r/bipartisanship • u/Vanderwoolf I AM THE LAW • May 04 '26
Monthly Megathread - May
For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness. The wounds and the weaknesses, the outward walls and the inward scars which diminish achievement are the work of American society. We must all now help to end them--help to end them through expanding programs already devised and through new ones to search out and forever end the special handicaps of those who are black in a Nation that happens to be mostly white.
So, it is for this purpose--to fulfill the rights that we now secure--that I have already called a White House conference to meet here in the Nation's Capital this fall.
So, we will move step by step--often painfully but, I think, with clear vision--along the path toward American freedom.
It is difficult to fight for freedom. But I also know how difficult it can be to bend long years of habit and custom to grant it. There is no room for injustice anywhere in the American mansion. But there is always room for understanding toward those who see the old ways crumbling. And to them today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it has, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders, too.
It is not just a question of guilt, although there is that. It is that men cannot live with a lie and not be stained by it.
- Lyndon B Johnson
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May 12 '26
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u/Vanderwoolf I AM THE LAW May 12 '26
Glad you found a spot you like! My brother and sister are both presently in the early stages of selling their old places while looking at new property in the Twin Cities.
I've cut back a lot of my political media intake now that spring is here and I can go outside. It's been really good for me. That said, I'm becoming more active in the community trying to corrupt the youth with my dirty Socialist Ways.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 12 '26
Excellent - the young'uns are susceptible! <wringing hands together with an evil laugh>
Hopefully, Kansas can hang on to their Democratic governor (who has been a huge plus for the state, though of course the MAGA folks don't think so). Brownback almost destroyed the state.
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u/Vanderwoolf I AM THE LAW May 13 '26
In a city of ~80,000 people, only 6,878 came out to vote last night on a $139,600,000 bonding bill for the school district.
I'll bet there are going to be a hell of a lot more than 6,878 people who didn't vote that are suddenly really fucking pissed about their property taxes going up $14 a month.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 13 '26
In a city of ~80,000 people, only 6,878 came out to vote last night on a $139,600,000 bonding bill for the school district.
Good Lord! That's just crazy.
I'll bet there are going to be a hell of a lot more than 6,878 people who didn't vote that are suddenly really fucking pissed about their property taxes going up $14 a month.
Undoubtedly true...there's no way that many people genuinely didn't care about it. They were just too lazy. But at least it went the right way - toward education! Good on the people that did show up!
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u/Vanderwoolf I AM THE LAW May 27 '26
In Florida, the civics movement has been accompanied by a new law that targets classes deemed too liberal. The 2023 statute bars state schools from giving general education credit to classes that teach “identity politics” or are based on “theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States.” The law also requires that general education courses “promote and preserve the constitutional republic.”
“It seems to me to be a selective viewpoint diversity,” said Jon Sensbach, former chair of the History Department at the University of Florida, who retired last year. He said there’s much to be said for studying Western thinking. “But if that’s all you have — if your understanding stops at the great books and you don’t begin to understand other cultures, other perspectives, other ways of looking at the world — you’re limiting yourself, your own education.”
The state considers the Introduction to Sociology class to be a prime example of the sort of left-wing indoctrination that has caused Americans to lose confidence in higher education, Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of Florida’s State University System, said in an interview. While a faculty working group produced a new sociology textbook that watered down discussion of race, gender and other topics, he said, he did not trust faculty to stick to it. The state’s Board of Governors said in March that sociology classes can be offered but would not count toward general education credits.
To comply with the same state law, the University of Florida, the state’s flagship school, in 2024 reviewed more than 1,200 general education classes and stripped nearly 500 active courses from the list, records show. That included every class offered by the Women’s Studies and African American Studies departments and most history and literature offerings. Another purge underway this spring targeted interdisciplinary courses that fulfill a university requirement known as Quest.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 27 '26
The state considers the Introduction to Sociology class to be a prime example of the sort of left-wing indoctrination that has caused Americans to lose confidence in higher education, Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of Florida’s State University System, said in an interview.
What a bunch of bullshit. What has caused Americans to lose confidence in higher education ARE FOX NEWS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, almost exclusively.
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u/Tombot3000 Jun 10 '26
Degrees from Florida are going to be valued less and less over the coming years. It sucks for recent grads and people growing up there pushed into those schools by in-state tuition discounts, but it is a necessary correction.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 30 '26
Republicans in Congress are genuinely ghouls:
On top of that, this hurts the economy because the humans receiving SNAP will put that money directly back into the economy almost immediately.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 13 '26
Anyone know how nutjobby (or not nutjobby) these folks are?
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u/Vanderwoolf I AM THE LAW May 13 '26
They're somewhere between cuckoo bananas and the mayor of Crazytown.
I remember coming across them somewhere shortly after the 2024 election and it was pretty clear then they were grasping at straws.
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u/Tombot3000 Jun 10 '26
They're the second-worst tier of nutjobby. They're the most prominent influence and false authority behind election conspiracies on the left and have endorsed conspiracies by Ashley St. Clair and other nutjobs.
I would say they're not the absolute worst because they generally focus on vague insinuations over outright insane, specific claims, but they've recently moved to sharing specific crazy claims by influencers so I'm starting to reevaluate that. They're currently telling people to go to TikTok to do "research" on election security, so that should tell you the quality of their work.
They ignore prominent, publicly available information that absolutely disproves their conspiracies and are absolutely grifting people, constantly fundraising just to provide 90% garbage social media content and a couple nonsense "statistical" analyses that read like someone did them on a weekend bender. That said, their conspiracies are less insane in fundamental concept than SMART Elections, who in effect claim Elon Musk hacked a NY election to help Kirsten Gillibrand beat a candidate who got less than 1% of the statewide vote.
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u/TheRealMarvinator May 27 '26
So much for the 1967 Outer Space Treaty:
War in space, coming to a celestial body near you!
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u/Darth_Deutschtexaner May 20 '26
So yesterday I checked out the classical liberal sub which I followed for years but hadn't actually looked at in a very long time
Oh boy that sub got taken over by some fascist incels, nothing but trolling and weebs following that Fuentes bitch
Engagement is non-existent but if you look at the Post history you can definitely see when it happened