Re: Make It Make Sense

On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:20:03 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

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
 
     Misdemeanor charge + $2000 fine
 
     https://ibb.co/SD6RcDVp
 
     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.

 
   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.

Because traditionally when I say, "the Left has said", or "opponents have
said", I'm immediately met with demands of "Who exactly says that?"