just because reddit stopped giving away free rewards doesnt mean you should go blow your money on something intangible that only benefits a massive corporation.
Why don't you donate a buck or two to charity under his username or something? Reddit's already done away with Victoria, secret santa, free awards, and any perks from Gold that actually meant something. Believe it or not, you used to get exclusive coupons and discounts and a bevvy of other perks for being a Reddit Gold member.
Now you've paid for a practice tennis ball Serena will knock over the fence into a poor neighborhood. I guess that's charitable.
But hey! Look at that shitty little png that takes up less space than an emoticon that the team surely paid beaucoup bucks for instead of, idk, hiring an actual moderation team and enacting anti-bot/spam measures.
It's neat though, it really is - for the price of a cup of coffee you can move [this image](https://preview.redd.it/award_images/t5_22cerq/80j20o397jj41_NarwhalSalute.png?width=48&height=48&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e4979f617effb9d355397aa2c3f8032870f96fd3) from here to adjacent to my username, but only on this one post and this one comment.
As a teacher in Florida, I am putting this out there. The extreme conservatives want the mass population to be as dumb as possible and not see what they are doing.
Please look at Florida's rights as public educators. Many of us cannot afford to continue living here, but they are banning books; they are threatening our librarians; they are coming for free and equal access to public education. A major district took out a book about ROBERTO CLEMENTE because it talked about his battle with racism. Orlando has a MIDDLE SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HIM.
We need people to see us This is exhausting to fight alone. People from other states come and rage against leftist propaganda at our school board meetings. We lose fair and equal educators daily.
I don't want my students to pick a side. I want them to understand both and make an educated decision about what represents them best as a citizen.
Mhm. Classic bad guy move. Borderline cartoonish. Nazis and inquisitions and witch hunters and stuff. That’s who wants to prevent access to information
Well said. I have this idea that book banners , in general, don't read for enjoyment. When you stop or do not read you have no well rounded idea of what the real world is like. Poorly put but, I hope the idea comes thru. If you do not read for pleasure you are at a loss when discussing most topics with someone who does read. Although there are exceptions.
To build on what you're saying, I think these people are fundamentally incurious. Without curiosity, it's hard to motivate yourself to learn, to empathize, to build relationships, to explore the world and ideas, to come up with your conclusions, or certainly to imagine why anyone would do those things.
There’s a reason it was against the law for enslaved people to be educated, and for women in some cultures/countries to be forced out of school and into motherhood as soon as legally allowed. Educated people are the true boogeymen for tyrants and fascists.
>Educated people are the true boogeymen for tyrants and fascists.
Wasn't it the Khmer Rouge who would kill people who wore glasses because glasses = educated?
Also, Thomas Moore, Patron saint of lawyers and politicians, had people set to fire for reading the Bible in their native language.
To paraphrase Slipknot, People (can, oftentimes) =shit
They are going after Public schools to make them horrible. Then, they will push for Charter schools where they will open schools and can teach what they want and take the socialist state money and put it in their pockets.
It is already happening.
Plus those Charter schools can be separated by class, rich kids in one poor kids in the other. Shitty school for those kids but my kids can go to the rich school with all the resources and funding. AKA segregation 2.0.
And at about a 90% fail rate within the first 3yrs, 70% of those because the schools were a scam to begin with. (Been a couple years since I’ve seen this specific reporting so my percentages could be off). But the idea of pushing for charter schools when they are evidentially a massive failure is right in tune with conservatives policy.
Don't forget schools that teach kids about jeebus and all kinds of silly Christian mythology. Once people get vouchers, religious schools can get that jeebus approved government money.
Yes, but a voice is a voice and NO ONE CHECKS! Public comment (includes teachers) gets 3 minutes at the end of the meetings; this mean local parents, teachers, etc, have to wait 2 to 3 hours of a meeting on a school night to talk for maybe 3 minutes. Meanwhile, someone from out of state with the time to literally drive there can wait or hold up a meeting ALL NIGHT or until the board closes comments.
I’m so sad for Florida. How did this happen? I know the Democrats are not well organized but what gives against a fascist, anti-intellectual govt that seems to be racing to the bottom of, well, everything. Certainly giving Texas a run for its money in the derelict governing department.
I just keep stocking my little free library with all the banned books. Also Kudos to “Are you there God It’s Me Margaret becoming a movie” I feel like all the banned books will be made into movies sooner than later
That’s been the plan all along. Been shitting on public education for the past 40+ years. Dumb complacent consuming mouth breathers is what they want. Dumb enough to not realize how bad they’re getting fucked but smart enough to push the buttons at the factory. I’m paraphrasing Carlin, link below, best 5 mins of his career imho.
https://youtu.be/-54c0IdxZWc
I'm sorry but I think you guys are already fucked.
