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[saywhat-politics]

Elections have consequences.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Please note that 5 out of 6 of those appointments were made by a “president” who lost the popular vote.

The Electoral College needs to be abolished.

[soberscientistlife]

[slipping-into-madness]

[comeonamericawakeup]

WTF? So much HATE?

[is-this-really--life]

Hot take ig but kids in high school shouldn't have to work either. They should be spending their evenings doing homework and extra-curriculars and fucking around.

There definitely shouldn't be entire industries reliant on their low-wage labor. Why are there many kids being scheduled for a 6 hour shift after a 7 hour school day when they've got learning and their future and their childhood to worry about?

Any industry built on poverty wage child labor should perish, and that's most fast food and grocery and retail so I guess the economy's tanked 🤷. Should've thought about that before deciding to make the essential work into jobs for children and the underclass.

[andrea-plays-nice]

This is what regressive policies look like

[lazyvoidprince]

and most red states are capitulating to the capitalists by lower age for children to work at dangerous jobs.  right @7thgenscot  

[drmajalis]

Too good to stay on twitter

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[tucsonhorse]

It's patriarchal fascism. If children don't have a frame of reference for "normal" beyond what the Authority chooses to give them, they won't object when the Authority does something abnormal (or fascist)

[liberalsarecool]

[Redacted] these two.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

FUCK THESE TWO.

NOT REDACTED.

[depsidase]

[slipping-into-madness]

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

[animentality]

[vote-democrat-president-congres]

[rickmctumbleface]

[afterword]

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

[wahoo-shem]

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[unholyfate]

My solution is too sue sue sue for discrimination.

[mollyfamous]

[liberalsarecool]

FOX and NY Post made up a story about veterans. They paid people to act in a crisis. They went after immigrants. They slandered the President. It was all a hoax.

Then FOX/NY Post never apologized.

[politicalantibody]

Disgusting and disturbing behavior by major news outlets, but sadly not at all surprising, considering that both outlets are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s empire.