‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.::undefined

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Of course it will. Then once they have all the trans people rounded up they’ll target the gays, then the blacks, the mexicans, and so on and so forth until everyone’s in camps that isn’t white.

Republican supporters won’t wake up to this until they start coming after the stupid and obese.

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You’re not safe even if you’re white. If nothing else they’ll target people who like the color blue just to keep some “enemy” in their sights.

White people are just further down the list of easy targets. At that point they’ll start by hair color and nitpick their way down from there.

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Fascism requires an “other” to function. Once one “other” is a destroyed there will always be another one to take it’s place.

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Blonde and blue eyes only?

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As long as they don’t have any lefty thoughts. Don’t forget that the Nazis also put unionists, socialists and communists in camps.

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Working backwards, we could reasonably expect Italian, Irish, and Polish people. Discrimination really isn’t about the color of your skin if history is anything to go off of.

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they’ll never target the stupid, those are the people who will support them no matter what. They’re already trying to demonize intelligence and education.

the bar for what counts as stupid enough will continue to lower, though.

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True. The dumbification of America has been going on for years.

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It’s not about colour anymore, it’s the return of classism.

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the return of classism.

The return? It never left.

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The bill – endorsed by president Joe Biden – aims to put in place…

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“The bill – endorsed by president Joe Biden…”

Why in the world would Biden support this Heritage foundation garbage?

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‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits

He’s a granddad. We shouldn’t have granddads who can’t work a remote be president. I assume he can’t work a remote.

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Set maximum age for presidency at 25.

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This IS Biden. He’s always been a pretty bad human person. The only silver lining is that he’s been better than most recently. He’s a center-right politician just like most Democrats.

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Are you starting to see the cracks in the foundation? Are you starting to see how the game is played?

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This is actually a fantastic example of typical politics, but not in the way you’re imagining. It’s a classic poison pill. Write a bill with something good (protecting children’s privacy online, which I think we’d all agree is good) and then put something unpalatable into it (transphobia and homophobia).

Someone votes for it, “Why do you hate LGBT people?” Someone votes against it, “Why don’t you want children to have stronger privacy laws on the Internet?”

It’s exhausting and a lose-lose. That said, I prefer if they don’t vote for it and take heat for “being anti privacy”. You don’t negotiate with people’s rights.

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Is it protecting children? Claims need evidence and rules need tests. Until we do that its fear-based, exploitable control for the sake of control.

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Please explain in detail how this bill does a single good thing for children.

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The only cracks here is that the senate are all a bunch of olds who don’t understand the internet.

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This tbh…

They fear what thy don’t understand…

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Actually no, and furthermore I reject your ‘both sides’ rhetoric wholesale.

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I legitimately can’t fucking stand idiots like you.

You can agree with the overall or the majority of policy decisions of a political party while still criticizing their individual decisions as people. To think your political party is somehow ‘above it’ or morally just through and through is being willfully ignorant. It’s a level of mental gymnastics that’s outright absurd.

Again, you can still vote for these people and still believe doing so increases the quality of life. And yes, we can make a distinction that one party isn’t just the ‘lesser of two evils’.

But holy fuck, seriously. Both sides voted to invade the middle east, both sides vote to increase the military budget, both sides vote to increase their own congressional benefits, and both sides play the game where you need to vote on someone’s bill to get them to vote on yours, both sides have issues with the legal loop holes of bribery, both sides take lobbiest money, etc.

Just because one is clearly better than the other doesn’t remove them from criticism and doesn’t deny the fact that they are still politicians doing political shit.

Unstick your head from your ass, ffs

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$$$$$$$$$$

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Are you not at all familiar with the man and his political history?

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Because he is an old senile man

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He’s desperate to look bipartisan

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Biden has hurt blacks more than any larper nazi today.

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“Trans porn must be curropting children because it’s all I watch now and my mind is way stronger than a child’s.” -Marsha Blackburn

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…and my mind is stronger than a child’s…

It’s not though. It really, really isn’t.

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I mean, at this stage you can tell that by the name.

These deplorables love children so much that they don’t even bat an eye at using child sexual abuse as a political tool while simultaneously turning a blind eye to 300,000 children raped by clergy.

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Or children starving because they have to pay for shitty food at school, or children starving and having a bad life because their parents can’t afford to pay for more even if they already work, or children at orphanages…

Yeah, much like with forbidding abortion (but then never caring whether the no longer-aborted child will have a proper home to live), children are just a political tool.

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We should protect the children, lets start with the Catholic Church.

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To protect kids from gay priests who are molesting them?

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Heavens, no. To find a way to extract some monetary value out of that.

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and the child mutilating church

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