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[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

How fucked up in the head do you need to be to make shit like that up? It's not even just an adult, which would be stupid enough, no, it's an education official.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean it’s not much different than

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439

Make up some disinformation. Use it as a talking point to get people on your side and advance your goals

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think falsely claiming preschoolers have rooms for masturbation or anything sex-related is still a tad worse than falsely claiming they shit or pee weirdly. They serve the same goal of attacking public schools, but one still just seems more fucked up than the other.

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[–] BakedGoods 26 points 9 months ago

Poland is very religious. Their politicians know that religious people are essentially brain damaged and will believe pretty much anything as long as it comes from someone they view as an authority figure (even if its proven wrong, they'll still stick with it). Raising children to be religious is child abuse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I think it's about the general view on masturbation. Like I guess some people in Poland would love to tell preschoolers that masturbation is wrong and shouldn't be done at all. If anyone teaches children it's ok, but they shouldn't do it in front of everyone, it's easy to imagine it leads to the idea of a masturbation room, which can easily cause outrage in Polích population despite the fact it's actually nothing wrong.

[–] mindbleach 5 points 9 months ago

Reality is a team sport, to some people. Claims are not evaluated. They're simply accepted or rejected based on interpersonal trust.

They think you're the same way. They think that's all there is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

How fucked up in the head do you need to be to make shit like that up?

About as fucked as any ~~conservative~~ regressive representative, pundit, or a good chunk of their voters.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No better guardians of morality than people who fantasize about masturbation rooms for children.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you've got to be a sick fuck to even come up with this shit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

She was prepared to show the reporter where she'd seen the claim online, but her phone was in the microwave, charging.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any room can be a masturbation room if you're committed enough.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You know there's now a small bunch of people who believe this... All she had to do was say it once, and the damage was done.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And the evidence is "I heard it from a friend, you don't know them, but it's totally true".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

"I can't find a source because the government and [[[globalist]]] mainstream media is covering it up. Do your own research"

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (4 children)

While I do appreciate having dedicated masturbation stations at work, I dont think elementary schools need them for the students

But I do think we should advance this discussion as a workplace perk

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s not what your cubicle is for, Frank. We can all see you and it’s gross.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah Frank, last year we converted conference room 8D for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Took me a second to get the joke michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Just go jerk off in the bathroom like a normal person.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's really hard to tell if you're joking, because there are people who actually think that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I used to work in a boogie tech office that converted a conference room to a nap and mediation room. It has artificial grass and lots of pillows.

While I do think it was a nice perk, I personally get more of a productivity boost from a quickie than a power nap. But everyone's different.

Fortunately I work from home, so I don't need a masturbation station at some shared office. But I do think it could be nice, though I can't see how to make it sanitary.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The remarks were made by Barbara Nowak, the education superintendent for Małopolska, a province of 3.4 million people in southern Poland centred around the city of Kraków. The national government appoints one such official in each of Poland’s 16 provinces, where they are tasked with overseeing schools.

Nowak, a controversial and outspoken figure, was asked in an interview with news website Wirtualna Polska about claims commonly made by her and other Polish conservatives that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking to “sexualise” children.

“The WHO outlines the aims to quickly interest young people in their bodies and in the pleasure of artificially aroused sexuality,” she answered. “These groups claim that the easiest way to relieve a small child’s emotions is through masturbation.”

“In Swedish preschools there are special rooms where the teacher goes with a child and masturbates them,” Nowak continued. “They then know that they can also masturbate on their own.”

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

you people are no longer allowed to make fun of america's crazy politicians

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

America's crazy polititians are a direct and indirect influence on polish ones.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah but when you see a rise in broken, sociopathic politicians in one country, the response isn’t supposed to be “hold my Paczki and watch THIS”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Counter argument, Russian interference and political undermining has a direct and indirect influence on global politics.

"Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's less wacky politicians (though there undoubtedly are some that actually believe that) and more nationalist propaganda - showing Poland as an island of righteousness against the removed west or something. It's an attempt by the far-right Law and Justice Party to gain support via culture war and shocking people into disgust and hoping they back you based on that. Even at the cost of pretty blatant lies.

It works on my family, at least in part. 😕

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[–] Socsa 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why even respond to such nonsense?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Or why respond seriously?

Just call the person that made the claim a sick and stupid freak and apologize to the people forced to work with her. Decorum should go out the window when shit like this is being slung around, this "we go high, they go low" shit is cringe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

To put the "official" in context, that woman is Barbara Nowak, the education curator for the Lesser Poland voivodeship - that is, the official directly responsible for the education system in entire region, and this particular region is one of the most densely inhabited.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Exactly. Or as they're called in the Swedish Tongue - maSSturbatoriums. No such thing. Silly Polish people. Sweden waves its genitals in your general direction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

...Wait, why did they bring the Swedish flags out for this? Denying that our schools have masturbation rooms makes sense, making it a point of national pride that they don't is really, really weird.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

stock photo for the article

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nah, it was these three children and their mum that denied it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You sure? I reverse searched it and it was a photo on wikimedia commons from 2014

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

did anyone stop to think maybe there should be mastobatoriums?

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