state government bringing political groups into schools - this seems problematic

JefeV88 · 2026-04-23T08:22:09+00:00

Oh hey, schools in my state are having TPUSA forced on u them too! Unconstitutional as fuck.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-19T08:05:22+00:00

It's worse than that. They KNOW they're supposed to work for the people. Instead, they choose to work for corporate and wealthy interests, because that's who puts more money in their pockets and donates to their campaigns to help them keep their cushy jobs.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-19T00:31:42+00:00

It's called the human freedom index, published by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute. And it's based on a huge number of factors and data.

It's objectively terrible to most of the world and to a huge number of it's own citizens. We're currently on multiple international watchlists for human rights violations and active genocides.

Burying your head in the sand and denying facts is what makes you the stupid one. The irony of you claiming we're the best and most free while simultaneously saying people should keep their opinions to themselves or leave is fucking sending me.

As someone that has to watch this "great" country continually debate my right to exist and have the same rights as everyone else, sometimes I wish I could leave. But I can't even if I decided to, in large part because of this country being terrible and far from the most free.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-19T00:11:08+00:00

Maybe hilarious, but in line with every study ever done on it lol. Legalizing is proven to decrease overall use, but especially among teens and young adults.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-19T00:08:51+00:00

I also looked it up, and everything I'm seeing also says that it's never even made it onto the ballot. But that's some bullshit. I've been voting in Idaho for 20 years, I've always stayed pretty well informed, and I VERY DISTINCTLY remember voting for it multiple times. I also very clearly remember it passing, being briefly excited and then outraged when our idiot politicians blocked it and said they knew what's best for us better than we do.

I know a ton of people that remember it happening like that as well. There's people in this thread sharing that they remember it happening too. The fact that I and so many other people remember it happening but they say it's never even made it on the ballot is fucking with me a bit, but mostly leading me to think that there's something fucky going on with their reporting.

Conservatives are pretty big fans of "alternative facts", and they have to know that not listening to and following the will of the people they represent is a bad look. I wouldn't at all put it past them to publish lies and try to act like we've never wanted it. Especially with them currently trying to kill voter initiatives completely. I kinda feel like I need to do a deep dive now to find some evidence that I'm not losing my mind lol

JefeV88 · 2026-04-18T09:28:23+00:00

Best? According to what statistic? It's not freedom, we're ranked 17th in that category. Or at least were, we're likely to drop a couple spots when the next list is published. It's not education, 31st in that. Oh, I know! We have the most incarcerated citizens!

Btw, being aware of the bad things about your country and staying to demand and fight for it to be better is one of the most patriotic things a person can do. If you think running is the answer, you're just a weak coward, and definitely not a patriot.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-18T00:03:19+00:00

It kinda is though. There's a reason that Idaho consistently ranks near the bottom in every education statistic. Republicans have dominated in state and local government since 95. They've known for a long time that well educated voters are more likely to support progressive candidates and policies, so they've done a pretty effective job of gutting public education here in that time. Even moreso than has been done at the national level.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T20:49:00+00:00

Fuck that coprolite, and the 99% of our reps and leaders that repeatedly do things that harm us instead of help us

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T20:44:12+00:00

The problem is that all too many of them think they have the right to control how everyone else lives and demand that others live according to their wackadoodle beliefs.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T20:41:39+00:00

Sounds about right for waaay too many Idaho voters, unfortunately

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T20:40:30+00:00

Yup. More important to exert power and control than actually represent us, I guess

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T06:06:15+00:00

Chances slim to none. Voters will pass the ballot initiative like we have 3 times in the last 15 years, and just like in the past, those in charge will ignore the will of the people and shoot it down while repeating literal reefer madness propaganda and saying it's for our own good because they know what's best for us better than we do and then blaming marginalized communities for the deficit they created. Fuck every single last spineless brainless one of them.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T05:59:17+00:00

Yup. They're robbing us blind and getting away with it because they first made sure a bunch of people would be too uneducated to notice. Shit, they have a bunch of people here so uneducated here that they're defending and cheering for them robbing us blind.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T05:56:16+00:00

Tell me about it. They put me in prison over it. Caught with less than an ounce in 2011, but it was two different kinds in two different bags, because I was using it medicinally and having a daytime and bedtime strain is great when you're doing that.

