• SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you are a student of US history, take note: the Temperance movement of the early 20th century that led to Prohibition started under similar banners. These people are deadly serious.

    Don’t sleep on seemingly-harmless populist movements. They resonate in the ballot box, and then it’s all “oh shit where did my rights go??”

    They are coming for your porn,
    They are coming for your booze,
    They are coming for your weed,
    They are coming for your LGBTQ+ friends & family,
    They are coming for your contraceptives,
    They are coming for your heart, mind and soul,
    They are implacable and they will not stop.

    Vote like your very life depends on it. It matters.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    I’ve run into this group over the years, they are white religious women who want to erode public schools and force conservative controlled charter schools on the masses. They are quite batty, but their plans fall into the evil camp.

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      By “religious,” I’m guessing you mean “Christian.” People seem confused why I, a Jewish clergyman, get really uncomfortable around people who make a big point about their Christian beliefs. It’s because of shit like this!

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        Groups like that are quite into antisemitism, but I’ve unfortunately run into a few antisemitic jews in my travels so I guess anything goes.

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    Why are all the evil ideas and peeps always republicans. It’s like seeing the stereotypical baddie and saying no way they are that obvious … but here we are.

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    We need to take them seriously, but this headline is overstating their importance. Candidates aligned with these fuckers largely lost elections to the school board, while candidates telling these conservatives to fuck off general won those elections.

    Of the course the answer here is to run up the score as much as possible. Don’t give them an inch.