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Stephen Miller is an unelected sledgehamner of human rights crimes. True evil.

Please note that while what they said is based on a real quote, these participant characters are entirely fictional and not based on anyone real.

"Freedom seeds"?

These weirdos have the mental and emotional age of 12. These are little boys playing war and pretending to be cool, powerful men - with zero idea what it actually means to be that.

It's hard to talk about how badly this country, (Untied Sates) has brainwashed its citizens without sounding like a conspiracy theory nut or something of the like.

Every single media that's ever been released by a studio with ties to anything with public opinion is completely Pro-USA propaganda.

The best examples of this is any action movie that uses the US military. Movies that require government approval. And I don't mean, "yeah you're good you didn't screw up a couple of facts", I mean a whole damn, "good you paint the US as the good guys and everything else as bad and evil."

News stations that get funding directly from in House politicians or hell even the ex president (I'm looking at you Fox News).

All of it is subtle too. The propaganda begins at an early age here in the "good ol' US of A", reciting the Pledge of Allegiance from kindergarten everyday up until high school. To the very addition of seminary classes in said high schools even though there's supposed to be "Separation of Church and State".

Even simple things such as ad campaigns that bombard you daily to the point you only take in what they're saying subconsciously. Its become such a normal thing to hear about the newest model of the iPhone that you don't even realize they make them to break in a year or two, just to extort you of your money.

Its fabricated into the very veins of this country that if you "just work hard enough" you can do anything, be anyone. Lies. It's all lies intentionally written to make you feel guilty about being "lazy" because you're not successful, when in reality if you're born poor you'll likely never move any higher on the class scale.

Public education was a driving force of what our country was founded on, but is public education free? No. Not even mandatory education such as grade, middle, and high schools are free. If you send even just one child to school K-12 you'll spend around 200$ to 3,000$+ per year just to have one child in "free public education", and that's just the known costs. More are hidden away in your taxes.

Healthcare is an utter sham. Private pharmaceutical companies are outright inhumane and unethical, but under the facade of Capitalism are completely normalized.

Similarly, privately owned and run prisons are just slavery 2.0. Using underpayed labor to make things like the licence plates on your car. Or forcing them into unsafe working environments, "volunteering" them as firefighters and construction workers. Most prisoners make around 0.25 cents per hour of work and spend almost all of that back to the private prison system for basic necessities like hygiene items. When prisoners are released back into the general public, they've received almost nothing to help them rehabilitate into society and are then brought back into prison for repeating crimes. It's a purposely built cycle to keep minorities suppressed and felons, most of which are there for nonviolent offenses, unable to return to society and reliant on the prison system. The system that then thrives via a workforce that will never deplete and cannot legally unionize.

Engrained even further is the idea of a Nuclear family, an idea only ever truly accomplished by already well off straight white citizens. It is then therefore fault on the individual for failing to meet society's standards of a successful life. May poor and marginalized families are unable to meet this unnecessary standard, specifically Latino families are targeted the hardest by this. It also demonizes any families that have gone through a divorce or families that live in two separate parts of the world.

Christianity is the standard in the US, this is evident from any piece of government document you read. It's a line in the Pledge of Allegiance, which as already mentioned is in itself propaganda dug into child from the moment they start school, "In God We Trust". However, allegedly you have freedom of religion, meaning you can freely practice any religion in the United States without persecution, but that doesn't mean its without bias. Specifically Muslims and Jews are targeted the worst here, especially after 9/11. (Which if you really dig into that event's history you find some pretty fucked up shit the US did, which included the funding and gifting of money, weapons, and military training to ISIS.) Events that you will likely never learn about in a textbook.

You'll also probably never learn about the true extent of the Red Scare on US soil in a textbook either. When US military would stalk and murder suspected "Communist" in its own country. Most of which who died were in fact not Russian Spies, but rather protesters of the Cold War. Plenty of which had access to the creation and distribution of media, specifically movies. Plenty of directors in Hollywood were killed for no other reason that because someone who didn't personally like them called in and accused them of "Communist behavior".

Need I remind people that the holiday of Thanksgiving exists? The celebration of death and plauge to Native Americans within their own homes because of colonization. That before Black Africans were shipped over as property, Natives were originally used as slaves and brutality murdered.

That last year police started riots at peaceful protests, well within constitutional rights, and to top it off the ex president started an insurrection which led to the storming of November 3rd.

And this is all just the tip of the iceberg that is USA propaganda, a system built around keeping minorities from being able to accomplish anything with first "proving" themselves worthy. A system built around Wealthy Christian, White Nuclear families and little room for anyone else. An entire country built on over inflated pride and ego without the guts to own up to its mistakes.

