Virginia ranks:
• poorest state in the country
• last overall in education
• last for educational attainability
> Ohio County, West Virginia ranks as one of the highest for Christian service attendance at 63.1.% of county pop

Feb 3, 2023 at 12:50amWeb
Show threadArmy GirlFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost Ohio County population 41K, down from 60k in 1970. So that problem is taking care of itself. I was born in WV and lived there for 15 years after I retired from the military. West Virginians are good people who have been exploited since the early 1920s by big coal and bought politicians. This is culture war crapola.
Show threadflexghost.Feb 3, 2023
@ArmyGirl you are a good person, one of my friends from WV is a good person, but I will not say anyone from anywhere are all good people. I will say I’ve always seen a correlation between hate and religious attendance.
Show threadArmy GirlFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost sadly, I have to agree. I have a dear friend turned MAGA who was radicalized by her church in Georgia.
Show threadyouknowthatonepersonwithafaceFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost I may be in the minority here as a native Appalachian, but this ultimately sounds like the liberals are at fault. They spent a century (aside from that time Kennedy swung through) ignoring a region as irredeemable, and get surprised that these far right dipshits are able to spread their bigotry with communities to distract from their own tomfuckery when all they have to say is the "leftists" ignore them?
Show threadflexghost.Feb 3, 2023

@Thatonepersonwithaface that feeling when liberals are at fault for what conservatives do

This is absolutely about Kennedy. A+. Democrats are not, and have not been, leftists.

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Show threadyouknowthatonepersonwithafaceFeb 3, 2023

@flexghost I ain't saying liberals are at fault for what conservatives do nowadays, I'm saying they're reaping what they sowed. Since 2016 I've been late maybe a dozen times for work because Trump or Pence were in the area, blocking up traffic, meanwhile the only federal Democrat candidate I've seen in the area was Marianne Williamson (felt bad for her, everyone wanted to talk about her books instead of her policy and she was clearly exasperated by it).

My point was Appalachia has been neglected and exploited, and republicans have made a run lately showing up, saying that they "care," and folks vote for these assholes because even if they don't agree with them, they're still the only circus that shows up to town.

Show threadprunellaFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost so they obviously have their priorities in order. #facepalm
Show threadJohn CarlsenFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost what do you suppose are the rates of sexual abuse of children by transgender/crossdressers vs clergy?
Show threadflexghost.Feb 3, 2023
@johnlogic negligible to vast
Show threadPatricia KaydenFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost This is so ridiculous. Conservatives always need enemies for their witch hunts. They need enemies to fight and boogeymen to fear. It's transgender peoples' time. Who is next? Sigh.
Show threadDean BarnettFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost So kids can't watch "M*A*S*H or Tootsie?
Show threadflexghost.Feb 3, 2023
@DARSB1 ummmmm. What
Show threadJaneETowleFeb 3, 2023
@flexghost sorry to add Manchin to your list of bad faith activities West Virginia
Show threadCP Feb 3, 2023
@flexghost
Because assuring authoritarian control of, or erasing individuals they dislike or don’t understand is far more important to them than having equilibrium within the country and a healthy functioning democracy. They are the true sickness that is running rampant in this nation.