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guitarghosts

If you say "we" on the swing, straight to jail.


Mmmmteeth

I said y’all and I was shot on sight


clintj1975

[redacted] pledge allegiance to the flag....


Middle_Low_2825

We the people


Just_Another_AI

Straight to jail


AMJN90

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Middle_Low_2825

Sounds like you're trying to restrict my freedom. People that try and restrict my freedom don't end up well.


tobmom

You must not be a woman. They restrict our freedoms constantly and we haven’t been able to do much.


tedfergeson

I don't like people that try to restrict my freedom. My Mom tried to restrict my freedom once. ONCE.


QuimanthaSamby

Upvote for Johnny Dangerously


narwhal_bat

You Cork suking ice hole!


QuimanthaSamby

Fargin’ sneaky bastiges!


AKBearmace

Whose freedom?! Straight to jail with you. 


[deleted]

You mean like the left is trying to do with firearms?


aj_star_destroyer

When in the course of human events it Crap.


Blockboy1321

*the people


Witherboss445

Singing along to Michael Jackson gets you a life sentence


DashFire61

Believe it or not… it? Right to jail right away.


morganleh

what did trans people ever do to Brad Little like bro what did i do 🥴


swennergren11

Fascists need to have an enemy to make the people afraid, and to see the fascists as the o lot ones who will protect them. Nazis used Jewish people MAGA uses trans people Not a new game plan….


defaultusername-17

the nazis also explicitly targeted transgender people. it gets less attention (due to how small of a minority trans people are) but the historical record is quite clear. the republican party's rhetoric is a direct parallel to the nazi rhetoric of the early 30's. that is not exaggeration or hyperbole, it the cold uncomfortable truth (and believe me i wish it weren't).


swennergren11

When you look back at Nixon and Reagan and their explicit racist campaigning and politics, it’s easier to see that Republicans were always like this…


defaultusername-17

frank zappa explicitly called out the proto-fascist nature of the reagan campaign, and directly predicted that someone like trump would arise within a short time frame. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9856\_xv8gc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9856_xv8gc) it's simply unreal and a little disconcerting watching him straight up predict the last 30 odd years.


louisa1925

Exist. He sees us as an easy target which he can use to stay in power and grift.


skoomaking4lyfe

Authoritarianism tends to single a group or groups out within the population for otherization and eventually elimination. Here in America, the LGBTQ community has been chosen as the target. I recommend organizing and arming up.


zetswei

Probably projection. Almost every homophobe I knew in high school is now out as gay.


LSX3399

I do, you do, we do, but they don't.


Scooptown

No more needed. You win the internet for the day.


BullshitSloth

You is a pronoun! Law breaker!


WafflePartyOrgy

It's okay, they just defunded the years in school where they teach students what a pronoun is outside of the Republican snowflakes threatened-by-everything context.


PaulNewhouse

The bill bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, unless the teacher has parental consent. It also gives teachers the right to sue their district if they’re disciplined for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred name or pronoun. It’s the dumbest law ever but it doesn’t ban all pronouns. Haha


Warm_Command7954

Can you reduce this to a meme for the people in back... I don't think they'll read this far.


RIF_Was_Fun

Republicans are afraid of their own shadows and their solution is to cancel everything.


xxfukai

We know it doesn’t ban all pronouns. We’re pointing out the idiocy in the whole “pronoun” debacle because people are failing to acknowledge that everyone has “pronouns”


Skettles1122

So if there was a boy named sue... Would they have to call him something else?


swimmerinpa

"Frank or George or Bill or Tom. Anything but Sue"


Skettles1122

His government name was sue


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So, psychological abuse of minors.


PaulNewhouse

For those impacted, totally.


tikifire1

Hurting kids isn't funny. Edit: If you are against them being themselves then you want them to kill themselves. All because they don't fit into a box you think they should fit into. That's awful selfish of you.


ComfortableWage

No, but it is the Republicans' go-to method. Claim to "protect kids" but they really don't give a shit.


