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[–] [email protected] 124 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

And just when I thought my state couldn't get much worse, we're wasting time and taxpayer money for witch hunts.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago

I think you missed the time and taxpayer money that has already been spent on persecuting Dr. Caitlin Bernard for performing a legal abortion on a raped 10-year-old. Rokita has been doing witch hunts for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hello fellow Hoosier, I emailed our school superintendent last year when the stupid book banning bill thing was proposed, and then passed. I wanted to know if there would be a way to tell if people requested books to be banned, so I could go out and buy them for my kid to read. (because obviously they must be read worthy)

I followed up with him recently since the bill had passed. He did, at least, inform me that no ban requests have been made. So at least in our school there wasn't some crazy people waiting to start complaining and getting books removed. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for banned books though which I would like to see as an option.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Just as the Salem Founders intended

[–] Reverendender 121 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Can I get in trouble for this?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No idea but holy fuck that's amazing. I'd be happy catching a charge for this.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is the comedy police: You are under arrest for being funny without a license!

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 6 months ago (8 children)

topics deemed to be “political ideology” in schools

Don’t you dare pledge allegiance! Don’t you dare play the anthem! Don’t you dare promote capitalism!

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 months ago (8 children)

We gonna have to Stonewall all over again nationwide, aren't we?

I'm not gay myself, but the math is simple: is it human?...then it has human rights.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that's the thing, the haters don't think queers and non-white people are human.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let's create an AI to call them and keep reporting the person pushing the bill. And calling them assholes.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's brilliant. Even better would be to use their voice too.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can someone try to "Little Bobby Tables" them? Just put some SQL injection shit to make the servers more of a dumpster fire?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've worked with a bunch of government agencies and the chances of a SQL injection are low. Not because they're good, but because they'll use some kind of framework to speed up development which will have injection prevention baked in.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I imagine sending memes is not illegal, SQL injection attacks might be.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago

And targeting a group of people is unconstitutional, fuck the laws that harm the citizens and protect the state.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No end to the stupid things US politicians will spend money on.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (27 children)

To be clear, this is a cristofascist Republican politician doing this.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

But never healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (11 children)

As someone who figured out my gender using calculus (mapped dysphoria over time and found the derivative. Yes that is way too much work) I may have to do a troll

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Is a “chicks with dx” joke acceptable here?

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And then what, send the teachers and kids to re-education camps?

Isn't this the same kind of thing some people get upset at China over?

Wtf.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah but it's okay when Republicans do it because Murica.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Excuse me, but as a Hoosier, I expect you to always use the full title when discussing Mr. Rokita: Attorney General, Colossal Shitrag and Future Governor Todd Rokita.

Why yes, it does suck here.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Our choices for governor are embarrassing.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In making the announcement on the Tony Kinnett show, livestreamed on YouTube, Rokita stated that investigators would pore over submissions and post any they believed to be credible onto a publicly viewable database.

In other words, they're not going to act on the ones that don't align with their own political ideology.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

From the list of reports:

The script for Eurotrip, with a note not to tell Scotty

Scotty doesn't knoooooooooooooooow

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm thankful they included a link to the portal. I've got some urgent reports to send them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I HOPE YOU FUCKS LIKE THE SCRIPT TO THE BEE MOVIE

edit-hahahaha the article mentions that

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why do the hard stuff like work to materially improve the lives of everyone in your state when you can do the easy thing like whatever the fuck this is?

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[–] HerbalGamer 41 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Glad to have alerted them to this very important situation developing in the city of Fuckhole, Indiana. o7

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

I may have a new hobby

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you want to generate some random shit for the comments:

  • For email: https://maildrop.cc/
  • For address: 200 W. Washington St. Indianapolis 46204
  • For text: If you use linux: head --lines=99 /dev/urandom > random.txt then copy and paste. Or just use copypasta
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

Why can't they use the recommended on PornHub like the rest of us?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There's no louder way to telegraph that you are in the closet except by creating an anti-LGBTQ hotline. This is going to be the new Grindr.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

May the power of memes and the Internet trip the damn boomers.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is like when a little boy has a crush on a girl but pretends they're disgusted by them and their cooties. I suspect there's more projecting going on here than a voice-throwing competition.

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