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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 175 points 8 months ago

It's in their own self interest to water down the sex offenders list.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 98 points 8 months ago

And reduce the number of competent educators

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 115 points 8 months ago

This is in Missouri, for anyone wondering.

[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago

one of the poorest states in the country, lowest IQs, most health issues, you'd think they'd have more important things to discuss..

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 59 points 8 months ago

They do, which is why distraction is so important.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago

That would imply that care about fixing problems. They don't; they want to create problems.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

It's so bad I generally refuse to identify being from there. When anyone asks I just say I live in misery, with swaths of lead addled lunatics. Some think it's quaint, others understand.

[-] zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Being from (and stuck in) Oklahoma, I understand and I feel for you.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Born (but thankfully not raised) in the 1 star state, hate any time I need to bring out my birth certificate.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

They seem to be leaning in to the fact the states name sounds like "misery".

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

For now, get out and vote if you're reading this.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 93 points 8 months ago

Why do I get the feeling that the goal of this is more to dilute the meaning of the term sex offender, than it is anything else.

Weird how the party of sex offenders wants to ruin any meaning to the term sex offender.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 30 points 8 months ago

Weird how the party of sex offenders wants to ruin any meaning to the term sex offender.

The same applies to impeachment.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Which is why they were balls deep on russian cock and swallowing those thick and juicy lies, Until they found out the dick was from baddragon and the lies were a not-for-ingestion lotion.

Desperate to have any (imaginary) justification for the impeachment.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 8 months ago

Well this is where it's headed. First it will be teachers, parents, doctors, therapists.

Then they'll want to register trans adults as sex offenders. Then all LGBTQ people.

Like so much of the government in the US, the infrastructure is there, ready to be abused. Change one line and it applies to all of us.

Anyone not realize just how awful it would be to get labeled a sex offender? It makes it almost impossible to find a place to live, or a job. People will seek you out and harass you in public. This is an extremely serious classification that shouldn't have anything to do with "culture wars". It should be reserved only for the worst classes of convicted criminals -- if it's not actually cruel and unusual and unnecessarily punative.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

First they came for the trans folk...just like the Nazis.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago
[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 13 points 8 months ago

Republicans are an existential threat. Removing them from power is self defense.

[-] Jagger2097@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
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[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That won't make the sex offender registry functionally useless at all... /s

If you ever needed an example of how conservatives don't actually give a shit about preventing child predation...

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

You mean the conservatives constantly being caught being sex offenders and child predators?

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Only if you believe that there's a difference between an active pedophile and gay couple or a trans person. Some these folks don't believe there is, and the one's that do believe there is probably see getting a bunch of liberal teachers declared sex offenders as a multi-front win. Removes even stealth support for those kids from school so they are truly alone, gets the teachers out of school so they aren't "indoctrinating" the kids with history and science, and it gives you "proof" that the left is full of the Jim Jordans and Matt Gaetzs too.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 79 points 8 months ago

The party of gross, old sex-offenders really seem to want to water down the meaning of the list many of them are/should be on.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 74 points 8 months ago

Protect The Kids by Jailing Teachers who Protect The Kids! Also let's roll back Child Labor Laws!

[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago
[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, the GOP hated the Taliban and China so much they adopted their ideology. Truly their only problem with other countries is the color of their skin.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Or the resources within their borders

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

Holyshit aren’t you guys very big on whatever the amendment that guarantees you free speech ? How’s this not a blatant violation of free speech ?

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

It is, this is ridiculous GOP headline-grabbing outrage bait but we live in stupid universe so I can't say with absolute certainty that it won't happen.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 15 points 8 months ago

The point is to lose, so they can stoke some culture war bullshit about how free speech is dead, the government is too big, the judiciary is too woke, etc. And if it's allowed to stand, all the better.

This is an exercise in trying to build outrage before the elections, because they don't have an actual platform that involves making people's lives better.

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Well they are very good in getting me triggered even though I’m 12000 km away and not concerned by those shenanigans. It’s soooo infuriating.

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[-] corymbia@reddthat.com 34 points 8 months ago

I cannot imagine being this twisted and spiteful to think this is a good idea.

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[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

It's a crime? How? This is the dumbest legislation ever.

[-] freshcow@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

I hope Missouri taxpayers like their state government spending their hard earned tax dollars on lawsuits for blatantly unconstitutional laws. Who needs infrastructure, or literally anything tangible when you can just spend more money on losing? Absolutely pathetic.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Sadly, far too many around us are. If it wasn't for family etc I'd definitely have no reason to be here over anywhere else. But I enjoy giving the GOP here hell and being some added voice for those with less options.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

By “support”, do they mean treating them like human beings instead of mocking and deriding them?

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago

Unironically, yes.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

The GOP are vile human beings.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 12 points 8 months ago

Never vote GOP, ever again.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago

Never neglect to vote against them.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

This is much more useful advice.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

Fuck sakes, they just want to reinforce a fucking century old false trope.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Ooh ooh let's apply this to Sunday schools

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago

Projection again. All GOP members are sex offenders.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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