• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s so very true, constantly creating boogeymen to whip up their base into a froth. In my area for months parents repeating things they hear about kids who identify as cats being provided litter boxes to pee in at school. Never once happened, it isn’t a thing.

    This approach has been followed over and over again, and it works so well to motivate those voters.

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      1 year ago

      The funny thing about that kitty litter story is it actually did happen, in that some kids were really provided kitty litter and buckets for them to use the bathroom…except it was for use during prolonged school shooter lockdowns. Also Sharpies for “teachers to write the time they applied a tourniquet to a bleeding student, so paramedics know how long it’s been on.”

      So, you know, actual horrible shit, except conservatives pretend it’s the “woke mind virus” or “groomer teachers” or whatever who are responsible for it, and not their own inaction over children being continually slaughtered in their own classrooms.