Meanwhile in r/politics - comments that do not include "Greg Abbott is a little piss baby," get deleted.
Until further notice, all comments posted to this subreddit must contain the phrase "Greg Abbott is a little piss baby" There is a reason we're doing this, the state of Texas has passed H.B. 20, Full text here, which is a ridiculous attempt to control social media...
I mean their Plan A is voting for Beto O'Rourke so imagine what plans B through infinity are.
News from the future
It's February, 2025. In the aftermath of the 2024 elections GOP gets total control of the federal government. Plus they have total control of the majority of the states. The GOP has rebranded itself and the country. US has officially become the First American Reich. and the GOP as become FAR. They want to finish the job and do away with annoyances such as voting.
President Ghoul and the GOP want to get the Finish FAR bills passed in the president's first 100 days. 38 states are required to change the constitution and the process should take years. That's not a problem because the GOP justices have effectively okayed an "expedited" and "simplified" constitutional convention. It's "constitutional" because Clarence Thomas claims that a grammatical error exists in a particular draft of the constitution that is unfortunately unavailable to the public and the media. Translating from Originalism into layman's terms - a quickie vote can happen if majority of the states have "pre-voted" to have a convention. FAR has a majority of the states so pre-voting has already occurred.
The democrats response to say... "This is not who we are!... History will judge FAR harshly!... Hypocrites!... Look how many bibles and flags are behind Pelosi and Schumer at this photo op! Let's double the yearly police budgets from $120 billion to $240!... Let's double the military budget so it's at at least ~$1.5 trillion!... We love America more than anybody!..."
FAR says "We need your votes. We'll double the police budges. We'll double - hell - triple the military budgets."
"We just want to check. You definitely will allow some people to vote for us, right?"
"Of course. FAR will allow elections to continue. We swear. We even pinky promise."
The next week the votes are held. Budgets are voted on the same day. Minutes after the last vote - the democrat party has been classified as a terrorist group due to a secret GOP justice shadow ruling wherein the GOP justices secretly already created a process for secret shadow rulings.
The dems make passionate pleas - "This is not who we are!..." - as they are lead to the work camps which are effectively death camps. If you listen to the wind blow just the right way - you might be able to hear the word "Hypocrites!"
2025 democrats get so fed up with hypocrisy they threaten to unleash their mightiest weapon: A sequel to Hamilton.
Sometimes I feel like a recovered alcoholic peaking in on a guy slamming back a fifth of vodka while insisting the drinks make him better at his job.
Man I feel so much safer at night knowing these guys are fighting back the creeping fascism.
Greg Abbott is a little piss baby, Putin is gay, Winnie the Xi
Why yes I am a gentle kind redditsir political activist, thanks for the gold kind narwhal
Do they have nargold? I think I'm kidding. But I might not be.
Fascists get all the power.
Libs get to make fun of them.
Wow. It's hard to know who's winning.
Also - libs love "history will judge them harshly."
Trump's ghost is going to be really embarrassed!
God it's really annoyed me that libs were apoplectic over the Brandon thing (which was a legitimately hilarious event when it happened and now they've finally gone ahead and ruined that too) but have an endless supply of utterly braindead nicknames for Trump that they still use and none of them see this as hypocritical or equally stupid.
calling him brandon can be funny
saying let's go brandon instead of fuck joe biden is cringe
Oh absolutely. As is the "FJB/LGB" abbreviation. The original event at the NASCAR race was funny though.
Honestly this is a huge step in the right direction from "civility must be observed at all costs even when concerning fascists" so I'll take it
Is it though? It’s just another form of postingbrain. Thinking that civility in posts matters is equally stupid to thinking that rudeness in posts matters
I cannot emphasize this enough, posting does not matter
If they can get Pelosi to say "piss baby" she might keep going and even say the word "fuck," and save our democracy!
They got media coverage - A subreddit post is trolling Texas' controversial content-moderation law by requiring every comment to include Gov. 'Greg Abbott is a little piss baby'
Rhetorical question: Does everything in the US have to be this dumb?[Edit: As you can see - I made that the title.]
Me: Doggedly insisting that posting is not, in fact, a form of political activism
Reddit: taking a big sniff from one of its stinkiest farts oh contraire mon frère