Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to clap for President Zelensky during his speech to Congress this morning.Unlike Rep. Greene, I stand with Ukraine.— Marcus Flowers (@Marcus4Georgia) March 16, 2022
I live right next door to her district and work in her district.
This guy has absolutely no chance. Way too racist, and putting on a cowboy hat isn't gonna make them think you're "one of the good ones" (ugh).
As embarrassing as MTG is, a fuckton of the people I've worked for have said the exact same loony toons stuff she says to me, at work. Like it was common conversation stuff. She genuinely is representative of the people here and that's the saddest part.
The only way out is the carpet industry normally is pretty close with republicans, so they can get away with dumping chemicals legally here (crazy high cancer rates, and why I try to only drink my well water here). So because MTG was kicked off of the committees she's basically worthless to them, so she might be done simply because of that. Carpet runs this area, by far the main industry here that basically everyone works in or supports the workers in it.
Hearing about local politics being dominated by Carpet industry is leading me to ponder what other districts are being completely subsumed by micro-industries.
Sry late reply but it's a pretty huge industry. Like the entire northwest of the state of Georgia is dedicated to entirely carpet production. It's literally where much of the carpet worldwide comes from. It's a big business and I'd bet you'd find a lot of America has similar things. Like the auto industry that used to exist in the Midwest. They only reason the carpet industry hasn't entirely moved overseas is because they can get away with paying unbelievably low wages here for a very complex job, hell they used to bus in Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants just so they could pay them less than minimum wage.
Your reply made me do a bit of googling, and it led me to this absolutely wonderful publication / website. Apparently there is a floor-covering weekly magazine :che-smile:
https://www.floorcoveringweekly.com/main/features/why-northwest-georgia-27768
Lol there's way more than that. I remember when I was 19 I got one of my designs on the front page biggest industry mag (textile world iirc).
You'd think that would be an easy win with a portfolio but nope. The biggest requirement to survive here seems to be if you're a right wing nutcase, which I am not. Sry just pissed about that and a few other things
I live right next door to her district and work in her district.
This guy has absolutely no chance. Way too racist, and putting on a cowboy hat isn't gonna make them think you're "one of the good ones" (ugh).
As embarrassing as MTG is, a fuckton of the people I've worked for have said the exact same loony toons stuff she says to me, at work. Like it was common conversation stuff. She genuinely is representative of the people here and that's the saddest part.
The only way out is the carpet industry normally is pretty close with republicans, so they can get away with dumping chemicals legally here (crazy high cancer rates, and why I try to only drink my well water here). So because MTG was kicked off of the committees she's basically worthless to them, so she might be done simply because of that. Carpet runs this area, by far the main industry here that basically everyone works in or supports the workers in it.
Hearing about local politics being dominated by Carpet industry is leading me to ponder what other districts are being completely subsumed by micro-industries.
:astronaut-2: :astronaut-1:
I like to imagine that the point you're trying to make is that the Carpet Industry actually controls everything.
How many times has my life been dictated by the whims of Big Rug?
Sry late reply but it's a pretty huge industry. Like the entire northwest of the state of Georgia is dedicated to entirely carpet production. It's literally where much of the carpet worldwide comes from. It's a big business and I'd bet you'd find a lot of America has similar things. Like the auto industry that used to exist in the Midwest. They only reason the carpet industry hasn't entirely moved overseas is because they can get away with paying unbelievably low wages here for a very complex job, hell they used to bus in Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants just so they could pay them less than minimum wage.
Your reply made me do a bit of googling, and it led me to this absolutely wonderful publication / website. Apparently there is a floor-covering weekly magazine :che-smile: https://www.floorcoveringweekly.com/main/features/why-northwest-georgia-27768
Lol there's way more than that. I remember when I was 19 I got one of my designs on the front page biggest industry mag (textile world iirc).
You'd think that would be an easy win with a portfolio but nope. The biggest requirement to survive here seems to be if you're a right wing nutcase, which I am not. Sry just pissed about that and a few other things
It honestly brought me back to the earlier days of the internet, when it wasn't just 4 big content-aggregators.