https://nitter.net/GBBranstetter/status/1572963117193170945?s=19

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  • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    One mother of a transgender boy attended as a chaperone and watched as her child was denied the chance to leave and other students were instructed to pour water onto his head

    If I were the parent, I couldn’t imagine the amount of cracked open skulls of admins I would leave in my wake

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Shit, this is the kind of thing that, if I were a lawyer, I'd be the first person there.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I’d do it for free just out of anger, but even if you wanted to make money you could probably do a “I won’t charge you anything I’ll just take a percent if we win” thing and succeed and also make shitty people unhappy

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            I want to believe this, but then I'm looking at Louisiana Tort Reform passed just last year...

            https://www.thompsoncoe.com/resources/publications/louisiana-tort-reform-lite-how-personal-injury-litigation-will-change-in-2021/

            TL;DR; they've capped a host of avenues one might use to assess and collect damages.

            The entire southwest has been cranking the ratchet on tort law for decades. The Alex Jones settlement is just the tip of the iceberg.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Firing squad for every uniformed officer and forced relocation for every man left standing still in uniform.

          Move them all up to reservations in New Hampshire, where they can't hurt anybody.

      • TankBombadil [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Andrew Johnson stopped America from saving itself. Not usually a great man theorist, but I can't imagine Lincoln would have undone every good thing about Reconstruction.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Lincoln: I'll make somebody who is completely opposed to my presidential project the vice president :galaxy-brain:

          • TankBombadil [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah it was a genuine moment of liberals being "compromise is our ideology." Just to appease the Democratic states that didn't secede and hoping to appease the South after conquering them. But for electoral purposes, there was no reason he needed to add Johnson to the ticket.

            • ssjmarx [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Big FDR being forced to pick Truman energy. The American system can't abide a president doing something good without them promising to do something bad in exchange.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :porky-happy: "Look, we're just trying to give employers what they want. Strong men willing to strain themselves to 'win' meaningless contests. And girls women with a high tolerance for sexual harassment/assault"

  • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Modern American Christianity is satanism in disguise.

    Gnosticism gang rise up.

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    so did they just sit there and take the condescending lecturing the whole time, or did any students yell out loud "what does this have to do with careers?" repeatedly?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      The Louisiana state legislature just banned corporal punishment this year.

      I can't really blame a bunch of kids who had teachers literally beating them for their entire childhoods show reluctance to stand up or speak out.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The problem here is school districts are locally controlled. And it sounds like this a deeply religious community given that there seems to be a number of students and parents who support this and the ones who don't either seem to be afraid to speak out or are otherwise tempering their opinions. Complain to the school board? Well they're all gonna be religious nutjobs. Complain to the state? Yeah this is Louisiana, I doubt the state bureaucrats are much less religious. And any local judges, they're very likely old, white, reactionary assholes who think "maybe this isn't legal but it's good for these kids to get some gospel learnin' so I'll allow it". And we all know there's no way the federal government will do anything about it. This is just what very slow motion balkanization looks like.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Also national control of education is 100% necessary. Local boards of education should be abolished. Local communities and local government are reactionary entities 90% of the time.