Massachusetts lesbian bar nearly bullied out of town (Page 4 of 4)
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Originally Posted By fox2008: Nice try......I'm not falling for that again. Originally Posted By fox2008: Originally Posted By shack357: Originally Posted By Federov: If you think this is bad, there's a cold war going on in PNW lesbian bars that don't want trans in there because they're dudes with penises. The trans people get all upset and start stalking the lesbians and there's been fights. Bars like this one are probably nothing but trans women, hence the masks. Real lesbians don't want anything to do with troons but the troons want to force them to have sex with them. It's bad if a straight man doesn't want to suck a tranny's dick too, because "you're not sucking a man's dick, it's a woman's dick, so it's not gay." You can't make this shit up. Nice try......I'm not falling for that again. |
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Originally Posted By Princeton: My assumption is some of the patrons look better with a mask than without! First thing I thought |
If I edited the post above it's more than likely because I suck at typing. If I didn't, I was either in too big of a hurry or just missed it.
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Originally Posted By djkest: Who would have thought a small town doesn't really need a lesbian bar? Better invite the straights before it's too late. Originally Posted By djkest: Originally Posted By fighter443: Holy crap I thought the internet had a hiccup and this was a repost from the Covid era. Nope. Trouble is a brewin' at this watering hole. A Massachusetts lesbian bar descended into a catty culture war and faces a potentially business-ending boycott from sudden enemies who flipped out when the owners lifted a longstanding mask mandate for just one night a week. Greenfield's Last Ditch Bar scrapped Saturday mask requirements on Aug. 31 in a bid to boost business but the move completely backfired, sparking uproar from members of the small city's queer community. Some critics dramatically likened the decision to a "mass disabling event," a "eugenicist" attack and a host of other hot-button terms that escalated to threats of violence. Who would have thought a small town doesn't really need a lesbian bar? Better invite the straights before it's too late. |
"During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days." -Barack Obama, May 9 2009
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Originally Posted By LoBrau: Sweet Jesus Originally Posted By LoBrau: Originally Posted By flcracker: The article is full of great gems like this: Sales had already been slumping due to the bar's floundering business model that includes rules like, "Nobody will be barred from entry due to lack of funds," and "Poor and unhoused people are welcome in the space." The mask mandate was another rule, as Last Ditch vowed ableism infringements on disabled patrons enjoying the venue was strictly barred. That meant the face coverings were required to protect anyone who was immunocompromised. It remains unclear how anyone was expected to drink while masked. The bar's three owners one a drag performer using it/its pronouns, another now in clown school began to slip behind on their bills and couldn't pay themselves or even their staff. Management first tried to apologize for its supposedly flippant post, writing "We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us." But that only fanned the flames because Last Ditch's post failed to include written "alt text" describing the written message for visually impaired people. "This is not an accessible post," somebody commented. "It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality." Then things were really set off when one woman attending in-person, a therapist, said she wished everybody could be there so they could talk together. "It's messed up that the mediator is dismissing those attending virtually. That's not accessibility," somebody wrote, while others claimed it was "wildly unsafe" to have a licensed therapist who they claimed could use her power to force them into mental hospitals against their will. "A lot of people are calling for an acknowledgment of harm and I'm hearing a WHITE therapist center[ing] the feelings of a majority white and white adjacent staff," another offered. "I never really wanted this," she said. "I don't think I'm doing a very good job." Her critics weren't impressed. "You chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings," one person responded. "This is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior." Rules of the house: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/74872/16917_jpg-3831578.JPG Sweet Jesus |
"During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days." -Barack Obama, May 9 2009
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Originally Posted By Bubbatheredneck: She's paying the rent on a bar and sleeps in her car? How stupid do you have to be to not grab a cot or air mattress from Walmart and live in the bar you supposedly own and manage? Originally Posted By Bubbatheredneck: Originally Posted By Coffin-Nail: When it came time to hear from Last Ditch's last remaining owner the other two quit months ago she broke down in tears saying she'd just been trying to help her friends with their business before ending up in charge. "It was not my passion project," Jackie Matellian cried through her mask, explaining she'd been left responsible for the $50,000 business loan taken out with her friends and that she'd been living in a car for six months to stay ahead of bar payments. Matellian also claimed she'd been working four jobs to keep up with the payments. "I never really wanted this," she said. "I don't think I'm doing a very good job." Her critics weren't impressed. I'm sure that's not legal there lol. She probably does and just said that for the article. |
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Originally Posted By FreefallRet: Four jobs to keep up payments on a $50k loan  When I was a Private in the Army I bought a $50k house and made around $2k a month. That loan at 8.5% with tax and insurance was $459 a month. A bar should pull down $200-300 a night in tips alone. That place must be garbage. Originally Posted By FreefallRet: Originally Posted By Coffin-Nail: When it came time to hear from Last Ditch's last remaining owner the other two quit months ago she broke down in tears saying she'd just been trying to help her friends with their business before ending up in charge. "It was not my passion project," Jackie Matellian cried through her mask, explaining she'd been left responsible for the $50,000 business loan taken out with her friends and that she'd been living in a car for six months to stay ahead of bar payments. Matellian also claimed she'd been working four jobs to keep up with the payments. "I never really wanted this," she said. "I don't think I'm doing a very good job." Her critics weren't impressed. https://media2.giphy.com/media/l3E6uhDAN3W7vylji/200.webp?cid=8dc8958cu9c0hjv6xkpcxr97olqthje6abah9037lamrhsl5&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200.webp&ct=g When I was a Private in the Army I bought a $50k house and made around $2k a month. That loan at 8.5% with tax and insurance was $459 a month. A bar should pull down $200-300 a night in tips alone. That place must be garbage. If you pull it up on google maps and look through some of the user posted photos, you can see quite clear that they rented a space and "phoned it in" in terms of turning into a bar. Looks like they probably trying to float the thing on a small handful of regulars to boot. And when that idiot says "4 jobs" there's no way she actually mean four real jobs. Nobody actually has four real jobs. That sounds like something a profession victim (aka Liberal) would concoct to garner sympathy. |
