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Stephen Brady's avatar

I think this is a great idea but I think an even better idea would be to mobilize secular adults with some qualifications to teach critical thinking and study skills to middle school kids so it had a chance to soak in and take effect before they start high school.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Nazi Moms would scream their heads off and make death threats to any school board that did that.

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Matri's avatar

As if they aren't already doing that?

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Maltnothops's avatar

Anything having to do with logical thinking would be wonderful.

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wreck's avatar

WOKEISM!!!! SOSHULISM!!!

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Len Koz's avatar

Good thing this school isn't in Floriduh. DeSepsis would have the state police shoot the recipient of the professorship.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

There are idiots screaming WOKEISM!!!! over the new MCU movie "The Marvels."

Unbefreakinglievable.

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Alverant's avatar

Is anyone surprised? An MCU movie with three women leads, two of them are PoC.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

And don't forget Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, a powerful PoC.

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XJC's avatar

SLJ will always be Jules Winnfield, infamous for this powerful biblical quote and preamble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2WK_eWihdU which pretty much sums up the Judeo-Christian world view.

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XJC's avatar

'Say WHAT Again!'

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Turns out he's a good Catholic in real life.

You know. Like Joe Biden. ;)

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Holytape's avatar

What?

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cdbunch's avatar

I don't know if I'd call Ms. Marvel a woman yet. At least not from the couple of episodes I saw. She's a girl. :) But otherwise, spot on.

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wreck's avatar

Screaming WOKEISM is way easier than thinking.

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Shuzi's avatar

I must admit that I think Southpark's The Panderverse is funny.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Gods of Olympus, I haven't watched SP in decades. :)

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Holytape's avatar

Well, the movie kept at least 80% of the audience awake. If that isn't wokism, I don't know what is.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

FWIW, the movie won't even hit theaters until Friday.

These were just racist, misogynist bozos venting their spleens and having a case of the vapors over nothing.

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Matri's avatar

They changed the actor who plays Goose!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

The cat or what's inside the cat. ;)

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I'll go for both of us. No need for you to lift a finger. :)

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Good on 'em. Hopefully many other institutions will follow suit.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

This is great news. I would just wonder if a program like this might attract butt-hurt believers who would attempt to challenge the principles being discussed in classes under the Secular Studies heading. I would also be interested in knowing if that was an issue at Pitzer College, and if so, how did they deal with it. Of course, the best way to counter would-be proselytizers is to confront them with the detailed truth about their belief systems, even though that information would clash with "their 'truth.'"

In any case, what this program needs is A LOT MORE LIKE IT!

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Len Koz's avatar

I wonder if any young believer would think of himself as the student in "God's Not Dead".

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Ha ... in this day and age, that kid would get scrapped, three ways from Thursday, before he had a chance to even say, "Kalam!" Times have changed since that dreadful piece of celluloid was released, and NOT in favor of true believers.

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Maltnothops's avatar

I feel like I should watch that movie if only to see for myself how awful it is.

OT. Rewatched Fifth Element yesterday!

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Len Koz's avatar

Leeloo Dallas. Multipass.

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Maltnothops's avatar

“Is Leeloo in trouble?”

“When is Leeloo not in trouble?”

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NOGODZ20's avatar

No need to see God's Not Dead. It's basically based on the anti-evolution Jack Chick tract "Big Daddy?"

https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0055

EDIT for clarity

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

I thought you meant the Fifth Element was based on a Chick Tract.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

If it was from a jack chick itchy toilet paper Leeloo would have died less 5 minutes after her first apparition by missing the taxi and Corben Dallas would have received a message telling him Leeloo was one of Satan's agent and he would have converted on the spot.

Edit : NOGODZ guess what I am eating right now.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Bet it ain't anything French. :)

Pineapple pizza?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I should have been clearer. Have edited.

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Maltnothops's avatar

I’m NOT reading a Chick tract!

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Lynn James's avatar

Chick tracts terrified me when I was little...especially "Who Goofed?"

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Mr.E's avatar

I've seen enough: Democrats win control of the Virginia House of Delegates, flipping the GOP majority and giving them control of both chambers.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

When will the MAGATs storm Richmond?

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larry parker's avatar

They were going to meet at the Robert E. Lee statue, but they had to scrap those plans (much like the statue).

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Mr.E's avatar

That is founding father Robert E. Lee... according to Marjorie Taylor Greene

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Wow, Lee was a lot older than I thought.

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cdbunch's avatar

Wasn't that why he carried a sword?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

An Immortal? Should've known.

By dying and coming back to life, Jesus showed he was an Immortal. The Romans shouldn't have crucified him. Methos should have taken his head.

