I wonder if there is some confusion about the difference between school libraries and public libraries.

Obviously school libraries - especially at the K-6 level - should have different guidelines than public libraries.

Under this hellscape version of America, is it really a surprise, though?

If you put the Southern notion of "liberty" at the center of your universe, it drives one crazy.

And you can see how Alito absolutely despises the Northern version of liberty. Absolutely hates it. Guy would have thrived as a witch finder general in the Middle Ages.

There used to be an article I'd link to that had a very long dissertation on the notion of Southern "liberty" vs. the Northern kind. Basically, the Southern kind of "liberty" considers things like property rights (and treating other people like property) of utmost concern, so much like what you are getting at here: the idea that others might have agency even if you don't like what they are doing is not something they value, at all.

BTW, it's very interesting to see how you'll see this manifest. The right went on and on and on about "cities burned to the ground" and the damage to businesses as a supposed counter to what BLM was protesting, which was the murder of people. I don't think they even realized what they were revealing about themselves.

I recently read The Unhumans, and IIRC, they made a big deal about how "liberals are coming to take your stuff", too. Very instructive.

That was such total horseshit and they always knew it. And we knew it, too.

No way those little weasels would tolerate women leaving to go to a free country or a free state to get health care they don't approve of, either. That's assuming they could even afford to.

Otherwise, why even go through this bullshit of banning it in just certain states?

All conservatives truly HATE and despise and loathe actual freedom.

That last comment came from the reactionary centrists and the gaslighting overtly right wing as well.

By the way, the very same fucking people that serve as the exasperating Tone Police on this are the same ones doing the same thing when it comes to properly calling the J6 people terrorists (and not "rioters" or "peaceful protesters", FFS) and calling the Republican project what it is: fascism.

I don't know why he is resigning?!

Didn't PEDOnald give Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

That is the best phrase to describe both failed terms of this failure of a human.

One of the funniest things I've seen is people that supported him in 2024 being all surprised at his idiocy: "he was not like this in his first term; it was actually rather good, what happened?"

And I just don't even know where to start....just what the fuck was "good" about that first term of his?

Oh, LOL, it is Fetterman. So easy to predict.

Isn't it interesting that someone gets brain damage and turns conservative?

For all my life the conservatives have bleated that "liberalism is a mental disorder". Hm.

Yeah, but if you listen to some galaxy-brained bullshit from the likes of Donvict's pals (Kevin Hassett) you'll soon be enlightened into understanding how this is all really because of the absolutely no-good bad economy that poor widdle donnie was handed. Because something something Biden Bad. Waste, fraud and abuse! Waste, fraud and abuse! Also, illegal immigrants!

Also, Obama was President while black. And can you just imagine if either of those women that laughed weird were allowed into office? {shudder!} American would probably never recover.

Anyway, it's going to take something like 10 consecutive terms from Donvict to fix all the horribleness from Democrats....

It is incredible to watch people this far down the road still say you gotta stand behind the Democrat Party.

Emphasis mine.

OH....KAY.....and so this guy that apparently left the DemocratIC Party is butthurt because he had a conversation about wildfires with one Democrat that he didn't like. And apparently has adopted the terminology of the conservatives and the reactionary centrists.

And, oh, wow, you guys! He's apparently woken up to the fact that we have two parties - one that is extremely right wing - to the point of being Nazi-adjacent now and another that is moderately right wing. Something most of us noticed by the time we left high school, or at least by the time we left university.

Cool cool. And what is he proposing to do as an alternative if we don't vote for the "Democrat [sic] Party"? Staying home or voting for something like the Green Party are just not options for serious people.

The 23 percent is probably what is called, by different people the Bush Line/the Dick Nixon line (Bulwark) or the Sarah Palin Floor (the Professional Left).