Notices by jonathanpeterson (jonathanpeterson@hachyderm.io), page 2

@inthehands That story is just heartbreaking.

Tennessee's version of conservative Christian sharia is somehow even worse than The Handmaid's Tale. At least in Gilead the state was responsible enough to take care of the children.

@inthehands I have a muslim high school friend, whose parents moved to the US in the late 70s (to a faculty position at Mississippi State University).
She was really terrified of Trump's rhetoric and election and I rather naively felt that opening up the racism to sunlight would get us to a better place. I still feel that way on a good day. But Trump's SCOTUS nominations and the GOP's fear of the backlash of his bigot base make me feel she may have been right all along.

@inthehands Get out of the car? Talk to people like human beings? This is the city of George Floyd policing you're talking about.

@inthehands The City too Busy to Hate, has always been the city that lets big corporations sway it's policies. In 1964, Coca-Cola, pushed conservative, white political leaders into honoring Martin Luther King when he won the Nobel Prize. These days, however, the monied power types are doing exactly what MLK warned about in favoring stability over justice and allowing a giant, corporate-funded non-profit, with conservative ties and donations to twist the arms of our black politicians.

@inthehands You could move to Atlanta, where our APD responded to BLM protests awfully aggressively for the "City too busy to hate", and to the firing and arrest of APD officers who killed Rayshard Brooks with a massive blue flu. In reward the privately funded Atlanta Police Foundation (the largest in the country) has secured commitments from the city for $60M in construction costs and rent to build Cop City. And the city will need to add another $30 or so million to fully fund.

@inthehands @clayrivers @StillIRise1963 I have the complete Calvin and Hobbes in hardcover I got on 1/2 price sale a few years ago, and knew there was a Calvin and Hobbes that was an absolutely artful example of lying to your kid to deal with questions, but had lost the details of how that bit worked to the halls of memory. Thanks!