My options were because I work Saturdays, where the closest protest is over 90 miles away:
Take a bus the day before, spend the night before in a motel. Skip a day of work, then get food and protest, then come back home.
Take a bus of the day, skip a day of work, and arrive about the last hour or so of the protest, and risk the police harassing me for being at a protest after they decided it was over.
So I lose our on $138 dollars to help pay rent/food, and then spend $90+ dollars on the motel and food, to attend the protest.
If there was one in my hillbilly area I’d consider it before wondering if the redneck dipshits might shoot a chubby queer.
Many Europeans genuinely do not understand the sheer size of our country. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to everything else they seem to not understand about our shitty culture that’s been glorified and lied about on TV for generations.
The fact I can cross that via a bus is pretty nice. But the fact I don’t own a car nor have to drive (never needed to, the buses here are pretty decent and have decent rates), does impact me for a lot of events. I’ve been able to attend some about a mayor in my area when he falsely accused a homeless shelter of a gunshot wound, but the police officer who said it faked it all for attention.
So the mayor made shit up, about something that was made up. A protest was organized in front of city hall, and it was very close to a bus stop for me. Attended, hung out with some organizers and helped sign some ballot initiatives. Overall a decent time telling a Republican mayor to fuck off.
Edit: Sorry that I have a job to provide my family PugJesus. I know you hate that I have a life outside of Lemmy, unlike you.
My options were because I work Saturdays, where the closest protest is over 90 miles away:
So I lose our on $138 dollars to help pay rent/food, and then spend $90+ dollars on the motel and food, to attend the protest.
If there was one in my hillbilly area I’d consider it before wondering if the redneck dipshits might shoot a chubby queer.
Many Europeans genuinely do not understand the sheer size of our country. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to everything else they seem to not understand about our shitty culture that’s been glorified and lied about on TV for generations.
The fact I can cross that via a bus is pretty nice. But the fact I don’t own a car nor have to drive (never needed to, the buses here are pretty decent and have decent rates), does impact me for a lot of events. I’ve been able to attend some about a mayor in my area when he falsely accused a homeless shelter of a gunshot wound, but the police officer who said it faked it all for attention.
So the mayor made shit up, about something that was made up. A protest was organized in front of city hall, and it was very close to a bus stop for me. Attended, hung out with some organizers and helped sign some ballot initiatives. Overall a decent time telling a Republican mayor to fuck off.
Edit: Sorry that I have a job to provide my family PugJesus. I know you hate that I have a life outside of Lemmy, unlike you.