[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 77 points 4 months ago

They're banking on the 6-3 conservative majority being willing to use their power.

When organized labor is crushed, what comes next is never pretty (see: 1930s Germany).

2

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/7791489

Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph:

"The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."

105

Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph:

"The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

LMAO of course it does, Elon is using the site to specifically foment disinformation and support right wing politics.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago

God, if only people could just like pool their resources together to build homes or something...

We could even call it something like "social housing," and have it be a publically regulated service instead of treating housing as some sort of game of investment for the wealthy? No no, totally impossible...

80
submitted 10 months ago by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/usa@lemmy.ml

The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR.

Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a nickname, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 58 points 10 months ago

An internet devoid of unacceptable "deviations" from gender and sexuality too. Given the effort to erase trans and gay people from public spaces, this seems like a parallel effort to destroy their digital ones too.

272

Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago

I see Tennesee's wannabe dictators are at it again. The GOP does not want to govern it wants to rule.

53
submitted 10 months ago by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/lgbt@lemmy.ml
[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

Well duh? Are they nationalizing all carbon emitting industries to begin a managed decline of the industry or are they hoping economic magic and wishful thinking will work?

1

The project has been delayed for years, but perhaps with Amtrak (and Andy Byford), the line will finally progress.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

Literally. Oh, it's too long to do it one by one? Maybe prioritize then? Confirm 2-3 of the biggest promotions in order to prevent the Senate from abdicating it's Constitutional responsibility and ceding control of the military entirely to the executive.

I really don't care about US military readiness but I do value checks and balances, and right now the Senate is refusing to serve as one.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

Important to know is that this is only possible because someone from a +19 Democrat district got elected, then flipped parties. So not only is this overriding a governor in order to Rule over their Betters, someone outright betrayed their constituents to do so.

41

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4580386

From the article, my emphasis added:

"Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."

1

From the article, my emphasis added:

"Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 76 points 10 months ago

Lmao this is the guy that first lead to them banning the communities right?

Love that lemmy.world seems to be making their moderation strategy based off of a troll with at least 4 alts....

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago

"actually, it's about protecting MY kids, who I would NEVER let this happen to, who fucking cares about some OTHER parent's child?"

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 45 points 10 months ago

Hopefully, that won't be the case much longer in Ohio with November's ballot question. (the GOP just failed to make it harder to pass by trying to make all constitutional amendments require 60% to pass after polling showed it would by 58%)

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago

I wonder how many former pro-lifers this will create as people watch their younger siblings, cousins, and other loved one's childhoods have their lives utterly ruined because they bought into theocratic propaganda about "the unborn".

Every time something like this happens it should be proof that it was about control and cruelty towards women and girls.

677
1
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!

2

Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?

view more: next ›

GivingEuropeASpook

joined 1 year ago