AccidentPleasant4196

It’s a shame it has come to this, huh?


ghandigun1

Are the teachers supposed to do genital inspections to know for a fact what their birth sex is? Are they expected to trust the GOVERNMENT paperwork? Omg, it's so dumb. Bigotry makes people SO dumb.


Mec26

I wanna know who decides what gender names are. Will there be a database? Which gender will get custody of “Sam”?


Veritable_bravado

Weird. We need parental consent (control) to call a student a pronoun they prefer, but parental consent is forbidden when it comes to abortion and the safety of the parent. They truly do offer the wildest examples of insanity.


condescendingFlSH

*uses they to refer to a student* *loud buzzer sound*


Carlyz37

Geez they are so dumb


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RetiredActivist661

If this claptrap had any chance of enduring, I'd give my next child the name "Fuckdonaldtrump Michael Lastname". We'd call him Mike but insist that the school refer to him as Fuckdonaldtrump.


no_we_in_bacon

How fast can I legally change my name??? Asking for some friends because this is brilliant.


Mntnstf

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.


IdahoBornPotato

What talking about? Talk just fine. Don't need any dumb, liberal pronouns. No need to know talking about. Just what talking about


Admirable-Strike-311

They’re coming for your verbs next!


WalrusFromTheWest

They can have my verbs when they pry them from my dead cold hands!


condescendingFlSH

I HAVE MY RIGHT TO KEEPING ON RUNNING AND SWIMMING AND AND


megaladamn

Yeah, teachers *pissed* about this. Outing a kid to their parents who are Trump bigots drastically increases the chances of suicide and can just be a life crushing event. People come out at their own pace to their own people. Taking that away is literally the worst thing we can do for our kids.


Wicked_Fabala

You know the “every life is sacred” mantra lasts until a kid turns out to be trans, gay, or born. They don’t care about safety.


PositiveOperation242

That’s what republicans are hoping for. They are part of the group that has been committing the genocide of transgender people.


Daredevil_Forever

Agreed. Plus, I'm sure this will have the bonus feature of pushing *more* qualified teachers out of Idaho.


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The_Middle_Road

Where's Susan? The Susan unit is in the restroom.


no_we_in_bacon

All of my students will now be numbered. “Student #64, please put your phone away” has a nice ring to it.


Sharp-Document-7024

people goto jail in idaho for not being racist


lbutler528

Uh, what??


HandsomePistachio

Time for some good ol' civil disobedience


mystisai

Soon they are going to ban students altogether, then they won't need to address them.


Scooptown

Well, there can't be school shootings if there are no schools don'tchaknow?


like_a_cactus_17

Plus, that’ll really free up the kids to work as cheap labor for all of their corporate buddies when Trump deports all of the undocumented immigrants that the corporations are currently exploiting for cheap labor. No pronouns, no school shootings, and an untapped resource of cheap labor? Sign Idaho up!!


Expensive_Return7014

Shit is about to get real confusing when people go to school


DeepCheeksOG

I stg.... Why tf is our state so God damn stupid?


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DeepCheeksOG

I would love to. Are yiu planning to fund my move? I need a down payment for a new house and 4 passports. We'd like to leave the country. Let me know how you'd like to pay for this and we will start packing. Thanks friend.


998876655433221

Next time it’s gonna be adverbs getting banned.


LuckytoastSebastian

Well there goes English class.


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redditorx13579

The spuds are smarter than any politician.


TheEgoReich

Potato for governor


redditorx13579

I'm in. Let's make signs.


OrneryError1

"Ya'll" is a pronoun. You're under arrest!


sosakey

What am x suppose to say?


Commissar_Elmo

My parents. Both teachers. Are seriously considering not using pronouns in anything next school year. You wanna communicate with your teachers? Good fucking luck.


RogerBauman

Let them know that they / them is a non-gender pronoun that is completely acceptable under the letter of the law. The big danger is using nicknames that are not derived from a child's actual name. That possibly includes collective nicknames such as kiddos and guys, but could be extended to to such nouns as pupil, student, dude, friend, smarty pants, Turd Ferguson, princess, champ, weeaboo, and any number of other words that could be used in replacement of their personal name as printed upon their birth certificate. It is funny to me that they're a bill that is supposedly designed to protect people from compelled speech actually forces compelled speech


Commissar_Elmo

From what they told me. It sounds like they aren’t going to use any. But only for a few days. Mostly out of spite for the state and district.


