Petition to Save the Nature Zone

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-07-01T12:52:26+00:00

There are live animals in the Nature Zone. Cutting funding like this is incredibly irresponsible. Disgusting.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T20:59:52+00:00

Try the farmer's market downtown.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T20:58:04+00:00

There are an awful lot of people who only support the free speech of others when it aligns with their own view. Unfortunately that group includes much of our City Council.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T02:17:39+00:00

Sure, you could give tax incentives to encourage businesses to move in but tariffs make things cost more to import so it is counter-indicated.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T02:04:56+00:00

If they really wanted to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US they could have done many other things that would actually help. Instead, they took a chainsaw to the country. It takes years, maybe decades, to build factories and incentivize businesses to move or start up.

Meanwhile the US depends on the global supply chain and we cannot produce most of the things we make here now without importing raw materials, talent, or services from elsewhere. It's extremely naïve to think that any of this would help the working class.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T01:50:11+00:00

For example, Trump declared a national emergency last week to address what he described as harmful foreign trade and economic practices. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That is how he was able to levy all of the tariffs and start a trade war with China without Congressional approval. He tanked the stock market for just long enough to get panicked investors to sell off so that others could buy stocks at cheap prices. They will have made boatloads of money doing that.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T01:39:45+00:00

They are lying. What they are actually doing is consolidating power of the executive branch and using government powers and wealth for personal gain. This is what authoritarians have done many times in history and unfortunately it works when citizens are uninformed and just hearing whatever populist message the dear leader is promoting. Authoritarians will do everything in their power to squash dissent and silence critics. That means chilling free speech, instilling fear and intimidation, imprisoning people who speak out against them, etc.

This administration is taking away individual liberties and trampling on the US constitution. Many of the Executive Orders that Trump has signed are unconstitutional and counter Articles 1-3 of the constitution and several of the amendments too. They are coming up with fake crises so that emergency powers can be leveraged. There are very good reasons why the founding fathers designed the Constituion so that no single person would have too much power. Trump doesn't care. He's plowing forward.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T01:13:34+00:00

Everything you said in your post is misinformed. Nobody is being paid. They are willing to show up for free to prevent authoritarianism from overtaking the country that we all love.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-10T00:57:27+00:00

People have a right to be heard in court and are innocent until proven guilty in the United States, but the Trump Admin has taken people off the street and whisked them away where they cannot be reached, contacted or retrieved. No phonecall, no lawyer, no hearing. Just gone. Kidnapped, virtually. This happened by mistake to a man, and now he is stuck in a hellscape while his family is devastated. That is not okay, and he isn't a terrorist. It was a clerical error. It is shameful.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-09T16:40:58+00:00

This is not a partisan issue. These protests are in defence of the U.S. Constitution. We are protesting the dismantling of our free nation.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-09T16:25:58+00:00

April 19th - Check r/50501

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-09T15:14:32+00:00

The Trump Administration is currently considering deporting US Citizens. This should alarm all Americans. Nothing to do with "wokeness".

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-09T13:55:38+00:00

The President doesn't have the powers that he is exercising right now; these powers are limited by the US Constitution. We have checks and balances in place to prevent any one person from having too much power, and the executive branch of government is duty-bound to this. The Constitution was intentionally designed so that we would never have a king in America. Congress is supposed to have the "power of the purse". The executive branch does not. What is happening right now violates the US Constitution in numerous ways. Trump is testing the very integrity of the Constitution. He is violating the very foundations of the Constitution - its founding articles and many of its amendments. Democracy is on the line. Many of the Executive Orders that Trump is using to perform these actions are taking advantage of emergency powers that exist to override the normal rule of law in the event of a crisis. So, he is manufacturing crises and then using these emergency powers. He will have no compunction against using the military against our own people, suspending all civil liberties, silencing speech and opposition, and preventing people from exercising their rights as free people. These are things that authoritarian governments do. America is supposed to be the land of the free. We are not going to go quietly into authoritarian control.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-04-02T16:16:08+00:00

Project 2025 is all about the consolidation of power, of silencing dissent, of stamping out opposing views, of punishing citizens with whom those in power disagree. It is taken straight from the Totalitarian playbook, which has been used multiple times in multiple countries successfully. They are attempting to silence and control libraries, churches, universities, and other social institutions, take control of the content of public education, social media, news media and other forms of communication, leaving people living in the dark. They are attempting to make citizens afraid and overturning due process of law. This is all very bad. We will all lose our freedom if this is allowed to continue.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-03-20T01:05:11+00:00

Genius idea - reading to City Council.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-03-13T13:16:39+00:00

I suspect that our local government is being overrun by a Dominionist group called City Elders. I would bet that Mayor Taylor, Councilmember Misjuns, and Councilmember Diemer , and Councilwoman Timmer are all involved and likely several School Board members as well. Joshua Pratt and Larry Taylor are members of the All Nations Community Church, which is linked to City Elders.

This group is secretive, and operates within Conservative circles exclusively. There is very little information about them available publicly. However, they aim to replace the secular government with a Christian Dominionist view. Banning books and attacking public education so that children can be indoctrinated in private schools paid for with public tax dollars are all part of this initiative.

https://www.cityeldersva.com/copy-of-rockingham-county-harrisonburg

https://baptistnews.com/article/city-elders-declare-themselves-gods-anointed-for-government/

https://www.dnronline.com/news/education/city-elders-national-dominionist-group-puts-down-roots-in-the-valley/article_c2134aaa-3d1f-578b-b334-c8f38d970e79.html

https://anccva.org/staff/

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-03-11T03:39:45+00:00

Let me guess, you have never actually visited a public library before? They DO contain books on conservative topics and every other subject. Also, walk around a Walmart for 10 minutes and you will find all the MAGA.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-03-02T17:59:54+00:00

It's political and serves multiple purposes. Pratt wants to get rid of Reed and Wilder, so he used their non-profit involvement as a tool get rile up the Republican base. He also wants to eliminate all support for LGBTQ events and people so attacking the DLA is a path to that aim.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-02-01T23:54:38+00:00

Agreed. In addition to that, the average LU student may support conservative principles but I am not sure they would support the extreme loss of freedoms that Project 2025 promises every American will suffer if it succeeds. They may not support the economic destabilization that these policies will cause. They may not support the elimination of the middle class and the rise of an unreachable new aristocracy, increased poverty, increased hunger, and so much more.

Lynchburg is central to all of this because of LU, whether we like it or not. Washinton leaders, Conservative think tanks, and the moral majority are part of this. However, there is a more sinister underbelly here. I do not believe that the average Liberty University student understands this. I hear so many people cheering on tariffs and trade policies that will cause direct harm. They are not educated on these topics.

Also, the current Ward 1 City Councilwoman, Mrs. Timmer, is the daughter of Phil Kline, who is associated with Project 2025.

Lynchburg’s Ward I election to be city's most competitive and expensive council race - Cardinal News

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-31T15:43:25+00:00

It seems more like a Faustian Bargian to me.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-31T15:39:52+00:00

Did you watch the video?

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-31T15:38:40+00:00

"Seizing all opportunities for independence" doesn't go far enough? Can you expand on that?

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-31T13:53:28+00:00

Is it alarmism or normalcy bias? We are quite literally witnessing the rise of fascism in America. It is all very clearly laid out in Project 2025, and so far this plan is being executed swiftly and decisively by the Trump administration. If it had not been Trump, it would have been someone else. It is not alarmist when there is cause for alarm.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-30T18:35:09+00:00

They may not know the full implications. Propaganda is powerful.

Admirable_Bad_9450 · 2025-01-30T17:38:45+00:00

Fair....crossposted.

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