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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in their own self interest to water down the sex offenders list.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

And reduce the number of competent educators

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is in Missouri, for anyone wondering.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

one of the poorest states in the country, lowest IQs, most health issues, you'd think they'd have more important things to discuss..

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

They do, which is why distraction is so important.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That would imply that care about fixing problems. They don't; they want to create problems.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so bad I generally refuse to identify being from there. When anyone asks I just say I live in misery, with swaths of lead addled lunatics. Some think it's quaint, others understand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being from (and stuck in) Oklahoma, I understand and I feel for you.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They seem to be leaning in to the fact the states name sounds like "misery".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

For now, get out and vote if you're reading this.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do I get the feeling that the goal of this is more to dilute the meaning of the term sex offender, than it is anything else.

Weird how the party of sex offenders wants to ruin any meaning to the term sex offender.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird how the party of sex offenders wants to ruin any meaning to the term sex offender.

The same applies to impeachment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which is why they were balls deep on russian cock and swallowing those thick and juicy lies, Until they found out the dick was from baddragon and the lies were a not-for-ingestion lotion.

Desperate to have any (imaginary) justification for the impeachment.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well this is where it's headed. First it will be teachers, parents, doctors, therapists.

Then they'll want to register trans adults as sex offenders. Then all LGBTQ people.

Like so much of the government in the US, the infrastructure is there, ready to be abused. Change one line and it applies to all of us.

Anyone not realize just how awful it would be to get labeled a sex offender? It makes it almost impossible to find a place to live, or a job. People will seek you out and harass you in public. This is an extremely serious classification that shouldn't have anything to do with "culture wars". It should be reserved only for the worst classes of convicted criminals -- if it's not actually cruel and unusual and unnecessarily punative.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

First they came for the trans folk...just like the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love how everyone gets online and grumbles about this and then says I'm the crazy one for telling you to arm up. You have cheerfully ceded all violent power to the state and then can't understand why the state is turning on you. Sad. This was the entire point behind the citizen militia. Lots of other left-leaning countries have this. The US is fascist becuae it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That won't make the sex offender registry functionally useless at all... /s

If you ever needed an example of how conservatives don't actually give a shit about preventing child predation...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

You mean the conservatives constantly being caught being sex offenders and child predators?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only if you believe that there's a difference between an active pedophile and gay couple or a trans person. Some these folks don't believe there is, and the one's that do believe there is probably see getting a bunch of liberal teachers declared sex offenders as a multi-front win. Removes even stealth support for those kids from school so they are truly alone, gets the teachers out of school so they aren't "indoctrinating" the kids with history and science, and it gives you "proof" that the left is full of the Jim Jordans and Matt Gaetzs too.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The party of gross, old sex-offenders really seem to want to water down the meaning of the list many of them are/should be on.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protect The Kids by Jailing Teachers who Protect The Kids! Also let's roll back Child Labor Laws!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the GOP hated the Taliban and China so much they adopted their ideology. Truly their only problem with other countries is the color of their skin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or the resources within their borders

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Holyshit aren’t you guys very big on whatever the amendment that guarantees you free speech ? How’s this not a blatant violation of free speech ?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is, this is ridiculous GOP headline-grabbing outrage bait but we live in stupid universe so I can't say with absolute certainty that it won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The point is to lose, so they can stoke some culture war bullshit about how free speech is dead, the government is too big, the judiciary is too woke, etc. And if it's allowed to stand, all the better.

This is an exercise in trying to build outrage before the elections, because they don't have an actual platform that involves making people's lives better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Well they are very good in getting me triggered even though I’m 12000 km away and not concerned by those shenanigans. It’s soooo infuriating.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot imagine being this twisted and spiteful to think this is a good idea.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It's a crime? How? This is the dumbest legislation ever.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope Missouri taxpayers like their state government spending their hard earned tax dollars on lawsuits for blatantly unconstitutional laws. Who needs infrastructure, or literally anything tangible when you can just spend more money on losing? Absolutely pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sadly, far too many around us are. If it wasn't for family etc I'd definitely have no reason to be here over anywhere else. But I enjoy giving the GOP here hell and being some added voice for those with less options.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

By “support”, do they mean treating them like human beings instead of mocking and deriding them?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Unironically, yes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The GOP are vile human beings.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Every accusation is a confession.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never vote GOP, ever again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never neglect to vote against them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is much more useful advice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fuck sakes, they just want to reinforce a fucking century old false trope.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ooh ooh let's apply this to Sunday schools

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Projection again. All GOP members are sex offenders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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"Both sides are bad!!! I'm not voting!"

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