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The fact that anyone thinks this is sane is legitimately sad…

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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.

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I hear you. Have you read Project 25? They have plans to take it to the extreme if Trump wins.

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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

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13 points

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

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49 points

Fuck the GOP.

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39 points

I love how the GOP is committing suicide.

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39 points

We like to pretend that but they seem to be going strong. Their base, and there is a lot of them, eat this shit up.

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12 points

We’ll find out in November. 🤢

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10 points

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.

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6 points

Their base loves this.

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Doesn’t that go against free speech? The first amendment?

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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.

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

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

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