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I completely agree about the Bioshock 1. A little off topic, Bioshock was probably my first exposure libertarian beliefs/Ayn Rand. I got curious about Atlas Shrugged in my 20s after replaying the game and my goodness that was a massive waste of my time. All I could think when I finished it was 'Did I just read the capitalist version of the Turner Diaries? Is that the reason they like the book so much?'

Ugh, pretty soon they're gonna say Mr Rogers, Bob Ross, and Reading Rainbow are woke and bad.

Yeah, they're so sensitive that really is how little it takes to get them worked up nowadays. Hell, there's even a few groups whose sole purpose is to make lists of "woke" games which can include not only Baldur's Gate 3 (same sex relationships) and Bioshock Infinite (showing America's openly racist past), but also Call of Duty Black Ops (America is sort of the bad guy). I don't get it and I'm glad the people in my life who I care about don't get it either.

and reinstated it soon after

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State senator Kevin Sparks called the district’s Bible ban “misguided” in a 19 December post on Instagram. “The Bible is not educationally unsuitable, sexually explicit, or pervasively vulgar, making its removal legally and morally indefensible. At a time when students seek guidance, the Bible provides a vital moral framework.”

Well that's a Texas sized load of horse shit if I ever saw one. It's a book that prominently features child murder, sexual assault, incest, misogyny, mutilation and torture, genocide, and on and on and on. If the rules were properly and equally enforced, there'd only be math, chemistry, and physics books.

Although, it'd be absolutely hilarious if someone were to drop in some leftist writings and they were forced to keep books on unionizing and its benefits, unifying against the rich and collective action, and critiques of capitalism for not fitting the criteria of books that should be banned. Ahhh well, I'm sure they'd say such books are obscene and inappropriate and promptly ban them.

Here's a fucked up article about study done in states with abortion restrictions. Around 64,000 babies born from SA in states with abortion restrictions. And somehow we're the extremists for not wanting that, for wanting all women to have a choice.

Mr. Zwonitzer [Republican] was critical of the Freedom Caucus’s focus on social issues like sex, books and bathrooms.

“A lot of us who’ve been in the last four years — it’s not fun,” he said. “If the Freedom Caucus is in power for four years and we don’t get the right governor elected, the effects will show up in four to five years, and then it’ll be a decade for us to pull ourselves back.”

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Chief among the concerns for Senator Chris Rothfuss, a Democrat who represents Laramie, home of the University of Wyoming, was safeguarding the state’s $30 billion sovereign wealth fund, more than a third of which comes from taxes on oil, gas and natural resources. Interest income from the fund has been crucial in funding schools and the state’s annual budget, but Freedom Caucus leaders, determined to shrink government, are contemplating giving some of that money back to residents.

I hope the residents of Wyoming get everything they voted for. Now, I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the shitshow.

And here's a little reminder of what happens when a state is controlled by extremist conservatives. As Trump Proposes Tax Cuts, Kansas Deals With Aftermath Of Experiment (NPR). It turns out lowering taxes and implementing spending cuts don't improve the economy. In fact, it slowed and weakened and Kansas fell behind relative to its neighboring states.

Jeezus Christ, the comments supporting the mass slaughter of people, of women and children in this genocide were practically giddy. I shouldn't be shocked because I know a lot of Americans just love knowing about the killing of brown people but I don't have a lot of interactions with people who have lost their humanity and empathy. I genuinely hope that Trump and Co will so severely weaken America that it can no longer support Israel and no longer meddle in other countries' affairs. Our nation's incompetence may be the only thing that can stop it.

We both know there's gonna be separate standards for the in group (them) and the out group (all the rest of us). Hell, here's an in group member who got 10 weekends in jail for that exact crime earlier this year. But, they'll arrest us for providing food to people who need it. (Dayton 2024) (Houston 2023) The laws are already there in some cities, why not make it federal law and make the punishment severe.

As far as I can tell, the cops lawsuit against Afroman is partially moving forward for possible defamation. Afroman gave his opinion on the personal lives of the officers and someone might think he was speaking factually (they're white supremacists, they told his money, one of them must have used to use hard drugs). But the part about Afroman using the cops' images for commercial purposes was dismissed.

ACLU

Goddamnit! They're trying to monopolize mayonnaise now?! They can take my more delicious Mexican and Japanese mayonnaises when they pry 'em from my cold dead hands!

It's great, I like mine with cheese, sausage or bacon, and scrambled eggs. With a cup of coffee and a banana or pear on the side, that's all I'll need to hold me over for a good bit of the day.