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‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting (www.wsmv.com)

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 82 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

But think of the children!

These are the same people who push things like age verification, and banning porn. The really worse part about this, despite his hand-waving “I didn’t mean to offend anyone” bullshit, is that this apparently has become so normalized that this has become something that is taking a large amount of effort and time to resolve (if it ever gets resolved).

In any normal timeline, this a) would have never happened so publicly, and 2) he would’ve been immediately removed and stepped down in shame.

But here we are: the Dark Ages pt. 2. Their masks are off, and they are leaving their shame behind. This is our new normal.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 hours ago

Oh, he's thinking of the children alright.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Abusers isolate their victims to make it harder to leave

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.

Antonio Gramsci

Now is the time of monstrous acts

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You might think history teaches; it repeats;

page after page, a poem in perfect rhyme

tolls echoing bells from both sides of the sheets

for births and funerals, tells the time

of ageless Alice, Hamlet’s fallacies—

the latest light from vanished galaxies.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 points 4 hours ago

As Antonio Gramsci would put from his prison cell while wondering why Italy became Fascist without people putting up a fight.

History teaches, but it has no pupils

We fell to the same thing, we let the wealthy define our culture. Our culture is now that of being cruel and taking. And people wish to be popular and wealthy more than moral or right. So we shift towards their world and act like them, till we have the cruelty in our own hearts.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Well alas we've seen it all before

Knights in armor, days of yore

The same old fears and the same old crimes

We haven't changed since ancient times