Not that long ago in my public school the most I could get away without detention was standing facing the flag and not speaking -and that was only because my homeroom teacher was fairly lax and I was the only objector.
Punishments for not participating were real and I can't say the school wouldn't have come up with a more formalized patriotism monitoring if more students rejected it as a movement. 🤷♂️
Nobody relax.
This is like the bullshit mifepristone case-they didn't up hold reproductive rights on their merits. It's kicking the can. Overturning Roe got people to the polls in anger, they don't want a repeat of that this November.
They are counting on people not reading more than a headline and tuning out until after it is too late.
Three houses! Interesting. Ok, now I want there to be a civics community to argue this out, lol.
Edit: Also, this instance is billed as bilingual... have we told the francophones about any of this? Je suis un croissant and all that.
Three houses! Interesting. Ok, now I want there to be a civics community to argue this out, lol.
😁 ¿por qué no los dos?
People are going to get a lesson on why democracy can be a messy business.
It's a fun thought experiment carrying the idea through. How would we district?
Increasingly, no, they don't.
This post was stickied to the subreddit. Things got scrubbed after that girl was murdered. *
Charlottesville. The rally that was organized on t_d.
The one that trump said had a lot of very nice people. *
They're chanting 'blood and soil' at alt-right marches. That's a do not pass go or collect $200 straight up nazi thing.
If they were acting in good faith they would not have started in such trappings. The Donald has an ugly history and it started with harmless memes. Will the next antisemitic tiki-torch march organized on your instance? The next 1/6? It's not worth the risk.