A Texas bill, known as the FURRIES Act, would ban non-human behaviors in public schools, including the use of litter boxes and wearing animal accessories.
Rep. Stan Gerdes, the bill’s author, claimed schools were providing litter boxes for students acting as “furries.”
When pressed, Gerdes could not find an example. The bill was left pending in committee.
He is probably a furry in secret, very effective way to make these things happen.
It takes real dedication to make a career in politics as republican with a single plan to turn kids into furries by goading them into protesting anti furry bill
At no point I do I think bullying should be allowed in schools but the reality is that if a kid was demanding a litter box in which to relieve themselves, they would get ostracized, bullied into oblivion, and that behavior would stop right away. No legislation required. Humans have a way of self correcting themselves in group environments. It’s an evolutionary trait from our days as tribes.
Again, bullying is a huge problem that needs to be taken far more seriously in our school systems… Buuuut, humans will act like humans, especially human children, when it comes down to things way outside the norm. Its just the way we are at this stage in evolution.
bullying is a huge problem that needs to be taken far more seriously in our school systems
I fear the reason bullying isn’t taken seriously in schools is because those in positions of power frequently use bully tactics to get there. Fascists and bullies are one and the same, and on some level, corrupt school administrators know that. School bullies provide useful extensions of fascist behavior, applied by peers to encourage conformity in environments where adults are absent. Why would fascists in charge ever want to stop that?
I wonder if this topic needs to be x-posted to !furry@lemmy.world
So countdown to Republicans planting furries in schools
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This guy absolutely beats his dick to furry porn.
I might know a select few bears that’d do more than that for free. Special discount, just for him. The woiks, I tell ya.
Or the dude is a zoophiliac
Furries are notoriously stealthy, it’s not like they walk around in bright furry colours or anything
I can provide examples of these sickos wearing animal accessories at Texas schools.
Oh no. I guess disneyland employees are sick freaks. 😱
If they don’t include a clause for mascots or other performances, then they’ve fucked that up lol
Just some kids in uniform standing around reciting Cats because they can’t act any of it 👍
I thought of these things.
Imagine the fun lawsuits you could launch over mascots and drama performances just to be a dick.
You’ve just stumbled across the craziest shit about this.
Instead of actually trying to improve anything imagine coming up with “fun lawsuits you could launch just to be a dick”
You’ve just inadvertently summed up the entire GOP.
Fight fire with fire.
Create dumb laws? Sue schools in red states and deep red voters with animal mascots.
Neither can the cast, so the kids are doing great!
They meant can as in are allowed to, but your joke is funny.
I do what I can, and thank you. 😜🙇🏽♂️
pass, pass, maybe would
For some reason, I thought that was 4 choices.
And you were passing on the lizard head, and the man wearing a lizard costume.
But that bee…
FREAKS!
There are probably hundreds of actual issues to dedicate time to, yet this is what he chooses to focus on?
The great part of tackling problems that aren’t real is that nobody can see you haven’t solved anything.
“The evil queers are coming after your kids!” goes next to “the migrants are gang members” as a way to keep the base in perpetual fear all of the time. Shrieking about something that doesn’t actually happen wastes the lefts time - because people who care about the truth have to take the time to debunk. Then the fuckers turn around and say - “look at you protecting pedophiles” when you debunk their insane shit.
The “big lie.”
He’s a Republican. All the real problems are literally beyond his comprehension.
To be clear, cat litter buckets in classrooms is a real thing in some schools but only to use in active shooter lockdowns if needed. When a classroom of kids is trapped for hours, someone will need to poop, and they’re going to want to cover up it and not smell it the whole time. So unfortunately there’s a perfectly valid reason for kids to poop in litter buckets at schools that these conspiracists, who are probably the same nutjobs who think school shootings are fake, are twisting into furry accommodation.
Yup.
And they’ll do this dumbass shit before addressing gun violence or police who hang out scrolling on their phones during school shootings instead of stopping them, every single time.
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Hey, America, what the fuck?
We’re pretty stupid over here right now. Sorry, world.
Here I was laughing at a silly man trying to forbid something that never happens. Now I’m sad again. How on earth is this the lived reality of so many children? Can’t do much from over here in Europe but what the heck.
Tbh, kitty litter sounds like a practical idea in case of a lockdown. I was just cautioned to make sure my office trash bin doesn’t have any cracks.
Uh… citation needed 🤦🏼♂️
“The only known official instance of cat litter being placed in school classrooms for potential use by students was in the late 2010s by the Jefferson County Public School District in Colorado, where the 1999 Columbine High School massacre took place. Some teachers were given “go buckets” that contained cat litter to be used as a toilet in an emergency lockdown situation, such as during a school shooting.[4][43][44]” — Note: official instance. I’ve been told it was popular enough for someone to sell premade “go buckets”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax
Exactly. Fuckin’ FUD getting slathered around, and I’m the bad guy for hinting it’s bullshit?