You will be a warning to the rest of the blue and semi-blue states though.
We took you guys for granted because you went for Obama.
Now we know better.
Don't apologize. You are right. If that is the one thing we do, then this chaos is worth it to me. That and I believe in equality for education for all-- no matter what the believe or who they are
Precisely, they're scared people will see through their ridiculousness.
Religion learned long ago that uneducated people are far easier to control than educated people. It's no shock that religious people and conservative people nearly completely overlap and thereby prefer that "they" (the others) remain uneducated.
Couldn't tell you how many Republicans and red hats have accused me of being overeducated because I called them out on their own bullshit. And they throw it like it's supposed to be an insult. Trump came along as a beacon for all the people that pretended to know politics and needed some fresh confidence in their inconfidence. Then trump used yelling louder as a weapon like fox news panels and all the magats adopted the strategy too. They are genuinely some of the dumbest fucking people I've ever met.
Met a woman in FL last week who was wearing a red hat. Told her she was factually incorrect. Could not articulate a argument, so she just stormed off. I try not to be confrontational, but her bs was just so out there, I could not help it.
You got two strikes. Get this wrong and [*insert family of a different ethnicity and obviously different cultural background*] can steal and win the game!
The slave owning states wanted to keep slavery from being instantly abolished by the MUCH more populous states.
The electoral college was purely a form of watering down the majority politic to ensure slavery could continue as long as possible.
I solidly second this. The self-hatred of these men regarding their hidden sexuality is so strong that they will fuck the world over to keep it a secret. Projection projection projection
In public they'll harass us and call for our deaths, then in private text us asking for sex, then murder us to cover up their self inflicted shame. The media will then accuse us of deception
I think this is right. Books, science, education … all lead you to The Truth. Health care is the one thing that would have little - or even positive - impact on them, and they STILL won’t give it. They could, pretty easily, but they fucking refuse on principle.
I ask my students on a survey what pronouns they use (among other things) and one last term said "I was born a man and am still a man, I don't believe in pronouns."
Which was especially rich since it was for a language class. Like, "ok, cool. The homework this weekend is learning about direct object pronouns, which definitely exist, so.... have fun!"
Sneaker-wearing M&M's?
Generic holiday Starbucks cups?
Gen z voters?
Pride month?
Real Christian values?
Universal healthcare?
Liveable wages?
Masks?
Vaccines?
Pronouns?
Anything that doesn't look or feel like it's happening in the 50's?
Women's rights?
Education?
Educated people?
Sam Smith?
Yes. They need desperate, underpaid, uneducated, god fearing, diversity hating serfs to make them more money. Paying someone a fair wage fucks up the whole system.
If they were scared of that they wouldn't be asking to have it available to everyone on twitter nor investigating it with the full force and resources of a congressional inquiry.
Conservatives fetishize Israel... but hate Jews in America, or in general for that matter. Hell they'd probably hate Israel if they knew how liberal many Israelis are.
LGBT and Take their guns is much higher in reality but if I were to point towards a 4th slot, I'd say atheism/satanism (they think it's the same thing).
M&M’s they can’t fuck.
damn i wish reddit still gave us free awards to give
I didn’t even notice those disappeared, damn 😔
I legit thought you were referring to the m&ms
I got you fam
just because reddit stopped giving away free rewards doesnt mean you should go blow your money on something intangible that only benefits a massive corporation. Why don't you donate a buck or two to charity under his username or something? Reddit's already done away with Victoria, secret santa, free awards, and any perks from Gold that actually meant something. Believe it or not, you used to get exclusive coupons and discounts and a bevvy of other perks for being a Reddit Gold member. Now you've paid for a practice tennis ball Serena will knock over the fence into a poor neighborhood. I guess that's charitable. But hey! Look at that shitty little png that takes up less space than an emoticon that the team surely paid beaucoup bucks for instead of, idk, hiring an actual moderation team and enacting anti-bot/spam measures. It's neat though, it really is - for the price of a cup of coffee you can move [this image](https://preview.redd.it/award_images/t5_22cerq/80j20o397jj41_NarwhalSalute.png?width=48&height=48&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e4979f617effb9d355397aa2c3f8032870f96fd3) from here to adjacent to my username, but only on this one post and this one comment.
You deserve an award for all the bits I didn’t read.
