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[–] [email protected] 103 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Man, that made up news story about a school in Wisconsin providing litter boxes to furry students really did a number on chuds brains huh.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

And they've been hyper fixated on it ever since. A little weird if you ask me.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (3 children)

this guy's like 50 and he's submitting facebook-tier The One Joke posts to a state legislature

remind me why I'm supposed to respect this dumbfuck country again?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You don't have to respect it, but you've got to admit they have an enormous number of armed chids with genocidal intent

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

i'm starting to believe that i've been overestimating the intelligence of the enemy for a long time

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you don't know what "anthropomorphic" means.

Getting the dog catcher to arrest my principal because he was acting human-shaped.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (2 children)

animal control pulling up like:

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

Me running from the dog catcher while my fellow class mates cheer me on

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

omg what is this from, this sparks some deep childhood something, I think I was scared of this but I have no idea what it is

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

its the child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang, ngl he scared the shit out of me as a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Literal fursecution

Also how many tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars were wasted on the labor and materials required for this bill to go through legislature I wonder

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For context, aren't there parts of Oklahoma that had to institute a 4-day school week because they literally couldn't afford to pay their teachers for 5 days of work per week? Which is only making their teacher drain worse, since a lot of teachers in Oklahoma move to Texas since the pay is much higher and Costs of Living are similar.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Republican party respects 4chan more than the Democratic party respects the left.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Idea for a bit: accusing anyone who votes "nay" of being a horse furry.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

McCarthyism but for furrys

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop, are many children wearing fursuits to school these days? In Oklahoma?

[–] solarvector 42 points 7 months ago

I suspect it will be a higher number after this.

But since it was never an actual problem, doing something about it was never the point of a bill like this either.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

No. But this might result in an officer involved incident in which a kid wearing cat ears to class gets ventilated with extreme prejudice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

some schools were putting cat litter in classrooms in case kids had to piss during an active shooter situation and somebody told republicans about furries

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

This could mean that the right is realising they can't win the battle for trans rights. The right wing will try to find an "acceptable target" to spread hate about, in order to get their foot in the door and spread more hatred and prejudice for other groups. The fact that they're increasingly focusing on furries means that they realise they're slowly but surely losing their battle against trans rights and are trying to pivot to another target. I expect to see all their usual claims soon, talking about how furries are sexual predators, weird stuff about bathrooms (they already had that litterbox bullshit) accusations of grooming children, accusations of people being "secret furries" or something. It'll be rough for them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is thinkable, but to be honest the right does attack multiple targets at once, often without easing the general pressure onto other targets. This is true for the NSDAP before and after 1933, it is true for conservative evangelicals in Germany after the 70s, 90s or 2010s and the right extreme ethno nationalist identitary movement in German speaking countries.

In terms of campaign pressure it might be that there will be a relative weakening of agitation in campaigns against our trans comrades, I doubt it though. Not only cause quite a few of furry friend do identify as somewhat trans (often more politicized people or those longer in the community).

I do think the targeting is more aligned in trying to bind beastiality, lack of consent and conservative nightmare fantasies and homophobia, transphobia and perversion together as they did with anti gay action in the 60s and 70s in central Europe and the USA.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

literal government anti-furry oppression was not on my bingo card

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was going to post this but I got so tired and bored trying to come up with something snappy about how saying things like

“We’re there to educate. We’re not there to teach sexual habits.”

regarding little kids meowing or playing at being a puppy dog is so incredibly perverse. And this joke has been ongoing for years now. Don't these people have any self awareness at all? It's like not even fun to point it out.

Eventually we will all be subjected to leaks of this guy's weird patreon subscriptions or something... He's the one introducing sex nobody else is.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

looking desperately for more people to fuck with after passing the trans laws, i see

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love how they're like frothingfash the kids think they're animals, this is insane!!! and then the bill literally provisions for the kids to be taken by animal services LOL

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

"We will bully all transfem students by making them wear frilly dresses and making them use the girls' bathroom" energy

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

they're planning to call animal control on the furries

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

I feel like county level animal control may not be pleased with random schoolkids suddenly becoming their problem because some representative thought he was really funny

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Okay so this is an onion article then

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Uuuuuh how exactly are they going to enforce that lmao.

So I guess no one is going to be dressing up as anything non-human for school plays?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Nothing like being told "suck it up, buttercup" by people who think it should be a felony to do anything that mildly annoys them.

Like bro, how will you feel superior to anyone when anyone who elicits your feelings of superiority gets thrown in prison?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

"...who engage in anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities"

I've a feeling it's not only furries being attacked...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

anthropomorphic

The funny thing is this word literally means "having the form of a human" and abstractly it could cover a lot more than just furries.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My thought too. It's a gender affirmation bully bill hidden in a fur suit bill.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And another hit towards kids of neurodivergence.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Teens should rebel and meow at every opportunity

meoooow

Your turn

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy. It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

2036: The University of Oklahoma cancels all of its IT courses

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First they came for the furries, and I said nothing, for I was not a furry.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

(Little-known first line of the Martin Niemöller quote.) I am serious about the sentiment expressed here, though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

the children yearn for the kennels

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Oklahoma 🤮

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First they came for the furries and I said nothing because I was not a furry.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Politician tries to introduce a bill against the idea of anthropomorphic climate change but the furries got caught in the cross fire.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

mascots to be illegal in usa, cursed in shambles

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