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I mean, honestly, this does not surprise me.

Regarding this school district and opening up what was supposed to be the first three weeks of virtual learning for everyone (since a judge mandated that no face-to-face learning could take place until, at the very least, after Labor Day due to the continued spread of COVID-19), I found out that in spite of the district having interested parents and guardians fill out multiple forms attesting to the need of a device or Internet hotspot… they did not order enough of either of these things, schools ran out at varying times on the first day on days that they had designated to give out schedules, supplies, and technology, and this effectively left students who were in need of technology in the lurch because they had no way to get online or do their work, especially if they were going to remain virtual students after Labor Day. So apparently the school had to inform parents and guardians that they would be extending a “grace period”, not holding students’ absences against them if they could not log online due to this, and not penalizing students’ grades for not being able to complete assignments due to this. Personally, it just blows my mind that this district had all summer to plan for this and this was exactly what happened. But I graduated from this district myself, so…

They had the whole summer to make this a clean, seamless transition, and they completely botched this.

Meanwhile, in my spare time I’ve begun to acclimate to our new PC controller, which I have in hand. Either this is less forgiving than I thought it would be, or Kickle Cubicle is less forgiving than I thought it would be. Knowing me, it’s probably a little bit of both. But this game is definitely not known for being an easy game.

Facebook never ceases to depress me now, does it?

So far, I have managed to get banned from Facebook twice for thirty days each time.

Ironically, both bans have come about as a result of disagreeing with conservative men.

The first ban came about because I would not bow down to an extremely religious “abortion abolitionist”, as he likes to call himself, whose stance on pro-life borders on the violent to the point that his local Planned Parenthood, to the best of my knowledge, is actively litigating against him because his manner of “protest” has made it so that clients are afraid to access their clinic and staff do not feel comfortable or safe entering the clinic, exiting the clinic, or performing their jobs… which is exactly what he wants, because then he feels that he is “turning people away” and “saving the pre-born” (and yes, that is exactly what he calls them). He thinks that screaming outside of “abortuaries”, which is another pet word of his, is all the activism that he has to do, rather than advocate for benefits and services to help pregnant women keep and raise their children. This has been brought up to him many times, and he literally ignores it whenever it is mentioned.

The second ban came about because I told someone who literally espoused Nazi ideology that I wanted him to take a 23andMe test and “see if he would come up 100% European”. I might have used the choice terminology that runs rampant in those circles — Aryan white supremacy, and a bit of swearing as I said this. Ironically, I was accused by Facebook of bullying and harassing him, but him literally stating that he didn’t care that Jews died, wanted Jews to die, would wear a face mask with a swastika on it if asked to cover his face during this pandemic and felt that Jews were “greedy bankers and lenders”… didn’t go against any of Facebook’s rules, and multiple people reported him for this. But all of the people that he reported caught varying bans on posting when he gamed the system. As I’ve mentioned in previous entries, it seems that conservative white men — and this one also openly admitted to being Christian — are so easily able to game Facebook that it isn’t even funny at this point. They can say whatever they want without repercussion.

Anyone who dares speak out against them is silenced, especially if they are female. That’s just a sad fact.

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