The United States is broken and the first step to fixing this country is to understand what's wrong.

Texas may keep sodomy law for hate in it

This is Texas, where sodomy is still in the penal code and its conservative leaders like it that way.

Legislators criminalized such behavior back to the 1800s.

When the Texas penal code needed updating in the 1900s, lawmakers saw fit to keep their anti-sodomy law on the books, banning “deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.”

Texas is also where, in 1998, a Houston police officer arrested a gay couple in a private residence for breaking that law by engaging in “homosexual conduct.”

It’s also the state where a lawsuit over that arrest reached the U.S. Supreme Court. It ruled in 2003 that anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

Lawrence v. Texas told states — Texas wasn’t the only one — to stay out of people’s bedrooms, because, you know, due process, liberty and privacy.

Policing private, consensual behavior between adults is also ridiculous, even if the couple engaged in such sexual relations is straight and married.

But this is Texas, where far-right extremists continue to meddle in places where they have no business, including who uses what bathroom, what sex one was at birth and what teams they can play on.

They especially want to control what Texas women do with their bodies, limiting their health care options to death.

What certain men do in private is also a concern for the far-right, so keeping a so-called “zombie” sodomy law in place is important to them, even if unenforceable.

It’s the symbolism of hate that counts.

The Texas House of Representatives bravely but narrowly voted 59-56 to strike the law and send House Bill 1738 to the Senate.

It’s interesting to note that an early ballot came in at 72 for repeal and 55 against.

Sen. José Menendez, D-San Antonio, is offering to sponsor the Senate version and hopes it’s assigned to a committee.

Time is against him.

The Legislature wraps up its session in early June.

I expect that the state’s Republican leadership, headed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in the Senate, will determine that repealing the anti-sodomy law isn’t good for politics.

Giving Democrats and sane Republicans a win isn’t good in the hate business.

Instead, by letting a so-called “zombie” law stay in place, Republicans can look to the next election and use it to feed its extremist masses.

They haven’t seen enough zombie movies.

Zombies are capable of rising from the dead.

So, this is still the Lone Star State, where politicians can be cruel and their voters more so.

It’s part of our nation’s legacy of intolerance, starting with colonial statutes that criminalized sexual acts.

Those early arrivals were hell-bent on enacting laws that punished homosexual activity in particular.

Those found guilty got the death penalty.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, things started to look up after the American Revolution.

It found that “in 1796, New Jersey passed ‘An Act for the Punishment of Crimes’ that made sodomy punishable by a fine and solitary confinement with hard labor for no more than 21 years.”

The center said 20th-century state legislatures continued to focus on criminalizing homosexuality.

“Several sodomy laws were expanded to include oral sex,” it said.

“In the 1950s, state and nationwide ‘witch hunts’ of homosexual men ensued, and hate-based rhetoric equated consensual adult sex with child molestation.”

Human Rights Watch, the independent group that monitors and investigates human rights abuses worldwide, maintains the origins of anti-sodomy laws rest in British colonialism.

Here’s the hope in this story.

A bipartisan team led HB1738. It’s the first time a bill has gotten this far in several decades of trying.

That’s a remarkable feat.

Rep. Venton Jones of Dallas, who is openly gay and was born when this fight to repeal the law began, authored the bill. In his success, he remembered those who came before him.

“I am standing on the shoulders of people who have carried this bill before me, and that’s where I get my strength,” he said.

Jones didn’t build his case on the Supreme Court ruling.

Instead, he asked his colleagues “to vote for a law that upholds the principles that Texans should have the freedom and ability to make their own private decisions without unwarranted government interference.”

Even one of the worst lawmakers in the state, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, supports repealing the state law.

But this is Texas, where an unconstitutional law is likely to remain in the penal code.

Far-right Christian nationalists will raise their Bibles in unison.

The rest of us can carry on the march toward sanity that the Texas House began.

Brad Pritchett, interim CEO of Equality Texas, said people hear “gay rights” and imagine all sorts of things.

But their struggle is simple. It’s “the privacy to live our lives in peace.”

And no one — gay or straight — can live in peace when zombies can come back from the dead.

Hey, remember when RFK said he'd start an autism registry, then the DHHS said, "Lol, of course we're not doing that! That would be crazy!"?

CNN

HHS to build Medicare, Medicaid database on autism, other chronic illnesses | CNN

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medic

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of autism. The database — which HHS said will draw from insurance claims, medical records, and data from wearable technology such as smartwatches — is one of the first steps in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to find the causes of autism “by September.”