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larry parker's avatar

Well, to be fair, The CSA is MTG's preferred country.

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Mr.E's avatar

Confederate South America??? edit the correct answer is state. I should have taken 10 seconds to google the answer.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

"Carry me back to ol' Virginia, lord!"-Richard Pryor (RIP) in Stir Crazy.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

You and I have the trifecta here. We control the governorship and both Houses.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

...and now the butthurt GQP losers who tried to take away half their state's bodily autonomy can calm the fuck down with some recreational weed, because Issue 2 also passed!

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-marijuana-legalization-election-2023-6d15efb27fdcd41e7364f2b7cd3177f4

...wait, they'll probably just get angrier instead of doing that. Oh well.

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larry parker's avatar

Still not a reason to visit Ohio. : )

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Mr.E's avatar

you telling me you do not want that Cincinnati chili???

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Joan the Dork's avatar

...but you can still get it in... hm.

*𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘱*

Indiana... Kentucky... and... 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢.

Well, shit. I guess Ohio 𝘪𝘴 the best of 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 options.

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larry parker's avatar

Yes.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Tony Packo's.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

High time that happened!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

It's a grass roots movement!

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larry parker's avatar

reeferendum

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NOGODZ20's avatar

This subthread's going to pot.

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Mr.E's avatar

this thread is turning into the dope show.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Then we should exit before the roach.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Gotta expect it around this joint.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

It could be chronic.

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larry parker's avatar

That's a doobious assertion.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Just planting a seed.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

"Republicans who remain opposed to it in the Legislature are free to make tweaks to the law —"

The same way DeNazi and our legislature gutted the constitutional amendment to allow former felons to vote.

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cdbunch's avatar

Will of the People? Minor obstacle.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

...but still sent a bunch of them official letters telling them that they could, then arrested them when they tried, just to gin up some "voter fraud" to show Fox News.

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Matri's avatar

And then quietly distance themselves when it is discovered they are Republican voters.

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Mr.E's avatar

Just a reminder the Ohio secretary of state Frank LaRose changed the word of issue 1 to be more favorable to his side.

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cdbunch's avatar

Glad somebody got good news tonight.

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painedumonde's avatar

Heh. I think college students planetwide have this down already. I mean can somebody test out of Let's Get a Beer 101 and and Don't Hog That Joint 210?

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Len Koz's avatar

🎵Pass the dutchie 'pon the left-hand side 🎶

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Joan the Dork's avatar

OT- As Chump gets a well-deserved court-slapping in New York, one of the exonerated Central Park Five- whose lives he helped to ruin when he was still just an over-privileged, under-scrupled shithead real estate mogul- wins a seat on the City Council: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-council-election-yusef-salaam-0377cedcbd29f424753c9790551a85de

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Matri's avatar

As soon as someone translates what this means for him, he'll resume screaming.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

Ugh, the Republican governor of Mississippi, Reeves, won re-election. Rigged! Stolen election! Seize the voting machines! Bring back the Cyber Ninjas!!!!!!!!/s

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Hanging chads!

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

Author, author! Start the revolution without me! *smiles*

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Mr.E's avatar

I've seen enough: Democrats retain control of the Virginia Senate, blocking a trifecta for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R).

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cdbunch's avatar

Texans lowered property tax and gutted public school funding in one fell swoop.

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Mr.E's avatar

nobody is calling it yet, but it looks like abortion will be safe in the state of Ohio.

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OwossoHarpist's avatar

O/T: Hey! Guess what? Despite the sign that says "No Solicitations" attached to the door of my house, two men from the Seventh Day Adventist cult unexpectedly came to my door to solicited SDA crappy books written by none other than the cult founder Ellen G. White responsible for inventing false visions of herself visiting God in Heaven. They advised me to download an app on my smartphone that would have allowed me to listen to all those Christian scummy ideological crud responsible for spawning young earth creationism so I can in their words "learn about Jesus" as if I didn't know Him.

Well, Here's what I did to them. Went to a nearby public dumpster and tossed them in the trash-- the proper way to handle religious books being solicited to me.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Ha! Never had any SDAs around here, only JWs ... and I have exactly ZERO problem letting them know where I stand.

Which is probably why, after one or two visits, they don't come around again! 😁

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

I would be tempted to put up a sign that says, "Door to Door Jesus Sales People Will Be Shot On Sight." Which I'm sure would get me a visit from the SPPD.

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Lynn James's avatar

This is a sign I had on my door back in the 90's, for all the good it did.

"Absolutely NO salesperson, peddlers, or solicitors whatsoever.

THIS! MEANS! YOU!"