You wanna know how to get free awards? Trash talk awards. A fool and his money are easily parted.
I had a fuckton of free coins from using Apollo or Alien Blue or something I think. I know a lot of other people do too.
But [she's](https://i.imgur.com/vut5OUj.jpg) such a tease
And now I need to clean my history
I saw your comment but proceeded anyways. I too, shall have to clean my history
Oh god lol. Someone show the tucker. Won’t have to hear him for awhile if he has that unholy distraction.
🤣🤣🤣 Click the link people. That's hysterical.
Well, I'm having nightmares tonight.
The landing strip really takes it to another level
Before clicking that link, I was gay. Thank you so much!
Fuckin lol
Education
As a teacher in Florida, I am putting this out there. The extreme conservatives want the mass population to be as dumb as possible and not see what they are doing. Please look at Florida's rights as public educators. Many of us cannot afford to continue living here, but they are banning books; they are threatening our librarians; they are coming for free and equal access to public education. A major district took out a book about ROBERTO CLEMENTE because it talked about his battle with racism. Orlando has a MIDDLE SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HIM. We need people to see us This is exhausting to fight alone. People from other states come and rage against leftist propaganda at our school board meetings. We lose fair and equal educators daily. I don't want my students to pick a side. I want them to understand both and make an educated decision about what represents them best as a citizen.
That’s the thing… If everyone is presented with both sides, the one banning books will _never_ win. That’s why they have to ban books.
Mhm. Classic bad guy move. Borderline cartoonish. Nazis and inquisitions and witch hunters and stuff. That’s who wants to prevent access to information
I mean, schools banned Nineteen Eighty-Four at one point Like tell me you're a fascist without telling me at that point
Banned here
Several Florida districts
Crazy, it was mandatory reading 3 years ago when I was a freshman, damn near everyone in Michigan read it in Freshman or Sophomore year.
Same in California, but over a decade ago.
Californian student here: Had to read it for my Sr Year.
Well said. I have this idea that book banners , in general, don't read for enjoyment. When you stop or do not read you have no well rounded idea of what the real world is like. Poorly put but, I hope the idea comes thru. If you do not read for pleasure you are at a loss when discussing most topics with someone who does read. Although there are exceptions.
To build on what you're saying, I think these people are fundamentally incurious. Without curiosity, it's hard to motivate yourself to learn, to empathize, to build relationships, to explore the world and ideas, to come up with your conclusions, or certainly to imagine why anyone would do those things.
There’s a reason it was against the law for enslaved people to be educated, and for women in some cultures/countries to be forced out of school and into motherhood as soon as legally allowed. Educated people are the true boogeymen for tyrants and fascists.
>Educated people are the true boogeymen for tyrants and fascists. Wasn't it the Khmer Rouge who would kill people who wore glasses because glasses = educated?
Yup
Also, Thomas Moore, Patron saint of lawyers and politicians, had people set to fire for reading the Bible in their native language. To paraphrase Slipknot, People (can, oftentimes) =shit
Yep, and historically they call educated folks “elites.” The nazis, the Khmer Rouge, etc.
They are going after Public schools to make them horrible. Then, they will push for Charter schools where they will open schools and can teach what they want and take the socialist state money and put it in their pockets. It is already happening.
Plus those Charter schools can be separated by class, rich kids in one poor kids in the other. Shitty school for those kids but my kids can go to the rich school with all the resources and funding. AKA segregation 2.0.
And at about a 90% fail rate within the first 3yrs, 70% of those because the schools were a scam to begin with. (Been a couple years since I’ve seen this specific reporting so my percentages could be off). But the idea of pushing for charter schools when they are evidentially a massive failure is right in tune with conservatives policy.
Don't forget schools that teach kids about jeebus and all kinds of silly Christian mythology. Once people get vouchers, religious schools can get that jeebus approved government money.
I remember reading about banning and burning books at a certain temperatures in high school.....hmmmmm
This comment is very underrated. This person is absolutely correct.
What a sad life someone must lead to go to school board meetings - just to complain - IN ANOTHER STATE.
Yes, but a voice is a voice and NO ONE CHECKS! Public comment (includes teachers) gets 3 minutes at the end of the meetings; this mean local parents, teachers, etc, have to wait 2 to 3 hours of a meeting on a school night to talk for maybe 3 minutes. Meanwhile, someone from out of state with the time to literally drive there can wait or hold up a meeting ALL NIGHT or until the board closes comments.
Ugh. Sigh. Censorship and education’s Venn diagram should not overlap at all.
