Steal, evade, and ruin land worth billions of dollars - hey :( don't do that

Steal $20 - jail

You are a villager

It's like Russian roulette

Such as "who stands to gain"? I think the gov overall. A wider pool of applicants for all those jobs. But I also don't see a direct line of harm to normal folks who do or don't work for the government.

You too.

If you care to chat more - why do you feel it's inappropriate to have queer representation in school?

(I won't give a salty clap back even should I feel some kind of way about your response. Thanks for doing the same for me)

There's a park canvassing joke here but I'll spare both of us a re-hash, lol. Turns out if we motivate people to make a profit they will do anything to make a profit!

I assume you mean general content (including pride flags and other imagery) that reference queer and nonbinary people.

You could think of it this way: we already have implicit acceptance everywhere of straight cis students and staff, and that's not considered inappropriate. Straight and cisgender is the norm and the expectation of our society, and no additional signalling or visibility really needs to be present.

But queer and/or nonbinary people are not aligned with that societal expectation, we are suppressed by it. The late great Elite Wiesel's famous words come to mind: "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented". In this way, the so-called neutrality of the policy banning any expression of social politics oppresses queer people, because representation must be had for equality to thrive.

Additionally, consider this: do we really want children to be raised in an environment where they're never exposed to what people unlike them think? How can the answer to a fear of indoctrination be to hide them from anyone else's opinions, rather than showing them the breadth of the world and teaching them how to evaluate and make good decisions? I can guarantee you this, it's the fastest path to indoctrination to never be exposed to anything different. If parents are truly that concerned that their kid is going to get diverted into some sort of cult of thought or personality, they're welcome to home school their kids. Exposure to queer people is not harmful.

I can appreciate a desire to stop teachers and staff from inappropriately expressing their personal opinions, especially in front of the kids, and especially as employees of the government. But we already express the messaging that "straight = accepted" all over the place, all day every day. What messaging is present when we pair that with suppressing expressions that "queer = accepted" as well?

The land of for-profit everything!

Yeah it's called cop lmao

I'm aware

I've dropped a sky fairy or three in my life but you're absolutely right lol

Doesn't the article point out that the whole problem is that buying the parts to make your own is unregulated and near-untraceable

Engaging with thesaurus rants makes me giggle

Right? I told them three times I'm only saying that it is legal (most likely anyway), and not that I want it to be legal. Literal plugging ears and screaming lalalala

Well, you said a bunch of shit that I didn't say. I never said it's invalid to discuss the constitution for example, you just assumed I think that. So I'm not really feeling like your thesaurus rant deserves a real reply

How old are you

They brought up a ton of stuff I never said or implied that they're just assuming about me because I disagreed lol. Like "why is it invalid to try to convince others to work with me", the worshipping the constitution bit, implying that I even want people to do this canvassing in parks thing.

I didn't bother to do more than skim because it became obvious they didn't listen to what I said

Wow, that's a lotta words. Too bad I'm not reading em 😎😎😎😎😎

I agree

Well then vote for an amendment to the 1A. I don't know what else to tell you dude. What they're doing is legal today, and you haven't made any points to prove otherwise

And honestly it's telling that you're mad at me instead of doing something that would actually change anything. Rant at me all you want, I do not control the first amendment

I'm not speaking in support of their use of the park. I'm saying that it's protected by the first amendment, so far as I know. The government can't stop you from displaying most political speech, even if the speech sucks.

And I gotta say, this dystopian "human captcha checkpoint" thing seems pretty unlikely. I think a dystopia would probably start with the government censoring political speech, don't you?

Edit added "captcha"

Okay, fuck FIRE all the way, but in this instance I don't see that they're wrong. Political recruitment in a public space seems like a fine expression of speech. I don't want them to do it, but the constitution doesn't care about my opinions, y'know?

Edit - and if they're doing it by completely co-opting the space, harassing people, etc then that should be centered as the issue. Same as fire and brimstone preachers on public university campuses imo. They have a right to the speech and we have a right to tell them they're all jagoffs

100% down for a federal holiday.

Y'all Qaeda in action

Hope the owner cleans him out for everything he's worth. Stupid fucker. This is why gap toothed redneck morons shouldn't be allowed to have guns, ever

Is this a thing? I had two unrelated internet crazies try to tell me that being fat causes COVID (lol) so now I'm wondering if this is some alt right conspiracy theory