• Phoenixz
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    47 hours ago

    I’m guessing that soon it might even be obligatory to wear certain arm bands, maybe of the yellow kind? Adorned with a pretty star, perhaps?

  • @[email protected]
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    3912 hours ago

    This is some BS man. He’s saying you can fly the Nazi flag because it’s “historic”. Well, hell, isn’t the gay pride flag historic? Good luck getting a definition out of these fucks. If he could write the law he really wanted to write it would say “keep off any flags I don’t agree with”.

    • @LordCrom
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      58 hours ago

      Technically, if something happened yesterday, it is also historic.

      More along the lines of not wanting kids to know or being exposed to lgbtq culture, but he is fine with kids knowing about and being exposed to Nazi culture

    • @Madison420
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      It’s been a unit battle flag more than once iirc.

  • @[email protected]
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    6914 hours ago

    I firmly believe this is because we’ve lost almost all of our world war two veterans. These shitlords kept it under wraps all these years because deep down, they knew pap paw would 100% get up out of his wheelchair to kill one last Nazi.

    • @Wogi
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      I think we know the solution then.

      Be like pap paw

  • @WrenFeathers
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    I’d imagine the armbands will be next.

  • Nougat
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    “There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” he said. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”

    There are no such instances. Students are fully capable of learning about the Confederacy and the Nazis without those actual flags being present in the classroom. They know this, so there must be some other reason they’re pushing this bill.

    • @[email protected]
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      I dunno, man, I didn’t understand the Holocaust at all until my teacher starved some students to death and tossed them in an oven.

      • @big_slap
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        if this were to actually happen, I’m positive some people still wouldn’t get it

        • @garbagebagel
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          1015 hours ago

          They’d just do what they’ve been trained to do since 2016. “Fake news! Fake news!”

          • @big_slap
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            514 hours ago

            how do we combat ignorance in our personal lives? I am looking for suggestions

            • @garbagebagel
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              312 hours ago

              Honestly just talking about it honestly and in a non combative way can be a great thing. I don’t find it’s worth it to do this with acquaintances or strangers, but just sharing trustworthy news and sources with people you know. My friends and I share whenever we find good, independent reporters.

              Approaching the subject gently with people who are very against it can also help. My partner’s parents are big Trash supporters (even though we are Canadian) so he opened the conversation with his mom softly by saying things like “well, some of the things he said he’d do are good, but look at all these other things hes actually doing”. I think his stepdad left the room at that point so some people just won’t be receptive, but if you think it’s worth it, just try.

              But number one, just take care of your own wellbeing. It’s not worth it to argue a lot of the time, especially not with strangers, and you’ll just burn yourself out which is exactly what they want. Use your energy on things you feel will actually make a difference instead.

              • @big_slap
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                212 hours ago

                I feel like I do this but definitely need to take a step back and see if I can reel my passion in a bit… 😮‍💨

                thanks for the advice, have a great weekend!

    • @[email protected]
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      3814 hours ago

      They’re also admitting that they don’t teach anything about LGBTQ+ at all in any realm. Not health class, civics, history, art, nothing.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 hours ago

        As a high schooler in Utah, this is true. There’s essentially zero mention of the community even existing, except for certain classes where it inevitably comes up (like current issues), and even then only certain teachers will approach those topics, and it’s definitely not part of their curriculum.

      • @GalacticGrapefruit
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        I had friends raised in Utah. This is true. You might get a week-long unit at the high school, but otherwise, unless you have a GSA club, LGBTQ+ history is muffled.

        But oohhhh, they’ll talk about Pioneer History every year in History class.

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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          And by Pioneer History, they mean Mormon-church approved Mormon history.

        • @Sweetpeaches69
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          We should do something about the Mormons.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          They didn’t teach anything LGBTQ+ related in NJ schools from the 90’s to 00’s that I remember.

    • @Hayduke
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      1817 hours ago

      "You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a confederate flag… "

      I mean, hey, who doesn’t for just such an occasion?

