I agree. our politics may be some bullshit right now but we’re a historically democratic state and should not be confused with SC or GA or any other southern state. anytime any shitty news comes out of NC the first thing you hear is “well, what do they expect? dumb yokels did it to themselves,” and that couldn’t be…

as embarrassing as this law is, it’s really highlighted some of the awesome progressive groups that are doing good work in our state... and I love to see that since we’re so often painted with the broad “redneck backwater” brush by well-meaning people who have never been here. McCrory has been a damn nightmare and as…

why, my tax money as a north carolinian of course! I’m footing the bill for all of this horseshit Small Government Conservatism™.

stop making sense! the US encounters very similar problems re: regional identification, so you’d think this would have been pointed out. this article read like a hit piece and really failed to take any legal nuance into effect.

good thing the state is prepared to take care of a rash of surrendered special needs babies and isn’t slashing the budgets of developmental programs!

I agree, I think the Republicans are fucked regardless. But the worst case for a democrat (which, in this election, still isn’t bad) would be running against a perceived “lesser evil” type candidate. Most of Trump’s supporters are bandwagoners... I don’t think there are enough die hards who would vote third-party to…

ha yeah I agree. FWIW, though, I’m originally from the great lakes (so my Kasich dumbfuckery awareness is 10/10) and now live in the south, and nobody down here knows about or gives a shit about Kasich. granted, I live in a “big blue blob” but even my republican friends here seem to forget he’s still in the race. In…

in my armchair politician opinion, the best thing you can do to get a democrat in office is vote for trump. he has a very loud group of supporters within the GOP but he is absolutely unelectable in a general election. the fact that the republican establishment is desperately trying to distance themselves from him goes…

his ideas are the same tired establishment dogma that the GOP has been failing to sell for a decade. his only selling point is his mask of agreeableness.

100% a mask. he has all the charisma of a box fan and terrible ideas to boot. but my favorite election side story has been watching him get mad about being ignored.

I know... its crazy! we have a ton of intellectual talent. i think it’s because we’re a pretty fractured state, at least culturally. each area has such a distinct personality that it’s tough to see beyond that to invest in the state as a whole, or at least thats how it feels.

right, but the other parts that can be enforced are still very damaging.

agreed, on a national level, but well-endowed public high schools in communities like palo alto have the ability to pay their teachers a living wage.

this bill won’t go anywhere, it’ll almost certainly get struck down in court. even discriminatory issues aside its massive and probably illegal overreach by the state into local governance. the state congress wanted to make a shit-stained point to the city of Charlotte and they went way too far. this is political…

I agree with you, but remember the reason we have chucklefucks like McCrory is that the previous democratic administrations were so damn corrupt. the people voted in the only non-criminally-corrupt person even though we’ve historically been a heavily democratic state. it’s all fucked.

it is enforceable though. the law was in response to Charlotte passing an anti-discrimination bill that protects trans folks, but it’s more sweeping than that. it prevents any municipality from passing any independent anti-discrimination laws, even including laws that protect veterans. it’s batshit and very…

i’m as certain as i’ve ever been that it’ll get struck down in court. at a huge cost to us taxpayers, of course.

the scary thing is that this isn’t a new trend, it’s been happening for over a decade. and the real issue is that the most powerful people in these communities don’t really care because they send their kids to private schools anyway. the people who’s families depend on public schools in places like palo alto are…

I hope to god these sorts of attacks don’t become a regular thing in Europe... but unfortunately, it would appear that the relative stability of the post-soviet era in Western Europe is coming to an end.

what he’s saying is more along the lines of “in Europe they have certain Muslim neighborhoods that produce terrorists. Let’s keep an eye out for that here.”