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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 7, 2023 at 1:33 pm
(August 7, 2023 at 12:34 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: (August 6, 2023 at 11:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Florida schools are now teaching kids using “Prager University” videos, a far-right Christian propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.
One video features a cartoon of Christopher Columbus saying, “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed!”; and that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
I've never gotten that last bit. Is the notion that enslaved people couldn't have learned those skills if they were free?
In other GOP news, every single Auschwitz survivor achieved their weight loss goal.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 7, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Moms for Liberty and Parents Involved in Education are once again trying to win seats on my town's school committee and the town library board. They want to ban their way to freedom.
In the last election cycle they trotted out crusty old "no kids in the school system" candidates who vowed to stop woke. They lost by a 8-1 margin. So, of course, the same candidates are running again because hey, maybe we won't be paying attention this time.
The candidate for Library Board has never had a town library card.
Idiocracy.
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August 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 7, 2023 at 6:33 pm
(August 7, 2023 at 2:30 pm)Nanny Wrote: Moms for Liberty and Parents Involved in Education are once again trying to win seats on my town's school committee and the town library board. They want to ban their way to freedom.
In the last election cycle they trotted out crusty old "no kids in the school system" candidates who vowed to stop woke. They lost by a 8-1 margin. So, of course, the same candidates are running again because hey, maybe we won't be paying attention this time.
The candidate for Library Board has never had a town library card.
Idiocracy.
Moms For Liberty aren’t all bad. See post 1229, this thread.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 7, 2023 at 8:11 pm
(August 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
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...and yet, the chump has already announced how he's going to abuse the justice system to get revenge on his perceived enemies. 20% of people in the US still support this turd, wholeheartedly. This is one sick country.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 7, 2023 at 8:23 pm
(August 7, 2023 at 8:11 pm)Fireball Wrote: (August 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
Boru
...and yet, the chump has already announced how he's going to abuse the justice system to get revenge on his perceived enemies. 20% of people in the US still support this turd, wholeheartedly. This is one sick country. The only way I can sleep at night is to believe that these people just cannot accept that they were wrong.
But I do live in Texas and therefore to be safe I just don't leave the house.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 8, 2023 at 8:21 am
GOP lawmaker's wife says she's been replacing 'terrible books' with Bibles in local Little Free Libraries
Jennifer Meeks, the wife of Arkansas State Rep. Stephen Meeks, posted on Facebook recently about her efforts to remove "terrible books" from local Little Free Libraries and replace them with Bibles.
"I have been swapping out books in little free libraries for awhile," she wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. "I have seen good books, terrible books... Recently I have been picking up free Bibles at flea markets and thrift stores. Sometimes I find good devotion books or kids’ Bible stories at a good price to add. Or just great books, and a gospel tract is a nice idea too.”
Meeks said she was inspired to do this after seeing a lot of LGBTQ Pride-themed books in the libraries.
"From what I have seen a lot of these books and other things don’t align with Christian values," she wrote. "Today, I saw a bunch of Pride stuff in one. There’s a group of leftists, especially in Conway, who are very active in keeping little libraries well stocked."
Meeks has since either deleted the Facebook post or made it private, although the local progressive organization Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice said that her efforts would not stop people in the area from stocking libraries with quality reading material.
"Keep removing them, Jennifer," they said. "We won’t stop."
https://www.rawstory.com/arkansas-banned-books/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 8, 2023 at 10:36 am
(August 8, 2023 at 8:21 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: GOP lawmaker's wife says she's been replacing 'terrible books' with Bibles in local Little Free Libraries
Jennifer Meeks, the wife of Arkansas State Rep. Stephen Meeks, posted on Facebook recently about her efforts to remove "terrible books" from local Little Free Libraries and replace them with Bibles.
"I have been swapping out books in little free libraries for awhile," she wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. "I have seen good books, terrible books... Recently I have been picking up free Bibles at flea markets and thrift stores. Sometimes I find good devotion books or kids’ Bible stories at a good price to add. Or just great books, and a gospel tract is a nice idea too.”
Meeks said she was inspired to do this after seeing a lot of LGBTQ Pride-themed books in the libraries.
"From what I have seen a lot of these books and other things don’t align with Christian values," she wrote. "Today, I saw a bunch of Pride stuff in one. There’s a group of leftists, especially in Conway, who are very active in keeping little libraries well stocked."
Meeks has since either deleted the Facebook post or made it private, although the local progressive organization Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice said that her efforts would not stop people in the area from stocking libraries with quality reading material.
"Keep removing them, Jennifer," they said. "We won’t stop."
https://www.rawstory.com/arkansas-banned-books/ But remember it's those evil LGBTQ who are doing the imposing 
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 8, 2023 at 10:37 am
(August 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
Boru Like a boss 
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
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RE: The Absurd GOP
August 8, 2023 at 4:34 pm
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Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare
Three years later, some Florida school districts are shying away from Shakespeare, along with other classic and popular materials. They say they’re attempting to comply with new state law restricting books with and instruction about sexual content.
Hillsborough County became the latest to take this step, telling teachers they could assign excerpts of plays such as “Romeo and Juliet,” but not the full text.
“I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing us,” Gaither High teacher Joseph Cool said after learning of the directive. “Taking Shakespeare in its entirety out because the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is somehow exploiting minors is just absurd.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/...akespeare/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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