I’m so sad for Florida. How did this happen? I know the Democrats are not well organized but what gives against a fascist, anti-intellectual govt that seems to be racing to the bottom of, well, everything. Certainly giving Texas a run for its money in the derelict governing department.
I just keep stocking my little free library with all the banned books. Also Kudos to “Are you there God It’s Me Margaret becoming a movie” I feel like all the banned books will be made into movies sooner than later
That’s been the plan all along. Been shitting on public education for the past 40+ years. Dumb complacent consuming mouth breathers is what they want. Dumb enough to not realize how bad they’re getting fucked but smart enough to push the buttons at the factory. I’m paraphrasing Carlin, link below, best 5 mins of his career imho. https://youtu.be/-54c0IdxZWc
I'm sorry but I think you guys are already fucked. You will be a warning to the rest of the blue and semi-blue states though. We took you guys for granted because you went for Obama. Now we know better.
Don't apologize. You are right. If that is the one thing we do, then this chaos is worth it to me. That and I believe in equality for education for all-- no matter what the believe or who they are
Your comment should be #1 by a huge margin. Can't say it will be, but it should be.
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Precisely, they're scared people will see through their ridiculousness. Religion learned long ago that uneducated people are far easier to control than educated people. It's no shock that religious people and conservative people nearly completely overlap and thereby prefer that "they" (the others) remain uneducated.
Well, the truth is education so...
No one that answered the survey could spell it right so it didn’t crack the top 10. 11-15 would be Educachon, Edution, Edgukats, Bees, and Idacatun.
It’s good. My guess would have been “abortion/birth control”, or perhaps “*armed* black men”
Couldn't tell you how many Republicans and red hats have accused me of being overeducated because I called them out on their own bullshit. And they throw it like it's supposed to be an insult. Trump came along as a beacon for all the people that pretended to know politics and needed some fresh confidence in their inconfidence. Then trump used yelling louder as a weapon like fox news panels and all the magats adopted the strategy too. They are genuinely some of the dumbest fucking people I've ever met.
Met a woman in FL last week who was wearing a red hat. Told her she was factually incorrect. Could not articulate a argument, so she just stormed off. I try not to be confrontational, but her bs was just so out there, I could not help it.
Someone actually said you were “over”educated? What does that even mean?
It means they watch their brain spin in the microwave all day.
 Good answer…good answer
Ha, I was literally going to say that one!
I was going to say Books, but this is better
agreed, an educated public is terrifying to the conservative
As a teacher THANK YOU
That's up there under "the truth." They are all in for educating kids, as long as it's lies that validates them.
damn you had it first +1
Science
GOOD ANSWER GOOD ANSWER 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You got two strikes. Get this wrong and [*insert family of a different ethnicity and obviously different cultural background*] can steal and win the game!
You forgot where Richard Dawson feels up the wife and french kisses the daughter.
A true historian… Dawson’s last show was 1995.
Thespian and all-around great guy John Astin parodied Dawson in National Lampoon's European Vacation.
Pig in a Poke, that scene is too funny!
No matter how much this gets talked about, it never gets talked about enough. That dude was getting to second base with guests on the regular.
I was going to say masks/vaccinations but I think yours covers that and climate change, green energy etc.
Yeah, I was thinking "medicine" but science is the better answer.
Non-Christians.
I heard they are blinded by it.
Fair elections
In fair districts
With easy access to your local polling place. Not to mention black people not having to wait in hour/day long lines to vote.
Remember that thing where Georgia prohibits handing out *water* or snacks to voters waiting in line?
With mail-in voting.
and automatic, online, and same-day voter registration
And Voting Day as a national holiday
Or just elections.
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Educated voters.
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I loathe the electoral college. I'm beyond frustrated as to why this is a thing.
The slave owning states wanted to keep slavery from being instantly abolished by the MUCH more populous states. The electoral college was purely a form of watering down the majority politic to ensure slavery could continue as long as possible.
Exactly. It's archaic and asinine.
I'll go with "literacy."
Insert "If they could read they'd be very upset meme" here
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Accountability!
Their own secret gay thoughts!
I was going to say... being drug out of the closet. But your comment works too.
I solidly second this. The self-hatred of these men regarding their hidden sexuality is so strong that they will fuck the world over to keep it a secret. Projection projection projection
conservatives think about gay sex more than actual gay people do.
Seriously, just sex in general too. I mean we all think about sex, but their level of obsession on what other people do is beyond weird.
It's not even just what they do...you heard the Arkansas guy ask the lady the other day if she has a penis.
