Yeah, this sure sounds like the “free market” correcting itself as these people love to prattle on about.

Seriously, “I don’t like this thing, so fuck anyone who does!” Why can’t we just be chill with people liking whatever makes them happy (within reason obviously) rather than actively rooting against it?

Not to mention the Texas Rangers don’t have jurisdiction anywhere outside of Texas. They’d be essentially coming in and acting as vigilantes. No other states should be ok with that kind of usurping of power on their soil or it’s a really fucking slippery slope.

Ok but surely they know the difference between price go up and price go down? It’s astounding people will probably believe this.

Yeah, but also for most things requiring proof of citizenship in the US, people generally use their birth certificate or a document, like a passport or real ID, that was originally obtained with a birth certificate. If birthright citizenship is no longer a thing, how would you even provide documentation for your parents’ citizenship if they aren’t naturalized citizens? Can’t rely on their birth certificates because that no longer matters and now I have to prove my grandparents were/are citizens to prove my parents are citizens and on and on. It doesn’t even make sense.

Other people are saying it’s Vital Proteins, apparently.

Yes, that’s exactly what I expected, too. What actually happened is truly baffling on multiple levels. Why???

It’s such a a ridiculously niche joke and it’s soooo good.

Don’t worry, surely any of those negative repercussions will be neatly contained within their city limits.

44% is wild.

Eeeeh. I can’t be the only one who won’t touch something described as “pro-America” with a ten foot pole.

It’s definitely just me, but I think every event like this is just for consumers that don’t know any better.

You’re against performing arts/live shows and think people who enjoy them are suckers? That truly is a wild take.

Yup, that’s immediately where my mind went.

ASL is not English, though. It has its own grammar structure and words (obviously) so it is functionally a different language than written English. People who speak ASL as a first language are essentially learning a second language with written English, one that is based on spoken language they can’t hear. As a result, many in the Deaf community struggle to read and write. Add to that the stress of it being an emergency and having to process the text in real-time before it disappears? I just don’t see captions being the answer for this already vulnerable community, especially in life-or-death situations.

So fucking tired of these clowns.

I mean, the fact that those people would then have to live there kind of insulates the politicians from those consequences. It’s not so simple to move your entire life, but to do so in order to live somewhere you don’t actually want to, so you can be one small drop in the bucket toward maybe voting one of these jerks out 2 years from now? Ridiculous, quite frankly, and not something enough people would ever be willing to do (rightfully so) to turn the tides.

Yeah, and she was a full-fledged adult in her 30s onward to these things, not like a 4-year-old who wasn’t aware of what was going on around them.

Lawyers will also do free consults, so it’s worth it to at least call around to a couple of places and see how much it will cost. My partner had to do this once and one of the lawyers ended up giving us pro bono legal advice and making a call to the police just because he thought the whole situation was stupid. He was like, “I’ll call them and figure out what their plan is and then we can figure out if you even need to hire a lawyer.” (His advice after talking to the cops was that we probably didn’t need to hire him, but that there were a couple of things he could do if we still wanted to.) So that was a nice and unexpected resolution that wouldn’t have happened had we not tried to hire someone.

A lot of these people are so old they aren’t even boomers… Lol. The oldest boomers are still in their late 70s.

Yes, it also leads to people like me feeling like they need to go down a rabbit hole for 5 hours before they’re “allowed” to ask. Then, upon finally asking, they come to find out the answer was quick and simple and they could have saved many hours.

This is such a problem for me. Hot damn do I envy people who don’t let the fear of seeming stupid keep them from just asking the damn question.