RogerBauman

My advice still stands. Using any other noun (possibly even adjectives and adverbs) to describe or address a student could be argued to be a nickname, simply based off of the fact that a nickname is any noun that is used in the place of their legal name. The law is blatantly unconstitutional and will require people who are as brave as your parents to apply malicious compliance within the boundaries of the written law in order to demonstrate the unconstitutional nature of the law. >(3) An employee of a public school or public institution of higher education, regardless of the scope of such employee's official duties, shall not: >>(a) **Knowingly and intentionally address an unemancipated minor student by a name other than the student's legal name or a derivative thereof**, or by a preferred personal title or pronoun that is inconsistent with the student's sex, without the written permission of the student's parent or guardian; and >>(b) Be subject to adverse employment action for declining to address a student using a name other than the student's legal name, or a derivative thereof, or by a preferred personal title or pronoun that is inconsistent with a student's sex. >(4) A student of a public school or public institution of higher education shall not be subject to adverse disciplinary action by the school or institution for declining to: >>(a) Identify such student's pronouns; or >>(b) Address a person using a name other than the person's legal name, or a derivative thereof, or by a preferred personal title or pronoun that is inconsistent with the person's sex.


erico49

Gutless little prick.


ChuckFeathers

Highschool students gonna have a field day with this


darketernalsr25

So...Idaho just banned speaking? Cuz you need pronouns to communicate. Don't bother trying to throw me in prison. I'm from Ohio. I'm just perusing to find crazier states than mine. Pretty sure I hit the jackpot here. Good luck. You're gonna need it with Repubs at the helm. They're not the brightest bulbs on the tree.


Substantial-Sector60

It’s like migrant caravans and CRT and Woke. Just the latest bandwagon to hop on because the RW Mediasphere if yammering about it. Grievance is their currency.


MidorinoUmi

In this case they’re actually hoping kids will die. It’s not just that they don’t care; they care deeply that the people they dislike suffer. Let’s not play. Saying they’re doing it for the kids is a lie. They’re doing it against the kids because they think trans kids deserve to be bullied and beat and die. They think kids are the property of their parents.


RexWhiscash

Trump ARMY?? Is that like… conservative bts Stans??


Ambitious_Ad_3044

It is a pronoun


chub0ka

Damn they wont respect my pronouns: me/mine anymore?


CoolHandLukeID

Prepositions are next, along with interjections! Sh!t!


Sunny_Fortune92145

Yay we get to talk like the Kijiji in ESO! This one wishes that one a very great day!


defaultusername-17

"this one has wares, if you have coin".... nope... not gonna work.


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"The english language is woke!" Or, "We fight for our freedom, but you cannot do things we do not like!"


GorfianRobotz999

"Trump Army?" Oh lord we've got some targets to mark.


timberwolf0122

Weren’t these the same assholes who a few years ago were complaining that laws written without genders were too politically correct?


AdministrativeCat238

Well there’s going to be a lot of pointing fingers in Idaho schools.


Noddite

The law is banning the use of pronoun and name for students where it doesn't line up with their birth sex... Bad news I guess for all the girls named Ashley, they now have to be he/hims.


Weagle22

They don't know. Ask them to explain what woke means and they are like a roomba stuck in a corner.


Snailbert05

I'd just take a copy of the bible, remove all the pronouns from it, and leave it on the governor's desk as a little president.


ElderberryNo1601

Another knock at Freedumb of speech.


Curmudgeon306

The worse part is it has gotten to this point. What should be banned is the word "like." It doesn't need to start every sentence and used every other word.


refusemouth

I wish I could upvote more than once.


AlmightyDarkseid

You know what it means


swennergren11

Old white Christian men are afraid of pronouns now….


