I picked nuanced. I do think the campaign is a useless waste of tax money, rather like building a wall in the Arizona desert, but I don’t have advice on how they could handle it better.
This, except in my case the parties in question would be the Republicans and Fox. The anti-immigration movement is massively dominated by thinly veiled racism. Very thinly veiled. Such a billboard might as well say “brown people are subhuman and should be persecuted”, because that’s how it’ll be meant, and that’s how it’ll be interpreted. Very few people really care about immigration, they care about skin color, and will use anti-immigration laws as an excuse to persecute people of the wrong skin color regardless of their citizenship.
Never mind. Not going to derail the conversation.
That’s another thing I liked about living in Hawaii: By law, there are no billboards.
Are the billboards breaking any laws? If not, go nuts - free speech and all that.
Close. An Oxford comma goes BEFORE the “and” in a list of 3 or more. Ex: “Short, pale, and ugly.”
This for me as well. The billboards are pointless. If a private citizen/company wants to waste their money on pointless advertising, I’ll put up with just about any message they want to share. But the government has a responsibility to use tax revenue in a meaningful way.
Not even ones that say “No Billboards - It’s the Law”?
I am offended that the State of Hawaii would tell people what they can say on their own private property
Shit, those billboards are in my area. I haven’t seen any yet, but I guess it’s only a matter of time :(.
The whole point of a billboard, however, is for it to be seen by people who aren’t on your property. So the billboard owner is projecting his sign in to other people’s property - and those property owners have a right to object to that.
This. I’m not very familiar with British politics, but this at least seems obvious to me. Like** Der Trihs**, I only need to change the political parties’ names to get it.
Even mobile billboards (basically on the back of a flatbed truck) like these? They’re used by just hiring someone to drive around with it.
That I don’t know. I’ve never seen such a thing, in Hawaii or elsewhere. I thought we were talking about billboard billboards, but I see now. It would not surprise me if Hawaii did outlaw them though.
HEY. I like Oxford commas!
That having been said, I don’t really like these billboards.
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Being from the UK and knowing that a lot of illegal immigrants here have realized that this country isn’t exactly the promised land and actually want to return home, but can’t due to the way they have got here I’d say that the billboards aren’t as bad as some may think.
Thanks; this is helpful to know.
It still doesn’t excuse the comma, though.
You’re lucky then; the majority of Mexican illegal aliens around here speak no English, or very, very little.
I suspect the only reason they’re fluent in Philadelphia is the lack of an existing Spanish-speaking community, and as a result they’re forced to pony up and learn English.
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… actually want to return home, but can’t due to the way they have got here I’d say that the billboards aren’t as bad as some may think.
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But they aren’t phrased that way. They don’t say “Here illegally? Get amnesty and help returning to your homeland from the nice party”. It is literally saying “GO HOME or we’ll throw you in prison!” With bonus bad punctuation.
As others have said, it is really aimed at voters who might vote UKIP rather than Tory because the current Tories haven’t been nasty enough (particularly regarding gay marriage and foreign aid). If it was genuine it’d be written politely in Polish and Somali (or whatever, I don’t know where the illegal immigrants come from, but then the government don’t seem to either).