• ThePowerOfGeek
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    Damn. If only the Constitution has been transposed into non-cursive format at least once over the last 250 or so years! /s

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    1 year ago

    I am continuously amazed what the right wing propaganda machine convinces people to get upset about.

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      BREAKING NEWS!!! DEMOCRATS CONTAMINATE WATER SUPPLY WITH FLUORIDE!!!

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        1 year ago

        URGENT! Democrats conspire to plant trees to emit POISONOUS oxygen into atmosphere.

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      Eh, even they described as a literal “conspiracy theory”, so (without having seen the footage) it was probably more of a light-hearted quip.

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    Dude, I learned to read and write in cursive like every other 90s kid. I still can’t read much of the original text of the constitution. Have you see that chicken scratch?

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      It’s very readable, definitely not chicken scratch. Unless I missed an implied “/s”?

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        If you look up a really high res scan, it is much better. Most pictures/scans I’ve ever seen though are completely unreadable because of how crazy italicized it is. It’s on like a 60 degree lean. It just looks like scribbles if the image is not super high res.

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      Well, they can read the bit about the “right to bear arms”, but the part involving a “well regulated militia” makes them confused and angry.

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        The irony is that the right to bear arms is a literal amendment to the constitution which the founding fathers did intentionally to set a precedent for future leaders to change and update the constitution. Conservatives who act like strict constitutionalists just completely miss the point of the bill of rights and their favorite amendment to have guns

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    Remind me: which party fights against funding public education, thereby forcing school administrators to make difficult choices about what to cut?

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    Pulling the same old crap like they do with the bible?

    They’re taking religion out of schools so kids don’t read the bible!1!1!

    When the problem is that Fox watchers haven’t bothered to read either of the writings themselves and believe whatever someone tells them the documents mean. They don’t actually want anyone to read these things.

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    I have to read cursive every day for work.

    But that’s because I’m the only person I know who writes in cursive.

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    Trump could tear up the Constitution live on Fox News and they’d point at Democrats and ask why they hate America

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    True, you can only truly understand it in its original cursive, read while walking around colonial williamsburg

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    lmao, why would they care if that was accurate??