Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who mandated that all schools teach the Bible, was caught watching porn in his office.
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who mandated that all schools teach the Bible, was caught watching porn in his office.
Wow. It’s so taboo to talk about the human body that you can’t even say “pubic hair”? I am so grateful not to have grown up there and I feel so bad for everybody who did.
i grew up in the state.
it’s honestly not so bad, most people are reasonable and not entirely insane. at least any more so than the rest of the USA. i’ve traveled all over the country and seen that 1. most places here are, for all their differences, pretty similar and 2. an oddly large number of people will, without any irony at all, ask dumb as shit questions like “oh you guys have houses? i thought they still lived in tipis there…”, which is part of what compels me to clear up the image that Oklahoma is just some backwater. OKC and Tulsa are both larger cities than New Orleans, and by a non-insignificant population count too.
it’s just one of those states where the republicans have a gerrymandered, fascist hold on the government and have for a long time. they win virtually every single election at every level in Oklahoma and control the entire state government, all appointments are basically made solely by the republican party here. they control what does and doesn’t pass the legislature. yet, demographically, the republicans do not have nearly the super-majority that would justify this power. we’ve been prisoners of y’al-qaeda for basically the entire history of the state. and this isn’t by any long shot the only state like this, it just might be one of the worst. they test their shitty fucking playbooks and “go-fuck-yourself-with-razorblades” laws out on us because it is a large market/population. a century and a half of being the american fascist guinea pigs has led us to be one of the civil societies here in the US that is in the most disrepair. we’re near bottom or dead last for virtually any metric of societal health when compared to other states.
don’t hate these people please, not saying you are but it’s a common sentiment. i fucking despised the south and would belittle southerners when i was a naive teen bc of my resentment for their racism and general ethos. a lot of them are fucked up, but for a large number of them, they are victims too.
Ehh… As someone who currently lives here, things got a lot worse after trump and covid. I would say more than half the population here are bigots and proud to lack any kind of empathy towards anyone who isn’t exactly like them.
Also, the state isn’t really gerrymandered. It’s just that the only two slightly progressive areas are OKC and Tulsa, and even they don’t usually vote blue for statewide or federal elections. Oklahoma is securely the most conservative state in the union. Imo people here are just shittier than anywhere else I’ve lived, and I grew up moving to a new state every 3 years.
I mean the state idolizes Sooners, which were basically white people stealing from each other so they could steal as much native land as possible. The culture here is just based on being proud, being an asshole, and taking pride in how much of an asshole you are.
Sounds like he was just watching the Columbia Women’s Cycle Team highlights from 2014
What an awful design. It looks like their clothes were spliced with antique underwear. Whomst the fuck approved this?
Whomst indeed!
That has to have been intentional. So disrespectful to stick them in those uniforms.
evangelical Christians are so sexually repressed from puritanical beliefs, it drives them into sexual deviancies in some cases.
Biggest mistakes in human history:
Letting the Puritans leave instead of killing them
Letting them settle a continent instead of killing them
Letting them live after defeating them in a civil war
Letting them take over government instead of killing them
I feel like openly advocating for genocide doesn’t make you much better than them.
Just gonna point out that the Puritans who settled in the North like those of the Massachusetts Bay colony eventually evolved into churches like that ran by old John Brown. Northern Puritans were often times radical egalitarians who helped lay the groundwork for things like the og labor movements of the 1800s, eventually some even evolved into modern universalist churches.
I note all of this to say that Southern derived Puritans are little more than slavers under new clothes. It’s all to reinforce the Southern derived social order and hierarchy, which is to say if Northern Puritans were subject to their congregation and their god Southern Puritans were subject to the rich and their bigotry.
Sorry just something that I think needs to be spread about, I ain’t even Christian I’m a Heathen but Northern Puritans are distant kin so I feel the need to defend them. Also some of them were based and outright armed union militia which is just fucken great.
It’s more the evangelicals, not the puritans. Evangelizing / forcing their beliefs onto others with no regard to other’s wishes is a core evangelical belief.
The Puritans literally came to the new world to start a theocracy. They weren’t seeking freedom from oppressive British rule. They were seeking a place where they could force their extreme views on others.
Later on, their supporters in England actually took over, killed the king, installed their own leaner (Cromwell), and led England into such a clusterfuck that the English revolted against the Puritans and asked the dead King’s son to come back and be King.
I’m angry too but there MUST be better solutions to these problems than genocide. It’s easy to wave your hand and say “make them gone forever” but it’s lazy and cruel. If you want it fixed, put the time in. Genocide is for pussies.
Like public hair.
You can’t say stuff like that on here. If I get aroused it’s going to be your fault.
Please don’t say arou*ed. A child might read the internet.
Listen here, ****** ***** *** ************ *** * ****** ******** *** ********* ** *****. And that’s all I have to say about *******.
Well put