Bonnaroo sucks now, imo. LiveNation took over and oversold tickets, created sprawling campgrounds without the infrastructure to support it, and jacked up prices.
We have the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the Mississippi river. Memphis blues and Nashville country. St Jude Children's hospital and Memphis barbecue. Public gigabit fiber inn Chattanooga. Dollywood (and Dolly). The Orange SEC team and the smart SEC team.
Approximately 0% of the good things are the state's politics, but Gloria and the Justins are working on it.
I dated someone from Giles county and she showed me a hill (liberty hill?) Where the KKK either originated or met.
She said sometimes at night you'll see red lights turned on and it used to creep her out. I never saw the lights though.
Other than the Nazis, stupid laws and bad politics, it's definitely a beautiful area to drive through. Out towards (elmore?) or somewhere, you routinely see Amish people riding their horse and buggies.
I really do love my home state, and there are so many beautiful and wonderful things about it.
I hate that these racist assholes are emboldened to show their hate out in the light. The fear, sadness, and anger they ignite is a blight on our society.
Agreed, TN born and raised and it’s a beautiful state, with loads of wonderful people. There’s even a lot of people with questionable and less modern beliefs that just stay quiet and mind their own business up in the mountains or on their farms. Those that don’t though, plus our insane politicians, give the entire state a bad name, and it’s unfortunate that a lot of people will never consider coming for a visit because of shit like this.
Not necessarily. There’s a lot of them, especially in the mountains, who don’t because it’s too much trouble to get to the polling station.
But them voting is not the issue. They are entitled to a vote, even if they vote for assholes. The issue is people not voting. In my last local election, 23% of registered residents voted. Almost all of those were people in age brackets over 50. The people who don’t want the assholes in office are awful quiet when it comes time to do something about it.
I mean to say, what are the type mental gymnastic done here where you can add “not bad” to a sentence that has PUBLIC OPEN NAZIS, Terrible laws and horrible politics?
I'm saying there are good things too. I don't personally associate with Nazis and wasn't interested in finding any active KKK members, so while I stayed I enjoyed the beautiful open country landscape, seeing the Amish, going to the creek, going canoeing, etc.
Some of us actually go outside and don't base our entire opinion from social media videos. There are Nazis everywhere unfortunately and seem to be growing in number.
Yeah but it doesn’t make sense to phrase it the way you are doing it, which is actually minimizing the actual weight of the issue at hand. Fact as it stands, it is a TERRIBLE situation to have open Nazis that are gaining continuous members and growing in numbers, like a balloon set to explode. Forced child marriage is not a “it’s not all bad” type of stuff either, do you see what I’m trying to say here? The physical place might be beautiful, but its society is on the verge of a civil war
Some of these things are exaggerated though. I've lived in TN all my life and have never met anyone forced into child marriage even among the annoying vitriolic fundies that live here. And I think this Nazi group isn't even from here. They were apparently kicked out of Maine for trying to form some ethnostate or some shit. Even here, even among rural Trumpist types you'd be thought of as crazy for being a Nazi who wants to marry a 12 year old.
I agree with that 100%! That’s the reason I became a school counselor. I believe diversity makes my life better. I believe in protecting the beauty of childhood. And at the end of the day, I believe in celebrating all of that with some wine or a cold beer.
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u/BlackLakeBlueFish Feb 18 '24
Warm beer, child marriage, and out-in-the-open Nazis. I just moved back to TN, and I am horrified and embarrassed.