Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

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https://apnews.com/article/tuberville-comments-reparations-19d58a87c23b57c1e9a6c8ca7f8fcb70

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”

The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes.

“They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”

He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered.

Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data.

The Democratic Party has not taken a stance on reparations for Black Americans to compensate for years of unpaid slave labor by their ancestors, though some leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden, back the creation of a national commission to study the issue.

Some Republicans on Sunday struggled to defend Tuberville’s comments.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said he “wouldn’t say it the same way,” describing the remarks as impolite.

“That’s not the way I present things,” Bacon said on “Meet the Press” on NBC. “But got to be honest that we have a crime problem in our country.”

There was no immediate response from Tuberville’s office on Sunday to a request for comment.

Republicans have been trying to close out this election year with an emphasis on crime, using rhetoric that has sometimes been alarmist or of questionable veracity, similar to Trump’s late-stage argumen t during the 2020 campaign that Democratic-led cities were out of control.

FBI data released last week showed violent and property crime generally remained consistent between 2020 and 2021, with a slight decrease in the overall violent crime rate and a 4.3% rise in the murder rate. That’s an improvement over 2020, when the murder rate in the U.S. jumped 29%.

The report presents an incomplete picture, in part because it doesn’t include some of the nation’s largest police departments.

More broadly, rates of violent crime and killings have increased around the U.S. since the pandemic, in some places spiking after hitting historic lows. Nonviolent crime decreased during the pandemic, but the murder rate grew nearly 30% in 2020, rising in cities and rural areas alike, according to an analysis of crime data by The Brennan Center for Justice. The rate of assaults went up 10%, the analysis found.

The rise defies easy explanation. Experts have pointed to a number of potential causes, from worries about the economy and historically high inflation rates to intense stress during the pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people in the United States.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04

As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards.

Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.

Once seen as sleepy affairs with little interest outside their communities, school board elections started to heat up last year as parents aired frustrations with pandemic policies. As those issues fade, right-leaning groups are spending millions on candidates who promise to scale back teachings on race and sexuality, remove offending books from libraries and nix plans for gender-neutral bathrooms or transgender-inclusive sports teams.

Democrats have countered with their own campaigns portraying Republicans as extremists who want to ban books and rewrite history.

At the center of the conservative effort is the 1776 Project PAC, which formed last year to push back against the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which provides free lesson plans that center U.S. history around slavery and its lasting impacts. Last fall and this spring, the 1776 group succeeded in elevating conservative majorities to office in dozens of school districts across the U.S., propelling candidates who have gone on to fire superintendents and enact sweeping “bills of rights” for parents.

In the wake of recent victories in Texas and Pennsylvania — and having spent $2 million between April 2021 and this August, according to campaign finance filings — the group is campaigning for dozens of candidates this fall. It’s supporting candidates in Maryland’s Frederick and Carroll counties, in Bentonville, Arkansas, and 20 candidates across southern Michigan.

Its candidates have won not only in deeply red locales but also in districts near liberal strongholds, including Philadelphia and Minneapolis. And after this November, the group hopes to expand further.

“Places we’re not supposed to typically win, we’ve won in,” said Ryan Girdusky, founder of the group. “I think we can do it again.”

In Florida, recent school board races saw an influx of attention — and money — from conservative groups, including some that had never gotten involved in school races.

The American Principles Project, a Washington think tank, put a combined $25,000 behind four candidates for the Polk County board. The group made its first foray into school boards at the behest of local activists, its leader said, and it’s weighing whether to continue elsewhere. The group’s fundraising average surged from under $50,000 the year before the pandemic to about $2 million now.

“We lean heavily into retaking federal power,” said Terry Schilling, the think tank’s president. “But if you don’t also take over the local school boards, you’re not going to have local allies there to actually reverse the policies that these guys have been implementing.”

In a move never before seen in the state, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed a slate of school board candidates, putting his weight behind conservatives who share his opposition to lessons on sexuality and what he deems critical race theory. Most of the DeSantis-backed candidates won in their August races, in some cases replacing conservative members who had more moderate views than the firebrand governor.

The movement claims to be an opposing force to left-leaning teachers unions. They see the unions as a well-funded enemy that promotes radical classroom lessons on race and sexuality — a favorite smear is to call the unions “groomers.”The unions, which also support candidates, have called it a fiction meant to stoke distrust in public schools.

