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The whole Dr Suess thing is just another idiotic flex of epic stupidity.

There are literally like 5-25 million copies of those books flooded around the world and the only people who it's actually going to affect is the value spike for people who own the books off of the incorrect assumption that they aren't going to be around and the actual publishers who publish his other books. I'm sure that ordeal garnered some votes.

Regardless of partisan politics and ideology, I hope we can all agree Dr. Seuss books should be banned because they suck, especially for an adult reading to a toddler. Do you guys realize how tedious it is to repeat the same nonsense gibberish over and over and over?

Give me Pete the Cat, Llama Llama and Giraffes Cant Dance any day over Dr. Seuss. And if you really want to go retro, I'll take Goodnight Moon, Harry the Dirty Dog and The Hungry Caterpillar over Green Eggs and Ham or Cat in the Hat.

I think it's even more notable that the left-wing people who with the radical opinions and actions are very often not even Democrats (even Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat). The ones who are Democrats are at best back-benchers in the House. While the right-wing people who take radical actions are people like the Republican President, Speaker Of The House, Senate Majority Leader and Supreme Court "Justices" appointed by Republican Presidents.

I would consider it a ban if teachers would like to use a book in their classroom but are prohibited by law, especially if it is a book that was previously used in many classrooms.

Also, removing a book from a public library (and I assume destroying it) is awfully close to a ban. IMO that's different than just choosing not to buy a book for a library.

I've read Pete The Cat (to my young nephews). It was also tediously repetitive, and not nearly as entertaining (to me) as most Dr. Seuss books.

Yeah, it looks like the enterprise decided that they wanted to stop publishing those books. Whether how much of that was done out of the kindness of their hearts or to reignite demand and attention will be a mystery.

Anyways, while you guys sperg out about Dr. Seuss books Trump has forced the removal of his name from the smithsonian impeachment wall, is banning legacy media for reporting facts, firing people for reporting facts, demanding corporations and educational institutions bend the knee or get targeted, is withholding funding for anyone not stepping in line with the administrations messaging, and more.

I'm sure you guys care about that a lot more than if a middle schooler can read the n word, right? No? Are yall just complaining about nonsense?

Someone didn't "see" anything. Someone fell for anti immigration propaganda

Thats why we are in this mess, because "someone" is malleable and misinformed and instead of having curiosity they have opinions and feelings that are wrong but they don't give a ****

There is nothing there to misunderstand. Its incredibly straight forward, and I don't care about these people one bit.

I'm not the guy that has to worry about accepting morons back into the fold with open arms. I'm the guy whos "Trump 2.0 Bingo Card" is nearly full because I saw this all coming a mile away from a year and half ago. Only its actually worse than I could have ever imagined

I don't disagree with what you wrote here, but....

Nothing we discuss in this forum is likely to ever have a measurable impact on anything important happening in the world.

I can't speak for anyone else ofc, but I myself am here mostly to be entertained and to be entertaining. And discussing Dr. Seuss (for me) is more entertaining than the Israel/Palestine thread which is heartbreaking stuff that discussing and ranting about isn't going to change anything anyway.

Oh **** off with this. “tHe InTeRnEt iSnT rEaL lIfE” has always been an idiotic justification.

Huh?????

What in Sam Hill are you babbling about?

I think it was referring to the fact that this forum is very small

Right, geezer’s saying it’s a small forum and it won’t have any impact in the larger world. Therefore, he’s allowed to selfishly dismiss things he doesn’t want to acknowledge. This is the exact same energy of people who act like idiots online because, “it’s not real life.”

Literally one level of comprehension gets you to the point. No need for five question marks, lol.

This ^^^^^ is a first class troll. Well done.

There's nothing useful about endlessly repeating how bad Trump is and insulting anyone who disagrees or has an unconventional take. When I argued that he wasn't as stupid as people think and that there are certainly some smart people behind him, I was met with he's-a-total-moron dogma and suggesting otherwise made me an apologist and a total moron. I thought it would be interesting to examine his M.O. on social media, but the consensus is that he's just a total moron and "nothing to see here." Leaving aside the fact that an aspect of my recent posts was an attempt to suggest why he was elected, I'll be sure to do nothing but dunk on him all the time since it's a much better way to win over the hearts and minds of those on the fence, more constructive than attempting to understand him and the only thing worth talking about.

There is nothing useful about attacking "libs" for "banning books" while the actual President of the United States is taking active steps to erode actual free speech

You could at least casually mention that Trump is doing actual political things that are bad for free speech. That might help people understand where you lie in all this, instead of just railing on the libs.

Mostly a good list. I have literal thousands of children's books I hope my own kids will utilize with theirs, and would take even the worst Dr. Seuss book over Goodnight Moon any day of the week.

It's obviously been a long time since I sat down and read any of them, but my immediate reaction when thinking about these examples is that Seuss is imaginative whimsy and Goodnight Moon will just put both of us to sleep out of boredom.

The goal was never to have the kid fall asleep WHILE reading. Reading should be somewhat stimulating or they won't want to do it on their own, and Lord knows we need more children to read books.

Dr. Seuss books are all pretty great, as long as your kid doesn't decide one is their favorite and you have to read it every day on top of the variety choice. One of my kids went through a Green Eggs and Ham phase and that was indeed rough. I no longer like it, Sam-I-am.

Trump ratings are in the tank. People notice what he's been doing.

We seem to be in this period where most everyone knows what a disaster Trump is, but they're so desensitized to it that they can't get too angry at the small things like Trump deleting parts of the constitution on a website, or using his Presidential Sharpie to scribble his name off the impeachment wall.

Do you think for even one second that the Smithsonian won't put it right back up the second he's out of office in 2033?

Trump is a giant baby, is being treated as such, and everyone should be directing their hatred toward the other government officials who are enabling him.

We're on year 10 of people railing against Trump himself. It hasn't worked. Time to switch up the tactics a bit.

I'm not a politician and I'm not employing tactics. I genuinely despise Trump and pretty much everything he stands for and I almost equally despise people who voted for Trump because he "makes me laugh and Kamala had an annoying laugh"

You are right, 10 years in, those types of people aren't going to change. I also don't expect their brain power to magically double so they can understand how harmful their ******ation has been

So I'll just continue to call out nonsense and hypocrisy and liberally insult morons

The actual president of the USA (and the VP) are going to trade war with the EU and Brazil because the EU and Brazil (and UK) did erode actual free speech. That's the most pro free speech action since forever in my memory by an american president.

I am not sure which stuff you are referring to about Trump eroding free speech. He is trying to get private companies to censor private actors? where?

Trump ratings are in the tank because inflation (the actual massive increase in prices that happened under Biden, not the "rate of inflation") hasn't been fixed at all (they wanted prices BACK TO 2022 levels to be clear, that was the campaign promise more or less) and the economy isn't getting better

It really doesn't.