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Seriously. We need to be looking out for each other and our collective mental health!
Not so sure about yoga studios...
Whyisthisstillclose
(654 posts)meow2u3
(25,250 posts)But they're too much in denial to bother.
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Whyisthisstillclose
(654 posts)hasn't it? Very odd that that group of con men can get loyalty from almost all the shitty corners of our society, including the shitty people it hurts the most.
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Whyisthisstillclose
(654 posts)of some of the current problems we are facing as a society going forward. Thank you for this post. These people have great momentum at this point and access to misinformation networks and money like never before in history. Combine this with a large population of barely literate and easily manipulated and the future looks like a true battlefield for common decency.
johnp3907
(4,301 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,041 posts)A lot of insidious 'wellness' folks there. IE Anti Vax, Anti Science, etc. etc.
Midnight Writer
(25,380 posts)MenloParque
(566 posts)But of the 6 Costco's I have within an hour from me are all crawling with MAGA types. These jokers are all fueling their trucks with Costco gas, buying offroad tires, loading up their carts with steaks and ribs. Can't escape them even in California.
flashman13
(2,376 posts)The stupid red hats have disappeared.
After a couple of nasty grams Car Quest told their manager to ditch the Trump flag. I suspect sales were declining.
Skittles
(171,595 posts)I don't
JI7
(93,562 posts)alittlelark
(19,138 posts)0rganism
(25,627 posts)And I was going to add bookstores. But I used to work in a book store back in the mid 90's And every shovel-brained, inbred, redneck, illiterate moron would come in to the store to get Rush Limbaugh's latest publication of printed transcripts of his shitty radio show; copies of "The Bell Curve", which "proved" people of color were intellectually inferior to white people, Laura Schlessinger's hateful crap masquerading as books, etc.
I guess they wanted them to display on whatever passes for bookshelves in their little hovels. Keep their right-wing street cred up to date.
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summer_in_TX
(4,158 posts)The place is crowded with kids and parents. Pretty sure that crowd has a high percent of MAGA in them.
Farmer-Rick
(12,635 posts)For anti-vaxxers, woo-woo religious, Quiverfull idiots, MAGA and RFK lovers. And since most home schoolers can't afford the expensive text books of highschool, they frequent the libraries to compensate.
Every afternoon our local library is swamped by ragged kids and sullen teenagers. I try and get there in the morning when the homeschoolers' mothers are mostly still asleep. It's almost always the mother's burden to do the homeschooling. Never seen a father in the library trying to explain how to use the library to their school aged kids.
Grins
(9,439 posts)Emile
(42,182 posts)SheltieLover
(80,242 posts)ToxMarz
(2,917 posts)In my experience they are as MAGAtty as they come.
erronis
(23,794 posts)ToxMarz
(2,917 posts)I was thinking about the Dentists and staff. Have quite a number of relatives that are dentists and others that work in dentist offices, MAGAts one and all.
yardwork
(69,313 posts)Diamond_Dog
(40,499 posts)Not my dentist so much, but his new hygienist. OMG what a loon!
ToxMarz
(2,917 posts)They offered to pay for her schooling to become a dental hygienist. She declined, thought it sounded like too much work.
yardwork
(69,313 posts)Why work hard? Trump promised to halve prices and give away houses for free.
ToxMarz
(2,917 posts)Who works half days for my brother who took over my father's business. She's really looking forward to working half days. I haven't heard whether that's my brother's plan (he's one of the more tolerable MAGAts I know, his wife and kids are another story).
soldierant
(9,348 posts)dameatball
(7,668 posts)Not to mention a shitty father.
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MAGATism runs deep with the dentists that I know.
DBoon
(24,962 posts)rather than the politics of dental professionals
eppur_se_muova
(41,891 posts)Sort of like asking for the COVID vaccine when they're dying in the ICU.
Rhiannon12866
(255,085 posts)But her patients are of all stripes, one time I showed up for my appointment and Fox "News" was on the TV in the waiting room - discussing Hillary's emails. Her assistant came in, changed the channel and apologized, said that the older female patient before me had requested it...
yardwork
(69,313 posts)Especially independent bookstores. Locally owned coffee shops. Mexican tiendas (which often have good prices on staples).
DBoon
(24,962 posts)Where the cuisine has not been co-opted by national chains.
My local Ethiopian restaurants are safe.
On Edit: Patronize these NOW, before the owners get deported
yardwork
(69,313 posts)littlemissmartypants
(33,342 posts)They can't lead. So, they need to follow or get out of the way. (To paraphrase Ted Turner)
In the wise words of a friend who is one tough cookie and the best stick nurse in America, imo...
"If you're scared, get a dog."
