Not so long ago, book burnings were considered a festive group activity by assorted right-wing zealots. Today, though, burning seems so old-fashioned, and well… crude. Yet, the concept is burning hotter than ever among a gaggle of testosterone-driven Republican leaders eager to show voters that they will go to extremes to incinerate progressive ideas and people’s personal liberties. Rather than lighting bonfires, though, the new fad for GOP politicians is simply to use government power to
And people HERE don't think that what those "crazy" German's did in the 1920's - 1930's, will NOT occur in the U.S???!!!! They started with "book bans," then it was "book burnings," and THAT lead to burning OTHER "things!!!"
Fascism is alive and well in America! Just like in Nazi Germany. First they came for.......... If you don't stand and fight this there will be more to come...... Like DeSantis says there is more coming OR NOT if people say ENOUGH - NOT IN OUR TOWN - NOT IN OUR COUNTY - NOT IN OUR STATE - NOT IN OUR COUNTRY!
And so it began, in the United States of America, in 2023, a country of 374, 972, 393 people, a handful of power hungry right-wing autocratic politicians, enabled by 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices who dismantled 50 years of women's rights to bodily autonomy, setting off a fervor of rabid faux Christian white supremacist ideology to ban books they didn't seem appropriate for children in libraries.
These are the first baby steps in the Most Post-Post-Modernist Neo-Nazification of America.
I hope that maybe they will come up with a different, more interesting name for the United States then Atwood's "Gilead" in Handmaid's Tale, or Orwell's "Oceania" in 1984 or Huxley's dystopian united planet of "World State" in Brave New World. But if the lunatic fringers, like MAGA GOP Reps, Bobert, Taylor-Green, & Hee-Hawley, and esp. the WhatstheirName governors of Florida and Texas, get their way and continue to grow in power as-is, we probably become known as the Ultra-Maga States of America.
I guess Rick Wilson really was correct after all, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
Republicans claim in De Santis-speak that gay people "groom" young people. Uh, I'll tell you who's been grooming whom: For generations (including the three I've lived through), straight people have been grooming gay kids to be -- prepare for it! -- straight! Yes, until the past 20 yrs (at best), thanks to gay liberation, most gay kids grew up thinking "I'm the only one." That was fueled by the 100% hetersexual characters and situations in the literature we were required to read, the movies/tv shows we watched, and -- horrors! -- our parents, churches, scouting organizations, etc. No one is grooming straight kids to be gay. Right-wing hets in gubmint and Bibull-based churches are grooming LGBTQ to be anything but who they are!
And would someone please tell Ron DeSantis and his worshippers that drag queens harm no one. The only bad thing they do is occasionally flub lip-syncing a Diana Ross hit. Drag bingo is a lot more for than "straight" bingo -- especially when 0-69 is called. Bin-goooooooooooo indeed!
And people HERE don't think that what those "crazy" German's did in the 1920's - 1930's, will NOT occur in the U.S???!!!! They started with "book bans," then it was "book burnings," and THAT lead to burning OTHER "things!!!"
/SHEESH/
Is this the same Jonathan Mitchell who was behind the Texas abortion "bounty hunter" law? He's certainly a busy man with too much time on his hands.
Fascism is alive and well in America! Just like in Nazi Germany. First they came for.......... If you don't stand and fight this there will be more to come...... Like DeSantis says there is more coming OR NOT if people say ENOUGH - NOT IN OUR TOWN - NOT IN OUR COUNTY - NOT IN OUR STATE - NOT IN OUR COUNTRY!
And so it began, in the United States of America, in 2023, a country of 374, 972, 393 people, a handful of power hungry right-wing autocratic politicians, enabled by 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices who dismantled 50 years of women's rights to bodily autonomy, setting off a fervor of rabid faux Christian white supremacist ideology to ban books they didn't seem appropriate for children in libraries.
These are the first baby steps in the Most Post-Post-Modernist Neo-Nazification of America.
I hope that maybe they will come up with a different, more interesting name for the United States then Atwood's "Gilead" in Handmaid's Tale, or Orwell's "Oceania" in 1984 or Huxley's dystopian united planet of "World State" in Brave New World. But if the lunatic fringers, like MAGA GOP Reps, Bobert, Taylor-Green, & Hee-Hawley, and esp. the WhatstheirName governors of Florida and Texas, get their way and continue to grow in power as-is, we probably become known as the Ultra-Maga States of America.
I guess Rick Wilson really was correct after all, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
Republicans claim in De Santis-speak that gay people "groom" young people. Uh, I'll tell you who's been grooming whom: For generations (including the three I've lived through), straight people have been grooming gay kids to be -- prepare for it! -- straight! Yes, until the past 20 yrs (at best), thanks to gay liberation, most gay kids grew up thinking "I'm the only one." That was fueled by the 100% hetersexual characters and situations in the literature we were required to read, the movies/tv shows we watched, and -- horrors! -- our parents, churches, scouting organizations, etc. No one is grooming straight kids to be gay. Right-wing hets in gubmint and Bibull-based churches are grooming LGBTQ to be anything but who they are!
And would someone please tell Ron DeSantis and his worshippers that drag queens harm no one. The only bad thing they do is occasionally flub lip-syncing a Diana Ross hit. Drag bingo is a lot more for than "straight" bingo -- especially when 0-69 is called. Bin-goooooooooooo indeed!
"Texas announces takeover of Houston schools, stirring anger"
https://apnews.com/article/houston-schools-texas-takeover-eae680bec5fbd3b419c2583fb850d42e
O powers of Light, Right, Love,etc.etc. please help this invasive, guileful, etc. species we are.
Just a little prayer
Why do we need depictions of masturbation, anal sex and fetching in school libraries?