Re: Make It Make Sense

On 6/27/2025 5:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jun 27, 2025 at 10:59:15 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 6/26/2025 6:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Jun 26, 2025 at 2:22:51 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

  On 6/26/2025 3:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Jun 17, 2025 at 8:08:53 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
   

    https://ibb.co/RknV5xzr
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    Misdemeanor charge + $2000 fine
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    https://ibb.co/SD6RcDVp
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    Man in Rhode Island was arrested after he allegedly made a skid mark on a
    Pride Rainbow crosswalk with his car.
>
    The city allowing a "pride" crosswalk in the first place is a 1A
violation.
    If I asked for a permit to paint an anti-troon mural in the crosswalk
(or a
    pro-gun/2A message), I bet they wouldn't give me one. The government is
    allowing some political and social messages but not others based on their
   own politics.
>
    Where are the DOJ lawsuits against rainbow murals being painted on city
    streets (to the exclusion of all other non-'progressive' messages) and
then
    treated like religious icons?

        It's happened again.
    >
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1937932161073463297/vid/avc1/1080x1920/6o-22WzrJXx4UGjG.mp4
        Teenagers rip up some rainbow flags. Four are arrested and, according
to the
    Atlanta PD, a manhunt-- yes, you read that right-- is on for the other
two.
        My first question is, of course, arrested for what?
        Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989). The Supreme Court ruled that flag
    desecration is protected speech under the 1st Amendment: "It's both
symbolic
    speech and political speech."
        If it's legal to desecrate the U.S. flag, it's legal to desecrate the
flag of
    the Password People.
        "But wait," the apologists like FPP will say, "It's not legal to destroy
    something that doesn't belong to you. These kids took those flags off the
    streetlight poles! That's a crime!"
        While this may be true, it's a crime that's strangely only enforced
against
    people hostile to the 'progressive' Agenda:
        Anti-ICE protester pulls down a U.S. flag from a government pole and
burns it:
    no consequences.
        Teenager pulls down a gay Rainbow Mafia flag from a government pole and
rips
    it up: straight to prison.

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  Afaics, FPP is present only in your recall.

    No, I've got a digital archive of all my posts. My newsreader auto-copies
  every post I make into a text document on my computer. That necessarily
means
  I have a whole lot of FPP's claims saved as well, quoted in posts in which I
  responded to him.

>
But you're speaking as though he were here and speaking for himself.

 No, just pointing out arguments that have been used in the past to justify
prosecuting some flag-burners but not others.

Better, then, to quote rather than paraphrase or extrapolate ...though I'm not sure what you think invoking FPP at all adds to the discussion.