I am NOT a handy person, so on my scale, successfully changing the battery on my generator is a real Sunday afternoon accomplishment.
Stephen Hardwick
One red flag that a crime stat reference is political baloney—the speaker picks a select few crimes (especially only one) and cites only between two dates the speaker has selected with explaining why the dates are relevant. It’s easy to cherry pick crime stats & conflate correlation w/ causation.
Nothing Byrnes did was bigoted, and I think it’s good that the public focuses on the government overreaction. But there’s a huge difference between saying that the government shouldn’t punish speech and saying that the message of the speech is a good one.
Stancil makes an important point. The underlying speech (including a cartoon penis) was, well, a penis move. If the state senator had published the text messages and made fun of Byrnes, the equities would be very different. But the government overreaction is now the story.
Reminder—people who say or do some good stuff politically can have their own serious flaws. Another example is Afroman, who skillfully mocked the cops who wronged him, except that the way he mocked the one female officer was to say she was gay. Protected by the First Amendment, but still vile.
Not sure that this is the best idea
Similar thoughts, not on the arrest, which is ridiculous, but on the substance of the text to the legislator:
On the same topic, this may not be the most intricate of tool sets (I’m a horrible judge of that), but my late-FIL left us this awesome (to me) ratchet set. I don’t use it very often, but when I do, I’m super glad to have it.
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Another example: Many people here lauded Lemon Pound Cake Guy for skewering the cops who broke into his SE Ohio home & then had the audacity to sue him.
One of those songs was little more than a homophonic rant, but that got lost because of the government overreaction—suing him for criticizing them
