[The letter from the Tennessee Preparatory Christian School] goes on to read, “Morgan will not comment about the school or people associated with the school. If online slander continues, records of posts and messages will be forwarded to colleges and universities as part of a comprehensive student file. If the above are not adhered to, Morgan Armstrong’s diploma will be withheld and not mailed on June 15, 2025.”

Especially if they can’t give any other examples where use of vulgar and disrespectful language off campus and outside of school hours led to a student being expelled (which is what withholding a diploma is effectively)

Except it’s licensed by the state of Tennessee as an acceptable place to send your kids that won’t have them or you catching a truancy charge. Constitutional protections against government overreach apply to licensed agents of the state in a lot of other situations, not sure why this one should be different.

Censoring ourselves out of fear of what the government might do to us someday is no way to live tho

Fair enough, definitely not trying to say they aren’t going to try to intimidate her or minimize how fucked up they’re being, just saying I think/hope that will be a fight she’ll win in the long run

I feel like before it even got that far she could just go to whatever job or college she’s trying to apply to with a news story about her high school being stupid for proof of education and a few letters of recommendation for proof of character and just skip the diploma altogether

Good song about this

People who thought about moving to North America back in the 16-1700s were frequently told that living on the “uncivilized” frontier meant killing a lot of indigenous people and bandits but it was a great way to get rich if you survived, so we ended up with a lot of greedy and violent assholes

Fucking dumbasses having kids who grow up to be decent people and disown them has definitely been known to happen though

We? I mean, I don’t recall being consulted on this

People confuse being a dick to poor people with being “good for the economy”

True, but they were already there anyway

In related news, here’s who he’s in second place to at the moment,

“The ‘Democratic Party’s Own Donald Trump’ Is Getting Another Chance - As Andrew Cuomo emerges as the front-runner in New York City’s mayoral race, several women who accused him of sexual harassment just three years ago say they feel betrayed and forgotten” (arc)

It’s probably better than we could have reasonably hoped for with this court, but a 4/4 split that doesn’t create any nationwide precedent to enforce the super unambiguous “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” language in the first amendment is still pretty bad. We dodged a bullet but the gun is still loaded.

Because the Supreme Court divided evenly, its decision is not a binding precedent nationwide and sets the stage for the entire court to reconsider the issue in a future case, perhaps from another state.

Good that people are doing that, but I don’t think that excuses Sig. Like, if Nerf sold a gun that discharged accidentally they’d probably eat a product liability lawsuit over it, I don’t know why a firearms manufacturer should get a pass.

Oof, geeze, this article was my first exposure to this issue and I hadn’t considered this, but between a for profit business lying to avoid product liability lawsuits (which they probably wouldn’t face anyway because court decisions have made them basically immune) and police officers lying to avoid being held accountable for their actions (which they probably wouldn’t face anyway because etc.) I could believe either scenario. Honestly it’s probably both at the same time.

e; Sometimes I start a comment and forget where when I come back to it

Unlike you facebooks twitters telegrams and what have yous, Lemmy World bans users before they commit their terrorist acts

The poor FBI agents assigned to us have to be so bored

They’ve been winning it for a long time because multiple governments around the world have outlawed dissent in a lot of different ways. This event isn’t going to change anybody’s opinions on the underlying conflict it’s just going to make everyone dig in deeper.

There’s a huge difference between an article being mass downvoted by salty users who don’t want to face an unpleasant truth and an article being removed by salty moderators who won’t let their users even be passingly exposed to that truth. I’ve experienced that first one on .world but I haven’t ever had a problem with the second yet.