How is calling other lemmy user, me in this instance, a “coward” meeting the lemmy TOS of not attacking other users and generally being polite? Feel free to explain that and your “bullshit” comment in the context you intended it.

As to your comment about John Taylor Gatto, he was a New York Educator who among other awards won New York State Teacher of the Year. He wrote several books on the topic of how American schooling is designed to create compliance to authority. Here’s his work titled “Against Schooling” hosted on University of Oregon Library/Faculty Network. He also wrote Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.

You can also read about him at Wikipedia. Just because you’ve never heard of him doesn’t mean he’s “Bullshit”

But as a people Americans are letting this happen, together with all the other atrocities that are happening in a society governed by psychopathy and lawlessness.

This is eerily similar to Nazi Germany. It happened because it was allowed to happen by the people.

What do you suggest we do? Have you considered organizing it yourself? As an American, I can’t do much against the police in a police state. We are very carefully trained and punished in compulsory K-12 education to comply with authority per John Taylor Gatto. Over zealous policing has been a feature of the US since slavery. Many of us were happy with Obama helping to reduce police violence. Right now the US congress is majority right-wing conservative, and they don’t seem to be considering impeachment and removal. My personal view is that about all most of us can legally do is vote against the right.

Forced outings raise youth homelessness.

It used to be that airplanes had to keep 1000 feet of altitude over residential areas. A drone with its camera can come right up to your front door? Fly over your home, take pictures of your yard?

Everyone’s health records are at risk from this admin, not just trans folks. Another story this morning is about the Trump admin wanting health records of foreigners: Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands for Foreign Health Data — ProPublica

When government compels education, there’s an implication that knowledge is valued. Obviously this is not true when those who desire Christian Nationalism get in power. Our constitutional writers made a severe mistake by putting religion above government regulation. The unchanging church and its ignorance.

How far can Trump push it until he loses the GOP congress?

I’m not enamored with Musk, but chatbots should have to follow the same laws as the rest of us. If they threaten or encourage violence, they need a visit from the FBI and perhaps some handcuffs and a perp walk.

One of the most basic lessons of Christianity is the need to ask for forgiveness. Trump once held up a bible for a photo op, we keep hearing rumblings of Christian Nationalism apparently from this current administration, and Trump now declares, “I’ll never apologize.” That’s about as anti-Christian as a message can be.

One thing that bothers me here at Lemmy is that a lot of the news stories I feel are important, are first carried at pravda_news@news.abolish.capital, whose about page makes Russian and Lenin inferences. So, if we’re Americans resonating with a message such as not funding shock gloves for ICE, boom, there’s a linkage to an apparent Russia and Lenin page. Do we then become targets of private-sector corporate attack? Simply because we’re against Night Watches and Slave Patrols?

Why don’t workers see them coming back?

Businesses are mostly concerned with the short term.

Yeah, I was vaguely aware of that. Texas is not a safe state to step foot in, particularly for kids.

So they allow child abuse in Texas? Christianity = child abuse. Spare the rod, spoil the child. Beat the little ones with a rod to save their souls from Sheol.

As long as they don’t mention the bible or religion, they seem to think that meets the standard of Separation of Church and State, while they seem otherwise free to force their biblical ideas of sex and gender on the populace.

Scapegoating an 85-year old retiree? Not a good look.

Religious demographics of Louisiana, 74% Christian, 4% other religions, 21% unaffiliated, according to Pew Research. Wanna take bets that mob had a high percentage of Christians? Would beating a couple of transgenders in the park be new testament treatment, or old testament? I’m thinking the latter…

Meanwhile, in my country, the US government gives tax credits for children. No kids? No tax credits.

Is it legal for a service to be called private when it is programmatically shared with law enforcement?