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Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

The chances of you dying because a kid gets to use her preferred pronoun? 0%. Meanwhile, Republicans are doing everything they can to make sure dozens of Americans continue to die of gun violence every day. RT @BudKennedy@twitter.com Texas DPS stops enforcing handgun age limits for young adults https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/01/27/texas-dps-stops-enforcing-handgun-age-limits-for-young-adults/

Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school, haul your ass to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want you to read.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 18, 2023

Tony Stark @TonyStark@democracy.town by Tony Stark (Mastodon)

Good. It's the same game the GOP always plays. National debt doesn't matter to them when there’s a Republican president and the debt ceiling limit is passed, no problem. When there is a Democratic president, they claim national debt is out of control, social programs have to be slashed to the bone...

Summary of 2023 Republican Agenda: -Abortion: Ban it -Marijuana: Ban it -Democracy: Ban it -Immigration: Ban it -LGBTQ books: Ban it -Contraceptives: Ban it -Dialogue on racism: Ban it -Books by Black Authors: Ban it . . . -Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU LIBERAL SNOWFLAKES!

@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social "Freedom" and "Liberty" in American conservative ideology are terms as devoid of content as "Freiheit" was in Nazi propaganda. Virtually everything they see as a threat to their "freedoms" involves challenging their place at the top of the social hierarchy and their way of life as the norm. Having to tolerate the existence of LGBT people and POC, and witness them being themselves in public, is "oppression." Criticizing them in any way is "oppression." The only way they can be "free" is to live in a society populated entirely by people like themselves.

Attached: 1 image If your ad revenue is down 40% and you're doing more to attract Nazis to your site than advertisers, you're in the Nazi business. RT @MichaelEHayden@twitter.com Elon Musk restored the verified account of white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes. No other mainstream website allows this guy to have an account.

Attached: 1 image It's really jarring watching how right-wing media regularly scrape social media for super unhinged takes that basically nobody agrees with, writes entire articles implying they are commonly held view among the group they want to attack, then they use the outrage generate from the article to undermine the rights of the entire group based on a straw man they built from a single post.

Attached: 1 image Sen. Marco Rubio just wrote this editorial regarding a potential TikTok ban. It's apparent to me that his gripe isn't with TikTok's surveillance or algorithms or data collection per se. It's that a Chinese company is doing it. Apparently, if TikTok were American, they would be peachy keen. But Chinese? That's bad! I don't like TikTok, and I believe it's generally an evil corporation. Yet I also dislike how Sen. Rubio is pushing yellow peril. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tiktok-other-social-media-controlled-enemies-must-banned-now-we-cant-wait-longer

Another day where the two tracking apps on my phone are over a mile and a half apart in their estimates of the distance I walked. Probably gonna hold off on getting in a driverless cars for at least the next 40-50 years.

Attached: 2 images America wakes up to another tragedy. Some can’t accept that festivals like Lunar Year and Diwali are now mainstream in America. Fuck them.

“Media discovers tech entrepreneur widely proclaimed for years to be smarter than Einstein, kinder than Jesus, and wiser than Solomon actually isn’t”. No questions then get asked as to who made said proclamations and no lessons are then learned as to why it might be a good idea to approach widely hyped technology with weary skepticism, as is pretty common among technologists actually working at the coalface.

People who say, "The Fediverse doesn't allow search" are literally making that up. And it's easy to refute. Do a search for your username on Google or DuckDuckGo, and you'll find so many of your posts. In your Mastodon account preferences, you can also set how indexable you want to be. If Fediverse search was impossible, why is so much of the Fediverse indexable by Google?

Attached: 1 image Good morning, here's some schadenfreude arising from Twitter's most right-wing employees cheering Elon Musk's acquisition and then also getting fired. Sorry not sorry, bootlicking bigots. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

Really sick of having Republicans crash the economy when they're in power and when they're not in power, they threaten to crash the economy to get things they couldn't pass when they were in power. RT @bpmehlman@twitter.com The debt limit has been raised 78 times since 1960: -49 times under GOP presidents -29 times under DEM presidents Per @NBCNews@twitter.com https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/debt-ceiling-deadline-will-republicans-pass-rcna65710

I get that the GOP likes to pretend that MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is a call for colorblindness (it's not), citing the "content of their character" line, but here's a little secret: If you're the type of person who feels the need to cling to that line, free from context, then the "content of your character" is pretty apparent, and it's not looking good for you.

Attached: 1 video Kier Starmer is all 'lets have a respectful debate' now Iain Anderson from @stonewalluk@mastodon.social wants to reset the debate with anti-trans groups. No, just no. We tried that for years and you're asking trans people to 'debate' people who call us perverts and paedophiles, who mock our dead, who relentlessly attack us and want to remove our rights. Stonewall needs to actually listen to the trans community, we need a fucking voice that isn't 'chaperoned' and is actually representative.

It’s time to dispose of the naïve idea that the difficulty with rape prosecutions is epistemic (“but how do we KNOW it wasn’t consensual!?”) and admit that the real question is whether or not rape is a prerogative of manhood. Tate preaches that it is; seems like the cops agreed.

— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) January 11, 2023

I have a new painful rule:

If someone doesn’t believe they can cause harm?

They can not create change

— 🗽Sydette Cosmic Dreaded Gorgon 🇬🇾 (@Blackamazon) January 8, 2023

Hey House Democrats, one more reminder: Don’t bail out House Republicans tomorrow. Don’t throw them a lifeline. Don’t team up with a few Republicans to pick some “consensus” Speaker. This is THEIR mess. This is THEIR dysfunction. THEY own it. The American people need to see it.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 2, 2023