I think I accidentally turned the mic off, so no sound. But I was signaling to turn left, was fully stopped before that guy, and was most of the way through my turn when he decided to just go. I honked and he yelled, "I had the right of way!"
*Name changed to protect the innocent
But I thought humans are invasive?!
/uj the take is fine, but I snorted at the justification.
That's basically it. As detailed in comments on the Sunday post about the Seattle Times' feature on Katy Faust, who leads hate group Them Before Us and lives here in Seattle, I was in a Facebook West Seattle moms' group with Katy Faust until early 2019. As Faust's fame grew, people in the group started talking about her presence in West Seattle and the horrible things her "organization" Them Before Us stood for.
I shared some of this information in the main /r/Seattle thread, then decided to re-engage with that old Facebook group, which I learned Faust was still part of. I posted the article and tagged Faust. The group requires moderator approval of posts, but luckily mine was approved. And... The moderator immediately posted a comment also asking Faust to explain herself. Then Faust arrived and provided her response.
At this point I thought this was interesting and deserved its own post, so I posted it here. Within five minutes it was removed as "repetitive," so I posted it to /r/WestSeattleWA and /r/SeattleWA, which resulted in great discussion. See my post history for those.
But most interesting? Earlier this afternoon Reddit account /u/ThemBeforeUs went on a commenting spree, spamming any thread discussing Katy Faust. After about 15 minutes of catching up on all the comments, I clicked on their username to grab a screenshot of all the comments, and they were banned and all comments now say "removed by moderator" across all subs they (supposedly Katy's "social media team") posted to. So there you go, in case you got notifications from that account but couldn't see them.
BTW, at some point in the frenzy she said she plans to sue the Seattle Times 🤣
But, while wondering how the account got banned, because she didn't actually make threats or anything that serious... I learned that Them Before Us has been recognized as a hate group by the SPLC since 2024. So, yeah. Just know that's who we're engaging with in this "discussion."
Regarding this article discussed in another thread https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/meet-the-seattle-woman-behind-a-national-effort-
Text:
"Interesting that the 'journalist' decided to add so many (unnecessary) identifying pieces of information and no direct links to any of my websites or speeches. It's as if the purpose was smearing, not reporting. 
My experience in these FB groups is not only personal targeting (which goes with a territory) but tracking down my friends, my children, and punishing my church. So forgive me if I don't hold out a lot of hope that the 'love and tolerance' crowd will offer a fair hearing. 
But for those of you who do want to hear the argument, I've done dozens of interviews, but also laid out the entire case with receipts in this speech.
The bottom line is, we should love our gay family and friends. But redefining marriage fundamentally overhauled the nature of the parent/child relationship and led to commodification of children. That's not only damaging to children who are made intentionally motherless or fatherless, but it actually weakens every parent's claim to their own biological child." [Link to one of her YouTube videos]
I tried to post this to the /r/Seattle sub but it was removed for being "repetitive" (IDK, I think the person's actual response is kind of a separate topic from the article).
Sorry if this is against the rules
*Edit: Wow this is so eye-opening! I've been at my first house for one year now, and so far I've only been trying to eradicate all the invasives on my property. Everyone told me not to plant in the first year, so now I'm finally starting to buy natives to replace the invasives and I'm really happy to learn which ones can become a nuisance in the comments.
The only native plant I started pulling is this dreaded poison ivy, and I look forward to the day I'm pulling out excessive golden rods and bee balm instead of poisonous vines and garlic mustard (or burning bush, oriental bittersweet, buckthorn, marrows honeysuckle, Japanese barberry).
I'm excited to shift my perspective to just gardening and not going to war 😂 so thank you everyone for the insight!
Enjoy the soundtrack (latest episode of 5-4, if you're interested).
And yes, I know I didn't do a full stop. That's because this lady was riding my ass the whole way down Thistle from 35th.
Edit: This pissed off one poster so much they repeatedly claimed I was only going 19 (?) and then just now, hours after I posted and had no direct interaction with them, they blocked me. Maybe I found the Avalon driver right here on this sub 💅
Edit 2: Here's the first half of the video, for anyone who thinks I was somehow stoking this reaction https://imgur.com/a/RpevubM
Really nice quality. An employee was putting them out when I arrived around 9:30. Still probably a dozen then, all this print.
Did we learn nothing from the death of Maude Flanders?