Anonymous #5 11w

no for real this is exactly how I feel living in and being from North Carolina

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Anonymous lucyandmozzarella 11w

Our wildlife and landscape is so beautiful I could never leave

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Anonymous #9 11w

Right??? Like we have the world’s most biodiverse salamander population in the park!!!

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Anonymous lucyandmozzarella 11w

omfg i visited western TN this summer ive never seen that many hummingbirds in one place ❤️❤️

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Anonymous #11 11w

Try Georgia

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Anonymous #1 11w

I run a LGBTQ+ club on my very rural college campus in wv and GOD DAMN it’s hard to keep spirits up surrounding the community. Hosting an event for national coming out day tho 😈

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Anonymous #11 11w

I got to a Christian college and it’s so bad

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Anonymous #1 11w

The bright side is that at least you can be a safe space for people in that environment

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Anonymous #4 11w

Upper middle class white “progressives” on their way to just act like classist snobs who prefer virtue signaling over actually fighting for change:

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Ur mom.

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not everyone has the choice to leave

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Anonymous #2 11w

They should figure it out.

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you gotta have critical thinking skills man, maybe your thought was half baked. but i believe in you, still.

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Anonymous #15 11w

i stand corrected after reading your other responses, what a waste.

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Anonymous #12 11w

I’d rather stay where I am in the south if it means avoiding selfish snobs like you. I know hard work and community engagement are probably alien concepts to you, but those are what actually solve problems, not running away from them.

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Anonymous #10 11w

That’s where I’m from! I love TN and I want TN to be a place where everybody is welcome and that won’t happen if people like me leave!

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You’re a bigot, pretentious classist

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The south is one of the most diverse areas on the country.

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Anonymous #13 11w

i don’t engage in communities that want me dead

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Anonymous #6 11w

NC is a dysfunctional democracy (gerrymandered beyond recognition) and historically has only allowed civil rights after federal pressure, so unfortunately our vote here doesn’t have much power. This is coming from a politically active North Carolinian.

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Anonymous #17 11w

I hope you move💜💜Wishing you well

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Anonymous #12 11w

Oh please, only a small percentage of southerners want you dead, the general view of lgbt issues in the south is apathy rather than hard hostility. But please, for everyone else’s sake, don’t come visit the south; your melodramatic, pretentious nonsense wouldn’t help anyone.

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Anonymous #13 11w

i’d rather die than visit your shithole states

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Anonymous #12 11w

Please

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Anonymous #13 11w

the south is the worst part of this country. it should be purged from america if you ask me

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Generalizing entire states to shitholes and telling indigenous people to leave their rightful homes because of contemporary Anglo American politics is what makes you a pretentious bigot. If we truly live in shitholes, so be it, a shithole is better than whatever hell you clearly reside in

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Anonymous #12 11w

We tried that in the 1850’s it didn’t quite work out

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Anonymous #17 11w

I mean I’m also aware of that but it doesn’t hurt to hope lol😭

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Anonymous stayhydrated 11w

Dude has gotta be rage baiting?!?!? People aren’t actually like this right?!?

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

Stop it, you’ll upset the classist Yankees by showing that

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

It seems to be working lol

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

I hope he’s a troll 😭

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

people don’t like being called out for being self hating queers that make excuses for places and people that hate them

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Anonymous #12 11w

You’re the self hating queer, you clearly have no notion of standing your ground and fighting for a better world. Keep on running from your problems, hopefully you’ll end up somewhere without internet signal so you’ll stop making a fool of yourself online

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Anonymous #13 11w

I’m so self hating that I surround myself with people that accept me😂righttt

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Anonymous #11 11w

You’re one of the few good things in that state.

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Anonymous #13 11w

White people aren’t the only bigots

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It’s a beautiful coastal state. Hope you get to see the coast one day

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Not with that attitude

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Anonymous #19 11w

Red states suck

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Anonymous #20 11w

Health then I wish you the best and hold no judgment and support you in your life choices, but I don’t want to hear ANYONE, especially someone who has never lived in the south, telling me I SHOULD move or that it’s a problem that I love my home state and region and want to help make it better.

