Mac-7
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Ok as long as queer studies and other topics that lib’s hold dear can be opted out also
'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
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Ok as long as queer studies and other topics that lib’s hold dear can be opted out also
Mac-7
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That's true of every social studies class
Only the STEM subjects and classes are free of personal opinions
JWBooth
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Teabagger excuse for everything, when they get caught.
Grooming children was the evil teachers thing................. for teabaggers.
j-mac
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Sounds like "Boogeyman" theory....Unhinged.The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition plan. One scholar of authoritarian movements around the globe is sounding the alarm over what that would mean should former President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House.
During a Saturday segment on MSNBC, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told host Ali Velshi that Project 2025 would effectively transform American government from a meritocratic democracy to a regime resembling Vladimir Putin's Russia. She pointed to Heritage's calls to eliminate numerous government agencies that serve as checks on the executive branch as merely one example.
"The essence of authoritarianism is removing restraints on the leader and making him immune from prosecution by domesticating government," Ben-Ghiat said. "And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI is designed for that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him to commit crimes with impunity."
More at the link below...
'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition...www.alternet.org
Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?
Mac-7
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That's true of every social studies class
Only the STEM subjects and classes are free of personal opinions
there is no excuse for it and conservatives deserve punishment just as the libs do
It is NOW.
They even codified it.
New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited ...
NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com › news › us-news › new-flori...
Jul 20, 2023 — Florida's public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new ...
Agreed.
Those topics shouldn't be part of any school curriculum/policy.
They could still be electives.
"Queer/religious studies"?
Mac-7
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Thats a very minor aspect of slavery
It may be a fact, but in no way makes up the wrong of slavery itself
Nor is it intended to be
I often point out that white people like myself are more entitled to regret that slavery ever existed
The descendants otoh owe a debt of gratitude that America practiced slavery
WTF?
The "Skills" they were taught was work at manual labor?
I think DUHSantis just did.
Yeah.............ONE.
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They always did. It’s precisely the reason why each side has always fought over scotus picks.
No, that would be the dems. The repubs are just trying to correct a long chain of mistakes.
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › article › jun › supreme-...
Jun 27, 2024 — The “bribery” versus “gratuity” distinction, she said, allows officials to accept rewards for official acts in ways that are “functionally ...
j-mac
Nuthin' but the truth
SCOTUS lays out the exact arguments that provide their decisions...There is NO "basically" anything....
Anyone who needs to use terms like "basically" is lying to you.
BS.
That was the ruling authored by Kavanaugh in Snyder v United States, a 6-3 opinion issued on Wednesday, in which the supreme court dealt the latest blow to federal anti-corruption law. In the case, which was divided along ideological lines, the court held that “gratuities” – that is, post-facto gifts and payments – are not technically “bribes”, and therefore not illegal. Bribes are only issued before the desired official act, you see, and their meaning is explicit; a more vague, less vulgarly transactional culture of “gratitude” for official acts, expressed in gifts and payments of great value, is supposed to be something very different. The court has thereby continued its long effort to legalize official corruption, using the flimsiest of pretexts to rob federal anti-
j-mac
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We've all had to live with SCOTUS decisions that we as citizens don't necessarily agree with...
We've all had to live with SCOTUS decisions that we as citizens don't necessarily agree with...
Citizens United v. FEC :: 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
Justia US Supreme Court Center
https://supreme.justia.com › cases › federal
Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n: Limiting independent expenditures on political campaigns by groups such as corporations, labor unions, ...
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There’s more to it than that. Read the Cornell article I linked. It has to with gratuities vs bribes, but also about how the laws were changed over the years and how, under this implementation, the law being used would unfairly punish a local official with a penalty much more severe than government officials.
Beward the "expert" in these leftwing articles. It's always some leftwing hack.The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition plan. One scholar of authoritarian movements around the globe is sounding the alarm over what that would mean should former President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House.
During a Saturday segment on MSNBC, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told host Ali Velshi that Project 2025 would effectively transform American government from a meritocratic democracy to a regime resembling Vladimir Putin's Russia. She pointed to Heritage's calls to eliminate numerous government agencies that serve as checks on the executive branch as merely one example.
"The essence of authoritarianism is removing restraints on the leader and making him immune from prosecution by domesticating government," Ben-Ghiat said. "And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI is designed for that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him to commit crimes with impunity."
More at the link below...
'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'
The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition...
Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?
Mac-7
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I agree that the “skills” are minimal and do not make up for the wrong of slavery itself
Didnt I make that clear?
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