In Maryland’s Frederick County, the 1776 group is backing three school board candidates against four endorsed by education unions. The conservatives are running as the “Education Not Indoctrination” slate, with a digital ad saying children are being “held captive” by schools. The ad shows a picture of stacked books bearing the words “equity,” “grooming,” “indoctrination” and “critical race theory.”

Karen Yoho, a board member running for re-election, said outside figures have stoked fears about critical race theory and other lessons that aren’t taught in Frederick County.

The discourse has mostly stayed civil in her area, but Yoho takes exception to the accusation that teachers are “grooming” children.

“I find it disgusting,” said Yoho, a retired teacher whose children went through the district. “It makes my heart hurt. And then I kind of get mad and I get defensive.”

In Texas, Patriot Mobile — a wireless company that promotes conservative causes — has emerged as a political force in school board races. Earlier this year, its political arm spent more than $400,000 out of $800,000 raised to boost candidates in a handful of races in the northern Texas county where the company is based. All of its favored candidates won, putting conservatives in control of four districts.

The group did not respond to requests for comment, but a statement released after the spring victories said Texas was “just the beginning.”

Some GOP strategists have cautioned against the focus on education, saying it could backfire with more moderate voters. Results so far have been mixed — the 1776 Project claims a 70% win rate, but conservative candidates in some areas have fallen flat in recent elections.

Still, the number of groups that have banded together under the umbrella of parental rights seems only to be growing. It includes national organizations such as Moms for Liberty, along with smaller grassroots groups.

“There is a very stiff resistance to the concerted and intentional effort to make radical ideas about race and gender part of the school day. Parents don’t like it,” said Jonathan Butcher, an education fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

The foundation and its political wing have been hosting training sessions encouraging parents to run for school boards, teaching them the basics about budgeting but also about the perceived dangers of what the group deems critical race theory.

For decades, education was seen as its “own little game” that was buffered from national politics, said Jeffrey Henig, a political science and education professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who has written about outside funding in school board elections. Now, he said, local races are becoming battlegrounds for broader debates.

He said education is unlikely to be a decisive issue in the November election — it’s overshadowed by abortion and the economy — but it can still be wielded to “amplify local discontent” and push more voters to the polls.

Republicans are using the tactic this fall as they look to unseat Democrats at all levels of government.

In Michigan, the American Principles Project is paying for TV ads against the Democratic governor where a narrator reads sexually explicit passages from the graphic novel “Gender Queer.” It claims that “this is the kind of literature that Gretchen Whitmer wants your kids exposed to,” while giant red letters appear saying “stop grooming our kids.”

Similar TV ads are being aired in Arizona to attack Sen. Mark Kelly, and in Maine against Gov. Janet Mills, both Democrats.

 

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that sign is clearly lying...republicans are totally about indoctrination, it's the only way they can make more republicans, no sane adult will have anything to do with them

 

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https://www.rawstory.com/as-midterms-near-immigrants-and-voters-of-color-being-targeted-with-rampant-misinformation/

Election deception has taken on many different forms over the years, but voting advocates see a particular danger in the current charged political climate: Misinformation and disinformation targeting voters of color and immigrant communities has become increasingly amplified and poses a clear threat in the upcoming midterms.

New U.S. citizens, who are often first-time voters, "face special risks in encountering misinformation stemming from information gaps," according to research from the Brennan Center for Justice. Since they may lack familiarity with U.S. voting procedures or the normal workings of the political system, they are more likely to be affected by election misinformation and disinformation.

When a high demand for information about a topic isn't met with a supply of accurate and reliable information, the result is what the Brennan Center terms an "information gap," which can allow misinformation and blatant propaganda to emerge and spread. Much of this is happening in communities where English isn't the primary language, advocates say, and different communities are susceptible to different types of misinformation that specifically target platforms they are most likely to interact with.

For example, an online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, a friend and ally of former Trump adviser and right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon, has spread falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines, promoted unfounded election fraud claims and even spread baseless QAnon conspiracy theories, according to the research firm Graphika.

These efforts have used "home country biases and sensitive topics such as the Chinese Cultural Revolution" and catered their messaging to target members of the Asian American diaspora, according to the advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

These messages are most likely to impact first-generation immigrants who may not speak fluent English, according to AAJC. The group says some Asian immigrants began to subscribe to Donald Trump's "big lie" about the 2020 election, or became concerned that their children were being "indoctrinated" with "critical race theory" in public schools..