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Originally Posted By stk016: An interesting social experiment there. The more inclusive you try to be, the more people you offend. Especially when your target audience is triggered by everything. A no shoes, no shirt, no service sign is more inclusive than all those made up words If you choose to cater to every batshit crazy woke ideology, you'll never keep up with them all. There's always another batshit crazy moron coming up with new batshit crazy demands and they're willing to destroy your livelihood if their demands aren't met. The one thing most batshit crazy morons have in common is they don't have any fucking money so structuring your business around them is a guaranteed way to fail. "Let's cater to people who believe socialism is a good idea, that'll surely keep our for-profit business alive!" Get woke, go broke. It ALWAYS rings true because wokeness and anti-capitalist ideals go hand in hand. |
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Originally Posted By woodsie: If you pull it up on google maps and look through some of the user posted photos, you can see quite clear that they rented a space and "phoned it in" in terms of turning into a bar. Looks like they probably trying to float the thing on a small handful of regulars to boot. And when that idiot says "4 jobs" there's no way she actually mean four real jobs. Nobody actually has four real jobs. That sounds like something a profession victim (aka Liberal) would concoct to garner sympathy. She probably walks people dogs during lunchtime and counts that as another job. My wife is working 3 jobs currently but one of them is a few minutes 4 times a week and the other is 3-4 evenings a month. |
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Originally Posted By Makarov: Surprise, surprise, women can’t get along in an all female paradigm  Me thinks this has very little to do with “mask mandates”. I am guessing a lock box on the thermostat is the root cause somehow. Reminds me of that female comedian who admitted she likes to watch lesbian porn....but only because she likes to see women getting along 
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Originally Posted By Shazbat: Easy to observe in nature, put 2 female dogs in close quarters. Yep. I had a Siberian Husky and an Akita. Both female. Loved to play together......until they came into heat. Had to separate them. The war was on until they both died of old age. |
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Originally Posted By glocke12: I work with a woman who is in a lesbian marriage. She's actually a decent co-worker and we get along well but I never pry into her marriage or personal life. They did just have a daughter, with her wife being the carrier of the child. I honestly just try not to think too much about the details of any of that..it's none of my business for one thing, and secondly while I overall don't have a problem with two people of either sex getting married if that leads to happiness for those people, bringing a child into such a relationship is something that I still need to think on as I am firmly in the camp that a child needs to be brought up with the influence of both a male and female somehow involved in their upbringing. They are in a civil union, as a legal contract Marriage should be left to the Church to decide. Ironically, since marriage is a sign of the oppressive patriarchy, it's the only contract one person can vacate without financial penalty (typically the female). |
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Originally Posted By woodsie: If you pull it up on google maps and look through some of the user posted photos, you can see quite clear that they rented a space and "phoned it in" in terms of turning into a bar. Looks like they probably trying to float the thing on a small handful of regulars to boot. And when that idiot says "4 jobs" there's no way she actually mean four real jobs. Nobody actually has four real jobs. That sounds like something a profession victim (aka Liberal) would concoct to garner sympathy.  ONE JOB!!!!??? |
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Originally Posted By BrayD: I don't beleive politics has anything to do with it. They hate themselves and they know they're ugly as fuck, so it's nothing but a charade to bait people into liking a fake version themselves. They hope they can win people over with their "amazing" personality before they're forced to remove the mask and reveal their real self. Their fascination with covid and vaccines only serves to help maintain that charade. Originally Posted By BrayD: Originally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By TheLASwamp: Do these people hear themselves? The queer community is still weirdly into masking, covid, and vaccinations. There are a few major events on the East Coast that still require semi-proctored covid testing every morning. And two of the three that I'm thinking of are held at a huge campsite, not a hotel. And no, I don't get it. My best guess is it's a proxy for politics combined with a bit of oppositional-defiant disorder - conservatives hate masks, and conservatives are always wrong, so we love them. Other than that I got nuthin'. I don't beleive politics has anything to do with it. They hate themselves and they know they're ugly as fuck, so it's nothing but a charade to bait people into liking a fake version themselves. They hope they can win people over with their "amazing" personality before they're forced to remove the mask and reveal their real self. Their fascination with covid and vaccines only serves to help maintain that charade. And now I reveal my true face 
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The epitaph on the tombstone of Conservative America will read "We Followed the Rules."-Verticalgain
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Originally Posted By djkest: The comments from the "community" are ridiculous. They equate removing the mask mandate to genocide or ableism. They really do eat their own. These people really do live in their own little bubbles of dystopia. |
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Originally Posted By 1245xx: I believe FSU has, or had, a clown school. Originally Posted By 1245xx: Originally Posted By Codyboy: One of the owners is going to "clown school"? WTH. Like for rodeo clown or just a clown? I believe FSU has, or had, a clown school. Indeed they do. It’s called FSU 
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