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North Carolina's protest crackdown now includes a ban on N95s (www.motherjones.com)

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago

That… that can’t be legal… can it?

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago

Welcome to the fascist states of America, 14th amendment section 3 vote through Congress is our off ramp but we're almost out of time.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago

It will likely get thrown out in Federal court like most of DeSantis' performative fascist bullshit.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 7 months ago

All Construction, manufacturing and basically every blue collar trade is now illegal lmaooooooooooooooo congrats you played yourself

[-] some_guy 2 points 7 months ago

Did they really not include a clause indemnifying workers who needed masks before the pan? That's even more short-sighted than I'd have expected.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago

Wait so they want to kill off their medical and construction industries

That seems cartoonishly stupid

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Welcome to the world according to Republicans.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 39 points 7 months ago

Next, they’ll ban toilet paper because cleaning your butt is “gay”

[-] denshirenji@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Real men smell like ass.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

crank hog shid pant an gobbless

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 28 points 7 months ago

But you can open carry no problemo. WTF

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Carry a gun on your face. Problem solved

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gun face

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

What a shithole

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 months ago

When everyone in NC mysteriously dies:

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, Zillow/RedFin/etc will probably just snap everything up and perma-rent it.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

☹️

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Down vote because you want the corporations to take the houses and rent them out? Lol

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

They're a landlord and very hurt that you would frown at them. Did you even consider the feelings of landlords before you twisted your peasant face into that awful expression?

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Mississippi is now like “Thank god for North Carolina”

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

Next step for protesters is water-proof anti-facial recognition makeup.

[-] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

The land of the free..

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yay, anti-science!

[-] some_guy 1 points 7 months ago

Tell us about your freedumb, NC conservs

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

mUh small guv'mint individual freedumb tho...

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