"We're seeing so much right-wing extremism and mistruths about certain issues, including COVID vaccination, including the pros and cons of affirmative action, basically anything that would be considered like a political issue," said Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action.

What may differentiate Chinese-language spaces from English spaces is the relative lack of diversity of viewpoints, he added.

"In English, you could probably find a range of perspectives from left to right," Pan said, "but in Chinese-language spaces, it tends to be much more one-sided, because more conservative media efforts and political efforts are intentionally targeting these voters with misinformation."

Pan's organization is trying to fill that gap by providing accurate information in multiple languages, but there is no easy fix for this "structural issue," he said.

Several organizations have called on social media platforms to take more action in combating conspiracy theories and electoral misinformation aimed at non-English speaking communities. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, has joined a coalition of Latino organizations in these efforts, for example.

"I've been disappointed to see [social media platforms] tolerate lies in Spanish that would never be tolerated in English," said Castro during a press call by the Spanish Language Disinformation Coalition.

Last year, SLDC released a statement denouncing online hate and misinformation targeting Latinos and called for more rigorous moderation:

We know that online platforms are not only spreading hate and lies about Latinos, but also targeting our community with false information. There is less oversight of disinformation in Spanish and other non-English languages. Latino communities have been relentlessly targeted by online disinformation campaigns which include political fake news, human smuggling ads, COVID-19 conspiracies and lies about COVID vaccines. Platforms must do more to moderate this deeply harmful content.

Spanish speakers are particularly vulnerable to misinformation on YouTube and WhatsApp, which are popular in Latino immigrant communities, according to SLDC.

Election-related disinformation has started to spread on these platforms as the 2022 midterms approach, but that's not the only kind of false information targeting immigrants and other vulnerable groups.

YouTube has not removed dozens of Spanish-language videos claiming that fraudulent ballots were coming to the U.S. from China and Mexico, or that 1.8 million "ghost voters" had voted in 2020.

Last month, a group of 48 asylum-seekers in Texas — most of them originally from Venezuela —were handed misleading brochures that promised cash assistance, housing and job placement services in Massachusetts in order to lure them onto the infamous flights to Martha's Vineyard orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Immigrant rights groups have equated DeSantis' political stunt with human trafficking, and he now faces both civil suits and possible criminal charges.

"The percentage of Americans whose primary language is not English is very large," Pan said, "especially in states where the political outcomes are razor-thin." With many midterm races likely to be extremely close, he said, these communities may well "make the difference."

Dozens of Spanish-language YouTube videos containing blatantly false election misinformation have spread online, Media Matters found. For example, the platform has not removed videos in Spanish that claimed fraudulent ballots were coming to the U.S. from China and Mexico, or alleged that 1.8 million "ghost voters" had voted in 2020.

Right-wing activists within Spanish-speaking communities have also enabled the spread of false claims about Dominion and Smartmatic voting systems since the 2020 presidential elections. Some of these videos have tied these voting systems to election fraud cases in Mexico and Venezuela.

While YouTube has explicit policies regarding election misinformation and has committed to combating Spanish-language election misinformation ahead of the midterms, Media Matters notes that the platform often rolls out such policy changes too late to make much difference.

There are also other forms misinformation targeting communities of color and coming from other sources. A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed that information operatives specifically targeted Black Americans more than any other group. Another CNN investigation found that Russian-funded troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria posted content emphasizing racial division in the U.S., often with the explicit aim of discouraging Black people from voting for Democrats, as well as the broader goal of provoking social unrest and racial tension.

Such attacks may be effective at times because of worsening inequality, "vulnerability" and "Black pain," said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the voting rights group Black Voters Matter Fund.

"There is an embedded frustration in our community about the process because we see the growing inequities," Brown said. "We see economic inequity, we see political inequity. So there are forces that seek to actually exploit Black pain and Black discontent."

To offset that, Brown's group has launched a campaign called "We Won't Black Down," which organizers travel by bus to different communities in an effort to address voters' concerns and share real-time information about the most important issues.

When it comes to misinformation spread on online platforms, Brown echoed Pam's concern that the issue is structural. "We have to democratize all platforms," she said, since essentially all major social media platforms are controlled by "wealthy white men." While there is no way to eliminate misinformation and disinformation entirely, she said, making such platforms more democratic would "create a space for there to be accountability, and I would like to see more of that."

