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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his call to ban pro-Palestinian groups from Florida state colleges Sunday, after one of his Republican presidential primary opponents, Vivek Ramaswamy, slammed the demand as “a shameful political ploy.”

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The party of small government everyone!

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

Came here to say this.

Not that fascists care at all that others point out their hypocrisy. They don't hold themselves to any standards, so if they are hypocrites, it simply does not matter.

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

I had a friend who was radicalized during the pandemic by LoTT's original account, and he doesn't seem to care about the fact he likes yuri and loli stuff, all while calling LGBTQ+ people "pedophiles". He just responds with the gigachad meme and a "who cares". (Ironically he does think of male-on-male shota as pedophilic, likely he just calls sex acts he doesn't like as such.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Had to look some of those terms up (ETA: and, uh, yuck). Still don't know what "LoTT" is?

But yeah, the right goes ALL IN on hypocrisy when it comes to their Qtarded nonsense. They don't care about kids being trafficked, at all, they just want to smear others with terms they know most will find revolting.

Even if Gaetz was caught, on video, balls deep in someone underage, they'd still support him. How many of theirs have these problems, besides Groomer Gaetz? Donnie himself of course, even talking about his own daughter FFS. Then there is Hastert. And Roy Moore.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh right, I forgot about that weird woman.

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

I went to go find you a list, searching google for "republican pedophiles" and... got distracted. There were 422,000 results and then Google says "It looks like there aren't many great results for this search". Uh, Google... Google... don't make me use another search engine.

I did find what I was remembering, granted - not a truly great source but seems to be largely sourced, if you care to venture back towards Reddit for a minute: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vgmary/texas_gop_adopts_shockingly_explicit_antilgbtq/id27rvz/

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

Can you explain Yuri so the rest of us don't have to look it up?

I'm assuming it's not a King of Fighters character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Yuri is a Japanese media genre that focuses on intimate relationships between female characters, often with lesbian themes."

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

Oh. So just lesbians. That's not weird at all. I thought it was going to be some other type of underage bs

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

Well that's the wikipedia definition, I think it is really common for the relationships to be of students, maybe ambiguously aged or in college in the plot but appearing young.