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Jul 21 2016 04:29pm
Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ 21 Jul 2016 14:28)
New Orleans > North Carolina anyway.

We'll see how strong their backasswards convictions are when it starts hurting their wallets. Hint: When money gets involved, they always cave.


idk man, this is far from the first. I'm thinking maybe the NBA might help a bit tho. Not a whole ton tho. Now if NASCAR decided not to come out....
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Jul 21 2016 04:30pm
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New Orleans > North Carolina anyway.

We'll see how strong their backasswards convictions are when it starts hurting their wallets. Hint: When money gets involved, they always cave.


last I read, it was hurting them pretty bad and that was months ago. Saw some estimations and it wasn't pretty.
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Jul 21 2016 04:34pm
Quote (Sakuraba @ Jul 21 2016 10:30pm)
last I read, it was hurting them pretty bad and that was months ago. Saw some estimations and it wasn't pretty.


The internet never lies, so trust me on this:

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Companies protesting House Bill 2 have cost North Carolina more than 1750 jobs and more than $77 million-worth of investments and visitor spending.

That's according to estimates Time Warner Cable News put together from tourism and business groups across the state.


http://www.twcnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2016/04/22/hb-2-has-cost-state-1750-jobs.html
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Jul 21 2016 04:42pm
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I wonder what the trans population is in NC alone.
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I wonder what the trans population is in NC alone.


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These fucking transpeople. Come over here and terkurjerbs.
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Jul 21 2016 07:39pm
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That's a good story about how a prominent Republican thinks that NC's bathroom bill is absolute garbage and that Republicans need to do a lot more work to help the LGBT community, thx4link.
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Jul 21 2016 07:41pm
Economic boycotts and pressure is effective. It got Arizona to recognize Martin Luther King day in the late 1980s.]\

Up until then it was unofficially James Earl Ray day.

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