Recent social media campaigns have targeted Black Americans by sowing doubt about COVID-19 vaccines and trying to suppress turnout among Black voters, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Such efforts have not discouraged Black Voters Matter Fund from continuing its work, Brown said. Instead, it has made her look toward future generations. "It is our unfettered desire to literally achieve Black liberation that makes us get up in the morning," she said. "We are obsessed with the concept that we should live free of racism — that we can live free of all forms of oppression."

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/20/crime-oklahoma-republicans-governor/

“So let’s talk about the facts,” Joy Hofmeister, the Democratic candidate for governor in Oklahoma, said during a debate Wednesday. “The fact is, the rates of violent crime are higher in Oklahoma —”

“It’s not true,” incumbent Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) interjected.

“— under your watch,” Hofmeister continued — with Stitt interjecting again, “It’s not true” — “than in New York and California. That’s a fact.”

The moderator promised that the claim would be fact-checked. Meanwhile, Stitt was chuckling.

“Oh my gosh,” he said. As Hofmeister began to speak again, he again broke in: “Hang on. Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California? That’s what she just said!”

And that, in a nutshell, is how the debate on crime in the United States has played out. Democrats point to the available data, data that’s usually at least two years out of date. Republicans point to perceptions of crime, particularly in urban areas — perceptions that are long-standing and bolstered in recent months by Fox News.

We can start by fact-checking Hofmeister’s claim — or at least, checking it as best we can. Data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer shows that rates of violent crime were, in fact, higher in Oklahoma than New York or California in 2020. In California, the rate was 442 incidents per 100,000 residents; in Oklahoma, it was about 459 per 100,000. That’s in part because rates in Oklahoma rose between 2019 and 2020.



Notice that we’re talking about rates: the frequency of violent crime. It’s certainly not true that there is more violent crime in Oklahoma than New York or California, since those states have much larger populations. If there are only 10 murders in one town compared to 100 in the next one over, that’s not much consolation if the population of the first town is 100 and the population of the second is 1 million.

But then, those rates are from 2020. We don’t have good state-level data from 2021 at this point, much less 2022, thanks to changes in how the FBI collects data. Many large police departments haven’t yet converted over to the new system, so the 2021 data reported to the FBI from New York (for example) covers only 17 percent of the state’s population.

Since New York City (most of the missing chunk in the data the state handed over to the feds) reports its own data, though, we can note that in 2019 and 2020, its violent crime rate was lower than Oklahoma’s. Since we don’t have good data from Oklahoma for 2021, though, we can’t see if the surge in the city in 2021 pushed its rate past Oklahoma or not.

In other words, if the question is whether Oklahoma has had more violent crime per person this year than New York or California, we can’t fact-check it. We don’t know.

This is a wildly underrecognized point and a critically important one. That’s particularly true because crime is a core part of the political debate as the midterms approach. That people are prone to believing that crime is rising regardless of what’s actually happening — as research has shown — means that talking about rising crime simply feelstrue. Polling from YouGov conducted in August showed a pattern that’s recurred over and over since violent crime began to fall in the 1990s: People tend to think crime is rising nationally even if they don’t think it’s increasing where they live. So if you are a candidate or organization with a vested interest in amplifying concern about crime, it’s easy to cherry-pick incidents or isolated measures to reinforce that concern.

Notice what Stitt said to the audience. Not “her figures are wrong,” but “do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California?”
Not fact but feeling.

In that YouGov polling, Republicans (who easily outnumber Democrats in the state) were much more likely to suspect that crime was a very serious problem nationally. To some extent, this is about how conservative media is talking about crime, often focusing on cherry-picked examples or points of data. But it’s also to some extent about the divide between urban and rural Americans. When Fox News covers crime, it’s almost uniformly in urban areas, despite reporting showing that rural areas are also battling more crime. Hofmeister’s invocation of New York and California was meant to contrast Stitt with blue states, but also, certainly, with the major cities those states contain.

The right has been tying Democrats and big cities and crime together with great energy since the summer of 2020. Even though research published earlier this year by the group Third Way found that Republican states had higher murder rates than Democratic ones. It’s a subset of violent crime, but one that gets a lot of attention.

In response to points like the one above, Republicans often blame blue cities in those red states. So let’s just look at Oklahoma. There were 4,326 violent crimes in Oklahoma City in 2021, according to city data. In a population of 688,000, that’s a rate of 666 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. That’s far higher than the rate in New York City.

Oklahoma City is also the largest U.S. city to vote for Donald Trump in 2020. Its mayor is a Republican, as is the state’s governor, Stitt.

