whos gonna be the first person to have their kids taken away for political tweeting
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generally seems like: things like free speech are sort of protected in the us but cps is a backdoor with incredible latitude kids are a lever for government control I expect this will only become more true over time and it will be ugly as hell
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eigenrobot Retweeted Alec MacGillis
if they can make a truancy charge stick because your seven year old is not showing up to zoom calls i think they can do just about anything the woke shit is tiresome but /this/ is legitimately terrifying to mehttps://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1295056026048356352?s=19 …
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Alec MacGillisVerified account @AlecMacGillisWhere we are at with remote learning: well-off families planning pods, low-income families having child-neglect cases opened against them for kids' failure to log on for virtual classes. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/your-childs-no-show-virtual-school-you-may-get-call-states-foster-care-agency/ … pic.twitter.com/lbHTEZflmmShow this thread3 replies 15 retweets 133 likesShow this thread -
maybe thinking that a state thats not built around families must be fundamentally opposed to them stronger ties than law can dictate, unregulated, highly variegated v inconvenient a smart state would facilitate families as a source of strength most states are not smart
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idea: suppose states tend to be totalizing by nature then you might expect their chiefest enemies to be religion, families, and firms or guilds: the greatest historical bastions of nonpolitical power
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>power >nonpolitical does not compute. even the family has internal and external politics. did you mean non-state/non-government power?
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cognition has been drifting in weird directions during long weed withdrawal let me tell you
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