#us poltics

[ember-knights]

There is not a phrase more damning in history than: “to protect our interest in the region.”

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

I don’t know what else to say other than I’m appalled that the US government allowed things to get this bad.

All they had to do was push for a permanent ceasefire and all of this shit could have been avoided. But they just kept enabling the Israeli government’s worst tendencies and well…… here we fucking are!

You’d think somebody in the Biden Administration would explain to the old fart that continuing to support a genocide is a stupid idea.

But they just kept treating the whole thing like a PR disaster that was going to blow over in a couple of months.

As someone who lives in the Middle East, I’m kinda scared shitless right now. Israel and Iran going to war could destabilize the entire region and if that happens, I don’t know how my family and I are going to survive.

[centuries-of-thoughts]

Reading Demons while Trump is getting arrested, Michigan fighting to be a democracy, and Tennessee expelling three Democrats is surreal

[fishfishlove]

political AND gaming comic

[firefliesindisguise]

Kosa is the most horrifying thing to think about. Sometimes I want to forget about it but I know that won’t stop it from flying through congress and into law.

Teens will not have ways to learn about what’s happening in the world. Marginalized groups will not have the internet spaces that they do. Mental and sexual health will be censored. Activism will be censored. Everything important that you care about is going to be censored. They do this on purpose, especially to the youth, to keep us uninformed and unrepresented.

I don’t have the words to express how much this scares me. This will impact us all regardless of age, but for now I’m still a minor and it’s even scarier. I have friends younger than me who will have to endure it for longer than I do. I’m completely terrified because we are about to be trapped.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think as we grow up, we have to be really conscious of romanticizing the world we grew up in in order to scorn how the next generations are growing up.

Nostalgia isn't inherently bad, but especially in political spaces, be very wary of this idea that there is an Ideal Past we must Harken Back To.

It sucks to feel left behind, but such is the human condition. It isn't bad to feel nostalgic, but that doesn't mean that these new generations are inherently "lost" and "need to be saved (by you)", and I think that is very important to remember and try to be conscious of.

[forkaround]

I watched a video about Queerbaiting in BL coz that was the title and I was like WHaT!? One big part of it was the fan service in interviews. And to that I just have to say it's none of your business AND it's not like het shows don't do fan service. It's a marketing technique. The same way burgers in real life don't look like they do in ads. And if you really want it to stop then stop watching it. Stop talking about it. Marketing only works when you let it. When you buy what they are selling. Are the companies morally dub for doing it? Yeah. But they are a company. Selling a product. And you can influence that.

Kinnporsche's success is going to change things for the industry in multiple ways. This is one of them.

Also you have no right to a human being's sexuality or political opinions. They signed up to look pretty and act. Not to be your moral compass.

[shynerdwantscuddles]

Some of you need to realize that being a leftist doesn’t automatically make you a good person, nor does it make you immune to being a bigot. And it most certainly does not give you an excuse to discriminate against other people or mean that your own prejudices must be for the right reasons because you’re a leftist who can do no wrong. I’ve come across plenty of people on here who call themselves radical leftists or communists who preach violence and Nazi ideology. I’ve seen Nazi groups take advantage of that and try to swoop in and recruit those people, and they were probably successful. There are a concerning number of leftists who are only leftists and not conservatives because they want to feel morally superior (and just superior in general) to others. And they are absolutely invested in spreading bigotry and upholding the status quo under the guise of some leftist ideology to keep themselves feeling superior. I.e., if everyone were actually equal, they wouldn’t be able to pretend to support oppressed people, so they don’t actually want equality at all.

[greayworks]

I think once scientists say "Cool, we're officially doomed, the weather is screwed" we should be allowed to tear apart celebs who have a private jet like Taylor Swift like the hyenas tearing apart Scar from the Lion King.

[sillybillychilly]

Project 2025 is trumps plan to become a dictator spread the news

[ziggynotstardvstt]

Ok I might not be able to pop shove yet but

At lest I didn’t fall off my bike BIDEN

Or support a genocide BIDEN

All I did was pop super molly and kiss my vp a few times on the lipss

[transitoryparentheses]

Don't forget! Movements and meaningful changes are made of people who outlandishly believe they can make a difference and act on that belief!

No matter how big or small the impact they might make, it is more of an impact than the people who don't believe they can make a difference and don't bother to act at all!

[niroke]

[brasskingfisher]

Millenial life in the 21st century

I keep seeing stuff about how gen z have doxxed and attacked SCOTUS over their overturning of roe vs. wade and stuff critising millennials for not doing more by comparison, but speaking as a left wing millennial, we're tired and disillusioned. We've been fighting battles over all this bullshit like climate change, equality, disenfranchisement and rights for over a decade, and have nothing to show for it. Not because we haven't tried or that we've been ignored but things have kept changing and we're now running on empty, and we've nothing left to give now.