It would be great if we had comparable, real-time numbers on crime from across the country. We don’t. And that means that efforts to talk about crime are hindered by a lack of data and polluted by appeals to emotion. The result is a debate — in Oklahoma and nationally — in which those two forces awkwardly collide.

But of course, Hofmeister is right. On Stitt’s watch — in 2020, that is — Oklahoma had a higher violent crime rate than those two large blue states. Even if it doesn’t now and even if it didn’t feel that way.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/science-education-virginia-government-and-politics-bc96914e5c6aafe53b961d6e05b2ee34

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginians have used an education tip line Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up to submit complaints about curriculum, remote learning, books, mask policies, teachers and other topics, according to a sampling of emails provided to news outlets as part of a settlement agreement.

Some positive feedback was included in the batch of approximately 350 documents provided this week to news outlets that sued the Republican governor in April seeking disclosure of the information. But the majority of emails expressed anger or frustration with teachers, administrators and school policies, particularly with COVID-19 protocols.

“My children are given busy work, with no new material being taught,” a parent from Spotsylvania County wrote in February, objecting to the number of remote learning days at her child’s high school.

Another parent wrote to the principal of her child’s school, copying in the tip line address, asking her to provide lesson plans and lesson objective sheets from her child’s 7th-grade teachers.

The parent wanted to ensure their child wasn’t “being taught divisive concepts (or in Biology not being taught divisive gender-bending LGBT-campaigns with overly-sexualized lesson content).”

The parent, whose name was redacted from the email, said it was only because of remote learning during the pandemic that parents discovered the school board’s “secret leftist, politically motivated agenda and Critical Race Theory -CRT brainwashing.”

Another parent objected to pay raises given to teachers.

“Though teachers did not step foot in the classroom during the 2020-2021 school year, the district allocated a whopping $32.7 million to give educators additional pay,” he wrote.

Youngkin, who campaigned heavily on education and a promise to give parents more sway in their children’s curriculums, introduced the tip line soon after he was inaugurated in January. That same month, he touted it during an interview as a way to ensure that his administration was aware of what was happening at the school level and enable it to “catalog” and “root out” instances of divisive practices.

A teachers union, Democrats in the General Assembly, some parents and other observers — including celebrities who caught wind of the tip line as it drew national news coverage — criticized the move as divisive, authoritarian and unfairly targeting educators.

Many of the emails to the tip line were supportive of Youngkin’s approach to education policy.

Mital Gandhi, a parent from northern Virginia, said he initially wrote to local education officials after he discovered that his school district eliminated Algebra I from the list of classes 6th-grade students could take.

Gandhi said he followed up with an email to the tip line and the Virginia Department of Education. A department administrator responded and said the state was not prohibiting local school systems from allowing 6th-graders to take Algebra I. Gandhi said his son and several other students in 6th grade are now taking the class.

Gandhi wrote that the tip line was a way of “leveling the playing field for parents and students.”

“What Gov. Youngkin has done is he has put more power to the parents,” he said.

One person disagreed with Youngkin’s approach and used the tip line to urge him not to ban “critical race theory” or controversial books.

“Please do not move us away from progress by supporting these backward notions of forward motion,” wrote one woman, who did not say whether she was a parent with children in the public school system.

Emails sent to the tip line Thursday bounced back. Macaulay Porter, a spokeswoman for Youngkin, said in a statement that the email was deactivated in September “as it had received little to no volume during that time.”

“Constituents are always able to confidentially reach out to the governor’s office through various constituent service methods,” she said.

News organizations filed requests for records related to the tip line, but the governor’s office had declined to provide them based on the administration’s contention that the emails were “working papers and correspondence” of the governor’s office and thus not required to be disclosed under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.

Youngkin and other governors have made routine use of the working papers exemption to withhold a wide range of records.

“The Governor wants constituents to be able to reach out to him without fear that their communications will not be kept confidential,” Porter said in a statement. She did not respond to a question about how the tip line was used by the administration or whether any significant issues came to light and were acted on because of the tip line.

A coalition of news organizations filed suit in April, alleging Youngkin was violating the public records law.

The news organizations reached a settlement agreement with Youngkin last month that called for the Department of Education to produce about 350 documents in its possession that included emails sent to the tip line. The governor’s office was not required to hand over documents sent to its office.

“This Settlement Agreement is entered into as the result of a compromise solely for the purpose of avoiding additional expenses and the risk of further litigation. It should not be construed as adopting or rejecting the position of any Party to the litigation,” the settlement agreement says.

