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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Proving why Gen Alpha memes/uses skibidi Ohio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Problem -

Reaction -

Solution

OHIO

It's not related really, but seeing this article about Ohio doing something stupid reminded me of this article, and specifically the Instagram propaganda shown off within.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've heard that the young'uns call "ohio" things that are weird and cringey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can confirm, I live in Canada and my 13 year old daughter and her friends make Ohio jokes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not quite, Ohio is where the weird or broken things come from

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think it's mainly used to describe something depressing, but weird and cringe work too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Gerrymandering is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

  • Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man... Whatever happened to separation of church and state

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh it’s ok I got a more secular education at a religious school in Ohio than my public school friends did

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we're using tax payer money to fund religious private schools it ain't separated

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I meant that the separation of church and state got separated from our government.

This is definitely a pretty clear violation of the separation clause.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is bad. I'm so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Freeloading companies need to be taxed properly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

It is pathetic in a way how desperate they are to prop themselves up with taxpayer funds. They know their ideas can't succeed on their own merits. They need state muscle to help coerce people to believe their myths.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a Fiscally Responsible Republican and I'd MUCH RATHER have My Taxdollars go to Church then to STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

-Ohio Republicans knowing their State REJECTED Federal Dollars to Feed Starving Children because it was Deemed Fiscally Irresponsible!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is literally their thinking.

They alone want to control who gets to benefit from charity. They want to be the arbiters of who is worthy of God's love and who should suffer under his might.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Riots are the language of the voiceless"

-Usually. Sometimes it's just drunken assholes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Mostly football (futbol) fans.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So that’s a prima facie violation of the establishment clause.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heh, I didn’t realize we had an animated Clarence Thomas gif

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's the judge in the Simpsons if you want to find more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ahhhhhh I forgot about that character. Haven’t watched the Simpsons in ages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's hilarious that there's a huge chance it's still just Clarence Thomas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very ~~faschy~~ facie indeed

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

So how do I do something to help? I live a few states over and don't want my representatives getting any ideas.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

I just donated to Freedom From Religion Foundation, which files lawsuits challenging attempts like this to undermine church-state separation

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (2 children)

School of Satan incoming...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

law paused while they try to work out how to make it legal to only allow good Christian schools

How it usually goes as soon as another religion tries to do it.

Or puts up religious imagery

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Going to have the best band class in all of Ohio.

🤘

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like midwestern metals back on the menu boyssss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Copper, Pyrite, LETS FUCKING GO!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best damned band in the land

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If ever a religious institution wanted a clear path to taxation, this is surely it.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

well if we were following the rules this wouldn't be happening in the first place.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

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