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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 146 points 10 months ago

They complain about political correctness, and they go and do shit like this.

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Political correctness: I can't say what I want!

Conservatives Later: it's now illegal for you to say what you want

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

As is fascist tradition.

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[-] art@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago

This is a blatant first amendment violation. Another pro-gamer move from the free speech party.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago

There is no "good conservative" alive today.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

When the flip flopper in chief, Mitt Romney, is your only hope, or anyone named Cheney, we've got massive problems.

[-] toastus@feddit.de 32 points 10 months ago

Not that I disagree with you.

But even as a staunch Euro leftist, I think it is okay that there are people I strongly disagree with, even strongly dislike because I think the fight for values that are against my personal morality.

Both Romney and Cheney are such people.
I don't think they should have political power over other people.

But they share at least a certain common ground with me that the fascists don't.
And for how little I actually like those people, I still value this very difference.

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[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe some of them need to be less alive

[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago

I really can't comprehend the level of hate that these motherfuckers must possess to write or support such a bill. I mean, let's say you're an incredible asshole who doesn't think that trans people exist, like you think that you know who they are much better than they actually know themselves. Even with that as a baseline, isn't it still just the polite thing to treat them with basic respect?

If I found out that someone I just met preferred to use their middle name instead of their first name, I would 100% use that person's middle name when addressing them. It's just common courtesy. The same thing goes with a person who's transitioning - I will use their preferred name, because I'm not a completely deplorable piece of shit.

But this guy is way worse than someone who intentionally antagonizes people by using their disliked name when addressing them. This guy wants to actively punish anybody who has the rock bottom bare minimum of civility by destroying their lives and livelihoods.

I just can't grasp that level of hatred. How is it that this piece of shit shares enough genes with everybody else that he's recognized as human?

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 81 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah yes, further diluting the term sex offender down to the point the label is meaningless.

Makes perfect sense to combine teachers who accept pronouns, with people caught publicly urinating on the same list with violent rapists and convicted pedophiles.. after all, it's all the same.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

The right is full of pedophiles and rapists so this works for them.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

My honest reaction to news coming from USA these days:

[-] Pwnmode@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Ditto. But I'm in the USA myself.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's difficult to differentiate between real news and The Onion now days. It's like... Comical but also terrifying.

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

Jesus Christ fuck these GOP assholes so hard

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They probably want that, so no.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

HAIRCUTS! HAIRCUTS OF THE WRONG GENDER ARE PART OF THIS BILL!!

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Dafuq kinda haircut is gendered?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Any haircut underneath which stands someone Republicans want to oppress.

Just ask Darryl George.

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[-] dwalin@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

kim jong-un approves this law

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 42 points 10 months ago

As a practical result this is more of an attack on education than an attack on LGBT, who would want to be a teacher under such tyrannical rules?

[-] StevenSaus@midwest.social 19 points 10 months ago

They're getting two birds with one stone.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 40 points 10 months ago

How is anyone supposed to know anyone else’s pronouns without asking them?

Are the teachers supposed to check the genitals of their students at the beginning of the year?

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

I feel like that’s what the right wants. They’re weirdly interested in that

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Naked lessons.. naked schools.. that way the sneaky trans kids also cannot change during the year.

[-] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

But if everyone is naked, the poor boys will be distracted. I mean, they already veer off course when shoulders are out. I guess the only appropriate solution is to not have the girls at (naked) school. /s

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Oh excellent point. All naked boys only and girls only schools. That will definitely resolve the issue and has no chance to backfire.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

study to be a teacher in Missouri
teach full time for $30,000/year or something
become a sex offender, obviously can't teach anymore
can't actually find a job at all
forced to live in a designated trailer park for pedophiles
become a lifelong welfare recipient

nice one, conservatives

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

This is how it starts, people.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago
[-] mob@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Dumbass bills are introduced all the time. The news likes to bring them up but never talks about most of them being shot down though.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Don't like your teacher? Just flip your pronouns real quick and get them on the sex offender list. Problem solved.

Fuck this bullshit

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

I vote we make all politicians sex offenders to see how they like it.

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Most of them already are... but I get your point.

[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I hate that these are usually rage bait titles, but this is legitimately terrifying

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Okay. Everyone is a they/them. No binary gender for anyone. Hedge your bets and play it right down the middle.

Problem solved

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

points at own pronouns Sorry, you're a sex offender now for accepting my pronouns :3

Also apparently you're now a teacher in Missouri. Given that place's apparent eagerness to dilute the term "sex offender" to nothing, I suppose you may find this part more upsetting.

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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago
[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Fuck Missouri Republicans.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago
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[-] don@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

Missouri deliberately impoverishing themselves is par for the conservative course.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Two years ago I would have said no worries, there's no way a bill like this can pass. Now? Let's just say I don't take anything for granted.

[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 8 points 10 months ago

Just give politicians prison time for wasteful laws like this. It's objectively a waste of taxpayer's dollars used to fuel hate crimes. Fuck them, they should get 100x the risk and accountability then the poor paycheck to paycheck teachers they keep overly focusing on.

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