Ahem. Phrasing.
I wonder whose gasoline they’re selling now. Mayhaps some strategically planned nationwide boycotts could (eventually) result in a situation where NOBODY wants to send their tankers.
I recall a church in my old city that had a classic “Jesus Saves” sign out front. They were not amused when a grocery store across the street posted a sign that said “Q-Mart Saves You More!”
Care to explain what the Hell you’re talking about?
It’s like word salad that’s been translated into Russian and then back again.
Translation: “liberal hive mind bad.”
Does it have to be ABOUT something?
Muh Russians!'11!11s
Sure. You are obviously very well educated and have a highly functioning brain. You also moderate an online forum and are most likely actively involved in discussions concerning the limits of allowable speech. To be ignorant of the status of the constitutionality of hate speech laws in the US stretches the bounds of credibility.
So, the posts questioning the existence of so-called hate speech laws in the USA combined with a bizarre perspective on concepts of self defense leads one to believe that you view things through a lens that support a predetermined conclusion regardless of consistency, precedence, or grade school facts.
Well, it would be a rare but refreshing change of pace.
This may come as surprise to you, but my high education is in the area of physics, not law. My understanding of the law is only that of a layman, and so it is not surprising that I am sometimes mistaken as to matters of fact concerning the law. As a moderator of an online forum, I do need to have a greater than casual knowledge of the rules of the forum, and those rules do in fact prohibit hate speech.
A layman’s understanding of the law, however, is quite sufficient to know that the principle of self defense allows someone who is attacked to defend themself, but does not allow an attacker to “defend” themself against the one they are attacking. Unfortunately, this basic level of understanding is increasingly rare lately, and so multiple recent high-profile court cases have denied both of those obvious points.
In southern Indiana, there’s been a porn shop right off of the highway for as long as I can remember. The local church groups have been trying unsuccessfully for decades to have it shut down.
Reading into the ordinances a little closer, they discovered that the shop wasn’t allowed to operate with x feet of a religious institution. So one of the local churches bought some land within that distance, and started erec…um…building a second campus of their church on that site.
Once it was completely finished, they then appealed to the local government to shut the shop down, citing the ordinance. The government, who had approved the campus being built, then told the church that, since the theater was built first, the request for the shop’s closing was denied.
The church was pissed, and said that they would never have built on that location had they known that they wouldn’t get the shop closed.
I can’t find the cite now, but I remember one of the government agencies that approved the construction commenting that that’s why they didn’t tell the church ahead of time. They wanted all that money spent in their county.
Just off of I-75 in Tennessee is a giant metal cross, right next to a porn shop.
A bondage play?
Go to your room.
I wonder if the porn shop gives directions based on it.
“Just look for the big cross, once you’ve passed it, turn right.”
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We have a lot of Canadians, Europeans, etc. on the board who I wouldn’t expect to have covered US middle school civics.
From what I’ve seen, at least half of Americans slept through Civics.
Once again, we see the typical right-wing challenge:
They cannot conceive of anyone who is different from themselves, or has different experiences, or who has a different thought. They tend to be self-centered egotistical. They are primarily all 'Id" with minimal super-ego. They are basically a set of uncoordinated instinctual desires.
Sure. But I was somehow under the impression that Chronos lived in the Midwest of the US. Perhaps I was wrong.