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Brian Daly's avatar

I'm in California, so I have no choice but to put them into private school. It's a pretty penny . . . . I definitely hear stories amongst our peers . . .” A pretty penny? Amongst our peers? What normal person uses 19th-Century locutions like that?

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John Carvalho's avatar

The only, only, ONLY time I heard of Litter Boxes in classrooms was if there was an active shooter and students were sheltering in place they could use it as a bathroom. Remind them of this and they will pivot to THOUGHTS & PRAYER and shuffle off dragging their knuckles.

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Judybettylulu's avatar

That's it, pretty sick to act like kids would do that for fun. So nasty & clueless!

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Who knew there were so many ladies who wanted to growup to be "Emily Litella"?

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Bob Trombetta's avatar

When Gaffney says "we're normalizing mental illness", that is really a quite accurate meta-description of the conversation that the two of them are having. Two presumably " normal"-looking people on what looks like an actual TV channel, having an exchange that is completely fucking delusional.

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Revenant's avatar

It really ought to be illegal for these grifting attention whores to go around spooking the cattle like this. Gaslighting the profoundly stupid (aka the core Fox demographic), it is simply not sporting, their prey has no more chance than Bambi in the backyard persued by a posse of hunters with AR-15s. Life in these United States was never intended to be one big Dick Cheney/Fat Tony Scalia canned hunt.

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beb's avatar

The saying is "Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity," but there are times when I think the opposite is truer. "Never attribute to stupidity that which reeks of malice.:

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Idiocy is rampant.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

From believing in extraterrestrials who can interbreed with earthies it isn't too big a step to believing furry kids use litter boxes at school and only right wing paranoids have ever noticed this.

I don't know who invented the Pleiadians originally, but whoever it was can't have known that the Pleiades cluster is made up of very young stars and any planets there are probably not fully formed yet, much less have a history long enough for life to appear and evolve intelligent forms. After a while the believers in Pleiadean visitors started to say indulgently, yes, they know, but the "Pleiadians" didn't originate in that region of space, they were immigrants from somewhere else, long ago.

I suspect the extraterrestrials didn't get around to mentioning that until people a lot more human and earthly with a basic knowledge of astronomy had pointed it out, over and over and over.

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LuluBean12 StarGeezer's avatar

The Aliens from the Pleiades has been around for a long time. George Adamski wrote books in the 1950s including claims that he had contacted them. They are tall blond Nordic looking types. If you ever saw the TV show on TBS People of Earth (BTW I loved it) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4695530/ You can see they are a refreshing change from little green or grey men or the lizard people. People who believe all this stuff do not care about the actual physics or astronomy of space. One church group of kids we had at the observatory wanted to see Orion because that was where Jesus came through to get to earth.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

Oh, Adamski. Yeah. Obvious bs artist from the start, even back in the 1940s. He later claimed to have met a benevolent Nordic humanoid from Venus. Be a great trick for any being even slightly resembling a human, to survive there. As you say, believers don't care about actual physics or astronomy. Just as believers in Donald Trump don't care about the kind of person he actually is.

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MJ Firby's avatar

That doesn’t necessarily have to be an “or”.

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BlueStateLibel's avatar

Actually, I think those litter boxes are there in case a gunman comes in and traps kids in classrooms, for who knows how long. Blame guns.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

They’re not actually litter boxes. They’re just bags of kitty litter that teachers keep on hand in case they are trapped in the classroom for hours at a time.

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Hobbes17's avatar

Also useful for projectile vomit and little accidents of the 'Please may I go to the.....too late' type that makes key stage 1 such a joy.

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Sherry's avatar

Guess they missed the memo from 40+ years ago that homosexuality isn’t a mental illness. But then that would mean they would actually employ critical thinking skills rather than continue to feed their warped confirmation bias.

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MTE_NYC's avatar

Me thinks it is they who are obsessed with children pooping, very sick indeed!

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Smilin'Andy's avatar

And childrens' genitals too, especially in teh sportz!

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

Starseeds are right wing now? Helluva shift from their Tim Leary days.

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Doloras LaPicho's avatar

The "California Ideology" of Tim Leary is now Right-wing, sad to say. It's the ideology of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who think we will get to the stars by allowing techbros like themselves to do what they want, and stopping the undeserving mud people (you and me) from getting in the way. Oh, and they also take a whole mess of drugs (more like ketamine than LSD, tho)

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Secret Agent Super Dragon's avatar

It's amazing how many times they throw around the KIDS ARE POOPING IN LITTER BOXES line and are unable to say exactly where. But they know for sure that it happens!

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Sherry's avatar

Yes. They always hear from their hairdressers whose brother’s friends garbage man’s best friend’s wife’s nail lady heard it.

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littlerice vice's avatar

Well I heard from my mothers brothers servants son!

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Sherry's avatar

Well then! That settles it. It MUST be true.

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Birb-General of the US's avatar

Hey, that healing thing sounds pretty cool. I'll try it and see if it helps my arthritis.

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littlerice vice's avatar

While I was OUTRE MER I noticed locals would pinch their skin between their eyes when having a headache. I didn't try it myself though.

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