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civildisobedient t1_j9ywjt2 wrote

Important bits for the lazy:

> It can be an Unfair Trade Practice to refuse to honor the Maine Implied Warranty Law within four years of sale. The basic test for possible implied warranty violations is as follows: > > * The item is seriously defective, > * The consumer did not damage the item, > * The item is still within its useful life and is not simply worn out.

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Intru t1_j9ywbet wrote

Last night? There was a Police chase all over the city of Portsmouth. Someone/s in a white van where being chased. They passed by my home on Woodbury Ave and there where like 16 police cars chasing the van. My roommates then told me the where passed by on rt 1 down by the Market Basket and then went up towards town and drove against traffic through some downtown street. That presence might have been to stop them from getting on I-95 or they finally stopped the van there. Wether it was related to the white nationalist activity in recent days, we will just have to wait and see.

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eljefino t1_j9yufa7 wrote

To be specific, you can use "year of manufacture" plates. Maine got black-on-white plates in 1973 (stamped expiration 74) that were renewed with validation stickers. These lasted until 1986-87 when the lobster plates took over.

You can run these plates on an antique, that has a valid antique registration, for the valid antique reasons listed on the DMV affidavit. (Mostly not daily use or for hire.) Just carry your state-issued antique plates with you in the car. The DMV and cops have no record whatsoever of those plates you got at a flea market.

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eliot_cutler t1_j9yt6v2 wrote

Yeah, there’s plenty of mass shooting that have happened for plenty of reasons. You talking like that, ironically, probably causes more of them to happen. You just don’t understand how to effectively forward your cause. Hyperbolic prattle drives people away.

The way trans people have it is that they have chosen an odd and modern way to deal with questions of identity. I would wager than a trans person would prefer to be alive now rather than 1950, but you don’t really have a lot of life experience to draw on that would help you in making these judgement calls. Being gay is a minority sexual preference that only requires jamming you cock into some dudes butt or rubbing your vag against another. Trans people aim to change their bodies. People will look at that differently. Good luck with your revolution, Robespierre. I could really care less if you think I’m a good or bad person, I’m just discussing my thoughts. You should really move to California it sounds like you’d like it there.

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HerrAdventure t1_j9yrjy5 wrote

I agree, it's a hit piece that skirts the details of the matter to promote an agenda that appeases the user base. The disturbing nature I see regardless of sexual identity is when teachers have their personal lives involved with students that fall outside the window of appropriate and professional topics. Accident or not, it's not suitable for young minds to be involved with. Overall social media has been a downfall for many individuals and that's a broad topic in itself and for a different discussion.

In this specific case, it's a no-tolerance reaction by the school. The other road that could have been taken would be to keep the teacher employed with the community knowing that this individual may or may not have done this intentionally and is still working at the school. The former is a better approach to keeping an even keel and peace of mind that any sexual nature within the confines of teachers and students, whether it be physical or social, won't happen. And if it does, the route to be taken will mimic this.

In regards to what the article promotes in the agenda of Fox News, it's not wholesome and true to the extent of the full story. It's only bits and pieces and omitting other details that are not aligning with what they want to sell as fear to attract their users for more.

My advice is to delete social media, turn off MSM, and live a life that represents an individual's pursuit of happiness without causing harm in the process.

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mymaineaccount46 t1_j9yqbar wrote

I don't think it is a byproduct of the trans debate. The line between private and school life has always been present. Teachers are meant to be authority figured to their students, not their friends. That isn't something that should be changed and it's entirely inappropriate to be giving out your socials to students regardless of who you are, your beliefs, gender etc.

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MosskeepForest t1_j9ypudx wrote

>who went through significantly worse than pronoun ‘misuse’ and random articles on right wing websites discussing them in less than fawning terms.

Are you really trying to claim "trans people don't have it so bad"? What's wrong with you?

Right wingers are STILL shooting up clubs and murdering trans people regularly. The "trans panic" defense is still alive and used in the country (that is the defense where a person murders a trans person, but claims it's not their fault because they were surprised to learn they were trans... so.... it's ok to murder them in that moment).

Claiming it's just about some "misuse of pronouns" as you ignore the gross injustices trans people face is really fucked up. You are just a horrible person aren't you?

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eliot_cutler t1_j9yoxld wrote

It’s Fox News. Welcome to the world. It’s the same reason you spout off about traitors and fascists and talk about how you’ve seen these groups oppressed ‘your whole life’, the cognizant portion of which probably began after the towers fell, which is completely offensive to the gays and minorities of past generations who went through significantly worse than pronoun ‘misuse’ and random articles on right wing websites discussing them in less than fawning terms.

I don’t begrudge trans people anything, most are quite nice, like anyone else, but any sort of extreme body modification is different. Oddly enough, by pretending to be a different gender you are acknowledging that their are defined gender norms that you fall outside of, therefore need to change your body, then argue that there should be no defined gender norms, though you’re adopting the mannerisms and affects of a presumed other gender. Humans can be confused, no system is perfect, but to ask others to totally adopt your opinion and offer the charge of treason to anything less is offensive. You’re worse than all of them and just as bad as any of those traders in political clout you see on any extreme news station. Why do you type leave cities? You should move to Portland. Or better, California.

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MosskeepForest t1_j9ynjt5 wrote

>In today's environment, a teacher's social media presence needs to be squeaky clean.

Yea, todays environment of people trying to turn everything into some type of moral panic. It's always some fucked up fundamental christian viewpoint that has us firing teachers because they showed their knees on facebook or something.

That people support this type of fragile "teachers can't be human" mentality is insane.... but explains why our education system is so shit. We have very poorly paid teachers who are told they must always walk on a knives edge of being fired for "being inappropriate".... which leaves very few people willing to put up with all that BS.

And the application of "decency" is always applied to women and minorities. Even just kids knowing a teachers name and finding their facebook page where they posted going to a club is "inappropriate".

How do people keep supporting this or thinking this is healthy or good?

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OddClass134 t1_j9ymqoe wrote

What is "disturbing" about what occurred? A teacher shared a social media username, a couple of those videos showed the teacher posing in a sexy-but-not-pornographic way, the school let her go. That's not disturbing.

People get fired all the time for posting things they didn't realize they should have, mixing up accounts and accidentally liking porn, etc. 99% of the time it's an accident.

This article and others imply it was intentional because they have a political agenda-- to make trans women look like sexual predators going after kids. The implication is that for this case it was no accident, this was intentional predation!! But there's no evidence of that and it's really, really unlikely to be true.

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MosskeepForest t1_j9ymmxu wrote

>The male teacher should be reprimanded too

And it would be handled in the school and life would go on. Not become national news by conservatives trying to push a hate-filled political agenda akin to the Nazis pushing the same narrative of "lgbt people are threats to children!!".

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