 

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Gandhi wrote that the tip line was a way of “leveling the playing field for parents and students.”

“What Gov. Youngkin has done is he has put more power to the parents,” he said.
the trouble is, a lot of the parents are fucking stupid assholes with idiotic opinions and bigoted views...they shouldn't be allowed to have ANY power over the educational system, because there is no fucking possibility that they will ever make a useful suggestion, all they'll ever do is bitch about what they aren't getting.
why would you want fucking morons with no goddamn idea what they fuck they're talking about, to have control of the educational system?

 

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Gandhi wrote that the tip line was a way of “leveling the playing field for parents and students.”

“What Gov. Youngkin has done is he has put more power to the parents,” he said.
the trouble is, a lot of the parents are fucking stupid assholes with idiotic opinions and bigoted views...they shouldn't be allowed to have ANY power over the educational system, because there is no fucking possibility that they will ever make a useful suggestion, all they'll ever do is bitch about what they aren't getting.
why would you want fucking morons with no goddamn idea what they fuck they're talking about, to have control of the educational system?

I think the long game here is to cause so much destruction to our education system that they can do to our schools what private prisons did to our justice system.

Basically shut as many down, and divert those tax dollars into for profit schools so that they can funnel all that tax payer money into their pockets.

All this 'CRT' and homophobic hate mongering is being used to scare people into trying to make this happen.

 

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it is so fucking amazing to me how the magats can put themselves into exactly the same position as us, in their own minds...we're the ones being lied to, we're the ones being manipulated, we're the ones supporting the crooked politicians who want to kill democracy...
it makes me sad that that large a segment of the population is fucking idiots. i thought the race had evolved a little further than that, and it's disheartening to see how many neanderthals still live and vote in America.

 

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it is so fucking amazing to me how the magats can put themselves into exactly the same position as us, in their own minds...we're the ones being lied to, we're the ones being manipulated, we're the ones supporting the crooked politicians who want to kill democracy...
it makes me sad that that large a segment of the population is fucking idiots. i thought the race had evolved a little further than that, and it's disheartening to see how many neanderthals still live and vote in America.

The power of micro target trolling. These people are being spammed troll talking points all day everyday. There is no amount of 'outreach' that the actual news companies, much less the Democratic Party, could do to penetrate that noise.

 

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The power of micro target trolling. These people are being spammed troll talking points all day everyday. There is no amount of 'outreach' that the actual news companies, much less the Democratic Party, could do to penetrate that noise.

That's true, but you also have to want to believe the stupid shit...In order to just accept that everyone crossing the border is a human trafficking, gun running, drug dealing criminal here to steal your job and replace you in society...You have to have some deep fucked up issues of your own to deal with.
To believe that teachers have a plot to teach your kids that white people are bad, you have to be pretty fucked up in the head.
To believe practically any of the republican's stupid, transparent, easily disprovable lies, you have to want to believe them...
Because i hear the same fucking shit they hear, and i don't mindlessly believe it, i don't even mindlessly believe my own parties propaganda...Let's talk about the border policy, Joe...
But, the point is, even with constant bombardment, you have to want to believe the lies, or they're powerless.

 

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That's true, but you also have to want to believe the stupid shit...In order to just accept that everyone crossing the border is a human trafficking, gun running, drug dealing criminal here to steal your job and replace you in society...You have to have some deep fucked up issues of your own to deal with.
To believe that teachers have a plot to teach your kids that white people are bad, you have to be pretty fucked up in the head.
To believe practically any of the republican's stupid, transparent, easily disprovable lies, you have to want to believe them...
Because i hear the same fucking shit they hear, and i don't mindlessly believe it, i don't even mindlessly believe my own parties propaganda...Let's talk about the border policy, Joe...
But, the point is, even with constant bombardment, you have to want to believe the lies, or they're powerless.

They are skilled at tapping into the lizard part of our brain. Nursing the belief of persecution tickles the power gland, releasing magorphins into the cerebral blood flow.

 

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They are skilled at tapping into the lizard part of our brain. Nursing the belief of persecution tickles the power gland, releasing magorphins into the cerebral blood flow.

and yet there are several of us here that seem to be able to resist it with minimal effort.
i think perhaps the typical magat has nothing higher than the lizard part of their brain...i feel that if you did autopsies on most magats, you would find that their cortexes never folded, they're smooth as eggs.