AverageOldGuy
(3,790 posts)At food bank or homeless shelter.
Check out books at library.
Deliver meals-on-wheels.
eppur_se_muova
(41,891 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,627 posts)I'm looking for a new dentist right now because I went in to make a hygienist appointment and one of the staff was wearing a "Justice For Charlie Kirk" t-shirt.
An overt political display in a professional office is already a bridge too far, but its even worse that she picked such a controversial figure.
The dentist was standing right there, so this must be ok.
It's so unprofessional that I won't go there now AND it was MAGA. So the dentist office isn't necessarily an safe space from Maga-try.
yardwork
(69,313 posts)Political tee shirts in a dentist office? Hard pass. That's a sign of very poor judgment on the part of the dentist.
ProfessorGAC
(76,627 posts)Exactly why I'll never go back.
yardwork
(69,313 posts)Solomon
(12,643 posts)when I have to go in.
NewHendoLib
(61,838 posts)I'm sure there are MAGA at yoga studios and dentists, too
Only guarantee - our home!
Blumancru
(263 posts)Dentists offices seem to always have FOX Swen on.
Blumancru
(263 posts)But there is a special group for them, called Densa.
cksmithy
(491 posts)llmart
(17,586 posts)littlemissmartypants
(33,342 posts)mdbl
(8,636 posts)somethingshiny
(74 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,685 posts)ret5hd
(22,488 posts)certified maga free.
twodogsbarking
(18,685 posts)calimary
(89,931 posts)Pretty much any kind, preferably without cocoanut or nuts. Please and thank you!
IronLionZion
(51,205 posts)and many nonreligious charity centers for helping others.
Independent ethnic restaurants and markets might be too diverse for MAGA.
Community centers who teach classes on various useful topics that MAGA would be against.
Drag brunches
International travel outside of cruise ships and all inclusive resorts.
DBoon
(24,962 posts)Didn't Rush Limbaugh mock the whole idea of community service, saying it was for convicted criminals?
Pinback
(13,590 posts)Jazz clubs, international grocery stores, tai chi classes, meditation centers .
DBoon
(24,962 posts)BaronChocula
(4,526 posts)A broad generalization and stereotype, but I get the point. Of course there are vast exceptions, but we should pigeonhole them like they pigeonhole everything in their own lives.
The ballet, the symphony, the opera.
Unitarisn Universalist churches
Natural food stores
niyad
(132,216 posts)Any place feminists gather.
Any Drinking Liberally meeting.
Any Dem meetings.
beaglelover
(4,465 posts)Our love for Pilates so we all get along in the studio.
Tree Lady
(13,264 posts)She needs to try again.
Like atheist get togethers, hanging out where people dont speak English, gay communities things like that.
twodogsbarking
(18,685 posts)MagickMuffin
(18,315 posts)Its the only farmers market close to me, unfortunately!
Initech
(108,677 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(2,299 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(2,299 posts)flvegan
(66,243 posts)I know several anti-vax, anti-immigrant, bigoted assholes that are vegan. It's part of a bigger discussion we have in the vegan community as well. "How could they possibly..."
It's a smaller percentage, but they definitely exist.
The Madcap
(1,895 posts)On second thought, lots of rich R-types go there to be seen by High Society and sleep through the music.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, another place('s) is establishments that display PRIDE flags.
We have a few in our town that we support. It's always a great place to shoot the breeze.
appleannie1
(5,454 posts)Cha
(318,837 posts)on Kauai's Costco... Farmers Markets, too.
I know it's all Different over here.
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flvegan
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LilElf70
(1,559 posts)But I see them everywhere. Remember, there was over 70 MILLION of these toopid asswipes.
This will all go away when we take over in a landslide. Everyone. Everywhere.
paulkienitz
(1,507 posts)and anything to do with bicycles.
Dear_Prudence
(1,170 posts)The hundreds of local, regional, national, and international environmental, environmental justice, and climate justice Groups including:
Greenpeace
Natural Resources Defense Fund
American Lung Association
Sierra Club
World Wildlife Fund
Environmental Defense Fund
Earthjustice
Friends of the Earth
National Wildlife Federation
Audubon Society
Isaak Walton League
The Wilderness Society
National Parks Conservation Society
Indigenous Environmental Network
Earth Island Institute
Rainforest Action Network
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
Oceana
Whalewatch
Center for Biological Diversity
Earth First!
Break Free From Plastic
Environmental Working Group
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...
Hassler
(4,918 posts)milestogo
(23,060 posts)No MAGATS there.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,129 posts)C Moon
(13,629 posts)intheflow
(30,166 posts)they dont operate on a capitalist model.