ProtoReaper23113

Snowflakes


Due-Novel66

Lmao so we can't use they either?? Are y'all going to have to start talking in the third person All of the time?? 😂😂


icy_awareness_710

Next on the agenda prefixes, roots, and suffixes lol


DevilMan17dedZ

Way to go, Idaho. One asswipe thinking their doing their due diligence for the betterment of people. Only to make the rest of us the laughing stock of the union. As well as kind of proving to the world at large, we must be a bunch redneck potato-heads. (Not seriously thinking shit thru, and then, doubling down when the realization hits that this dumbass idea is actually gaining traction is all-encompassing these days. Sadly enough)


ChaosInTheSkies

Uh-oh, you used pronouns in this comment. Banned!


ComfortableWage

Brad is a fucking idiot, full stop.


bi-king-viking

Misleading title, imo. The bill doesn’t ban pronouns, it protects teachers who want to bully trans kids. https://www.acluidaho.org/en/anti-trans-pronoun-law-house-bill-538-2024-fact-sheet


condescendingFlSH

Let’s bully kids more! That totally healthy… and doesn’t make peoples life worse! Right..? Riiiiggghhhhtt?


Just_Another_AI

* scream, * scream, * *(wait, what do * do with indefinite pronouns?...)* scream for ice cream!


Q-burt

How are they even going to write the legislation? Probably in crayon because they're the equivalent of five year olds running that particular circus.


monkeley

I think it refers to specifying pronouns for oneself where the gender of those pronouns don’t match the sex of the person at birth, not all pronouns in speech or writing


Rocketgirl8097

And it's still a bullshit law.


HS55_delta2

Conservatism is genuinely just an IQ deficit


TacoBMMonster

You’re not allowed to use pronouns that make bigots uncomfortable.


jspook

Hahahaha oh you sweet summer potato people


SignificanceGold3917

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/05/24/idaho-schools-banning-pronouns-fact-check/73822133007/ They are prohibiting the government from forcing their employees to use preferred pronouns, and prohibiting public school teachers from using pronouns that do not match the biological sex of students without written parental consent. I get that you don't like it, but at least argue against the actual point rather than posting bullshit. Let the downvotes rain upon me


gl1969

That's not the problem, and you know it


Odd_Tiger_2278

So, what will you use?


GarnooMusic

HB 538 prohibits teachers to use a student’s correct pronouns without permission from the parent if the pronouns don’t align with their assigned gender at birth. It does not fully ban pronouns, as that would literally make schooling impossible


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Idaho-ModTeam

If you have an issue with someone/something/a state/a demographic, please keep it civil.


KresstheKnight

The "Hold my Beer" state


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Idaho-ModTeam

Your post is beyond any reasonable conversation of transgender identity; it’s either the spreading of misinformation, bigotry, or just outright hatred in general.


t4skmaster

Speak for self but don't


SnooDoughnuts5632

I thought this was r/facepalm


BigwallWalrus

Dumbest motherfucker on earth award goes to:


No_Pitch267

why are people linking a summary title from twitter. It doesn’t even show the law. Reddit brain rot at its finest


rella523

These lawmakers have been making it clear for a long time that none of them understand high school biology. Now I'm wondering if any of them even graduated high school.


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TheWiscoKnight

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DerpDerpkins

Idaho is banning requirements for teachers to use students' "preferred pronouns." Google is free.


2Wrongs

Pronouns doubleplusungood. Oldthinkers unbellyfeel goodsex.


sporadicmayhem

Gotta speak in the third person now


Crafty_Ad2655

Typical leftist motte and bailey bs. You know exactly what they are targeting.


gl1969

So your canceling something else, after books and whatever you think is "bad" you just can't stop repeating history


Ok_Difference_7220

Coming for adverbs next. Bigly.


Alive-Effort-6365

I mean we can’t have it both ways, first amendment as dumb as those people are. It’s their right to identify as a gay fish


JenniferJuniper6

In related news, there has been a dramatic rise in suicide rates for elementary school teachers…


Bother-Logical

Idaho is such a beautiful state to be full of so many delightful people


StruggleStandard9464

Ffs folks you can still call people their pronouns and stuff. This just keeps it off legal/medical etc documents.


