• JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s a hoax/transphobic rumor, allegedly from various unsubstantiated reports of schools keeping cat litter or litter boxes. The only case of this actually happening is keeping cat litter on hand to clean up large spills as an absorbant (specifically, it’d be used for cleaning up hazardous spills, like a chemical or blood.)

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      What the actual fuck? How twisted one’s mind must have be if after seeing cat litter in school the first thought was not “there must be a cat in this school”?

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      To clarify further, cat litter is used to clean up vomit, urine, and blood. It can also be used as a form of traction for cars in cold weather.

      Almost all janitors everywhere in the world will have cat litter on hand.

      It’s inexpensive, comes in bulk, can be found at every store, and is extremely useful.

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        Also good if you run out of toilet paper.

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              I really hope this is a /s moment.

              Cats urinate on it and it is quickly absorbed for easy cleanup, and then poop on top of it so that they can then bury it and the litter can absorb the smell.

              Using that for toilet paper would be like using sand or fine gravel.

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                Yes lol, I was suggesting that if you ran out of tp, you could go on the litter. I do not put cat litter up my bottom. 🤣

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                  But that implies that you are pooping on the tp? How would going on litter solve the problem that tp is meant to solve? Did you mean to say that you should use the litter if you don’t have a toilet?

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      There was a school in Colorado who was keeping cat litter in supply, but it turns out it was for students to use during extended school shooter lockdowns.

      https://nowthisnews.com/news/cat-litter-school-bathroom-conspiracy-theory

      Per NBC News, “[t]he district — where Columbine High School is located — has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of ‘go buckets’ that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting.”

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    We manufacture a little consent

    Anyways xenogenders are poggers as fuck, may the future graves of anyone involved in the right wing press get pissed on by their grandkids

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      I want the social order completely upended so I can someday live without a bunch of wannabe cops breathing down my neck waiting for me to fuck up 24/7, and they’re on the bleeding edge of that shit. Much respect.

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    Stupid on the face of it. What’s next, gang initiation chain letter comebacks? (Wait, don’t answer that. It’d probably end up happening at scale.)

    Like, best case scenario you’re gonna end up further entrenching a culture of conformity where anyone even slightly off-beat is regarded as free to wail on. Internet roleplayers today, anyone who’s a little too quiet, listens to the wrong music, or reads the wrong books tomorrow. Worst case scenario? Well, look at that state official from Arkansas who thought mandating the use of county animal control resources to resolve school-level disputes was a dandy idea.

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      entrenching a culture of conformity where anyone even slightly off-beat is regarded as free to wail on

      Try saying something against the accepted narrative in a mainstream place like reddit and tell me it isn’t here already

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        Yeah, perhaps “further entrenching” would be more appropriate. Untangling this stuff gets to be a one step forward two steps back sort of affair seeing how stiff the competition is.

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      end up further entrenching a culture of conformity where anyone even slightly off-beat is regarded as free to wail on.

      This is literally what conservatives want. They want absolute conformity to their narrow and vile worldview because it is incapable of handling any difference of opinion.

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    Either fearmongering, or (never discount this possibility) Americans just being weird.

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    American moms have plenty worse to be worried about for their children.

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      I can excuse school shooting but I draw the line at identifying as cat

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    Either this is lying or just the destruction of the concept of gender. Destruction of gender itself might contribute to the liberation from the burdens of manhood and womanhood and let people just be people. We’ll see how this pans out.

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      I bet it was just a kid playing pretend (like kids have done since forever) and some chud using it as an opportunity to complain about “the woke left mob frothingfash

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    Not to be a weirdo, but I’ve seen a couple of therians around

    Doesn’t mean they’re pooping in the litter box, just running around on all fours and wearing a mask and stuff

  • It’s basically the “chronically online effect” but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I’m old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for “deviant” sexual acts with children. I call it the “colonizer effect” where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by “blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc” and if there isn’t anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.

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    This is because suburban Americans don’t have real problems so they invent them. Imagine this is your problem vs predicting where the next jdam will fall or if you get in line for some flour, will you get mowed down by a zionist pos that wants to know what’s it like to take a life before he returns to NY.

    Edit: I am guessing the suburban part. Idk and idc

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    Currently following a queer mom on TikTok who is convinced that therian accounts are being artificially boosted among kids right now as a right wing op to conflate transgender kids with therian kids to make both less palatable to the general public and manufacture a moral panic.

    The only unusual evidence she has so far is that she’s already gained several hundred followers on a fresh account just by lurking on therian stuff. It doesn’t prove any of the stuff she’s saying but it does suggest there’s some follow circles and botting happening.

    I dunno it’s just fun to watch people go down a rabbit hole sometimes even if it’s really out there. I actually have a kid who says they’re a therian and am just kinda going with it. Getting them a mask to decorate and stuff. Apparently they’re not the only one in their class. It does seem to be on the rise regardless of it being natural growth or not.

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    My identity is nyan of your business