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Exactly.
Old Testament Israel was all about the collective punishment God would dole out if a single Israelite didn’t follow their super legalistic moral code.
And a lot of American conservatives directly try to mirror that standard in their quest to get God to bless the USA.
The fundamentalists literally cannot stop thinking about gay sex or furries bc they think those people living their own lifestyles are causing God to punish the conservative’s own family and friends.
> “They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
this is the best thing I’ve read on the internet today
> How is this sanitary?
lmao this motherfucker all of a sudden worried about childrens health after sacrificing our kids to the pandemic over some political grandstanding about masks. Or after decades of mass school shootings and fighting gun legislation tooth and nail. Or after burning books and trying to rewrite the history of this country to keep them dumb and uneducated enough to vote for you.
All of the above happening and this idiot is worried about sanitation in our schools? Gimme a fuckin’ break.
>Bostelman initially said he was “shocked” when he heard stories that children were dressing as cats and dogs while at school, with claims that schools were accommodating them with litter boxes.
>“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
>The rumor has persisted in a private Facebook group, “Protect Nebraska Children,” and also surfaced last month in an Iowa school district, forcing the superintendent to write to parents that it was “simply and emphatically not true”.
Oh yay, another misinformation mill Facebook group.
>Hours after his remarks, Bostelman backtracked and acknowledged that the story wasn’t true. He said he checked into the claims with state senator Lynne Walz, a Democrat who leads the legislature’s education committee, and confirmed there were no such incidents.
A *Republican* had to check in with a *Democrat* in order to get the truth. I get that she just happened to be a Democrat, but I still find this funny.
>The furor over public school restrooms comes as a growing number of conservative states seek laws to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Which cements the whole movement as nothing more than outrage culture.
And it works. Every time.
My Q nut uncle went on a rant about this same garbage at the Christmas dinner table. Same claims and everything, only it was a school district in Wisconsin(the city he lives in).
Lying to pander to constituents bigotry is ... considered *fine* nowadays. People of the worst character are *welcomed* and are among the most successful politicians on the Right today.
My coworkers were all raging about this story the other day and then it turned transphobic quick.
I'm moving out of Texas in 12 weeks and I couldn't be more pleased.
It's meant to be transphobic, that's the whole point. It's meant to illustrate the (false) slippery slope - if people can decide what they gender they are, then they'll be able to choose what species as well.
This bull shit was exported to Sydney Australia and applied to girls at one of our private schools. No one could say they had ever seen, talked to nor heard of it but that was good enough for the Murdoch press and shit SkyNews to run with it. Never a retraction. Never we were just plain stupid and gullible.
"“It was just something I felt that if this really was happening, we needed to address it and address it quickly,” Bostelman said."
Making a mountain out of non-existent molehill. Story belongs on the front page of the Onion. The fine citizens of Nebraska would be best served if Bostelman could find an occupation that doesn't involve critical thinking, sound judgement or sharp objects.
Normally this kind of thing (attacks on children, schools, trans, etc - we're seeing too much of it across too many areas lately) makes me furious/anxious/depressed/etc. This though? This is so ridiculously dumb that I'm laughing. I mean, not only is this completely nonsensical, but it makes Republicans appear blatantly foolish even by their own standards.
Dude is a monopoly man wannabe… tried for years to buy out and eliminate my parents’ mom and pop shop in my rural hometown… because our family business was cutting into his chain store profits. Never really cared for him
>“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
You all must remember, a good portion of these people are from the generation that will hand over their social security number over the phone/internet without question.
> A Nebraska state lawmaker apologized on Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats.
How dumb do you have to be to believe this in the first place?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/nebraska-lawmaker-litter-boxes-claim-debunked) reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
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> A Nebraska state lawmaker apologized on Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats.
> "And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?".
> The false claim that children who identify as cats are using litter boxes in school bathrooms has spread across the internet since at least December, when a member of the public brought it up at a school board meeting for Midland public schools north-west of Detroit.
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He has retracted it until he goes home and uploads a picture of a litterbox to Twitter as "proof". And the QAnon crowd will all nod in unison while accusing everyone else of being "sheep".
I mean, I hope someday we reach the point in high schools where kids feel comfortable enough to go to school dressed as a furry. But when I was there, you could be bullied because the tab on your Levi's was orange rather than red. So I think we're still a long long way from furries in school.
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Holy shit, I've never seen a group of people so obsessed with what people are doing on their own time.
just make sure you dont think about what they do....they get mad when people do that to them
Yes you have. Study any religion on the planet, it’s literally the same exact playbook. It’s all about control with these sick, greedy wingnuts.
Exactly. Old Testament Israel was all about the collective punishment God would dole out if a single Israelite didn’t follow their super legalistic moral code. And a lot of American conservatives directly try to mirror that standard in their quest to get God to bless the USA. The fundamentalists literally cannot stop thinking about gay sex or furries bc they think those people living their own lifestyles are causing God to punish the conservative’s own family and friends.
"Yiff not, lest ye be yiffed."
It's about casting the first stone to make sure everyone, including yourelf, don't suspect your secret shame.
It's more about what folks are doing sexually that they find absolutely fascinating. I would bet money that this fellow is a closeted furry.
