Not to super defend VA, but I’m pretty sure in that final paragraph you mean WVa. VA isn’t much better, but as a former resident I can say we super hate being mistaken for WVa haha

and by vs bye

seconded!

I figured it out in grade school. I never stood for the pledge in the morning all through high school, no one ever cared. Most of my homeroom class didn’t, we were a bunch of teens, it wasn’t worth fighting with us. 

Anything east of the mountains is just as bad as the south honestly. As much as it pains me to admit, because I too left the south east to get away from this bullshit

Same. I’m from VA and no huge fan of Kaine, he’s fine he’s just a “lower case d democrat”, but this seems like making a big fuss over nothing. This isn’t a scandal, it might be a poorly answered question, but considering the rest of the scandals rocking VA right now, this isn’t even a blip on the radar.

Also it’s so stupid that I have to have a different account for every platform. I was very angry when I found out my $15 a month membership on PC didn’t get me jack shit on my xbox, and beyond the extra monthly payment, without the membership on my xbox, I couldn’t even play DA:I, it just wouldn’t load until I’d…

My roommate works at starbucks (one of thousands in the city of Seattle) and apparently none of them are allowed to talk about Schultz running, even though he’s not in charge of the company anymore.

That last paragraph is the part that makes me go no fuck off you can’t be in our rainbow club. You don’t get to torture people for years only to come out and then say you don’t regret it.

Similar experience, in 8th grade (rural VA) my world history class covered a few different religious texts and compared them (rare, progressive teacher, she was excellent) and it was soooo amusing to watch the seriously religious students have a crisis when they realized that their bible stories were taken from a lot…

My thoughts too! go ahead, teach the bible, then all of us who know that it’s a made up fantasy story can now use it against the idiots trying to beat everyone into submission with it.

Good fucking point. If I had to spend my high school years proving my shorts/skirts went past my fingertips and that my tank top straps were at least 3 fingers wide, I think it’s fair to turn that shit around on everyone else. 

There’s an ice cream shop in Seattle that sells red “Make America Gay Again” hats and I want one but also at a glance without reading I know it would look like a maga hat and I just can’t risk that

I’m half way through Banner Saga 2 and I love it so much! Such an interesting story and a beautiful game

Do not let Northern VA defect to join DC, they are the only thing keeping VA purple. Otherwise yes DC statehood all the way

As a former Virginian I shudder at this thought, but as a current West Coaster it also gives me great joy to think of how miserable it would make everyone in that general area.

That is all I’ve been playing for the last two weeks. It’s so relaxing and so easy to lose hours to.

Episode Ignis is my canon. I don’t even care. The end of the original game broke me.

Good riddance to Badlatte

this is true. I grew up in VA, and it’s really appalling how much time they spend teaching the civil war (years, I am not joking) without delving into the actual reasons it happened. Visit battlefields, learn about all the dead white guys who ran the war, and the “ending” of it, but reasons the fighting started?…