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Dogs can shoot people now but they can’t go to college??
There is still no rule, however, that dogs can't play basketball. >

Brett, you have to kill Air Bud to save reality.
But I wuv him. >

"Your concept of 'Wuv' confuses and infuriates us!" >

r/futurama >

Fuck yeah go Terps! >

They're known as the terps? What is it, a school full of stoners? >

They like turtles >

Just like me fr >


The bill, if passed, would also ban accommodations for transgender students, including a teacher’s use of a student’s “preferred gender pronoun, if the perceived or expressed gender is inconsistent with the student’s” sex assigned at birth. Schools found to be in violation of the policy could be fined up to $500,000 in damages, the bill states.

Ah, there it is. The REAL story. >

Modern republicans would have sided with the Nazis >

Modern? You're saying that like they were any better at some point >

You've gotta go 150+ years back but they had their moments. In that time conservatism has gone from 'maintain status quo' to 'avoid forward thinking' to 'avoid thinking'. >

Last I checked, the status quo 150 years ago was pretty shitty for a lot of people, and it still is. >

Good thing this was never a problem >

Bill distracts from real civic and social and economic problems like guns, inflation, debt, healthcare system, housing, etc, so exactly perfect bill to propose >

Hell the human portion is distracting from the bill also banning teachers accommodating transgender students. >

Educational opportunities are quickly diminishing for poor Glorback the Soulshatterer.  This "North Dakota" may have turned him back now, but one day he will return with his Orcish hordes and drink brandy from your very skulls! >

“The bill, if passed, would also ban accommodations for transgender students, including a teacher’s use of a student’s “preferred gender pronoun, if the perceived or expressed gender is inconsistent with the student’s” sex assigned at birth. Schools found to be in violation of the policy could be fined up to $500,000 in damages, the bill states.”
They penalize the school, already short on money, for treating students like humans.   Jesus, at that point, I’d identify as other than human myself! >

Of course this is related to trans people. What is with the sudden hate towards trans people in America? Last I saw every politician who ran on anti-trans platform lost in the midterms? Have they not learnt? >

Sudden?
Pretty sure a country founded by psychotic Puritans who were booted out of their original countries was never going to create an accepting or kind society... >

Yeah sudden is definitely the wrong word, but it seems like really out now >

They're working their way through the disadvantaged.  They lost the battle of hating on gays, so they've moved on to the next group.  They'll lose this battle eventually too, you can't stop progress.
The question is, who comes next? >


The bill, if passed, would also ban accommodations for transgender students, including a teacher’s use of a student’s “preferred gender pronoun, if the perceived or expressed gender is inconsistent with the student’s” sex assigned at birth. Schools found to be in violation of the policy could be fined up to $500,000 in damages, the bill states.
In just the first few weeks of the year, state lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced over 140 bills targeting LGBTQ rights and queer life, according to an NBC News analysis, with the majority of these bills focusing on transgender young people.

That's the actual point of the bill. Don't get distracted by the nonsensical "litter box" lie. >

"Do you identify as human? No, I am a meat popsicle." >

"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." >

This is because of the false narrative conservatives have been pushing that it's some common thing to identify as an animal. They do this especially in association with trans people because they want to use it to discredit and be able to further legalislate against trans people >

The irony. Welp, makes sense why they wouldn't want people to focus on the ACTUAL horrific reason why they are there. >

Republicans once again boldly solving problems that don’t exist. >

I was wondering if this was that stupid "schools are letting kids go to the bathroom in litter boxes" thing again.  Yes, it is.

This section of the bill appears to be connected to an urban myth about litter boxes in U.S. schools that spread among conservative Republicans ahead of the November election. An NBC News report published in October found this myth — about schools providing accommodations, like litter boxes, for children who identify as cats — to be untrue.

I'm sure this won't be the last time, but this doesn't happen. The closest we get to this is when schools keep buckets of kitty litter around. It's primarily used to clean up spills, but teachers have also considered using it for when they are doing long lockdown drills and their kids can't hold in needing to go to the bathroom.
In this case, the problem isn't "kids are identifying as cats," but instead the problem is "schools are trying to prepare for school shootings by having lockdown drills, but they last so long that kids are spoiling themselves." The issue here isn't the kitty litter, but the fact that we can't seem to "solve" school shootings except by "just hide and hope the shooter doesn't see you when they inevitably come by." >

Let me guess, they fell for the "kitty litter trays" in school hoax? >


"Yes we have people who would like to claim themselves as animals such as cats and dogs," VanWinkle wrote in an email.

