• Flying Squid
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    1101 year ago

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

    • NegativeNull@lemm.ee
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      571 year 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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        471 year ago

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

        • NegativeNull@lemm.ee
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          141 year 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.

        • @some_guy
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          1 year 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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                1 year ago

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

      • golamas1999
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        91 year 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?

        • 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.

    • @argo_yamato@lemm.ee
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      121 year 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@lemmy.world
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      101 year 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”

  • dtc
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    91 year 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.