Re: Make It Make Sense

On 6/27/2025 6:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

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?"

Well, when you put it that way, I suppose FPP might be pleased to become a reference point of the sort usually reserved for Bernie, AOC, et al.