• Cogency
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      They don’t want trans people to exist as anything but a porn category, so they treat us as just that, a profanity. It’d be funny because of how pathetic it is, but real people are dying because of this.

        • kreekybonez
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          99 months ago

          it leads down a pretty dark rabbit whole of general Federalist Society plans for an overtly conservative autocratic regime, and it’s terrifyingly plausible if they consolidate enough power and funding. and that’s all pretty easy with the support of foreign oligarchs that need the US to be fully involved in its own libertarian implosion, so it can turn a blind eye to international war crimes.

          i long for the times when conspiracy theories used to be fun spooky stories about cryptids wandering the wilds, and aliens doing creepy stuff in cornfields to mess with farmers

    • deweydecibel
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      139 months ago

      This is a campaigning bill. The wrote it to create these headlines, to rile up their shit base.

        • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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          109 months ago

          True. But, as of right now, polls have Biden and the dip shit neck and neck pretty much. I know polls aren’t’ everything but…yeah. Thats still scary.

          • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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            I’m pretty worried. If he wins, I doubt there will ever be another election until the government is overthrown, which could take decades.

            Handmaids tale was not on my list of acceptable dystopian futures.

          • kora
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            Polls mean nothing and should be ignored. The last 3 elections have proven that.

            • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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              49 months ago

              The last election had them being pretty close and that’s what it was. Remember?

              I never said they are perfect, I was very clear about that. But they do give you a general idea.

    • @fiercekitten@lemm.ee
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      339 months ago

      It absolutely does, but the republicans don’t care. They hope the courts won’t strike it down, but even when the courts do strike it down, it’s still a win for republicans in office because their voters love the attempts at violating the human rights and civil rights of anyone who is different from them. Republican voters also remain ignorant of the fact that all these court battles cost money, their tax-payer money.

  • partial_accumen
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    289 months ago

    You can here the calls now, can’t you? “Why don’t people want to go into teaching anymore?”

    • Shirasho
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      Killing education has been a GOP cornerstone for at least a century now. Education teaches people to think for themselves and make educated decisions, and those types of people would never vote Republican. The GOP are grooming children to vote for them to let them stay in power.

      Their politics isn’t “support the next generation”. It is “how can the next generation support us”. Education is the antithesis of this ideal.

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      169 months ago

      I’m honestly surprised that people are still in teaching positions considering the terrible wages and ridiculous amount of work they have to do

    • tjhart85
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      I would bet that if you investigate the author of the bill enough, you’ll find that they have some kind of relationship (friends, relative, money changing hands, etc…) with someone in the list who has a vested interest in it being watered down!

  • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    119 months ago

    Wooooow.

    What a strange time to be alive.

    To be fair to our ancestors though, this isn’t new. They just change the target from time to time. Once they do their damage and everyone sees how ugly it is and gets behind the victims of their shit, they just switch targets.

    “Well, I got a half black grandbaby, I reckon I’ll stop lynchin’. I’m sorry. You mean I can lynch a gay? Well heck! Yeeeehaw! Git over here fruitcake! Awwww shucks, you mean my grandbaby done growed up to be gay? Well, now I understand, it all makes sense. Can I lynch the trans? Wooooohooooo! Git over here deadname!”

  • @gapbetweenus@feddit.de
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    79 months ago

    Ok, with trans folks conservatives found a pretty small group to go after, curious what even smaller group would be next.

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    59 months ago

    The cons are just the worst. They repeat slogans like “pro-life” and “protect the children” - then do everything to cause harm to children.

    I wish we could just carve out some Gilead area for them in some cattle country somewhere and let them go form their perfect utopia there and leave the rest of us normal Americans the hell alone. The only downside is that they’d be abusing the hell out of their own kids in that utopia.