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This is something to watch because imo all of this democratic backsliding is bad, but the job is done when there is the Trump verison of brownshirts running around who can commit acts of violence against protesters. They're a very common feature of authoritarian governments.

This is somewhat mild as Tarrio smacked someone's phone out of their hands and was arrested for it, but now these pro Trump counter protesters will feel emboldened and it will go from there.
 
hockeylover said:
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GOP proposes bill that would punish supporting trans youth through new names and haircuts

A bill in Arkansas would allow lawsuits against people who use trans kids' preferred names or give them gender nonconforming haircuts.
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They’re gonna legislate haircuts now.

Land o the “free”

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To a disturbing percentage of Americans, “freedom” has always meant “my freedom to force other people to follow my own specific interpretation of my religion” and/or “my freedom to discriminate against you based on your gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation”.
 
LeafGm said:
To a disturbing percentage of Americans, “freedom” has always meant “my freedom to force other people to follow my own specific interpretation of my religion” and/or “my freedom to discriminate against you based on your gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation”.
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It's how I distill my "trans trans trans" counter argument for people who otherwise aren't receptive to high minded sounding stuff like "freedom of expression":

Nothing interests me more than who I sleep with and how, and nothing interests me less than who you sleep with and how. You let me know which parts of that you're personally interested in letting me dictate how you do and then we can talk about both of us agreeing to do it to anyone else regardless of what it is that they're into.

It all boils down to it being none of my fucking business. It's not about "supporting" it. It's recognizing that my right to privacy presumes you having the same and you're not telling me shit.
 
MindzEye said:
It's how I distill my "trans trans trans" counter argument for people who otherwise aren't receptive to high minded sounding stuff like "freedom of expression":

Nothing interests me more than who I sleep with and how, and nothing interests me less than who you sleep with and how. You let me know which parts of that you're personally interested in letting me dictate how you do and then we can talk about both of us agreeing to do it to anyone else regardless of what it is that they're into.

It all boils down to it being none of my fucking business. It's not about "supporting" it. It's recognizing that my right to privacy presumes you having the same and you're not telling me shit.
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Rights for me but not for thee
 
MindzEye said:
Always remember that this takeover of the US government was 50 years in the making, and that democrat politicians of Schumer's generation failed to realize that the parliamentary games they thought they were in was actually the Republicans slowly boiling them to death. It culiminated in Trump, but the groundwork had already been laid in the cultural and policy goals of the party. Trump isn't a threat if Mitch hadn't committed his career to a federalist SCOTUS, etc, etc.

Dick Cheney's "Unitary Executive Theory" should have been the fire alarm they needed to wake up and take the threat seriously, and that was ~25 years ago. But here we are with Chuck fucking Schumer thinking that collegial politics is happening in the fucking Senate gym with like minded Republican parliamentarians who really just want to go back to playing the same game Chuck is playing.

It's hard to believe that someone could be so fucking useless.
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Chuck is an expert political operative. Let him cook!

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Jackie Robinson story restored at Defense Dept.

An article about Jackie Robinson's military service was again available on the Department of Defense website after it was initially deleted with the URL redirecting to one that added the letters "dei."
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In a statement sent by the Pentagon at 1:24 p.m. ET Wednesday, press secretary John Ullyot cited Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in saying "DEI is dead at the Defense Department" and said the Department of Defense was "pleased by the rapid compliance" that led to the erasing of stories on Robinson, Navajo Code Talkers and Ira Hayes, one of six Marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima.

At 2:46 p.m. ET, Ullyot released an updated statement.

"Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others -- we salute them for their strong and in many cases heroic service to our country, full stop," the updated statement said. "We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, or sex. We do so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the warfighting mission like ever other American who has worn the uniform.

"In the rare cases that content is removed -- either deliberately or by mistake -- that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the components and they correct the content so it recognizes our heroes for their dedicated service alongside their fellow Americans, period."

By 3:09 p.m. ET, the story was restored with its original URL. The Department of Defense declined to answer questions from ESPN as to whether the removal of Robinson's story was deliberate or mistaken.
 
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