dragonflyteaparty @ dragonflyteaparty @lemmy.world

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The propaganda for milk (that's still going) certainly had a big role to play.

I'm fairly certain that Democrats didn't hold all branches of government with a majority in both houses for a full eight years.

That's not really implementing..... You left out every bit of context.

• They waited and said no, we won't confirm Garland and then got the majority and pushed through a justice during an election.
• They're ignoring laws and passing their own book bans that their now regressive Supreme Court is cool with.
• And the end of Roe v Wade was accomplished at least in part but that same saying no and waiting.

The whole thing? Has the whole thing been looked at and revised? Or are you counting each and every amendment as an "update"? That's not an update to me. It's an addition that ignored the many flaws with the way we run our country.

And? What's your point? We've had several presidents in the last, what 30-40 years, who lost the popular vote but got to be president anyway because we decided some states matter more than others.

How can you truly fight for the working class when you lived a life of extreme privilege?

That's ridiculous. Can someone not fight for LGBTQ rights of they aren't part of the community? For POC rights if they aren't POC? For women's rights if they aren't a woman?

"And fellow New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican, said on X that she’ll introduce a resolution to expel Bowman from the House over the incident. "This is the United States Congress, not a New York City high school. This action warrants expulsion & I’m introducing a resolution to do just that," she wrote."

Hold up. So pulling a fire alarm is worthy of being kicked out of Congress, but repeatedly showing porn to Congress is fine. Huh...

Since when does ban have a strict definition to mean not allowing the publish and/or sale of books nationwide? If I ban something from my house, am I required to use a different word?

Well, then why are they taking out the context of Rosa Parks sitting on the bus? Isn't that still American history? Some people feel the need to classify Black history because history concerning black people is white washed and ignored.

Your comment comes off like someone saying "all lives matter".

They are absolutely being banned. Universal bans and not allowing things to be published or sold at all is not the sole definition of banning things. That's not the only way to define banning. It can be small, local, regional, or unilateral. There are many different places or ways a ban can take effect. The books are being banned from schools and libraries in some cases.

If I ban something from my house, it's still a ban. If it's banned from the neighborhood, that's a ban. If it's banned from only my kid's school, that's a ban.

I don't get why some people think a national ban against the publish and sale of books is the only definition of a ban.

That's basically exactly what I learned. The civil war was all about states rights, but they refused to say what those rights were. They also "taught" that after the civil rights movement, everything was perfect and there was no racism anymore.

Its easy for a woman to get laid if she chooses to. She can go on any dating app, like bunch of dudes and an average girl could easily have a different guy every night.

That's ridiculous nonsense. It's completely untrue. The face that you think any average woman can have sex with any man she meets every single night of the week just shows how shallow you think people really are. No, any average woman can have sex with any man she meets every single night of the week. This is just "women have it easy and have their pick of any man ever".

But even if you ignore that, what guarantee do those women have of being safe? What's their guarantee of not being choked their first time with someone new? That's a real, common thing happening with people these days, all the way down to the teen years. My sister has had this happen to her multiple times and there are countless accounts online to the point there are articles and studies written about the subject. What's their guarantee of even an orgasm (given the actual, proven orgasm gap) or even getting raped if they say no?

Sure, you could say any average woman could have sex. And she'd be risking her safety and potentially life for the high possibility of bad sex. But sure, go on about how easy it is for women to get laid.

So about abortion being a states rights matter? That was just a joke, huh?

Are all group homes equally stringent? I'm not trying to be mean here, but to be honest, this guy being free freaks me out.

What they said actually had meaningful nuance. We should be more careful when it comes to potential murder.

Source that research isn't funded publicly?

I wonder what their argument is for being able to go to other countries and sell drugs three to four times less than in the states.

Mine was 17. He wasn't old either, but it really sad. He was older than I was.

People like this believe that kids have no agency of their own and must be taught everything. If the kid does something "wrong" that's because someone taught them to, so they have to control education to get their overall goal of controlling what kids and future adults do. Of course, that's not entirely how this works, but attacking education to create change over decades is a viable plan to increase their hate and bigotry.

We need something equally big to fight them.