- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English48•4 months ago
The Arizona Senate has passed a bill intended to address “anti-God, pro-Marxist ideology” by banning the use of public funds to combat climate change. The bill would also allow Arizona residents to sue any town, city, institution, or public university they believe has violated the provisions of the bill, even if they are not affiliated with it.
What the actual fuck is wrong with Republicans?
What the actual fuck??!!
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) 11•4 months ago
Apparently anything they do not like is anti-God and pro-Marxist. Not sure how being green is anti-God since it means you are being the keeper of the domain left to us. Not sure how preventing companies from getting a free ride by not allowing them to pollute everyone else’s air is pro-Marxist.
- floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English7•4 months ago
Apparently wanting your desert state to remain habitable is anti-God and Marxist.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 7•4 months ago
The fact that most Rs are ignorant, and believe all “gubment is evil” and vote R because “I’m not gay”
pathetic
Money
- yeahiknow3 ( @yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ) 5•4 months ago
I’m willing to bet I can distinguish whether someone is a Republican from an fMRI scan fairly consistently based on markers for psychopathy.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 5•4 months ago
As we all know, the Catholic Church is a famously anti-God institution, what with all their talk about combating climate change and not destroying the planet God left for us./s
- LallyLuckFarm ( @LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ) 22•4 months ago
A. A PUBLIC ENTITY MAY NOT SPEND PUBLIC MONIES TO PROMOTE, ADVOCATE OR PLAN FOR, OR BECOME A MEMBER OF AN ASSOCIATION OR ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES, ADVOCATES OR PLANS FOR, ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- REDUCING OR REPLACING MOTOR VEHICLE TRAVEL WITH WALKING, BIKING, OR PUBLIC TRANSIT.
I encourage Arizonans to file suits to shut down the public transit systems in the reddest towns and cities ahead of November. They’ve given you the tools to eviscerate their hold on your state.
- admiralteal ( @admiralteal@kbin.social ) 13•4 months ago
That’s literally and unironically what they want you to do.
They want to destroy walkable cities because somehow, having financially-sustainable small towns featuring outdoor life and engaged communities is partisan. They do not want main streets to exist, only box stores from national brands on the edge of town. They do not want to have to know their neighbors because they believe all other human beings that life near them are potential hostiles, so the best way to live is permanently indoors, getting into your car to protect you from the outside even before opening the garage door to avoid ANY interactions with others.
They want everyone to be forced to only drive cars because being forced to comport with one very specific, expensive, unpleasant way of life that leads to tens of thousands of unnecessary annual deaths and unbelievable isolation and loneliness is “freedom”.
- LallyLuckFarm ( @LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months ago
I’m going to simultaneously agree and disagree with you on this one - they do want to destroy the ability to plan and build walkable livable cities, and to prevent their constituents from building community ties with each other. The expectation they have, imo, is that this will be used to hamstring the efforts of people looking to make Arizona livable into the future.
But they absolutely don’t expect or want this bill to weaken their own grasp on legislative power in the state. Concerted grassroots efforts to use the (admittedly hamfisted) language in this bill to weaken conservative turnout, while absolutely not something I would normally advocate, seems like a way to involve the voting bloc they intended to protect from effects in realizing how truly stupid this bill is. I could readily see voting rights groups or other progressive orgs in the state finding opportunities to provide transportation to the polls and ways to include reasons to not reward the people who voted this into effect.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•4 months ago
I guarantee that the vast majority of Republicans have never used public transportation.
- Reality Suit ( @Reality_Suit@lemmy.one ) 12•4 months ago
Fuck god. Hey, god, fuck you!
- Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 4•4 months ago
I’ll see you in hell. It will probably be cooler there (literally) than on the Earth as envisioned by Republicans.
- shani66 ( @shani66@ani.social ) 7•4 months ago
I just don’t get how anyone can be this awful.
- Hanrahan ( @hanrahan@slrpnk.net ) English2•4 months ago
You mean GOP Voters yeah ?
- Dreizehn ( @Dreizehn@kbin.social ) 6•4 months ago
Wait until they completely run out of damn water and it will happen under GOP leadership.
- floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English1•4 months ago
They’ll just say God’s punishing them for not killing the right people, then they’ll double down.
- runner_g ( @runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•4 months ago
Good thing the governor is a Democrat and will likely veto this bill.