We care about these things and tried to change them, but the system was rigged against us, and then when we began to make headway the system was changed to stop us making any more progress. For you young people, disappointment and frustration over climate collapse and getting stuck in poverty has always been there, but for us it wasn't. Most of us were your age when things started going to shit. We thought that we would be able to climb the ladder and then improve things for those who came after us so they didn't have to struggle.

But then, just as we were beginning to climb, the bastards at the top destroyed the ladder and when we complained about it, insisted that there had never been a ladder in the first place. We've spent most of our adult lives trying to build our own ladders, only to have them pushed away repeatedly. Now, the whole exercise just seems pointless. We've tried time and time again without success, so why should we try again?

We want to be hopeful and many of us hope to see you young people bring the bastards down, and we'll will be right there alongside you cheering as the tumbrel passes, but after expending so much time and effort for so little gain, we just expect you guys to be cast back down as well.

[the-pithy-aaaaah]

This is Florida House Bill 999 (2023).

It was was filed on 2/21/2023 3:37 PM

Since most of the elected officials in the state government of FL are fascits this will pass and will be signed and will go into effect on July 1, 2023. and will IMIDIATELY cause problems, because that's the middle of summer semesters in the Florida State Universty System, who will, under House Bill 999, be in chaos trying to meet the demands of this bill, which are numerous and dangerous.

According to it's summary this bill is:

An act relating to public postsecondary educational institutions; amending s. 1001.706, F.S.; requiring the Board of Governors to periodically review specified information relating to state universities and provide certain direction to such universities; revising the contents of the Board of Governor's strategic plan; authorizing state universities to initiate post-tenure reviews at any time for cause; amending s. 1001.7065, F.S.; revising the academic and research excellence standards for preeminent state research universities; creating s. 1001.725, F.S.; providing requirements for hiring state university faculty; authorizing state university boards of trustees to review the tenure status of faculty members; requiring such boards to confirm the selection and reappointment of specified personnel; providing requirements for certain employment contracts and responsibilities; requiring state university presidents to annually present specified information to such boards; amending s. 1004.06, F.S.; providing that certain entities may not expend funds for certain purposes relating to activities that violate a specified law; providing exceptions; amending s. 1004.6496, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending s. 1004.6499, F.S.; renaming the "Florida Institute of Politics" as the "Florida Institute for Governance and Civics"; revising the goals of the institute; amending s. 1004.64991, F.S.; authorizing the Adam Smith Center for the Study of Economic Freedom within Florida International University to take specified actions; amending s. 1007.25, F.S.; revising the duties and responsibilities of specified faculty committees relating to general education core courses; deleting a provision authorizing certain course maximums to be exceeded; revising requirements for general education core courses; requiring public postsecondary educational institutions to offer and accept certain credits for certain general education core courses; creating s. 1007.55, F.S.; providing legislative findings; requiring the Articulation Coordinating Committee to submit certain courses to the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors; providing requirements for general education courses; providing requirements for public postsecondary educational institutions and their presidents and boards of trustees relating to general education courses; providing an effective date.

As it is written in the text of the actuall bill, the above is a single 2 page long sentence. I have adjusted the formating by adding paragraph breaks after each semicolon because I can't read it clearly as written in the bill.

It is February 24, 2023. This bill, as I said earlier, most likely going to pass. This is a problem both because of it's deadline and because of it's content. Just one of the many things not explicitly made clear in the summary is that it will require universities to report on its highest and lowest performing degrees with regards to job placement to the board of governors.

It also will efectively end tenure and make professors volunerable to the whims of both the board of governors and the individual university presidents.

It redefines "preeminent research institution," a thing with an industry standard definition, and will hand that title out to Universities that meet the new state definition (this will trick potential students into applying to schools that are NOT in fact preeminent research institutions)

Everyone should just go read page 13 where they kill the DEI programs, and tenure, and contracts for administrators.

There's this paragraph starting at the bottom of page 19 that does the exact opposite of what it's commanding and will lead to accrediting issues (a thing the institutions are already concerned about because the governor is already requiring a change in accrediting body)

General education core courses may not suppress or distort significant historical events or include a curriculum that teaches identity politics, such as Critical Race Theory, or defines American history as contrary to the creation of a new nation based on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.

This paragraph exists on page 22

The Legislature finds it necessary that every undergraduate student of a public postsecondary educational institution in the state graduates as an informed citizen through participation in rigorous general education courses that promote the values necessary to preserve the constitutional republic through traditional, historically accurate, and high quality coursework. Courses with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical, or exploratory content are best suited to fulfill elective or specific program prerequisite credit requirements, rather than general education credit requirements.

This is not education this is indoctronation. This is using edicational institutions as a politial weapon. This is facism. This is not JUST Ron DeSantis, and what Ron DeSantis is doing is not JUST putting on a show for voters.

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