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If I’d told my dad I identified as a koala he probably wouldn’t have planted a eucalyptus tree.
The two-page bill, which is primarily a measure seeking to prohibit schools in the state from accommodating transgender youths, includes a subsection aimed at a different — and theoretical — category of students.

Great job NBC and everyone here falling for it, this is the reason. So you'll talk about the silly made up problem and let them get away with the bigoted nonsense. Is there a point we all recognize we're dealing with a party uninterested in good faith policy? Do we really have to keep giving this nonsense the benefit of the doubt? >

Is that actually a common problem?
Even if so, is it the biggest problem facing schools? Is there maybe a more dangerous problem you could target? >

Joe Rogan said it is so it's true, even though he eventually admitted that he really doesn't know a teacher and that he embellished something he heard from someone else, but that doesn't matter. >

Joe Rogan gets high, reads some BS on the internet, doesn’t look into it, then goes on his show and acts like an expert in the subject. There are many clips you can find of him being called out on some stupid shit and he just doubles down on it. Even when talking to people who are specifically experts in the subject. >

He’s just a more well known Alex Jones light. >

Given that they are best friends, he probably learned by watching. But he legit is like a slightly smarter version. He recognizes what goes too far and what gets him attention. >

The whole kids identifying as cats thing was made up. It never actually happened. It's funny to watch conservatives react to nonsense at the state level. Conservatives deeply want these idiotic stories to be true. It makes it easier for them to accept becoming a fascist. >

And didn't the whole having kitty litter for kids to piss in thing start because some schools have kitty litter and a bucket in their classrooms in case they get locked down during a SCHOOL SHOOTING or some other disaster? >

Yup. I as a teacher was in a lockdown for over an hour on multiple occasions, where my kids couldn't go to the bathroom. That is why the litter was there in the first place. It also was sometimes used for clearing the roads on snow days. >

Is this a thing?  Or is this left over from the fictional litter boxes in schools nonsense? >

It's the Litter Boxes bullshit all over again. >

2 years of screaming about inflation, petrol prices, housing, etc but their first priorities is a moral panic over drag queens and non-existent flood of furrys >

Jesus, right wingers are going nuts with laws about things that don't exist. >


The two-page bill, which is primarily a measure seeking to prohibit schools in the state from accommodating transgender youths, includes a subsection aimed at a different — and theoretical — category of students.

Don't be distracted. The real purpose is to codify hate against transgender children. >

Good fucking Lord, how can red state lawmakers keep a straight face when reading aloud these asinine bills? There's no doubt that the students are human but the legislators... I have serious doubts. >

I've read the bill. The part about non-human identity is a single bullet point. The bill is mainly about tormenting trans people
NBC did an abhorrent job covering this >

Wow wow wow, slow down a minute there. It's non-human ANIMAL identity. As self-identifying attack helicopters, most of us here wouldn't be targeted. >

There have been 48 mass shootings since the start of 2023, but the biggest problem is Stacey pretending she's a cat at recess.. >

I'm beginning to understand how those weird laws from like 1835 in a small town that bans swinging a dead tortoise painted blue while singing a church hymn came about. >

It must have worked because I haven't seen one in my lifetime. >

“Sir, are you classified as human?”
“Negative. I am a meat popsicle.” >

We could mock Republicans, but there's really no need. they're doing a wonderful job of making themselves look foolish all on their own. >

Furries literally invent personas (fursonas) so they can be other animals. They don't identify as that animal. It's really not hard...just google it. >

Making laws to prohibit closet monsters that don't exist. We've hit peak GOP >

Come on Monsters Inc. is a real thing... >

Glad to see people taking on the REAL issues in our society
Edit: After reading the article, it’s clear the “non-human” language is only there to distract/associate something false and insane with transgender individuals and strip their rights away. Definitely not as funny now >

North Dakota, Florida of the North. >

A great solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. >

/sigh
Why is this being dignified with a headline? >

I mean the politician and the bill are the dangerous part, the headline is just informing us that that's where these people are at. >

My point is that this hoax has been debunked numerous times, even recently. That should be made clear >

The war on furries has begun I guess?? >

Do.... do furries not consider themselves human? Like, all the ones I know just are like people who like to dress up, and maybe have weird orgies, but none of them think they're not human... >

They literally do not consider themselves animals because it's 100% against the entire concept of creating a persona (fursona). I've been part of the community for 15+ years and I have met thousands of furries; I've never met one who claims "I'm a real dog" or "I'm a real cat." 
It doesn't exist; they're making things up. >

How much time and money are the GOP going to waste on things that aren't happening? >

I wish my job was so slow that I had to make up work to do. >

They can, but they would have to admit they search the internet based on rule 34 >

Wait till they tell the teachers they can't acknowledge their K and 1st graders during recess. And pretty soon the kids won't be allowed to play or use their imaginations... sigh. >

No more 'Alpha Dogs' or 'Wolf Packs' roaming campus. No 'Tiger Blood' running through their veins. No 'Raging Bull'. Not even one 'Italian Stallion' even if they're an exchange student. >

In 40nyears this is gonna one of those dumbest laws that nobody can explain why they're on the books.
Like the don't harass a butterfly law >

The good people of the internet will make sure that everyone remembers why these chuckleheads passed such a law. >

Codification of strawmen; for when merely putting one in every post, comment, and bad faith response is insufficient… >

So you’re saying I can identify as a carrot, thanks! >

You know what? Go one further and add minerals in there as well. >

The zeta reticulans are going to be PISSED!! >

These ppl are underestimating our kids. They'll identify as a dinosaur to get out of school. >

this is like if 4chan and fox news had a baby in a cat litter box >

Can always count on Republicans to solve problems that do not fucking exist. >

Another made up problem is solved.  Really getting shit done, thanks. >

Wow solving more problems that don’t exist. Yay. >

I'll take my chances with the kid raised by wolves becoming a far more valuable member to society than the kid raised by Republican parents. >

Seems like these six A-holes got together and decided to make a little farmyard humor out of their bigotry.  It is N. Dakota, afterall. >

Damn, I have evolved into this cybernetic organism by... accident. Am I not welcome either? :( >

Since I'm a cast iron tea pot I have to keep going to school? >

It's such a tremendous waste of time and resources for what? I really highly doubt North Dakota is riddled with Trans youth. There aren't even a million people imagine going to these lengths to target like 5 people. >

This is just to close the AirBud loophole once and for all >

I'd rather have Airbud for governor than the current governor of my state. >

I heard on fox it's a real problem in North Dakota - Kids spending too much time in the sheep pen, apparently. Seriously, its just another GOPertripe designed to show their base how dedicated the elected GOPers are in finding ways to do harm to those who are different from their base, no matter how irrelevant their acts might be. >

ND Republicans working hard on inflation, immigration, and gas prices as promised! >

Otherkin exist.  Maybe someone had an axe to grind against the scalies and furries? >

They all swallowed the bait, line, sinker, hook, rod and the whole fucking boat with that “litterbox in the classroom” joke. >

Well that's a fucking relief. >

Sounds like an easy way for teens to get out of having to go to school. >

That short question hit close, at first. Fortunately for me it doesn't seem to mention abandoned extraterrestrials. >


The bill, if passed, would also ban accommodations for transgender students, including a teacher’s use of a student’s “preferred gender pronoun, if the perceived or expressed gender is inconsistent with the student’s” sex assigned at birth. Schools found to be in violation of the policy could be fined up to $500,000 in damages, the bill states.

Never forget, there's usually a method to the madness. Look over there! >

Yes! These are the important issues politicians should be working on. 
Seriously, though. Who votes for these clowns?