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malaise

(269,022 posts) Mon Jan 23, 2023, 05:24 PM Jan 2023

It speaks volumes when ReTHUGs are more concerned about banning books

and controlling women's bodies than doing something about the fucking guns. Books don't kill.

That is all

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It speaks volumes when ReTHUGs are more concerned about banning books (Original Post) malaise Jan 2023 OP

VOLUMES. elleng Jan 2023 #1

Actually, Books DO kill. Good books kill stupid ideas, like Conservatism. Caliman73 Jan 2023 #2

But books do make people hildegaard28 Jan 2023 #3

elleng

(130,948 posts)

1. VOLUMES.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 05:33 PM

Jan 2023

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)

2. Actually, Books DO kill. Good books kill stupid ideas, like Conservatism.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 05:40 PM

Jan 2023

The more educated people are, the more likely they will have a Liberal worldview.

The reason that Conservatives ban books instead of tackling gun safety is that guns tend to kill poor people and people of color more than anyone else. Books and education kill the arguments for Conservatism.

hildegaard28

(391 posts)

3. But books do make people

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 05:47 PM

Jan 2023

Think, and if people think then it will kill the Republican party. Republicans have to control everyone's thoughts in order to survive as a political party.

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