"By continuously finding ways to raise the issue and attempting to subvert the will of Kansans, these legislators are not representing the vast majority of those who elected them to office," Gov. Laura Kelly told Mother Jones.
  • motor_spirit@lemmy.world
    145·
    8 months ago

    republicans forcing themselves up on the people, how goddamn shocking

    the party of non consent and bitchy ignorance, jesus christ I despise them all

    • Rusty Shackleford@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      The time-traveler John Wilkes Booth showed Abraham Lincoln a vision of the modern Republican Party; the president promptly shot himself in disgust, ironically ensuring that the events that would lead to the waking nightmare we Americans find ourselves in would certainly unfold.

      “Sic semper tyrannis” was never uttered by Booth, and was only attributed to him by future Confederate apologists.

      He actually said, “Time is a flat circle.”

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    64·
    8 months ago

    I had the misfortune to endure living in Kansas during my adolescence. The abortion fight was really strong in the anti-choice regard. The state appears to be gently moving toward less religious bullshittery, but my adult niece lost friends in high school when she came out as an atheist.

    TLDR: don’t be a free-thinking teenager in Kansas.

    • Matthew_Gasoline@lemmy.world
      21·
      8 months ago

      I wouldn’t say she lost any “friends” in high school.

      I think the TLDR is a little misleading as well. Encourage EVERYONE to think for their selves, no matter the location.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 months ago

        I wouldn’t say she lost any “friends” in high school.

        People you spent your teenage years doing kid-stuff with who suddenly get really weird around you, as though you’re some kind of alien, because you’ve been outed as a heretic… its jarring. For you and for them (typically this shit comes from their parents first and involves a lot of screaming and crying).

        I watched my younger sister’s friend group crack in half their junior year, because it just kinda clicked in someone’s head that “Oh shit, I’ve been hanging out with Muslims this whole time and that’s why they won’t come to church with me”. Half the group tried to “save” the other half, tensions got really heated, and they fell apart.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
          2·
          8 months ago

          My best friend from high school stopped talking to me before the pandemic, at ~32 years old. We always were different sides of the aisle but always reconciled at “the system is busted and corrupt.”

          Lo and behold, he starts a real estate company piggy backing off his dads construction company money and connections, the system suddenly isn’t busted or corrupt anymore - and now I’m a commie for utilizing the VA health care promised to me in the contract I signed with the government.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        8 months ago

        Why you wouldn’t read my TLDR as sarcasm is beyond me. But it’s written, not said, and these misinterpretations happen.

          • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            8 months ago

            Being a person who thinks the bible doesn’t make sense / isn’t true is a form of free-thinking when raised in a religious environment. Expressing such views in Kansas can lead to social ostracism. Don’t be a free-thinking teen in Kansas. What doesn’t fit?

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      16·
      8 months ago

      but my adult niece lost friends in high school when she came out as an atheist.

      The idea that atheism is so abnormal and despised that coming out as an atheist is a thing, is so foreign to me. The world is a weird place. And yeah I know that historically that was the norm, but still.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 months ago

      TLDR: don’t be a free-thinking teenager in Kansas.

      Grew up in a Texas suburb where not being staunchly Christian was a huge problem. But as the neighborhood filled out with East Asian immigrants, it grew more liberal by degrees simply because everyone wasn’t going to the same three fucking churches.

      The high school I went to that had big student-led church services in the cafeteria in the mid-90s just kinda… stopped doing that by the time I graduated because it was weird and none of the new kids were into it.

      Then 9/11 happened and there was a huge backswing. But it was less “be religious” and more “be into country music and hating Muslims”. And then a bunch of pasty white ROTC kids went off to Afghanistan/Iraq to get their shit kicked in for years, while more East Asian Muslims moved into the neighborhood.

      Now the city council is halfway to a Rainbow Coalition (of Republican-aligned real estate agents) and you’d never even know it was Tom DeLay’s home base 30 years ago.

  • SmurfNuts@kbin.social
    38·
    8 months ago

    Republicans hate women having power and just want to control them. They’re making that clear. They also don’t give two shits about life otherwise they would support policies that actually help people live better. Clearly they don’t. They don’t give a shit about any of us. I feel sorry for the people that believe they do.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    8 months ago

    . Three bills—which will require doctors to gather and report information from patients about why they are getting an abortion; make it a crime to force someone to obtain an abortion; and allow people to receive tax credits for donations to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers—will now become law.

    Why they’re getting an abortion? What the fuck…

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    12·
    8 months ago

    sigh, so another state’s citizenry is going to have to enact a ballot measure for possibly a State Constitutional amendment because of this?