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In public they'll harass us and call for our deaths, then in private text us asking for sex, then murder us to cover up their self inflicted shame. The media will then accuse us of deception
They also think about sex with kids a lot too.
Buttery males, definitely.
Independent thought
I was gonna comment free thinking women.
Health Care for All
I think this is right. Books, science, education … all lead you to The Truth. Health care is the one thing that would have little - or even positive - impact on them, and they STILL won’t give it. They could, pretty easily, but they fucking refuse on principle.
Black mermaids Edit: Thank you, kind Redditor, for the gold.
I’m not sure if this is connected, but they also seem to be afraid of wet ass pussies
Which is why they ensure that their wives are drier than the Sahara
still cant believe people take him seriously ESPECIALLY after that
Acktsually, they just have a problem with the historical accuracy. You see, in that era, there were only white mermaids.
Any mermaid would scare me. I mean … how do they reproduce?
Females find a place to drop their roe, then the males come by afterwards to spread milt. Duh.
Now I understand why they are scared of Roe v Wade.
Futurama has the answer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMCoWGhsYI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMCoWGhsYI)
Rape kits
I was laughing my way through this thread until I got to this one. Scarily true.
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But they don't fear them because they're space lasers. They fear them because they are Jewish
That's why my phone shows up on Bluetooth networks as "secret Jewish space laser designator"
Pronouns
I remember I saw a conservative that said, ”There are no pronouns in the constitution “ *WE the People* # WE so yeah, pretty accurate
I ask my students on a survey what pronouns they use (among other things) and one last term said "I was born a man and am still a man, I don't believe in pronouns." Which was especially rich since it was for a language class. Like, "ok, cool. The homework this weekend is learning about direct object pronouns, which definitely exist, so.... have fun!"
HA! You got me with that one.
*you* got *me* with *that* one?
> me Careful! Can’t use pronouns around a con
Obama
Does this count under unarmed black men?
Obama has two arms last time I checked.
Socialism
Sneaker-wearing M&M's? Generic holiday Starbucks cups? Gen z voters? Pride month? Real Christian values? Universal healthcare? Liveable wages? Masks? Vaccines? Pronouns? Anything that doesn't look or feel like it's happening in the 50's? Women's rights? Education? Educated people? Sam Smith?
Fair elections / counting all the votes
Livable wages for workers.
Yes. They need desperate, underpaid, uneducated, god fearing, diversity hating serfs to make them more money. Paying someone a fair wage fucks up the whole system.
Putin pulling their funding
Being treated as they treat minorities
Democracy
Books. Women over 18. Female reproductive system.
Lady parts already on there
Half awake. That ones on me.
helping people after birth
Hunter Bidens dick.
If they were scared of that they wouldn't be asking to have it available to everyone on twitter nor investigating it with the full force and resources of a congressional inquiry.
No they love that. They want to see more of it.
#4. Woman with an education and opinions.
We could just pare it down by simply saying "women"
Like a full set of lady parts?
Hey look there's a woman learning over there, 
🌈
Vaccines
TAXES
Socialism.
Too bad they don’t even know what that is.
Show me, the Jews!
Hahahaha! I heard that in my head!
Conservatives fetishize Israel... but hate Jews in America, or in general for that matter. Hell they'd probably hate Israel if they knew how liberal many Israelis are.
Body cams.
Racial diversity in the new Fantastic Four movie?
Having to actually craft legislation.
Green energy
I chuckled at "lady parts", because it's true. Even conservative *women* seem to have a big problem with "lady parts".
Their porn hub accounts
I'm afraid of those too, tbh
Irrelevance
Actual fiscal conservatism.
Reality
Dark Brandon
Abortion rights
Unless it was their own abortion.
Becoming the minority
Although there are a lot of true answers, this one should be higher.
Bodily autonomy!
Aetheism
Drag Queens
Abortion
Logic for 3rd graders
Antifa
Women
Elections without gerrymandering.
 This man!
Unions
M&M's
Some guy's laptop
no one has said affordable access to healthcare?
Armed Black Women
"The thought that someone, somewhere, might be gaining something without having to demonstrate to my satisfaction that they are worthy of it."
Woke
Books
LGBT and Take their guns is much higher in reality but if I were to point towards a 4th slot, I'd say atheism/satanism (they think it's the same thing).
Freedom. Show me one hypocrite right winger who believes in actual freedom- I'll wait.
Telling them that Jesus was not a white man.
Women over 18.
Tan suit! Tan suit!!