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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by hsnewman on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:57AM (#34490375)
We have an big propaganda issue that is being exploited by our national enemy's (I'm talking about you Russia). All this stuff that upsets our stable society is only good for our enemies. Nobody should care of what other people are reading, unless it poses a threat to our society. Talk about shouting fire in a theater.
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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by sasattack on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:22AM (#34490810)
I think it's a subtle form of white nationalism and American exceptionalism when you pretend that the most racist, backwards, destructive, Country on Earth couldn't have come up with every single one of these policies all on their own
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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by barbazoo on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:02AM (#34490456)
How is this Russia's doing? Do you have a source for that claim?
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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by happytoexplain on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:15AM (#34490692)
Read as written, it seems like the parent is saying that things like this (felony for providing a child anything but whitelisted books) destabilize the society they occur in, and bad national actors exploit and encourage that instability. Not that Russia directly induced this law.
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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by barbazoo on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:10PM (#34491698)
I just don't get the link to these idiotic policies put into place in places like Florida. Is Russia using Facebook or something to make people there believe dumb shit?
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Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools by hsnewman on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:09AM (#34490587)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare "Russian interference in foreign elections Russian interference in foreign elections, most notably the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, has been described as information warfare."

Hey putin, you can downvote me all you want!

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