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SolipSchism, that avatar is very disturbing.

God damn, how are cartoons so heavily into grossout and creepout humor?

The second one is an insane jabbering of a minor character from the Futurama TV movie "Bender's Game".

The first one is from Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt's most famous short.

edited 1st Dec '15 7:23:58 PM by TParadox

TV Tropes is acting wonky again. It's taking an unusually long time to load things. :S

Wow, a local gun shop/tea party hangout is putting up signs around the area saying shit like "Syrian Refugees? Good thing varmint season is year round. Ammo sale this week!"

...Jesus Christ that can't be legal. That can't be legal, right? There's no way in hell that's legal.

During the 2008 election they put out car stickers with Obama caricatures and the label "Coon Hunters Association".

It's all legal.

The First Amendment protects everything, no matter how disagreeable or disgusting people find it.

It's meant to support legitimate protests, but people like these use the same laws to benefit themselves because they think they ARE legitimate.

Legally, the US can't suppress hate speech without suppressing good protests, too. The Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence tendency of human beings means that, unfortunately, a lot of people can't tell the difference. Let the yin in, and the yang follows. But block the yang, and the yin suffers too.

edited 2nd Dec '15 5:31:40 AM by BaffleBlend

Of course, nothing will help you if your customers leave you after you start saying crap like that. The again, I'm pretty sure that majority of the people who classify as 'Regulars at the Gun Store' won't mind that sort of messaging.

Yeah. Even as someone who opposes gun control, the way people act about it really makes me understand why people want it.

This is the most beautifully titled study I've ever seen.

I thought freedom of speech was created to promote the peaceful coexistence of different ideas, not to be as rude as possible.

You underestimate the power of people in general.

Again: if you let the Yin in, the Yang will follow. If you block the Yang, the Yin will be blocked, too.

Unfortunately, that's just how things work.

Meanwhile in another town, somewhere else on earth:

Man, I can't believe how I keep forgetting about my drawing!

Hey, just get rid of the Freedom of Speech. Even if it's a matter of opinion, like how the majority of one highschool wore shirts to protest against a gay teenage couple in the school, people would just find some way to make it look silly.

Hell, get rid of the government. Don't need none 'a that. While we're at it let's just disband the internet, people like acting stupid there for some reason. Maybe even get rid of the sun entirely as well, that stuff gives cancer yo.

-backs away slowly-

Y'alright, SM?

Just realised I left one of my college's guitars in drop-A actually, no, I left it in DADGAD.

I wonder how the next person to use it would react.

edited 2nd Dec '15 9:53:11 AM by MrLavisherMoot

Right now my only problem is that I haven't used a bathroom in a day and it's starting to hurt.

Other than that totally fine.

The thing is, things like that don't seem like they do fall under freedom of speech. Like, as soon as you're literally advocating shooting people, does it not become hate speech and threat of violence? ...Are hate speech and threat of violence actually covered by freedom of speech and I'm wrong about this?

Like, I'm not against the idea of freedom of speech but maybe we need a gorram rewrite. We need some freaking clauses here.

Hate speech is illegal and there is a test for determining whether it's protected or not.

"The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a state to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force, or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."

I mean, we have hate speech laws over here (as do other European countries too), and we have a fair and free press. It's not like it'll erode democracy or sommat, because I'm fairly certain that whatever hate speech laws we have still allow the Daily Mail and the German Bild papers to operate with their futile disgust.

It is a crime to incite violence against or intimidate - either verbally, or through written words - a protected group.

edited 2nd Dec '15 11:14:23 AM by Inhopelessguy

I have used a bathroom now, in case you're concerned.

Anyways, you can probably say "I don't like black people" and get away from it legally. Seems a little flawed if you sound a little angrier and get arrested for it.

Then again I'm in highschool and I really can't/don't feel like understanding it, so whatever.

It's not a crime to say you don't like <group here>, you just can't provoke anything against them.

It's the difference between saying you don't like eating meat and threatening to destroy a Butcher's.

What this person said.

It's okay to not like things, just don't be a dick about.