Conservatives say stupid shit

[laughing dog]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians

"Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions.

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 for the bill that now moves to the Alabama Senate. The legislation comes amid a soaring number of book challenges — often centered on LGBTQ content — and efforts in a number of states to ban drag queen story readings.

“This is an effort to protect children. It is not a Democrat bill. It’s not a Republican bill. It’s a people bill to try to protect children,” Republican Rep. Arnold Mooney, the bill’s sponsor, said during debate."

The surprising news there is that Alabama has libraries.

[LarsMac]

I can't believe that we are approaching a world where Librarians have to worry about going to jail.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It’s the next step after last century’s book burnings.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sure, why not this thrad:

Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they’re coming for your home (27 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

I'm no Clarice Schillinger - or even a rank-and-file Mom for Liberty - but I'm pretty sure Robert's Rules of Order and/or the Marquess of Queensbury Rules feature some rather specific protocols for drunk-ass dirtbag homeowners supervising their drunk-ass dirtbag boyfriends and/or drunk-ass dirtbag mothers with regard to closed-fist punching of drunk-ass teenagers attending a large party for the drunk-ass homeowner's drunk-ass 17-year-old daughter, protocols that were not necessarily followed here!

Disgraceful.

Probation for furnishing booze to minors, assault charges dropped. Seems like an awfully "soft on crime" result to me. But hey, Schillinger is a complete train wreck of a human being. It's only a matter of time before she succumbs to the siren song of self-destruction. Here's hoping the piece of shit doesn't take any innocents down with her.

[seebs]

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

This is "conservative stops saying stupid shit", roughly. Ran on a campaign platform of doing something about the woke liberals indoctrinating kids, then actually ran curriculum, was delighted to find out it wasn't happening, is now being targeted by the people who wanted her to run because they never actually thought it was happening, they just wanted power.

[beyelzu]

According to a Granbury police report, an off-duty officer spotted a black pistol in a holster in Cliff Criswell’s waistband and alerted school and city police. Possession of an unauthorized firearm at a school board meeting is a third-degree felony under state law, but because officers didn’t conclusively identify the weapon that night, and because Cliff Criswell declined to cooperate, prosecutors were unable to file charges, said Granbury police Deputy Chief Cliff Andrews. Cliff Criswell could not be reached for comment.

An off duty cop seeing a handgun can get a Black man killed in many jurisdictions, but this couldn’t even result in a pat down.

“Had we identified the gun at the very moment, yes, absolutely, we could have filed charges on it,” Andrews said. “We made a simple mistake.”

Lol, sure.

ACAB

It is a sad state of affairs that acknowledging reality is such a rare trait among the GOP that this is unusual and newsworthy.

That was the moment I saw how crazy it was, how unhinged it had become and how far some people were willing to go to prove their points,” Gore said.

This situation won’t surprise many leftists or progressives imo.

This is classic asshole behavior where a person is completely oblivious to a widespread problem until it happebs to them.

The far right didn’t start harassing and threatening school boards with Gore.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by seebs

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.

This is "conservative stops saying stupid shit", roughly. Ran on a campaign platform of doing something about the woke liberals indoctrinating kids, then actually ran curriculum, was delighted to find out it wasn't happening, is now being targeted by the people who wanted her to run because they never actually thought it was happening, they just wanted power.

“What a relief that schools aren’t teaching about systematic oppression that they may decide to do something about it. White supremacy remains secure,” she exhaled in relief.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

If anyone is a bad idea to pick a fight with, it’s Dolly Parton.

There's Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton's False Gospel

[LarsMac]

They'd best not be bad-mouthin' Dolly!!!
We gonna have WORDS, People.

[Ari]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

If anyone is a bad idea to pick a fight with, it’s Dolly Parton.

There's Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton's False Gospel

One of this lady's other articles is 'Just because the church traumatized you, doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a second chance.' I haven't read the Handmaiden tales but is there a woman in it who when she finds out they must wear horse blinders volunteers to hand them out and check their fit?

[Ensign Steve]

Yes, Aunt Lydia. She's not even a volunteer, it's her actual job.

[Miss Shelby]

yeah and I'm sure that kind of thing happens every day because it was in the Handmaids Tale.

[Crumb]

Sometimes metaphors can be difficult.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump's pick for vice president says UK an 'Islamist' country under Labour | ITV News

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Far right commentator admits gender is a social construct


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[fragment]

Yup. Their problem isn't really with gender being a social construct, it's with losing control over the social construct as people assert their autonomy.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This is not what that word means.

Kamala is quite literally a communist.

She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes. https://t.co/XIS8HSbLbC

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2024

[seebs]

Musk might be getting to play with the big serious crimes people for his "voter registration" site that collects data but doesn't register people if they're in swing states. Turns out fake voter registration is actually probably seriously illegal. On the other hand, he's rich enough to get away with everything else so far.

[viscousmemories]

Free market fundamentalism, fuck yeah!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Ready to get crushed, Pinochet style?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

BREAKING: JD Vance on a Fox interview says that it's not normal for suburban women to care about their reproductive rights and insists they care about other "normal things" instead. pic.twitter.com/SG6qkdDiyY

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 15, 2024

[BrotherMan]

It's definitely something suburban housewives should have to be concerned with. It wasn't just a few years ago that "roe v wade" was "settled law" and "nothing was going to change that." But this is the new world we're in now. Wonder how that happened.

[Ensign Steve]

True all that, but like there's other women in this country than suburban.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Walz's joke about spicy food made Ben Shapiro so mad that he admitted that colonialism existed and was about the exploitation of resources. pic.twitter.com/7zJvyR4UES

— Jason Read (@Unemployedneg) August 16, 2024