any bill around internet monitoring and censorship : saving the precious children from horrible paedophiles act of 20xx
any bill for actually taking care of the physical and intellectual well being of children : bill 50906-3
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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"Wow, you want to FEED kids to keep them in good health? I'd rather spy on everyone in the hopes of catching someone under 18 accessing 18+ material. That's where REAL good health comes from."
They care about their SPIRITUAL health. Physical health doesn't matter compared to an eternity of hellfire, you heathen.
The suffering means we are doing it right!
Oh God, I'm having flashbacks to growing up in an evangelical community
The sooner the kid dies the less likely they are to sin.
You're saying that once we figure out how to baptize unborn babies, abortion is back on the menu?
OK that was a joke but I'm curious how the more radical Christian groups would react to that. Like you can basically guarantee a soul an instant ticket to heaven, why wouldn't you? Though I guess you'd have to find whichever group actually genuinely believes the spiritual war stuff instead of using it as a cover for a demographic war.
Ban abortion, also makes it illegal to find food to kids or homeless
Anytime I see something like the Safe Children and Everyone Who Wants One Gets a Puppy Act I know my life is about to get worse
"The Sunshine Protection Act", oh is this some bill against pollution or something. "This bill makes daylight savings permanent."
Oh fuck off, that's too grandiose of a name for that. I mean I want that, but you aren't protecting sunshine ...
I don't have a problem with that act having a grandiose name because axing daylight savings time is something I can totally get behind no matter where I am.
Yes. I will finally only drive into the sun half the year instead of the whole year.
I always thought it was weird, that the one argument for Day Light Savings is that we get more sun. Someone can correct me, if I am wrong. I'm pretty sure the amount of daylight isn't magical dictated by clocks and time created by humans.
Abolish day light savings time. Stick to standard time like the rest of the world does.
So like, in January, the sun sets at say around 5:15pm. With DST active, it would set at 6:15pm.
So there is more daylight after work or school gets out for most people.
Either way, the time change seems like it's not useful in today's age, so we should pick one.
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They also have to have a cute acronym, so it fits neatly into a headline:
- FAPS (Free Affordable Pepsi Soda) Act
- ANAL (Anyone who Needs it Always gets Licorice) Act
- BROJOB (Best fRiends Only Jack-Off Best friends) Act
- PUPPY (Pee Under People’s Pants Yearly) Act
SODA (Scorn Owners of Dogs Act)
Hmm licorice
I'm gonna vote in favor of ANAL.
Aren't we all?
How else would the brown licorice industry survive?
It's wild this is even allowed in your country. You'd think a bill should relate to a single topic or area so you can actually vote on it, and people can easily see how reps voted on certain topics.
Right?
But if they did that, how else would they be able to get money for some random project in their district. Or tack on something everyone is against because the optics of going against the stop Stop Child Rape bill are so bad.
If there is no answer for "how does this help a politician?" then it's probably not going to happen.
The funny part is public initiatives are bound to this rule, depending where you live
??? How am I supposed to get pork-barrel projects for my district? That would never work! People should be forced to vote for things they don't agree with to get things they do agree with. That's the American way.
Also this bill bans soda
Something something Patriot Act
Ah, yes. Citizens United.
I've said it before and I'll say it again Democracy simply doesn't work
for those who are downvoting, this is a simpsons reference about almost this exact same thing.
if you’re downvoting because it’s a simpsons reference, ouch!
First past the post representative "democracy" sure as hell doesn't.
I'm not certain it's a valid inference to throw all possible forms of truly democratic government through the drain along with it.
It works quite well. And it could work much better than it does now in the US. But wealth inequality erodes the education and free time of the population entrusted with the responsibility of voting.
Oh silly you. This bill is called free soda for all because it's trying to free this dog that happens to be named soda.
And by "free," they mean "free from its mortal coil."
It's because Congress doesn't have a single subject rule.
43 states have it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule
E: There are some good reasons why Congress doesn't have it. First, Congress does soooooo much stuff that it might be utterly impossible to do it one subject at a time. That's why we have omnibus bills for things such as spending, which includes the budgets of all or most federal departments. Along with reconciliation and appropriations bills, it's how a lot of business gets done and how compromises are made. A single subject rule would clear up a lot of the pork, but night just grind things to a hault just by the shear number of bills that would have to be written, debated, and voted.
Another reason is that it opens a whole new category of litigation as to whether or not the title of the bill matches the subject of the bill; the standard is one of whether the title alone would give fair notice as to the range of subject matter in the bill.
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YES THE SUGAR FREE SODA ACT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
1$/L TAX FOR ALL SUGAR AND SUGAR REPLACEMENT AND JUICE. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Really, you don't need sugar for a good drink (unless distilled).
Ice cold lemonade from extract or mint from extract is LITERALLY only water.
Ps Drink room temp water and you won't even want any cold drinks ever again.
Room temp water tastes nasty as hell what are you talking about. Ice cold or go home.
Yeah, I really need answers about that one. My friend leaves his filtered water pitcher on the counter, and he also said it tasted better than from the fridge. Even on summer days when I biked over and was sweating buckets, I could barely stand drinking it. I would rather get it straight from the tap.
Well, it is indeed from the counter from a ten year old ceramic dispenser.
It keeps it moderately acceptable to drink, really. I live in hot Ecuador and no ac in main rooms except master bedroom
Ps Drink room temp water and you won’t even want any cold drinks ever again.
It keeps it moderately acceptable to drink, really.
Wow, folded real quick there, huh?
Wait...
I live in hot Ecuador and no ac in main rooms
So you say room temperature, but really it's warm.
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