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Paywall bypass: https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/congress-anti-communism-school-curriculum/

Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349

House vote:

Party Yeas Nays Present Not Voting
Republican 171 28 0 20
Democratic 156 34 0 23
Independent 0 0 0 0
Total 327 62 0 43
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I feel like the whole outright luring about things that happened under communism combined with not really explaining what communism is has worked insanely well, I don’t know why you’d attempt to change that now. Unless the number of self identified communists in the USA has been fudged and there’s way more than I think there is, this is pretty much a non issue that’s already been dealt with for the capitalists.

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

I'm more surprised there were ~50 republicans voting no/abstaining

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Unlike those brainwashing communists, we don't indoctrinate our kids to tow the party line"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Best way to promote communism is to keep calling for it to be banned and persecuted.

Any kid automatically knows that anything adults ban is something kids want to know about just to piss everyone off.

If many kids didn't know about communism, they do now.

The streisand effect is a beautiful thing.

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

Fascist motherfuckers.

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

Bruh, the white house literally has a foreign agent taking office on Jan 20.

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

Even if by literally you really mean figuratively, that’s still a hyperbolic thing to say[1]. Trump is as American as apple pie and oligarchy[1][2].

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

Th best way to keep kids off communism is to neuter rampant capitalism.