Whee, the internet. 🤦🏼♂️
To be fair, I was literally asking for them to cite their own references, but I appreciate the legwork. We’re going to have to do better, together, to make it through the coming years and while I do appreciate the passion behind knowing something true, that’s not enough to teach it. You have to share it effectively, and especially now, that means accurate & verifiable facts cited. IMHO, it’s something we should all strive for and expect from each other. 🙇🏽♂️🖖🏼
Citation needed doesn’t literally mean cite your own references. It means someone should add a citation here. These discussions aren’t about us.
Ah, good ol’ lack of culpability. That’ll serve us as well as it’s already done, why change for the better? Good idea. Carry on, nonce. We’re doing great. Thanks! 😘
Slight misinfo here.
I was not able to find anyone selling or providing kitty litter buckets for active shooter response kits. I think kitty litter would not be an idea lchoice because it relies on absorbing moisture, swelling, and covering the feces via the cat’s natural scraping behavior.
However, their are a number of classroom lockdown kits that do include a 5 gallon bucket to shit in, and a deodorizer tablet/solution.
It was a DIY solution, not a kit, but great to know the idea was monetized.
Of course not. Like most of their “anti-woke” ideas, they are based on lofty ideas.
They do this to misdirect you from the real problems, those that they usually caused all by themselves.
Yup…and the democrats are worse. Such controlled opposition
I prefer controlled opposition to uncontrolled fascism.
Like what? You got some examples?
We truly live in the dumbest timeline. Seems like ~50% of the population has no “bullshit filter”.
They have an “actively seek out bullshit that props up my radical beliefs and hatreds” filter.
what, have they have been finding examples of trans kids in school sports?
The litter box in schools thing happened in all of my dad’s WhatsApp friends schools, but there’s no pictures of it 🤔
It started because of school shootings, ironically enough. If you’re in a lockdown for hours while the cops take their sweet time, (coughUvaldecough), there’s a near 100% chance that at least one of the children in your class is going to need to use the restroom during that time.
Luckily, camp toilets are a thing:
They’re basically a 5 gallon bucket with a snap-on toilet seat lid. You use a trash bag to line it, then sprinkle an alginate powder in, (the same powder used in diapers) and it turns into a gel when it gets wet. This helps avoid the smell and splashing, and a single small sachet of alginate powder is enough for the entire bucket.As an added bonus, you can use the bucket to store other things that might be needed in a shooting or extended lockdown. Tourniquets, gauze, protein bars, etc… It’s all there in a single grab-and-go location. Lockdown starts, you pull the bucket out of the closet, dump all the supplies out, and set it in the corner for kids to use if they need to pee.
But this very quickly got flipped around, because conservatives didn’t want the left to start using “schools need toilets in the classrooms because school shootings are so frequent” campaigns. So they flipped it around, and said schools were providing litter boxes to furries. There’s also a heavy anti-trans lean on the litter boxes messaging, which just plays into the conservative fear mongering even more.
The U.S. needs stricter gun laws, imo. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country
Well yeah, I doubt you’ll find many disagreements here. The biggest disagreements are probably going to be the “if you go far enough left, you get your guns back” crowd. AKA the “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” version. Conservatives aren’t exactly popular around these parts.
Blasphemy!
We have a scenario where 8 blue states have effectively banned concealed carry, 27 red states have said concealed carry is legal without a license, and 15 (former) swing states need licenses to carry concealed weapons.
Over 30 million Americans have obtained such licenses since the early 2000’s. Those 30 million Americans now hold pro-gun opinions. They have each invested thousands of dollars on expensive firearms, ammunition, range time, classes, targets, gun safes/lockers, holsters, belts, clothing compatible with concealment.
Democrats have consistently pushed for “stricter gun laws” like you are talking about. Those gun laws were never popular among the people in 27 red states, and once 30 million people in the (former) swing states started picking up licenses, those laws stopped being popular there as well.
“Stricter gun laws” being popular in only 8 states, yet being a central plank in the Democratic party, is how several swing states have turned reliably red over the past 25 years.
Stricter gun laws gave us Trump. Twice.
Us? There has only been 9 school shootings, since 1975. I voted recently for NDP for my MP, my riding voted for a Conservative MP. Liberals won as a minority government, with Conservatives and Bloc Québécois coming in 2nd and 3rd.
Australia used to be full of guns, until the government peacefully bought back guns.
I still think U.S. citizens have too many guns.
The number of guns we have is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. The relevant issue is the opinions of the people who would actually be affected by the law.
Gun control is one of the major reasons why people in 42 of our 50 states are dissatisfied with the Democrats. Gun control is one of the major reasons why Trump is now in office.