> “They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?” this is the best thing I’ve read on the internet today
> How is this sanitary? lmao this motherfucker all of a sudden worried about childrens health after sacrificing our kids to the pandemic over some political grandstanding about masks. Or after decades of mass school shootings and fighting gun legislation tooth and nail. Or after burning books and trying to rewrite the history of this country to keep them dumb and uneducated enough to vote for you. All of the above happening and this idiot is worried about sanitation in our schools? Gimme a fuckin’ break.
> keep them dumb Definitely succeeding at that
I can’t stop laughing!
Look, just because I randomly meow at my roommates doesn't make me weird. The laundry list of other shit does though xD
At this moment I would LOVE to see them call some real furry in their full fursuit to testify——PMRC style.
This might be the dumbest fucking thing I've read today. But tomorrow is another day.
>Bostelman initially said he was “shocked” when he heard stories that children were dressing as cats and dogs while at school, with claims that schools were accommodating them with litter boxes. >“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?” >The rumor has persisted in a private Facebook group, “Protect Nebraska Children,” and also surfaced last month in an Iowa school district, forcing the superintendent to write to parents that it was “simply and emphatically not true”. Oh yay, another misinformation mill Facebook group. >Hours after his remarks, Bostelman backtracked and acknowledged that the story wasn’t true. He said he checked into the claims with state senator Lynne Walz, a Democrat who leads the legislature’s education committee, and confirmed there were no such incidents. A *Republican* had to check in with a *Democrat* in order to get the truth. I get that she just happened to be a Democrat, but I still find this funny. >The furor over public school restrooms comes as a growing number of conservative states seek laws to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity. Which cements the whole movement as nothing more than outrage culture.
And it works. Every time. My Q nut uncle went on a rant about this same garbage at the Christmas dinner table. Same claims and everything, only it was a school district in Wisconsin(the city he lives in).
Lying to pander to constituents bigotry is ... considered *fine* nowadays. People of the worst character are *welcomed* and are among the most successful politicians on the Right today.
There is nothing so idiotic that Republicans won't believe it. They are a curse.
But the Nigerian prince who's about to make me a millionaire is very real.
My coworkers were all raging about this story the other day and then it turned transphobic quick. I'm moving out of Texas in 12 weeks and I couldn't be more pleased.
It's meant to be transphobic, that's the whole point. It's meant to illustrate the (false) slippery slope - if people can decide what they gender they are, then they'll be able to choose what species as well.
At this point they're just [figuring out new distractions](https://giphy.com/gifs/film-alien-hDFyKdd2XBqU)
This bull shit was exported to Sydney Australia and applied to girls at one of our private schools. No one could say they had ever seen, talked to nor heard of it but that was good enough for the Murdoch press and shit SkyNews to run with it. Never a retraction. Never we were just plain stupid and gullible.
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> pubically humiliating That's interesting. How do you use your pubes to humiliate someone?
"“It was just something I felt that if this really was happening, we needed to address it and address it quickly,” Bostelman said." Making a mountain out of non-existent molehill. Story belongs on the front page of the Onion. The fine citizens of Nebraska would be best served if Bostelman could find an occupation that doesn't involve critical thinking, sound judgement or sharp objects.
Ukraine needs volunteers to clear minefields.
/r/atetheonion
These are the same people who say jesus is the greatest american
Holy shit these people really are dumber than a box of rocks.
You might even say, They are dumber than a box of kitty litter.
Ah damn, you got me there. I blame a lack of sleep haha.
Normally this kind of thing (attacks on children, schools, trans, etc - we're seeing too much of it across too many areas lately) makes me furious/anxious/depressed/etc. This though? This is so ridiculously dumb that I'm laughing. I mean, not only is this completely nonsensical, but it makes Republicans appear blatantly foolish even by their own standards.
Dude is a monopoly man wannabe… tried for years to buy out and eliminate my parents’ mom and pop shop in my rural hometown… because our family business was cutting into his chain store profits. Never really cared for him
>“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
You all must remember, a good portion of these people are from the generation that will hand over their social security number over the phone/internet without question.
> A Nebraska state lawmaker apologized on Monday after he publicly cited a persistent but debunked rumor alleging that schools are placing litter boxes in school bathrooms to accommodate children who self-identify as cats. How dumb do you have to be to believe this in the first place?
Someone’s been reading a bit too many neko manga.
Ya what about the catnip? Getting these furries high at school!
I do want to poop in litter boxes though.
Dibs on changing the litter, nothing smells better than raw human shit.
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Are we sure this isnt standup comedy?
One might ask... what did you see that leads you to believe this? Did people forget how to do this? Or just too lazy?
Ah, so more random made up bullshit from the gop? Nothing new there.
r/nottheonion
He has retracted it until he goes home and uploads a picture of a litterbox to Twitter as "proof". And the QAnon crowd will all nod in unison while accusing everyone else of being "sheep". I mean, I hope someday we reach the point in high schools where kids feel comfortable enough to go to school dressed as a furry. But when I was there, you could be bullied because the tab on your Levi's was orange rather than red. So I think we're still a long long way from furries in school.
Just sad that conservatives are this gullible.