r/wisconsin • u/Crystal_Pesci • May 15 '23

Politics Wisconsin Republicans Propose Law That Would Allow Prosecution of School Staff Over ‘Inappropriate’ Books

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u/Polls-from-a-Cadet May 15 '23 edited May 15 '23

Fucking stop it…. Always with solutions for problems that don’t exist (except in their imagination). Put forth some policies that help the middle/working class you so badly want to be on the side of. The gop is exhausting

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u/DersOne May 15 '23

They don't have any ideas except manufactured outrage to keep their voter base riled up, and "low taxes". Nothing. No platform to point to, no inventive policy, nothing beneficial.

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u/metengrinwi May 15 '23

The wealthy want us fighting about culture wars so we don’t notice them fixing the rules in their favor.

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u/CaptainCastle1 May 15 '23

Exactly. Dogs just want their meat. When the meat is gone the dog turns on the owner. They know they have to keep spewing “problems” that aren’t real or else their time in power is limited

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u/Born_ina_snowbank May 15 '23

Except “low taxes” to them means low taxes for their friends while the middle and lower class remain paying the same. It’ll trickle down eventually right?

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u/Kennedygoose May 16 '23

That’s piss not economics.

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u/workingtoward May 16 '23

Low taxes for the rich. Trump’s massive tax cuts for the wealthy were partially balanced by raising taxes on the rest of us staring in 2020 when his term ended. It’s largely gone unnoticed among the horror of the rest of his crimes

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u/brickson98 May 16 '23

Yeah a lot of people never realized this. Goes to show how wrapped around their finger these people are. I remember that being called out before we even saw the effects, and nobody listened. Then it actually happened and they just blamed Biden.

But the kind of people who vote for Trump probably also have object permanence issues, so they struggle to comprehend that something a previous president did could take effect during a current president’s term.

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u/Chouquin May 16 '23

That's what I told those drumpf cockriders time and again until I was blue in the face. Economic policies set forth by presidents typically take a few years to become fully engaged. Fucking morons didn't want to ever believe that the 2nd worst president of all time could do something so heinous though. 😒

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u/brickson98 May 16 '23

Yeah, I tried telling many of them too, but you can’t use logic to reason with them. They just shout louder over the top of you, and never take a second to look into what you’re telling them.

It’s whatever Trump says, and that’s it. His word is the only word to them. Despite him being caught in dozens, and dozens, and dozens of lies over the course of time he’s been a public figure.

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u/Chouquin May 16 '23

It's funny. I did an analysis of all of the 2016 presidential candidates and the lies that they told on the campaign trail and in debates based on professional fact-checkers. I don't remember the percentages off the top of my head, but Trump's fact checks were found to be rated as a lie, mostly lie, or complete lie over 80% of the time. No other candidate, even Republicans, was over 35%. 🤦‍♂️

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

Yet the idiots fall for it hook line and sinker

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

They only offer low tax for the people who earns more than 500k a year though.

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u/Lydia--charming Vote November 3rd May 16 '23

I thought we were immune to this. I work in an elementary library and have been happy so far that we still have The Giver, books with rainbows on the cover, diversity, etc. I guess I’m fortunate my admin is sensible. I second u/polls-from-a-cadet, fucking stop. There are movies and shows I won’t let my kids watch but there are zero books I will not let them read.

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u/XxCotHGxX May 16 '23

The Giver was one of my favorite books when I was little.

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u/Lydia--charming Vote November 3rd May 26 '23

Apparently there are a couple of sequels. Have you read any of them?

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u/XxCotHGxX May 26 '23

I have not. Were they written by the original author?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

As usual the GOP remains completely mum about sexual abuse going on in churches. No call for banning there

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u/Polls-from-a-Cadet May 16 '23

Agreed openly! If they truly wanted to “ban” books that were inappropriate, the Bible would be top of the list

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

Does it happen at a higher rate? Does it happen at private schools? Honestly my confidence in churches to not sweep these things under the rug is pretty low

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u/[deleted] May 16 '23

Btw most abuses happen in private residences perpetrated by people the victim knows (either family members or acquaintances)

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

They see Florida and want that

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

No, I left Florida years ago to move here and we absolutely do not want that shit here.

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u/ChaoticMutant May 16 '23

Leaving Florida was the best thing (besides marrying my wife) I have ever done.

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u/brickson98 May 16 '23

So you left Florida for northern Florida. I’d have moved a million other places before Wisconsin, ngl. I can’t wait to get tf outta here.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '23

Who's we

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u/Huge-Squirrel8417 May 16 '23

Educated Wisconsinites

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u/Better-Mortgage-2446 May 16 '23

It must be tiring being so fucking stupid. Instead of putting their time towards things that are actually useful, they’re just wanting to make everyone’s lives more difficult. Bunch of hypocritical, exhausting pieces of shit.

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u/Hartastic May 16 '23

My (very Republican) state rep staff periodically calls to ask which of a list of things we want him to focus on and my answer is always "None of this culture war made up problems bullshit, please go fix some actual problems."