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Anonymous #20 11w

Thissss>>

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Imagine being openly homophobic in an lgbtq+ page and thinking people would agree with you.

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Anonymous stayhydrated 11w

yuck

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

I spent 4 months in Tennessee. I was also born there, and still have family there. Having token gays that you decided were palatable enough to keep around isn’t diversity. The entire 4 months I spent there I can count on 1 hand the amount on non white people id seen.

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I wouldn’t say we’re completely hopeless. We did manage to at least break the supermajority in the recent election cycle, and we got Riggs re-elected. It’s just slow and difficult progress, we get by with strong community support and mutual aid.

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Anonymous im_eepie 11w

And they want us to leave too! As cheesy as “y’all means all” is it needs to be true and if we all leave it can’t be true

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Anonymous #12 11w

I mean we kind of have to for our safety, it’s really sad to be forced to leave our home state just to have basic healthcare rights. I really hope that things get better in the south, especially for those who can’t leave.

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Anonymous #17 11w

as someone originally from nc who had to move for personal reasons nobody will be upset at you for moving for your own safety or health; i just think it’s important that you don’t become one of these people whose first solution is “move away”

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Anonymous #12 11w

“they should figure it out” bro we often don’t have the money, we don’t have ways to get to other places, it’s not something that can magically happen for us you absolute snob

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Anonymous #12 11w

i think you crave validation

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Anonymous #8 11w

Ethnic groups don’t include sexuality. It sounds like you were only hanging out in white places 😬

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Anonymous #12 11w

it is the way it is because the south doesn’t have the best governors. kindly stfu.

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Anonymous #12 11w

Yeah I was born in the south I don’t have money to move

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Anonymous #8 11w

so just bc you personally don’t interact with us dont mean we dont exist 😭 also im not talking strictly about sexuality..

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Anonymous #12 11w

You don’t like cheerwine?????

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Anonymous #12 11w

You telling people to just move is in fact elitist

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Making fun of queer people living in non queer friendly areas and flaunting your ability to get married when a lot of others /cant/ is openly homophobic.

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Anonymous #12 11w

That statement isn’t why people are calling you an elitist bigot

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Anonymous #14 11w

Same! I live in southern Alabama and I love it! I live close to an amazing beach and have so many friends down here

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Anonymous #12 11w

ratio'd by the alabama flag

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Anonymous #12 11w

This is an insane way of framing that. 😭 Like yes, would I as a lady and queer person not feel comfortable/safe traveling to a red? Sadly yes…but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything beautiful in or about places like Nevada! There are beautiful sites, compassionate non-bigots, dogs, etc. in every state. Also, by insulting the state you’re also insulting the perfectly kind non-maga folks?

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Anonymous #13 11w

Gosh, although I agree that 12 is being insane, I don’t know if I’d dismiss the idea that there aren’t a ton of folks that have actively hostile views of queer folk, but don’t necessarily want us dead. Sadly, voting to deny healthcare (including and specifically healthcare that’s proven to reduce suicide rates by astronomical degrees) doesn’t necessarily equal ‘they want us dead’ …but it absolutely *does* indicate that our welfare and us living is a mere afterthought. :(

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you’re the problem babe

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Anonymous #5 11w

Sadly, most southern states do have tons of blue voters but they gerrymander tf outta them. Texas has 8 million+ registered democrats and only 6 million+ registered republicans and somehow it’s red. At least with blue states even though they’re gerrymandered the majority are still democrat.

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Anonymous #5 11w

It doesn’t help that voting booths are getting closed and traditionally black/hispanic areas are losing voting booths in general which makes a black or Hispanic persons vote count considerably less than a white person.

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Anonymous #12 11w

okay buddy

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Anonymous #12 11w

Then perish?