      • @glimse
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        It’s so funny when they call themselves out. Are you saying those two flags have something in common, Trever?

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        Utah openly promoting using their tax dollars towards purchasing NAZI and Confederate paraphernalia instead of using free images provided in the textbooks and online

    • @[email protected]
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      515 hours ago

      I’m not disagreeing with you, just wanted to share that my mom’s high school year book from the early 90s has a picture of one of her teachers dressed like a nazi performing a sieg heil, all for display as a part of the curriculum. She said no one batted an eye or voiced concern for it back then. I truly hope we don’t see things like that return to classrooms today, but it wasn’t that long ago that it was normal either. I would assume a lot of the people pushing this bill might have experienced something similar.

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    1512 hours ago

    If you read both the linked story and its update you will see a good example of how the press is supposed to interact with power. In sharp relief to the cringing fawning appeasement we see the mainstream press engaging in with this criminally insane presidential administration.

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      Why would they hide it? The more they flaunt, the more their base is emboldened. Turns out people fucking love evil.

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    … And so there were swastika flags too, here is one! let me wave it around so that you can imagine how it was to live in nazi Germany! Now when these flags were flying it would be customary to make an official greeting to the one true savior, der Fuhrer musk Hitler, here, let me show you how

    I’m fucking bracing myself for WWIII, these fuckers will start it

    • @foggy
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      2016 hours ago

      I think calling it a Musk Salute might actually be a great idea if the media is so unwilling to call it a Nazi Seig Heil.

      Call it a Musk Salute to the Nazi flag.

      • @[email protected]
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        It also makes a lot of sense because in German the salute is called “Hitlergruß” (which literally translates to Hitler salute), because the accompanying words were mostly “Heil Hitler” and not “Sieg Heil” (which also was used, just a but less common), so you were saluting Hitler. So when Musk does it is in fact a “Sieg Heil”, but when somebody else salutes the American flag it is a Musk salute because you are saluting Musk, the Führer of the USA

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    You know how people say the fact that we never excised confederates/slavery from amongst us has led to modern issues? Well, the same holds true of Mormons. Most Americans have no idea the level of money, clout, and insane shit based in Utah. For example, I bet you didn’t know the Mormon church owns approximately 1 in every ~550 acres of privately-held land in the United States. Warning: the Mormon bullshit rabbit hole is deeper than you can imagine and may cause you to start writing a years-long book project, in my experience. You’ve been warned!

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      Mormonism is America’s future. It’s the prosperity gospel attached to a powerful lobbying contingent that exists to perpetuate MLM schemes.

      If you think things are bad now, wait until Mormons are fully in control of California.

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      That’s a strange veer towards a completely unrelated topic… But anyway, considering that roughly 1 in 100 people are Mormon in the US, it’s not that surprising that 1 in 550 of the land also is. It’s surprising they’re trailing so far behind the average actually.

      EDIT: oh wait, you mean the church owns it. Yeah, ok, that is very weird. But Mormonism is a very weird thing by definition…

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        Yeah, that’s church-owned. But does raise the interesting point of prominent Mormon billionaires/CEOs. And investment firms. And investments. And their history with the federal government/Republicans. And…

      • @[email protected]
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        110 hours ago

        Holy christ on a pogo stick, I had no idea on the population stats for mormon’s. We really are a stupid species lol. I had a good neighborhood friend growing up who’s family was mormon, didn’t persay have anything against the religion then but later found out about all the racists connotations and how members are treated. If anyone wants to learn more there’s a good Ex mormon vid going over the southpark mormon episode and the religion etc.

  • @Buffalox
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    2317 hours ago

    That’s because love and compassion for others is obviously evil.
    While hatred and oppression of minorities is good and righteous.

    But of course you have to be an idiot to understand that, so you probably don’t.

    • snooggums
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      Racism, bigotry, and polygamy.