Get a big or bigger dog?
Which is to say, I’m sorry but I don’t know what to recommend. I hope she’s not actually dangerous. Has it been going on long? My experience is that people like that burn out or something before long, always hurting only themselves. Which is awful enough. I hope you don’t feel endangered.
does she have any family that you can reach out to?
Not cerebrally. I know the stats, and that she’s more likely to be the victim of violence than do violence on anyone else. But between her and the recent squirrel attack, my porch has gone from feeling like my safe haven to feeling a little scary! I’m half joking, and know I have it good, but it is crummy. So, while I know I’m not likely endangered, viscerally, it is scary to have a ripped and angry person directing her anger towards me. Kind of like inadvertently drawing the eye of Sauron upon one’s self.
I don’t know them personally, but the word in the neighborhood is that her brother is trying to get her evicted, so I don’t think it’s a good relationship. She seems to have taken over the property when her elderly mother went into hospice, and now it’s a familial property dispute.
It’s a good thought. I’m finding it morally difficult to balance my desire for her not to be put in a tougher position than she already is, and wanting her to stop loudly threatening me. I’ll err on the side of leaving her alone and trying to contact social services for now. Well, probably forever, unless she actually does anyone physical harm. Just sucks. I wish we had more well-funded and humanely-staffed programs in this country to help people.
I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this.
I think that social services is the best call. They can try to get help for her. I’d also let social services know what you’ve heard about her brother and that there might not be any family help for her. Let them know that you’re worried about her harming herself or maybe others, but you really don’t want to involve the police.
(I bet social services departments across the US are hearing that last part a lot lately.)
It may take several weeks for social services to make contact with her, so you might consider reaching out to them sooner rather than later. However, if things deteriorate further and you feel unsafe, please call the police. Do not feel guilty about doing that.
The leaflets reportedly found at the site warned of the “cleansing” of brothels, “degenerate homosexuals”, thieves and informants, and declared “Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism.”
And people wonder why libertarian socialists hate tankies.
This Peruvian election is fucked up enough as it is. Do you vote for the left wing misogynist who wants to ban abortion, or the right wing misogynist whose father’s government force-sterilised women when they were in power?
I don’t think black dealers were the primary source, but they definitely got screwed on both sides of the legality coin… I think I’ve seen an article on legal weed, and there was only the one black owned supplier/grower at the time?
There was a cartoonist (Keith Knight… I remembered!) who had an idea I would have unreservedly supported, that considering blacks had been unproportionately affected by weed’s illegality, only black people could run legal weed businesses… It would have definitely been a good form of reparations for a recent injustice. Found the comic too: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em | The Nib
I may have met that guy when he gave me a lift from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. He was selling his trucking business, and wrapping things up before heading up to Washington state, where he was in place and set up to grow marijuana as soon as the legality came into effect.
This was a few years back, so I’m hoping that there are more now…
A quick search seems to indicate there are, though obviously this group represents growers, distributors and patients, among others: Who We Are – Minority Cannabis Business Association
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Truly, truly outrageous
I wonder how many were released by judges who are Tromp appointees.
Good question, but I’d expect this no matter who the appointed the judge, honestly. These are “good” (meaning white, solidly middle class, pillars of community) types who probably have clean records (because they got away with whatever shit they did in their past due to their whiteness.
Truly white terrorists, treated as expected.
Yeah, the instant they got pushback, there was no negotiation, just “oh, it’s too greedy”.
“To be clear, I absolutely want the survivors, the descendants and others that were affected to be financially and emotionally supported,” he continued. “However, this is not the way.”
I dunno. Maybe give some Black pilot a plane and some bombs and let him repay the white folks in kind? 
