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groundloop

(11,488 posts)
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:40 PM Jun 2022

A shout out to Seattle for not being afraid to talk about gun violence

We were in Seattle for a few days earlier this month.

The first thing I noticed was that there were BLM and Pride posters everywhere (just a wee bit different than where I live in Alabama). A mall we walked through had Pride colors prominently displayed everywhere you looked.

That evening we went to a Seattle Mariner's ball game, and look at what they had on their scoreboard (and it wasn't just up for a little while, it was in the ad rotation throughout the the entire game):


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A shout out to Seattle for not being afraid to talk about gun violence (Original Post) groundloop Jun 2022 OP
Shout out to my hometown!! Coventina Jun 2022 #1
Seattle is my town ismnotwasm Jun 2022 #2
My father (a native of Phoenix) moved us to Phoenix in '79 Coventina Jun 2022 #3
I'm pleased to send this important post to the Greatest Page! ♥ CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2022 #4
MDA could buy space on every MLB billboard, couldn't they? maxsolomon Jun 2022 #5
I am sure they can, each team controls their stadium and the advertisements in them. Zeitghost Jun 2022 #7
Welcome to civilization. Aristus Jun 2022 #6

Coventina

(26,874 posts)
3. My father (a native of Phoenix) moved us to Phoenix in '79
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 02:04 PM
Jun 2022

Even back then, he couldn't afford to raise a family in Seattle.

We'd been homeless for 3 years by that point.

We'd spend another 3 years homeless in Phoenix, but at least we could couch-surf with my dad's family.

Zeitghost

(3,796 posts)
7. I am sure they can, each team controls their stadium and the advertisements in them.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 06:07 PM
Jun 2022

But I'm not sure why they would.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
6. Welcome to civilization.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 06:07 PM
Jun 2022


My mother was born and raised in Alabama, and has lived in the PNW for the last forty years. She's much happier up here. It's so much easier to be a liberal, as she and all of her children are.
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