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Anonymous #34 11w

as another person from mass i totally agree like i do not wanna move out of mass and i know other people obviously feel similar about places they grew up?? like i just want things to be better for everyone where they are i dont WANT them to HAVE TO LEAVE

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Anonymous #41 11w

hey man that’s super bigoted and elitist don’t you know????

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Anonymous #41 11w

1. There’s a difference between encouraging someone to move versus attacking someone for not moving. A lot of northern/western leftists celebrate when natural disasters occur in the south 2. It’s not helpful. Telling the sick person to just go to the doctor doesn’t help. They can’t afford to go. They already know that they should be going. It’s the same with queer people and POC in the south. We know we’re not safe. Ignorance isn’t what’s holding us back. 1/2

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Anonymous #41 11w

Some people don’t want to leave their families, their friends, everything they’ve ever known. Some people aren’t able to leave for one reason or another. Some people love their communities and want to fight to improve them. It’s honestly giving saviorism to just tell people to leave. Should people in war-torn countries be told to leave their ancestral homes, or should we be trying to help end the war? (2/2)

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Anonymous #23 11w

I guess I’m speaking from the perspective of someone who did it and doesn’t regret it, and am talking about people asking me if they should move out of the south or not. I don’t just go up to random people and tell them to move out. People just tend to ask me about it becuase I did it.

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Anonymous #41 11w

You’re elitist for leaving the South how dare you!!

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Anonymous #41 11w

Imo all of what you’re doing is okay then, it’s just not what the post is about

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Anonymous #12 11w

And you’re an asshole

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Anonymous #12 11w

Do you have anything better to do with your life besides trolling this post?

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Anonymous tinyflowers 11w

yes, like staying far away from red states

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Anonymous #12 11w

i hope u guys realize #12 is literally a maga troll...

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Anonymous #39 11w

No. Trump voters are scum that deserve to be sent to gitmo

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Anonymous #12 11w

nice try but you're literally the laziest pretend lib i've ever seen only bested by the "my mama black. my daddy black" tweet

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Anonymous #39 11w

i have no reason to lie abt that, if i was maga i would tell u weirdos to move to red states 😂 idiot

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Anonymous #12 11w

why would you want dems to move to red states bro that makes no sense. the more dems move OUT of red states the more you get to keep the supermajority in those red states. like you are not being slick lmfao

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Anonymous #39 11w

cuz red states are disgusting, bigoted and unsafe shitholes. they’re better off in blue states where they won’t get killed

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Anonymous #12 11w

you’re not safe in your blue state with me around bro

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Anonymous #21 11w

shiver me timbers 😂

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Anonymous #12 11w

hmm i wonder what could cause a person to want people from a majority democratic group to move into more majority democrat areas 🤔 🤔 it cant have anything to do with wanting to concentrate all the blue into a small number of states to minimize electoral power, nooo.....

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Anonymous #12 11w

also lmfao ok chatgpt user 🤡

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Anonymous #12 11w

you're essentially saying its okay for marginalized people to be killed as long as theyre not in blue states 😬 and you want me to believe you arent a republican?

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Anonymous #39 11w

my bad for wanting gay people to live safely😂guess you want them hate crimed by hicks

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Anonymous #12 11w

like fr you are just trying to make the pnw seem like a bunch of elitist assholes by pretending to be one. nobody who lives there actually thinks ts lmao

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Anonymous #39 11w

I think if anyone’s elitist assholes it’s Massachusetts

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it means i think no. 12 is annoying

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Anonymous #39 11w

not even close to what i said u dumb prick

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Anonymous #12 11w

yeah the best way to make the world safer for gay people is by making sure theres no gay people in certain places. that way gay people are only allowed to exist in the certified "gay zones" and if they get hate crimed in any of the other places they have nobody but themselves to blame! 😊 get real you sound like a clown 🤡

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Anonymous #14 5w

WAR EAGLEEE!!!🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

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Anonymous #12 5w

> doesn’t have the resources to move > life is made harder due to being publically out, therefore harder to get on my feet > "figure it out" how about we fix the problem?? systemic change is better than just letting harmful ideologies fester

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