HopintheDark

Mr & Mrs are also pronouns!


Advanced_Tank

All hope is lost.


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Mean_Equipment_1909

It's Idaho, not surprised. They are in a race with Texas to be the most Taliban like state.


Jamanos

I’m pretty sure it’s meaning the pronouns people give themselves because imo they’re being stubborn and annoying. The general ones are still used because how would you not but if it’s something like a xir or whatever it is, won’t be permitted. If that is the case I’m for it and glad I live in Idaho. If it’s not then what is it?


NormalLunk

Easy solution. Spanish is a pronoun drop language so if reemplacemos each verb with a conjugated Spanish verb, no usaremos pronouns ever again.


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Rich-Air-5287

*Checks sub* Idaho. Of course.


SeveralAct5829

I always thought “ he “ was a pronoun


Dore81

“I love the poorly educated” -DJT


Mau_again

zdfzgf


evaughan36

The “we the people” folks are in for a big surprise….


Foxycotin666

How do you ban a part of speech?


LSwordC

I look forward to the future ramifications of Idahoans referring to themselves in the third person.


Freedom_USA12345

Show the entire article. It merely says they are rolling back for teachers to call minor students by s/he. Kudos to the law. Education has enough challenges and adding the ridiculous name pronouns are now removed as a requirement. Next move, get roll back to teaching traditional math methods


JellyfishQuiet7944

We know what they are and we use them. The difference is forcing people to call you something that doesn't align with what we see. We call that gaslighting.


Here4laffz

Wtf 😂


Mylicenset0kill

Yea I support


Charity-Prior

More free-dumb from Idaho’s HOR’s and such.


Jeddsv

Good.


Mother_Wolverine_956

How about banning the Sources of Strength program that disguised as a bullying program is really a trans program


Temporary-Dot4952

LMAO, I absolutely support it and can't wait to see the fallout, should be highly entertaining. Imagine living in the world where the words he/she/they in reference to other people disrupts your personal happiness. Republicans are sad.


Mustard829

Fact check? This probably isn’t actually happening. @scooptown sounds like a bot


idabroh

I'll let them know they should have used "preferred pronouns" in their click bait headline.


HomeworkWorldly4719

So if someone disagrees with anyone on this thread. Your freedom of speech is removed by these leftist crybabies.


HomeworkWorldly4719

It's fairly simple. A girl is a she, a boy is a he. You can't identify as a they, we, xe, etc.


Read1390

So….tyrannical censorship violating the first amendment is okay as long as you’re doing it for the anti-woke MAGA cult(hint: it’s actually not okay and this abhorrent). It’s concerning how much attention these morons still get.


silvermane64

Ban adverbs next


BROKEN_JORTS

They're clearly talking about all the made-up dumb ones YOU guys are coming up with.


Musician-Downtown

As an English teacher, if this happened in my state, I would fail every single student who used a pronoun and flood my admins with parent complaints and referrals for police involvement. Every teacher should. Show these pols their own insanity.


Foyles_War

For real, does anyone know what this means? What are they thinking/intending and how do they envision this working. Will you get fined/arrested for saying a prounoun and we all have to use personal names now? I think they do that in Japan but that is a huge language chance for English.


Cutie_Pie0910

Lmfao thats hilarious the fact that we're becoming Florida


Signal_Parfait5145

He/ she is a pronoun. So…bye bye for saving “she is at the store” Kinda stupid


FlyinDtchman

That sounds like some seriously fertile ground for malicious compliance. I can imagine entire classes of students referring to themselves in the third person all day everyday because I is a pronoun.


AdhesivenessUnfair13

All people will address one another by their proper names at all times.


NuncErgoFacite

Pronoun - a noun that has lost its amateur status.


FrankDruthers

How will they put their favorite three words from the Constitution on their stupid trucks?


narwhal_bat

So it looks like it is legally restricting you from using pronouns outside of your biological ones on legal documents or formal documents. My guess on application would be applying for a public school a child can't be called ze/zero/zey. But what they are biologically.


ZealousidealPin6645

Politics continue to be stupid as fuck