No, you don't. >

After seeing these people's hysteric reaction, if they don't already, they probably will.
Kids will claim they're all kinds of shit to stuck up conservatives just to make their heads explode.  That is 100% something I would have done if I got the chance. >

Hell I'd do it and I'm a grown man. >


Hell I'd do it and I'm a grown

*cat >

republicans and freaking the fuck out about things that aren't actually happening. Name a more iconic duo >

Uh, negative, I am a meat popsicle. >

Well, this doesn’t cover people who identify as robots, which are not animals, so they still have a pretty big loophole to close.
Also, they seem to be implying that humans are a kind of animal, which might not go over too well with some of the people who are worried about their kids pooping in kitty litter at school.
In any case asking every student to report what kind of animal they think they are is a nice opportunity for self-reflection. >

They really do love championing against problems that only exist in their heads. >

Uhg, why do I get the feeling that this is conservatives trying to justify their slippery slope argument against transgenderism.
"if we allow boys to pretend to be girls, what's next, people pretending to be animals all the time?" >

Because it is >

Overlooking a list of real problems, Republicans once again gravitate to culture wars against an army of straw men. >

Ah, Republicans solving made up problems. >

This one ranks up there with "we're forcing companies to label food products that contain aborted fetus tissue." No food products contain that, but by claiming that they're stopping the non-existent practice, they toss some (aborted fetus free) red meat to their base.
It's the thing Republicans are best at. Pretending that there's a problem where none exists, passing a law to ban it, and then proclaiming victory over the thing they made up. Next up: Teenagers with magical superpowers aren't allowed to play on the same teams as non-powered kids! >

People should ask them why they're going to change the laws to allow aborted human fetuses in food. After all, it isn't legal currently, so requiring labelling only makes sense if they're also changing the law to allow it. >

Republicans love these issues  because they can make it look like they’re doing something to their hateful voters without actually having to do anything. >

Gotta love it when Right wingers keep fighting ghosts and phantoms. >

They really took that cat litter story to heart. >

If I were a high school student there I would 1000% set up a big litter box in the bathroom, toss in some fudge rolls and lemonade, and call in the news trucks. >

They would never get that it isn't real, and they would NEVER shut up about it. >

The republikkkans and their dumbass narratives. >

Is that a thing? >

Well what in the 00101001000111010101 is this bullshit?!?! >

This is, of course, added to defer from the real purpose of the bill: expelling transgenders. >

I wish I had a job where I got paid for solving non-existent problems with fake solutions.
On second thought, no, I don't. That would be a fucking stupid job. >

What? >

I'll give you the rundown on this insanity.
The GOP, in an effort to literally dehumanize trans kids, has created a bullshit talking point about some made up kid identifying as a cat to use a litter box as a bathroom.
They always claim it's real and happening, just that they can never provide proof because, and I stress here, it doesn't exist.
But they keep up the story, ironically much like a child who tells everyone that he really does have a girlfriend, just not at this school, she's at the school in the next town over.
The really sad part is that there actually was a real proposal for litter boxes in classrooms, the school in question suggested using litter boxes as an emergency bathrooms in case there was a school shooting. 
The GOP didn't like that part of the narrative. >

Thank you for the reply. I cannot say more than I am stunned at the depth of depravity that exists in the world. I am saddened beyond belief. >

So, I personally identify as an alien.... North Dakota is saying I'm not real!? Wtf.... >

No 😂 they're saying that you can't get an education there. Would you bring your dog or cat to the school in your neighborhood and expect that they enroll it?? If you identify as an animal, you want to be treated like one. >

Except for the fact that literally nobody "identifies as an animal". >

Oh no- that ruins my dreams of going to school… in North Dakota… where they are known for… uhh… (per their own tourism site) production of spring wheat, durum wheat, dry edible peas, dry edible beans, honey, flaxseed and canola. >

I never realized that a whole fuckin’ country could be so mentally deranged. >

Americans, individually, generally aren't as bad as the internet says we are, I swear. >

Isn’t not going to and going to school in North Dakota basically the same thing? >

Porco Rosso would like a word…. >

I would go into class the next day and claim I'm Alien from Alpha Centauri so I could go home and play video games, but I guess then I would probably to wake up to official paperwork explaining how I'm being deported from the solar system. >

Same >

Enrollment at PETA's North Dakota School For Furries is about to quadruple. >

So glad I’m a plant. >

Oh no, those poor Apache attack helicopters... >

I mean, they don't allow pets or livestock in schools either. >

I don't want to live in this country anymore >

That’s speciest