It's beginning. All over again. Fuck. We gon' have to destroy some Nazis again, aren't we?
yes, we do. let's finish the job this time so our grandkids won't have to deal with this shit
Sadly,many of these new Nazis are the grandchildren of the people who fought the original Nazis.
*Children
Both are correct
"We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state – we are a moral state,"
Ding, ding, ding...
There's your problem, right there. Christians continue to tell us who they plan on attacking next and we, as a society, allow them to continue to be the shittiest human beings on planet Earth, unabated. These people are heavily mentally ill. And they keep... What's the word they like to use..? "Grooming" kids to make sure the priests and the pastors have a brand new group of idiots for the next generation.
This has to be stopped. Believing utter bullshit should not be a protected class.
I'm really tired of these assholes using religion as a basis to make and change laws. They're forcing Christianity of everyone else. I guess freedom of/from religion is there with the separation if church and state, in the trash.
Using religion as a basis to change laws is what they do. It's why they were threatened, under the penalty of death, by most of the countries in Europe, to leave. Everybody was sick of their shit. Imagine a massive group of Marjorie Taylor Greens. That is what sailed to America. Imagine being a Native American, living your best life, and that is what shows up on your shores.
This narrative that Christians left to "avoid religious persecution" was started by, you guessed it, the Christians, who are always the "victims" even when they themselves initiated the problem. The truth is, they came here so they could continue to persecute others. How many infected blankets did they hand out to the natives, knowing it would kill them? They have always been terrible people. Always.
The founding fathers were not even Christians, they were deists. At that time, just like today, you can't make a law without including the Christians or they'll destroy society. They have to be getting talked about favorably or they kill everyone around them; the inquisition, the Nazis, etc... All done by Christians. And yet we made them a federally protected class. For what? What warrants that? They aren't threatened. They're not a minority class, that is to say, not a small number of the population... They have churches seemingly on every corner in every city and town in the country. Everyone else has to be protected from them.
And one of the lesser, yet still egregious tactics that they use is to have prayer meetings at public schools and at jobs. I've lived in the South my entire life and almost every place I've ever worked, there's been a morning meeting where somebody prays at the end.
We, as a society, need to reevaluate the need to list religion as a protected class, because let's face it, the Christians think their religion is the only one that meets that criteria. They are nothing but a federally defended terrorist group.
Blows my mind that there aren't violent LGBT folks out there. I'm not advocating violence, but I'm impressed with the self control.
There absolutely are, never forget the first pride parade was a riot.
"When did you ever see a fag fight back? ... Now, times were a-changin'. Tuesday night was the last night for bullshit ... Predominantly, the theme [w]as, "this shit has got to stop!"
"...the crowd shouted "Pigs!" and "Faggot cops!" Beer cans were thrown and the police lashed out, dispersing some of the crowd who found a construction site nearby with stacks of bricks....Garbage cans, garbage, bottles, rocks, and bricks were hurled at the building, breaking the windows. Witnesses attest that "flame queens", hustlers, and gay "street kids"—the most outcast people in the gay community—were responsible for the first volley of projectiles, as well as the uprooting of a parking meter used as a battering ram"
American citizens should be rioting over shit like this regularly. It's mind blowing to me the USA just shrugs at this stuff like "whattya gonna do?"
50% don't like it, 10% don't care, 40% support it. The part that supports it is good at gerrymandering.
Your math is wrong, it's closer to 60/10/30, with the problem being that the 30% all live around each other (and are good at gerrymandering)
Sure, I was guessing the numbers
I honestly think their intent is to just make their states completely uninhabitable to anyone who isn't a white supremacist. If they can do that with a swing state or at least states that have a significant blue presence, they effectively take the entire government nationwide. They just need to make their policies so completely repulsive to anyone who isn't them that we stay clear.
Of voters. The vast majority of American people are against This, but the vast majority of American people don’t vote. 
we have an overly militarized police force and many literally can't miss work to fight lol
This is what keeps us in check. If you’re busted by the overly militarized police you will also likely lose the job that you can’t afford to lose, you will go deep into debt, become homeless; which in most states is illegal and you’ll end up in jail.
When I was a younger person, I attended some protests. Then I saw many get broken up by the police, and many people arrested for trivial reasons. Eventually it became less and less worth it.
America, it’s law enforcement and most of the population values property over people. The owning class in America own the police, write the laws and vote R.
Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who simply aren't aware of how bad things are now. They aren't doomscrolling reddit/Lemmy/bluesky/Mastodon, they're doing other things with their lives. The result is that their awareness lags behind what's going on and because the US is slipping hard and fast into fascism, they're still thinking about Trump's comment on "grabbing 'em by the pussy" while the CPAC is talking about ending democracy.
It's hard to riot when it's not right in your backyard, and you're not networked/less social, propaganda that encourages indifference or ignorance. America has a seriously systemic social problem. You're definitely right, though.
And when you're one paycheck away from living on the streets and the threat of state sanctioned violence or detention could get you fired.
Gay man calls republicans "filth", says most don't want them here
Straight man calls republicans "filth", says most don't want them here
Most call Republicans filth, gayly saying we don't want them here.
That's not a wrong statement.
ayo gays are fun. republicans are not.
Oklahoma, where a non binary kid just died maybe because of bullying
What's terrible is that he said this when people were asking about that specific incident.
We're quite fond of them in ours, we'll trade some white supremacists.
Who wants to tell him? Who wants to tell him that every national popular vote for the last 20 years says that most people don't want Republicans here.
“I want to make sure that at least the children in our public schools have that faith ... what I want to make sure of is that our young children have the right to grow up with that faith"
Stephens said that as an educator, he had taken an oath to educate and not “indoctrinate” students.
Ok, I think I get it now, making sure that school children are taught your religious beliefs isn't indoctrination but teaching them that it is wrong to beat someone to death for their gender expression is.
Hitler said the Same Thing and that's why he went to HEAVEN! Also I'm NOT Racist OR a White Supremacist!
I can't wait for these fossils to die off
I'd say to him. Too fucking bad dipshit this is america. If u dont like me being here rest assured I do not care and you can kiss my ass lol and if u wana try and kick me out theres the second amendment so that I can kick you out of this lifetime :)
I share your sentiment, but be very careful with comments wishing harm on U.S. senators. You never know who is reading, and they can and will take your comment seriously.
They didn't wish I'll to this guy. They promised to defend themselves from him.
I can't access the article. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark that an ( R ) is involved.
If I'm filth, this jackass and everyone that thinks like him is a radioactive dumpster burning tires.
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