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Republican wants to slash penalties for cockfighting — and bring in robot opponents (www.rawstory.com)
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Bills introduced by Oklahoma lawmakers seek to make changes to the state’s cockfighting laws by reducing the penalties for participating or allowing robotic participation in the fights.

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[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Republicans, always working on the things that really matter.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Making the... Umm.. eggs cheaper?

[–] zib@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They misunderstood the assignment.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They ignored the assignment and are instead seeking out all of the progress we've made the last 70 years and are trying to return things to 1950. Other than inflation and cost of goods, naturally.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

I really thought this was The Onion for like a good minute. 🤨

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God damn. What a wild thing to read first thing.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m all for underground robot wars.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Just leave the roosters out

[–] qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

How does https://www.robotevents.com/ feel about this? LoL, chickens against robots, it's just goofy. Just another distraction from the 'party of seriousness'. From my perspective another wonderful opportunity to ridicule these silly goofs.