I think there needs to be a law banning offended snowflakes.

The most miserable people are those who only care about themselves, understand only their own troubles, and see only their own perspectives.....(I loved Maus)

Yes. I do too. People who censor this level of art should be nowhere near educational institutions.

And this on the 77th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Thank you, right wing shitheads, for sparking a renewed interest in Art Spiegelman's masterpiece. ^!^

It is wonderful when the Nazis lose once again!!!

Can't imagine why those fine people (as Trump called them) want to ban a book about the Holocaust, can you?

Hah! Yeah! What ever happened to: "All press is good press"!!

Well, those poor sensitive kiddies certainly can't be exposed to such language as "God damn" in relation to the Holocaust! Wouldn't want them getting the wrong idea or anything!

Yeah! Can you imagine? Just think, all ten members of this school board wanted to protect these children from learning about the Holocaust! All ten members!

I'm feeling rather happy that I don't know them.

They got butt hurt over a book that was more truthful than the gruel they use as educational material.

Absolutely!

Who needs books when we gots guns? https://wee1tactical.com/

Oh that's nice. Get 'em shootin' before they can read. Nice light guns for the under 10 crowd.

What I find particularly impressive is the way they're marketing this: "The BRAND is meant to be EDGY. We believe its exciting and will build brand recognition and loyalty!"(sic)

This is paired with their adowabwu matching lil' his 'n' hers suspiciously SS death head looking branding icons, complete with pacifier and gunsight eye socket. And this is topped off with the not-at-all-ominous black American flag.

Note also that it's shipped with a single round magazine, but five and ten round mags are available. And that it has a "Patented adult controlled" safety which can be disabled with a hex wrench. -Well, that's certainly foolproof! No kid will ever figure that one out!

It all certainly just screams "Amerikkka", alright... And so cute it's just to die for.

I wonder just how long it will be until some eager young kiddie uses one of these cute little death machines to gun down their brother or sister, or one of their schoolmates...?

It's very concerning. The actual business location is right next to O'Hare Airport in Chicago. This is not a rural company. Also, I don't live too far from this business! Everything is wrong with this, including using small children to model holding military style rifles made just for them.

I'm not even anti-gun per se, but I do have rather ambivalent and conflicting feelings about them. There are definitely too many on the street and in the wrong hands, or not cared for with sufficient safety.

A weapon like this and its marketing is problematic though, to say the least.

Incidentally, I was born and spent the first four and a half years of my life near Chicago.

I was born in the Air Force (in the mid-1950's), but spent the rest of my life in the Chicago suburbs. I'm not anti-gun, but am also not comfortable with the current promotion of them.

I see the problem as being at least partly the sheer quantity and ease of acquiring them. There are about nine guns for every ten Americans. That's a fuck of a lot of guns. Nowhere else even comes close. With that amount of guns in any population you just exponentially escalate the chances for misuse, since they're so likely to fall into the hands of idiots or people who mean ill. This thing is also a cheap piece of plastic crap with a barrel on it that looks like a toy. Seems to me that isn't really a good thing either.

Yeah, I was born in the illustrious town of Aurora, of Wayne and Garth fame, on the shores of the beautiful Fox river...

I grew up in the south suburbs in Stickney Township. A very conservative area.
There are way too many guns here. Apparently, we want to be cowboys and cowgirls, or Rambo.

Yeah, it's the American disease. -Or at least one of them.

In my opinion one of the main problems with guns is the romanticization of them. Everyone seems to imagine themselves needing a gun to "Defend" themselves without thinking through the cold reality that that gun is actually statistically more likely to kill them or someone in their family by suicide, in a heated moment, or by accident, or be stolen to be used for criminal purposes. Or, if in the extreme unlikelyhood that they are ever in a situation where they use it to defend themselves and end up shooting or killing someone, they never consider the emotional and real-life effects that could have on them or the person that they shoot or the families and friends around them.

Just imagine what it would do to you to have to live with the memory burned into your brain by seeing the physical trauma caused by what a bullet does to human flesh and knowing that you had caused that to happen to someone. Not terribly romantic, and something likely to prey on you for the rest of your life, and reverberate through the families and friends of those involved. Probably an outcome that would rarely be worth the immediate result. And the more guns are out there, the more this stupid cowboy shit is likely to happen.

You write very well. I completely agree. Too many people like the "good man with a gun" concept that probably is derived from Hollywood. The movies and the television are best at promoting a simple narrative. Ronald Reagan understood this. All he had to say in the presidential debate was "there you go again" and Jimmy Carter was toast. Reagan knew America best. You've got to keep it simple.

Reagan was indeed a master of dumbing things down and the dogwhistle.

As they say, you'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

I still think that Reagan's win was the turning point for this reality. He did it will such ease.

And those winger morons will substitute Maus for "Mein Kampf" *kidding* or will it become reality in the not-too-distant future? 🤔

They aren't even being subtle. There seems to be a lot of anti-semetism in the Republican Party. Very dangerous ideology.

Ah in the old days of yesteryear it was dog whistle noise. Now they are so emboldened that they are practically yelling their sentiments at the top of their lungs.

For many, nothing was learned from the Civil War or World War II.