crystalmerchant

joined 2 years ago
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Lmao shit those two paintings are radically different

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Lmao hard pass

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

It's called a bike bus and my kids' school does it. It's great

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

We have it for Portland though! And it's working

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Our beef supply would vanish overnight

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Yes you are wrong. How dare you drag the donkey into this

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So, correspondingly, can I choose to opt my kids out of my public school's bullshit Judeo-Christian national origin stories and cultural norms like the pledge of allegiance?

Can I opt my kids out of civil rights history? Out of slavery history? Out of whatever I want? Or is this just The Gays I can opt out of.

That's because, and I'll speak loudly for those in the back, THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU

 

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the parents – who are Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox – that the Montgomery County school board’s refusal to provide them with that option violates their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that “courts are not school boards or legislatures, and are ill-equipped to determine the ‘necessity’ of discrete aspects of a State’s program of compulsory education.” But he emphasized that “what the parents seek here is not the right to micromanage the public school curriculum, but rather to have their children opt out of a particular educational requirement that burdens their well-established right ‘to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children’” under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor warned that Friday’s decision “threatens the very essence of a public education” because it “strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society.”

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, every time. Fuck that

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Jesussss christ. Imagine the fuckin aneurism the right would have if Obama did this

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am a straight white upper middle class American citizen, son of two straight white upper middle class American citizens.

I am almost exactly who the GOP says they like the most.. EXCEPT I am a liberal atheist.

And STILL I am just waiting for the day when the administration announces a new class of people they are targeting and somehow I get wrapped up in it eventually.

They are coming for anyone who is not them.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

Lmao that's because we shouldn't have billionaires

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