I still had assholes knocking on my door, but at least I had an excuse to be curt and rude.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

We had a NO SOLICITORS sign at the front door of my parents house. We still got JWs come calling.

I always answered the door. I told them I was an atheist. They left without a word.

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Lynn James's avatar

Wow. That really worked? I tried that a couple of times and they just drilled down harder trying to convince me I needed Jesus. I was still on my long path to deconversion back then and found these conversations distressing.

The only effective measure, for me at least, was to just slam the door as soon as they mentioned Jesus or produced a Bible.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Different JW groups came around several times. Sometimes with kids (human shields), other times not. Apparently, there's no communication within the organization.

I was always polite and simply told them of my atheism. Each time they went away, no argument.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

"No solicitations"? There's your problem right there. A big no proselytising! Probably would have done a lot better. 😁 Certainly in NZ where solicitation usually means active prostitution of some sort. Maybe they were missionaries from the Commonwealth. 😁

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Bill Lawrence's avatar

This is very useful and long overdue. No one has to major in things like this; they just have to take the class. I predict that that class will be oversubscribed.

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XJC's avatar

"I majored in Atheism with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies." Why won't anybody hire me?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"Why won't anybody hire me?"

Sounds like the lament of Liberty University grads.

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XJC's avatar

Yes, there are only so many jobs available at Fox News and Breitbart. It's competitive and people tend to stay there their entire careers. Only a select few will leave to work in the Trump Administration, or for Speaker Mike Johnson or Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (<--see smile).

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I imagine the vast majority of LU grads wind up working in an industry that can be summed up in 6 words: "Would you like fries with that?"

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Holytape's avatar

Or "We don't talk about Pastor Mike"

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Holytape's avatar

I majored in Christian Flood Geology and the Bible, why won't people hire me......

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cdbunch's avatar

You don't want to live in Kentucky? Or just don't want to tithe your salary back to your employer?

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Holytape's avatar

I am not from Kentucky, but how do you tithe three 'possum and a mason jar of moonshine, which I believe is the minimum wage in Kentucky.

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cdbunch's avatar

I had a possum get into my bedroom about 11:30p a couple of months ago. Apparently 24-hour wildlife removal means you leave a voicemail and they get back to you after sunup. It took me 6 tries to get some one-man operation to come out at 1a to get the creature out of my bedroom so I could go to sleep.

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Lynn James's avatar

Wow, I had forgotten about this incident... this was a loooong time ago....

A very small possum got into my house back in the 90's. At the time I had three cats, and they had cornered it in my bedroom. I work up to the low growling coming from the possum, and hissing and spitting coming from the cats. I grabbed a plastic mixing bowl from the kitchen, slapped it over him, and scooted the bowl along the floor to the back door, where I shoved it over the threshold and out into the yard, bowl and all. Of course, the damned thing had urinated during the process, so at 3 a.m., I was boiling bleach water and mopping the floor, then following up with lysol, then a hot water rinse.

Threw the mixing bowl away.

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cdbunch's avatar

Ask Ken Ham.

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larry parker's avatar

Persecution.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Yay, UW

I don’t know anyone in particular that attended or attends Whitewater, but I know all the branches through the state are just as highly regarded as the main campus.

This is important to study, not just because I’m part of the demographic being studied. Because all demographics ought to be understood in a profound way. Even if you don’t like the secular worldview, a deeper understanding will allow a more peaceful existence. And it works the other way around as well.

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David Graf's avatar

My understanding is that Whitewater is not considered to be in the same group as the Madison or Milwaukee branches.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

You may be right, but I think it depends on the course of study.

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Holytape's avatar

It is still decent. But it is second tier. The second level of UW schools used to be geared towards particular fields. Steven's Point was natural resources and forestry. Platteville was engineering. And Whitewater was geared more towards producing teachers. Or at least that was what it was thirty years ago.

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RegularJoe's avatar

Linn-Mar school district in Eastern Iowa, the district that Mike Pence visited and name-dropped during the last GOP debate, just elected 4 decent people to our school board. The numbers weren't even close, the 4 theofascist candidates were trounced...in a field of 8 (vote for 4), the highest vote-getter of M4L-backed goons was surpassed by almost a thousand votes by the lowest vote-getter of the good guys.

There is reason to hope.

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/moms-for-liberty-backed-candidates-fail-in-linn-mar-school-board-race-results#

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Rigged persecution !

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RegularJoe's avatar

I wouldn't put it past them to make such claims. They've been grousing for some time now about how a coalition of individuals and groups coalesced to recruit and support 4 good candidates for 4 seats, as if that was in any way illegal or unethical.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

It is, when it's their woke opponents.

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