• Flying Squid
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    1102 years ago

    Republicans championing free speech once again by banning pieces of paper.

    • [email protected]
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      572 years ago

      but allowing hand guns…

      On Monday, the Tennessee House voted on allowing the pieces of paper along partisan lines. Democrats argued they were harmless, and questioned if guns could be brought into Cordell Hull, why couldn’t the signage.

      • Flying Squid
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        472 years ago

        Of course. You never know when a bad guy with a piece of paper might threaten everyone.

        • [email protected]
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          142 years ago

          All you need for a bad-guy with a piece of paper, is a good guy with a piece of paper.
          Wait, that’s wrong…
          All you need for a bad-guy with a piece of paper, is a good guy with a gun.

        • @[email protected]
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          2 years ago

          ~~You need a hero with a piece of paper to save everyone. ~~

          Whoops. @ negativenull beat me to it and the app I’m on doesn’t appear to have strikethrough. Apologies.

          • KairuByte
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            Strikethrough is just surrounding your text with ~~ on either side, touching non-whitespace characters.

            ~~Like this.~~ looks Like this.

              • KairuByte
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                You almost got it, gotta remove the space between that last period and the following tilde. Whitespace kills markdown in most cases.

        • @Eldritch
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          32 years ago

          Nah. You just need a guy with scissors when there’s a bad guy with paper. Rocks OTOH, ban that shit.

      • Billiam
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        122 years ago

        Simple. Stuff the paper inside the guns.

      • golamas1999
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        92 years ago

        What would happen if they had the paper but also had guns. Or black people with guns? Or socialists with guns?

        How would their opinions change?

        • @ShakyPerception
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          12 years ago

          They would have been shot on sight by the brave troopers (who actually showed up and took action this time, which is a nice change) who escorted everyone out the door.

      • @TheJims
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        32 years ago

        The truth is way more dangerous to Republicans.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      Well that makes sense most Republicans there probably can’t read and the signs make them uncomfortable because they can’t shout over the signs.

      • @ShakyPerception
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        42 years ago

        And it’s there forever. No matter what they say or do… that paper is still there with the same message

    • @ShakyPerception
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      102 years ago

      Paper is scary. Plus, there’s a really good chance they don’t know what the “ > “ symbol means, so they are freaking out that it might be “woke”

  • @dhork
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    172 years ago

    Paper is dangerous, it covers rock and disproves Spock

  • @pozbo
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    92 years ago

    Now that’s a great way to cement your ideas as a total fucking joke. Be so triggered by a sign that you throw away people’s rights. Great job.

    Anyone care to hazard a guess at party affiliation? I’ll give you a hint: it’s Really obvious.