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Of course it was that gusano Maria Salazar who introduced this bill.

Interesting to note that the text of the bill seems to focus on China and mentions Xinjiang in particular. Also how 1.5 billion people currently “suffer” under communism.

This actually seems like a bit of an own goal to me. Sure, tell a bunch of high school kids how China is an undemocratic totalitarian nightmare and that the Uighurs are currently having their organs harvested. Then those students can do literally 10 minutes of research to see that none of that is actually happening and that the people of China are pretty happy with the state of things (at least relative to US Americans).

I should point out for non-US Americans here, education in the US is decentralized. The federal government doesn’t actually have much authority. This bill just tells the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund (snicker) to create materials and make them available.

Death to America.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    19 days ago

    i remember being in fifth grade (aka age 10ish) and having to go through state/federal mandated curriculum on drugs. i had to read about how babies were born addicted to crack and if you did crack even once, even accidentally, you would probably die instantly. and if you didn't die, you would do it again and again until you died because it took over your brain. and that all the dangerous things called "drugs" are like this: they make you addicted and ruin your mind until you do them so much you die.

    each of the kids in class had to get up and read a paragraph they wrote about how sad it is that drugs kill you and pledge not to ever do them and tell the police if you see them. this well constructed scene from Ozark gave me hilarious flashbacks to the absurdity of such initiatives

    i had never even heard of drugs, recreational or otherwise. but i sure as shit would hear about them constantly for the next decade and a half. every video game i played had a warning about drugs on it with the FBI logo and the name of the director (William Sessions, never forget).

    as an early adult, upon smoking weed the first time, i realized the government was just plain lying and wondered why. thus began an unraveling of an onion that probably would have been left alone if they didn't spend years upon years and billions of dollars trying to make me and everyone else think a certain way.