Democratic leadership should have learned this lesson two decades ago, when our Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted, Democrats couldn’t get it renewed, and the US went from generally banning concealed carry to generally licensing it. Failing to recognize that fact in 2004, Democratic leadership should have picked up on it from pro-gun legislation passing in 42 states. But no, they were hell bent on pushing 1980’s gun control efforts, and ignoring any pushback against that position.
Democratic leadership refusing to follow the will of the people is how the US got itself in this disaster.
The assault weapons ban in Australia forced the retirement of the entire set of politicians who voted for it.
They have no regrets, it is a good law and makes their country a better place to live for them and their children.
The assault weapons ban the US had from 1994 to 2004 didn’t force the retirement of the entire set of politicians who voted for it. It simply drove the majority position across party lines, and left everyone wondering how the hell the Democrats become so out of touch with their own constituents.
They have each invested thousands of dollars on expensive firearms, ammunition, range time, classes, targets, gun safes/lockers, holsters, belts, clothing compatible with concealment.
No, actually a lot of 'em skip a lot of those steps. They have the expensive firearms, and ammunition, but rarely practice at the range, mostly don’t take any classes, targets? meh - why waste money on targets when we’ve got old cans?, gun safes are for sissies with kids, etc.
After hurricane Andrew in Miami, there was a long period where services like 911 just didn’t exist. I thought briefly about getting a Glock 9mm and a pump action 12 gauge, but when it came to the reality of ownership I could foretell that I wouldn’t spend as much time at the range as I believe I should if I were to keep such things in my home, so I opted to not buy them. 32+ years later, there have been a couple of incidents over the years where I might have pulled my weapon if I had it, none of them could have had a better outcome if I had my weapon at the time. Flipside: my stepfather concealed carried for 40 years - as was his Constitutional right. He planned scenarios, shared them, was prepared should he ever need to use one of his many weapons - his collection was probably worth $50K by the time he died. He was also an alcoholic, and eventually addicted to opioid pain killers, never gave up his guns. Luckily the only thing he ever shot besides ducks while hunting was a bookshelf by accident while cleaning his guns. All those years, all that planning on when and how to take another human life should the need ever arise, all those years and years of drug clouded judgement… I do NOT feel safer knowing that there are literally thousands of old men, and women, at various stages of dementia and infirmity out there in our county just like him.
I pointed out the cost to demonstrate the depth of their concern. You aren’t likely to cast a vote to ban your own hobbies. You aren’t going to vote to make your collections worthless.
20-some years ago, I took my first concealed carry class. 30 people in the room, and only 6 of us (including me and two of my brothers) had ever fired a gun before.
Democratic leadership never bothered to consider how gun ownership would affect the political opinions of all those new gun owners in swing states. It just shunned them as Republican baby killers, and wondered why they were losing votes.
Gun toting step father saturated in Faux News, he wasn’t going to vote for Liberal Commies even if they put a gun to his head at the ballot box.
If I had bought that Glock and 12 gauge, and practiced with them monthly, I probably would have invested about $5K total in the gun safe and a couple of other weapons - plus the time and ammunition, and I would have happily surrendered them AT THE SAME TIME as all of my neighbors should we have gone full UK gun ban here in the US. Not that I am typical, but the real problem with gun ownership is that guns are so cheap basically anybody can get one if it is the least bit important to them. Investing $50K in guns doesn’t make you any safer against the punk who walks up behind you with a .38 special. Banning guns, making them much harder to get and illegal to keep, that cuts down the number of punks who can get their hands on a .38 special in the first place.
This is the attitude I’m talking about. “Poor people are punks, who will walk up behind you with a .38spl. Guns should be more expensive to keep those filthy poors from getting them.”
Centrist, corporatist, elitist crap.
Yes, what the Democrats need to do is to keep shifting to the right.
/s
Gun control in the US is a centrist position, not a leftist position. Both the left wing and the right wing are pro-gun, and largely for the same reasons.
Its the centrist, corporatist, CEO-owned Democratic leadership who doesn’t want guns.
Best we can do is take away hypothetical litter boxes in school.
I mean, there’s a position nobody is going to argue against, amirite?
Where is the class cat supposed to piss, if you do that?
but then how will they overthrow a tyrannical government?!?!
… wait
I read a very different thing. Classes were putting medical supplies in them and other emergency gear, but again, for mass shootings.
No need to complicate things. A couple handfuls of sawdust eliminates the smell too
I had an idiot teenager working for me who insisted it was happening at his school, but couldn’t tell me which classroom or teacher was allowing it.
In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.
Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?
In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]
Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?
Mostly just his child victims.
Based on all recorded political history and conservatives love of projection, I’m guessing he is one of the more extreme kinky types of furry himself. Nothing illegal, but really disgusting to other people.
no, I’m a furry and i can tell that guy is into diapers or something instead