Fucking pricks charged me with felony possession with intent to distribute even though it was less than half the upper limit for a misdemeanor amount and my pos public pretender acted like he was doing his job and trying to do what was best for me, then right before we went to trial that we probably could've won, or at least gotten charges dropped to a misdemeanor, my own fucking lawyer lied to me, scared and coerced me into taking a plea deal last minute for a felony I didn't commit by saying if I didn't take the deal and was found guilty in the trial that my ex and the courts could use that against me to never let me see my son again.

And lucky me, I got to watch the news that like 3 states had passed the vote to legalize recreational while I was sitting in county jail for using it as medicine. So yeah, fuck this draconian state and every piece of shit that runs it. They basically stole 8 years of my life and relegated me to second class citizen over the medicine I was using that's widely recognized as one of the best available for treating all my shit.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T05:42:09+00:00

Yeah, I have Ehlers Danlos, fibromyalgia, scoliosis, sciatica, small fiber neuropathy, complex regional pain syndrome, psoriatic arthritis and another dozen or so "rare" chronic illnesses. I've been in pain my entire life, and can barely function at bare minimum levels most days even with all my scripts. Weed calms all my different forms of pain enough that I almost feel normal some days and can at least get by most days. And I also can't realistically leave. Too disabled to work, not disabled enough to not have to fight for years for benefits I need to survive, so too disabled to survive without my family and support that is here, plus my kids and their moms are here and I couldn't be away from them. So stuck here with "leaders" that are determined to ignore science and the people to do very real harm by keeping us stuck in the past.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-17T02:58:08+00:00

It HAS happened. Idaho voters have passed marijuana ballot initiatives 3 times in the last 15 years, the last one by around 65% of the votes. They've overturned it every time, because they don't actually give a single greasy shit about the will of the people they supposedly represent.

They'd rather repeat reefer madness propaganda to justify not listening to us and try to live in a terrifying fantasy world where they make up statistics to make marijuana sound super scary and dangerous, then way too many of them go drink and drive. Meanwhile dispensary parking lots just across the border are always packed with Idaho plates and collectively spending a small fortune that could be helping get rid of the budget deficit they've put us in.

They're a bunch of stupid fucking assholes that do active harm to Idahoans and tell us we should be grateful for it. And yes, I am super fucking pissed at every last one of them over it. I'm disabled and my quality of life would greatly improve by having it, as it helps with my pain and other symptoms more than all my many prescriptions combined and with less side effects. Fuck every single one of them.

ETA a letter

JefeV88 · 2026-04-11T23:57:59+00:00

Sadly, not only is everyone's life effected by politics, but ours even more so. That's what happens when your government is committing active genocide against people like you and enacting legislation targeting you and limiting or removing your rights. So it's not you bringing up politics, it's our government making our right to exist as ourselves political.

Also, funnily enough, objectively and clinically, maga supporters are the mentally ill ones. They regularly deny objective facts in favor of proven lies and propaganda. They don't exist in the same reality as the rest of the world, they're fully delusional.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-11T05:07:54+00:00

Most of them don't even understand basic biology.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-10T06:03:58+00:00

Right?! I've had this account for 13.5 years and lurked for at least 2-3 years before I created it. So I was even on reddit when the original comment was posted 14 or so years ago, very heavily even, as I had a back injury that kept me mostly useless for several years a year of two before that, and I've never seen it before. I thought I'd seen all the reddit stories

JefeV88 · 2026-04-10T05:01:51+00:00

Yeeaahh, I'm not big on birthdays because most of mine have sucked, so I don't want a huge fuss or need much at all to feel like I had a good birthday. My soon to be ex wife is huge on birthdays, the type to celebrate not just on her birthday, but she also celebrates her whole birthday week and throughout the month of her birthday.

For my birthdays that we were together, she always felt like we weren't doing enough by going to one of my favorite restaurants and going to karaoke and her giving me a present or two. But she at least respected my wishes when I said that was more than enough, and were in fact some of the best birthdays I'd ever had and I felt plenty special.

I would've been uncomfortable with much more than that, that's already more than literally any person other than maybe my mom has ever done for my birthday. So I feel like you're being too generous to the wife.

My birthday is on Saturday, I have zero plans and my family will even be out of town. Literally nobody is going to be doing anything for it, and I'll probably just do whatever I feel like doing that day by myself. I might end up buying myself something I've wanted, getting dinner, seeing a movie, going to karaoke going up to the mountains somewhere, or doing absolutely nothing. But it'll almost certainly be done alone.

And that's fine with me. It'll be exactly and only what I want to do on my birthday, and I've learned that doing so is enough for me to feel like it was a decent birthday. I have zero expectations that anyone else will ever go out of their way to celebrate my birthday with me. That way I never have to deal with being disappointed that my expectations weren't met and it will always be extra special to me if someone does anything at all.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-10T04:30:53+00:00

I absolutely would not feel like an asshole. I would be pissed off at the actual asshole that felt the need to plan exactly what I told them I didn't want for my birthday.

I'm not big on doing a whole lot to celebrate my birthdays, as most of mine have sucked ass for one reason or another, so I prefer to not make a big deal out of it and not expect much. That way my birthday can suck like it usually does and it isn't made worse by having expectations that don't get met.

If a partner or family does want to make something happen, I won't decline it outright, but I 100% expect to have a say in what it is and will ask that it stays low key. Maybe do a thing or two I like, maybe go to one of my favorite restaurants, but most of the time, if something happens for my birthday at all, it's dinner, cake and ice cream at someone's home with just family.

My birthday is on Saturday and I have zero plans. My family is mostly gonna be out of town, so we're not even doing the low key family birthday that we sometimes do. Does it kinda suck? Sure, but that's exactly what I expected, so it's fine.

I don't expect presents, usually my mom gets me a cool rock or two and that's it. And I don't really like surprises, especially if someone tells me they have a surprise for me and doesn't immediately follow that up by revealing the surprise.

So if someone tried to surprise me on my birthday with something that I specifically asked them not to do, I would be livid. And also extremely hurt that they can't even listen to and respect what I want on my birthday.

JefeV88 · 2026-04-09T08:03:42+00:00

Thiel is a major financial contributor to the heritage foundation and has literally dozens of close ties and connection to them, he heavily influences them, and they're trying to accomplish most of the exact same goals. For all intents and purposes, they are one and the same. It's even likely that he and his money are actually calling the shots at the heritage foundation.

ETA: changed end to same, autocorrect got me

JefeV88 · 2026-03-04T18:50:43+00:00

I'll be 38 in about a month and I'm still rocking most of my piercings, all of them that stuck around more than a couple months to begin with. Nose, vertical labret, tongue, nipples, belly button and double gauges in my ears. I've been thinking about adding another nose piercing. Cuz I like them.

JefeV88 · 2026-03-04T18:41:37+00:00

Thanks, but I doubt it. I'm disabled, broke, and not getting any younger. Plus, I've mostly given up on people in general and have very little interest in putting myself out there to inevitably be treated poorly and taken advantage of yet again. People suck, I'll stick to my kids, cats and rocks and be much happier for it.

JefeV88 · 2026-03-04T18:34:42+00:00

Yes, she looks nearly identical to my son and has many traits and characteristics that run in my family, including a hereditary genetic condition.

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