One of America’s dumbest legislative mechanics.
any bill around internet monitoring and censorship : saving the precious children from horrible paedophiles act of 20xx
any bill for actually taking care of the physical and intellectual well being of children : bill 50906-3
“Wow, you want to FEED kids to keep them in good health? I’d rather spy on everyone in the hopes of catching someone under 18 accessing 18+ material. That’s where REAL good health comes from.”
They care about their SPIRITUAL health. Physical health doesn’t matter compared to an eternity of hellfire, you heathen.
“The Sunshine Protection Act”, oh is this some bill against pollution or something. “This bill makes daylight savings permanent.”
Oh fuck off, that’s too grandiose of a name for that. I mean I want that, but you aren’t protecting sunshine …
I always thought it was weird, that the one argument for Day Light Savings is that we get more sun. Someone can correct me, if I am wrong. I’m pretty sure the amount of daylight isn’t magical dictated by clocks and time created by humans.
Abolish day light savings time. Stick to standard time like the rest of the world does.
So like, in January, the sun sets at say around 5:15pm. With DST active, it would set at 6:15pm.
So there is more daylight after work or school gets out for most people.
Either way, the time change seems like it’s not useful in today’s age, so we should pick one.
Instead of playing games with clocks, why don’t we just do things at different times?
That’s the exact same thing… we could say that you start work at 8 and finish at 16 half the year, and work 9-17 the other half. We’ve just decided that it’s more practical to say that you always work 8-16, and then shift the clock to keep in sync with when there is more light outside.
It’s wild this is even allowed in your country. You’d think a bill should relate to a single topic or area so you can actually vote on it, and people can easily see how reps voted on certain topics.
Right?
But if they did that, how else would they be able to get money for some random project in their district. Or tack on something everyone is against because the optics of going against the stop Stop Child Rape bill are so bad.
If there is no answer for “how does this help a politician?” then it’s probably not going to happen.
The funny part is public initiatives are bound to this rule, depending where you live
Anytime I see something like the Safe Children and Everyone Who Wants One Gets a Puppy Act I know my life is about to get worse
any irl examples of this?
- The Patriot Act - is about increasing government surveillance
- EARN IT - is about adding backdoors to encryption and increasing government monitoring of internet traffic.
- Kids Online Safety Act - is about internet censorship and platform liability.
- The Inflation Reduction Act - is about taxes and climate.
- Unborn Victims of Violence Act - you can probably guess what this is about.
- Working Families Flexibility Act - is about changing overtime and vacation benefits and giving employers flexibility in when they allow their employees to redeem them.
Unborn Victims of Violence Act
Abortion? Lmfao they called it that? x⸑x
If it wasn’t America I would guess it was to protect future generations of kids in war zones.
Indiana SB52.
It’s claimed to promote the local economy.
It actually just bans bus rapid transit in Indianapolis.
It’s claimed to have the support of the businesses and the people living in the area.
It actually has no support outside of Andy Mohr Auto Group.
I don’t think I can think of something stupider than banning busses in a city (if I’m reading this right)
Oh silly you. This bill is called free soda for all because it’s trying to free this dog that happens to be named soda.
And by “free,” they mean “free from its mortal coil.”
