The Don't Say Gay bill

Florida teacher fired for tweeting about book bans.

https://twitter.com/lebassett/status/1626753221073985540?s=46&t=4giSmLrb-0j9NO6Cxciqsg

Texas bill would prevent insurance companies from covering gender-affirming care for adults.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1626973406833913856?s=20

I've tried to tell people (not you guys living in my internet, real people) it never stops at just one thing. There will always be another step forward, to take more rights to "protect the children," when these people don't give a fuck about children. Children can starve and die in a ditch for all they care, but they can use them to control adults, and that's all they really want.

One of the problems I get with telling people something is it does not matter. One option is you are preaching to the choir. Another option is you are preaching to the terrorists who like what is going on. The third is you are telling the middle people who either do not care at all, or do care but are only going to give you lip service because when it comes to standing up for others they fall to the knees of the terrorists because they do not want to get hurt by them. In the end I found that trying to out terrorize the terrified middle ground is way too much work when you made the proper choice of life shortening habits because you knew you did not want to live to a ripe old age.

I just hope it is true that the cowards who fall at the feet of the terrorists die thousands of more deaths in their long lives. Oh look, the republicans are trying to gut medicare so that their poor elderly live in squalor and poverty during their shit themselves years. Oh no, don't do that I say as I know my body is not making it to 65, and if it does I am taking up fentanyl.

This should be in my thread TBH

Hey, this was the first thread that I found that seemed to fit. Granted, there's an awful lot of such threads these days...

Can't it be in both?

Nebraska state senator vows to grind the government to a halt until they kill anti-LGBTQ bills.

https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1629206605949550593?s=46&t=3K2xIHaigu2E9dnuJdKU0A

And she’s still going.

https://apnews.com/article/filibust...ka-cavanaugh-b9018fd1bf72112ca984ff58679eda6d

Apparently the same sort of thing is happening in MO where four Senators are blocking everything (presumably inspired by her)

Meanwhile, Florida is augmenting DSG to make it even worse. Among several other things it would make it effectively impossible for a trans person to work at a school (or a library?)

Judge blocks Florida’s Stop Woke act.

https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1636533369361031169?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Last time a judge blocked one of Fascist Florida's bills they just kept doing it anyway.

of course. This is why they run for school boards. This is why they want every individual parent to be able to consume time and resources challenging everything through parental rights. It is a multipronged attack designed to chill any discussion of anything but cishet patriarchy in public schools. The fact they can control private schools and homeschool is not good enough. They have to force indoctrinate every child or else they will destroy the institution.

The added bonus is that they destroy public schools which contribute to racial and ethnic disparity, and make a larger poverty gap with less ability to class shift. That might be the primary goal among the more sophisticated, but I think those people lost control.

Two Trump appointees and a Clinton appointee. If I were DeSantis, I’d use this to start attacking Trump as insufficiently conservative.

Joseph Harding, the Florida legislator who wrote the Don't Say Gay Bill, is found guilty of numerous crimes concerning Covid relief fund fraud. These include wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to investigators. He plead guilty. These combined could lead up to 35 years in jail, but he will likely receive less.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...f-fraud-charges-rcna76021?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

DeSantis wants to expand the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

https://apnews.com/article/dont-say-gay-desantis-florida-gender-d3a9c91f4b5383a5bf6df6f7d8ff65b6

We were assured that would never happen.
Just like Roe being settled law.
I'm sure libertarianforge will go "oh, this is just awful! I forsake Republicans forever over this!" any minute now.
Aaaaany minute.
Aaaaany minute.
Aaaaany minute now.

Just as soon as I see evidence of someone being punished for the literal crime of "saying gay."

This is the slippery slope. The next step will be to outlaw it in public libraries and state run areas. Then it will be in the public. They are already trying to outlaw businesses being woke.

Any cis women in the US had better start loving dresses to their ankles, heals, long hair, and make up because your rights are also on the block because they hate your ability to be free. That means your jobs, bank accounts, and ability to vote and own land are on the same slope. You will belong to an incel because that is what the bible said.

MAGA.

Evidence means nothing to you.
Let's not even pretend anymore.

This. You could post reams of data and it would be dismissed with a goal post shift. Explaining shit to UA is the same as explaining high level math to a kindergartner, except the kindergartner has the capacity to absorb new data.

Cuz he's a narcissist.
When you clobber a narcissist, they don't go "wow, I've really got to get over myself, and quit narcissism ".
They get bitter, and butt-hurt, and start drinking conspiracy theories, and start seeing enemies under every rock, and ill intent in every breath and blink in everyone around them. Because it just CAN'T be THEIR fault! They're fucking magnificent!
Scratch every asshole, and you'll find a mirror-kisser who's pissed everyone isn't kissing along with him.

There is one type of evidence that will work indirectly on UA. When UA denies the laws of physics and gravity as unproven theories you can hit him in thew head with a brick and if you do it with enough inertia you will silence him. remember a thick skull takes much more velocity with the constant mass of the brick to have enough energy to shatter that lump.

However, proof is possible if applied with enough velocity.

Again this goes back to my inertia statement. If applied with enough velocity reams of paper will silence him and essentially his argument. We are simply applying the data improperly to stupid.

This is our fault for not applying the proof properly considering the reality they are too stupid to learn and therefor must be removed from the argument.

Again, not enough inertia. If you in crease the velocity and/or mass of whatever you clobber them with you will silence their argument which is an effective win that prevents any future arguments. They are never going to have a proper argument by anything other than coincidental error. They do not belong in any rational discussion when the only way they win is by being one of the infinity monkeys with a keyboard that eventually mashes the proper series of keys to produce the correct answer. So just hit them with an old pre-seventies typewriter at over 100 mph in the head and whammo arguments won.

Otherwise enjoy the circular bullshit vortex. I should also mention that you get stuck in the CBV by the gravitational pull of the idiocy in the center (AKA nacissistic pull of the idiot). The way to escape such pull is by increasing your inertia mainly through velocity. Unlike physics you could also destroy the central mass of stupid by hitting it with enough force to destroy it's stupid gravity well. Mass of stupid does not operate the same way mass of matter does.

But I was confidently assured by the Calm Down Caucus that we should stop being hysterical because they only wanted to protect the innocence of little kids.

You wouldn't know evidence if it used your colon for a sock puppet.

Yeah how dare I not accept your juvenile emotional appeals as rational arguments?

For what am I at fault? Show me the logic.

Being despised.