2026-05-13 14:11 UTC
@bud_t@m.ai6yr.org @kb6nu@mastodon.radio Honestly it's hard to ham when people are actively attempting to strip away my voting rights. My membership in ARRL is strategic--discounts on instructional materials, awards, etc. I have no illusions about an organization that was founded by the son of a Knighted person whose claim to fame was inventing a gun used to #genocide #Africans. Included into what? Diversify into what?
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@bud_t@m.ai6yr.org 2026-05-13 14:14
@wb2ifs@mastodon.hams.social @kb6nu@mastodon.radio I totally appreciate and understand that. And it's like America at large, really. I don't think there is some post-racist utopia ahead of us in AMerica, but I do want *better*, and lately we're getting a lot worse.
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@wb2ifs@mastodon.hams.social 2026-05-13 14:21
@bud_t@m.ai6yr.org @kb6nu@mastodon.radio I don't engage in these debates because I've nothing to gain and everything to lose. For some, this is a pure intellectual exercise. For me, this is about survival. My Bride and I are talking about seeking asylum from the land of our birth😢 , because, as the poem Home by Warsan Shire says, "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark"