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...and ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ pelted him with mashed potatoes? No flying gobs of gravy? No airborne applesauce? ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ of catapulted corn? A more perfect opportunity for a good 'ol food fight I have never seen, and you wasted it! For shame, kids. For absolute ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ.

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Cafeteria food might be classified as a deadly weapon.

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A tator tot put my eye out. ; ) <---- that one : )

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I SEE "Cafeteria food might be classified as a deadly weapon," and I hear Bluto crying out FOOD FIIIIIIGHT!"

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โ€œCafeteria food might be classified as a deadly weaponโ€

Only if you eat it.

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Don't forget the danger of projectile vomiting.

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See if you can guess what I am right now.

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*splortch!*

"I'm a zit. Get it?"

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You jest, but I can absolutely see this jerk suing the school if anyone had thrown food at him. Heck I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to make a 1st amendment religious freedom case out of merely being escorted out of the building.

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I really wish I could say you're being hyperbolic, but I can't.

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Then it must be protected under the second amendment.

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Ma-lish-a. Say it with me now. Ma. Lish. A. militia.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

A well-regulated one.

Dat meanz da gubmint gits itsef' in-volved.

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I hate to burst your bubble, but the battalions of lawyers that the NRA keeps on retainer to interpret the Second Amendment say regulated doesn't mean what you think it means. It means something else altogether which means any eejit can have a gun. ๐Ÿ˜

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Any eejit, any criminal, any terrorist, any psychopath. God bless America!

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There was at least one case of food poisoning a year in mine. Each time I had a reason (sick or teacher absent) to leave school*.

* Students are allowed to leave early if they don't have class. The schools I went didn't do clubs or extra curricular activities.

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This would only encourage a Christian to think they are suffering for their faith.

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Of course, the reality is that it's Christians who make others suffer for their faith.

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The only consequences Foley is likely to face is the massive outpouring of online ridicule, since it wasn't necessarily illegal. It was just a rude asshole spewing Jesus fueled douchebaggery. I hope the school district bans him from the property. At the very least, their security procedures should require an escort for any visitors.

The students laughing was good.

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โ€œsin runs rampantโ€ฆ through high schools.โ€

Man, I missed out.

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That's evangelical for "sin runs rampant through my mind, and I'll blame anyone but me for it."

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Right? Guess we should have gone to Nebraska high schools.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

Well, that is where Penny Hofstadter got her start. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Discovered there was more money in pushing drugs than acting, waitressing, or applied physics. She didn't need no fancy learning.

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Me too. Not even a girlfriend, much less a boyfriend.

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I'm talking school grounds. What happens off campus stays off campus. ; )

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It's sin. If you're doing it right, you're doing it both on and off campus.

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Is smoking in the boy's room a sin or just a classic rock song?

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I thought it was both when I was asked to do a music video for it in Drama Class in 8th grade.

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Someone did a music video of it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0

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Depends on what (or who) you're smoking.

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Old Gold was the cigarette of choice. I hadn't thought about it until now, but folks around here like stuff with "old" in the name. The beer of choice was/is Old Milwaukee. Things may have changed, because I don't think Old Navy is very popular.

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I love a good smoked cod/halibut/salmon. And smoked jojos to go with them.

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Why are all of 'god's messengers' such absolute dipshits? You'd think an omnipotent being could either show up himself or send a better, more persuasive caliber of messenger.

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There seem to be plenty of persuasive messengers. Ken Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, etc.

I wish I could persuade enough people to give me money to buy and operate my own plane.

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I would say the people they persuade are pretty easy marks. Send god's messenger money for a new jet because jesus.

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He's probably still into High School boys and wants to make the gay ones as miserable and tortured as he is, "to bring them closer to Jesus". And to have a little something on the side who won't talk about it.

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Why did this person go anywhere other than the front office? Transcripts should be handled there in the first place, donโ€™t give kids or adults an opportunity to disrupt your classes by allowing them to wander around. Most of the folks getting transcripts are recent grads and still immature enough to pull shit like this or other prank type things. They are also the group that has been mostly committing the mass shootings in the past ten years or so. Recently graduated or expelled or drop outs or outcasts still attending. Not to mention white male christians.

For him to not notice how monstrously inappropriate this was concerning school shootings and not apologize for his poor timing shows how self absorbed this type of Christian is. What a dรฏck.

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That a preacher got called on his proselytizing in a school is plenty noteworthy. That this particular incident happened in the Cornhusker State is considerably more so. Principal Heide Weaver handled this business at least reasonably well ... but she could have handled it BETTER. When she learned of Foley's behavior, her best action would have been to have Foley escorted to his office, whereupon she would address him as follows:

๐‘€๐‘Ÿ. ๐น๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ฆ, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘†๐ถ๐ป๐‘‚๐‘‚๐ฟ. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘‚๐‘‡ ๐‘Ž ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž, ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘’, ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ . ๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘’, ๐’€๐‘ถ๐‘ผ ๐‘พ๐‘ฐ๐‘ณ๐‘ณ ๐‘ต๐‘ถ๐‘ป ๐‘ซ๐‘ถ ๐‘จ๐‘ต๐’€๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ ๐‘ณ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐‘ผ๐‘ต๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ๐‘น ๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ ๐‘น๐‘ถ๐‘ถ๐‘ญ ๐‘จ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต!

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If he wants to preach at a school, may I come teach science at his church?

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You'd get a much more violent reaction, I suspect.

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Wouldn't work. You can lead a dumbass to knowledge but you can't make him think.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

These loons simply can't operate without a captive audience, can they?

And notice he tried evading the school authority that eventually led him out. He knows what he's doing is wrong yet it doesn't dissuade him from doing it. And xtians call atheists "arrogant."

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"These loons simply can't operate without a captive audience, can they?"

A captive audience...of hot, tight-bodied teenagers whose tender, supple young flesh and raging hormones are just crying out for someone like Foley to, er, :minister" to them. He hopes. It can't be a sin if you call it a Great Commission, can it?

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He's thinking more along the lines of a great emission.

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That was my thought. Like the whore in the bible I lust

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It's all about one word:

INSECURITY.

They need EVERYONE to agree with them, because, at some level or other, they aren't 100% CERTAIN of what they profess to believe. This is why they live in bubbles; this is why they can't deal with anyone even remotely different from them. They want to claim that they know THE TRUTHโ„ข, while simultaneously being so uncertain that they can hardly bear it.

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He'd have been better off avoiding the cafeteria and asking to see a school counselor (or school psychiatrist if they have one).

Naaaaah! Never woulda happened.

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So, mildly mentally unwell or straight up narcissist? Next time, on Stupid Unsolved Mysteries. Seriously, the idea that any school kid in the US, let alone Nebraska, hasn't heard about Jesus is just ridiculous. Sad thing is I know there are people who think that all they need to do is here the Word from *them*, in their Humility(tm), and folks will just fall in line for Jesus. Arrogance.

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Both. Also privileged.

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More likely young and dumb rather than narcissistic. Just the arrogance and lack of self awareness from a barely adult wannabe preacher.

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Most 20-year-olds I've met are only adults in the legal sense.

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Fair point, he is still a kid.

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Kids were laughing at him?

Foley, here's your sign... they're just not that into you.

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How is preaching Christianity to Nebraska HS students "bold and courageous"? How about you take a trip to that island off India that shoots outsiders with bows and arrows? THAT is bold and courageous (but also suicidal).

"I donโ€™t actually give a damn about his viewing habits or his sex life"

I do. Regardless of what you or I think, *Ryan Foley* clearly thinks his viewing habits and sex life are immoral. And he's acting out about it. This is him trying to "make up" for the sins he thinks he's making. In that respect, it makes us all safer* and our society more enjoyable if he figures his own sh1t out and thus stops doing antisocial proselytization. For sure, it'll make the HS students happier not to have creeper adults sneaking into their cafeteria to give unwanted diatribes.

So I hope he comes to terms with his stuff. Both because I think it'll make him happier, and because I *know* it'll make the people around him happier.

*Safer because look, this could just be the tip of a very bad iceberg. Nobody wants it to go further. Foley probably doesn't want it to go further. But in a year where we've had 130 mass murders in 88 days so far, it is not ridiculous to worry that a person so frustrated and upset at his own sexuality might do something reckless and dangerous as a response to his unhappiness. So the faster he figures his sh1t out, the better for all of us.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

When I was at university I sometimes used to study in their chapel library, because you could often get a seat there when the proper library was full. There was people there that were constantly witnessing. Finally the (Anglican) pastor posted a notice saying something like "Why witness here where it's safe? Go do it in the quad." Preaching to the converted isn't bold and courageous even though they laughed at him. Courageous and bold might be โ€“ Saudi Arabia?

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I think that crosses the line between brave and foolhardy. (I will admit that's a pretty broad line)

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๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

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I'd call that response to an intruder a definite "no thank you." :D

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No need for an AR-15.

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That dude really got the shaft. Lots of them.

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Are you sure he wasn't looking for a few young shafts?

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"Sin runs rampant...through the high schools."

Uh, no. According to police blotters, actual crimes against children are committed by Christian clergy practicing the literal laying on of hands within the walls of their private schools, their houses of worship, their youth camps, etc.

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Sadly, Foley knows what he believes and he doesn't want to be bothered or confused with trivial things like FACTS.

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He confuses his personal beliefs with facts when they are not the same thing at all.

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He might ask *which* youth camps. He's still young enough to catch a youth pastor's eye.

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Sin runs rampant mostly in the minds of the 14-year-old boys.

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Not "sin"....*hormones*. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Raging ones.

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Potato/Potahto. Christians would be potahto.๐Ÿ˜

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And that's exactly what Foley was hoping for.

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"โ€œImpromptu announcements about religionโ€ is quite the euphemism for preaching from a Christian evangelist who thinks underage kids make for good targets."

And so many of them do.

Joemygod is keeping a running total of christian" "men"-- double quotes required-- who have been arrested, or convicted, or sentenced for sex crimes against children. Priests and pastors, every ome of them.

30 for the month of march.

111 since November 1.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

Every issue of the FFRFs "Freethought Today" contains a large section called "Black Collar Crime." Guess which kind of crime predominates?

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Schools shouldn't need to be forts. The only forts children should have to deal with are made of blankets.

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And couch cushions. ๐Ÿ‘

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And treehouses!

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My high school fence could hardly keep anyone out, even I could climb it and you know my lack of height (plus I weighted between 90 and 100 kg at that time). I wonder if it's still the same.

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Probably not much different, now. AFAIK, no one's talking about arming teachers in France or stationing armed police officers at school entrances.

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Shocking right? ๐Ÿ˜

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I never went to a school that was fenced in. My high school had a fence around the parking lot and football field, but the gate was never closed. I think it was just a place where people could stand to sell tickets for the game.

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The school I went to in Denver had a chain link fence around the entire property. Some of the gates were open through the day and some were never unlocked. There was a small gate, others were large at the entrance of the parking lot, that led to the gas station next door that was open. Until two months into the school year and the police did a raid and busted half the students in the school for drugs. It was bad for the school but good for my uncle who owned the rival gas station on the corner where the parking lot entrance was. The gate was never opened again, pretty sure thirty years later itโ€™s still locked.

The school I attended in Minnesota didnโ€™t have any fences at all, it was one of the main things I noticed moving from the suburbs to the city, or from one state to another.

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When I visited Minnesota, one of the first things I noticed was how lawns would slope down from houses to the road with no sidewalk in between.

I smiled because I'd been seeing that for decades in the "Peanuts" comic strip. Sparky (a Minnesota native) was simply drawing what he knew.

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The front was fenced, I don't remember about the teacher parking lot (no parking lot for students), the area around the PE building was not fenced since the firefighters used it too (most female students and some male who had PE early in the morning were happy with this arrangement).

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The elementary school where I went to 1st and 2nd grade was on the edge of town (Melbourn, Florida). Nothing but pasture and swamp land to the west and south. Not a fence in sight. Now, the area is all built up and more or less in the middle of town, and completely fenced in.

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Weren't they worried about the gators?

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

Not really. It was more marshy than swampy, not enough standing water for gators. My Dad was the 6th grade science teacher. A couple of times he took me on walks out in the pasture/swamp to look for snakes to display in his classroom.

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Mar 29, 2023ยทedited Mar 29, 2023

Mine was heavily fenced, my boardschool too but it was probably more about keeping kids in than anything else. My middle school as long with the boardschool I went from 6th to 13th grade (not a typo, I got my BEP and my Bac Pro there, 4 years 2 diplomas, I could have stayed another 2 years and got a third one) were easier to go out.

Edit : Sorry I meant 13th grade, I worry about DM and typed too fast.

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OT- Demonstrating that mice are sneakier than fascists, Deathsentence's stooge-stuffed replacement board for the former Reedy Creek Improvement District has discovered that their predecessors left a few... ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด for them on the way out the door: https://apnews.com/article/disney-world-desantis-florida-theme-park-65ba19dd7af7927b07185f52d0a6e2a7

Among other things, the district's new board is prohibited from using... well, basically ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ associated with the Disney brand. Which, considering how important a Disney theme park is to the district they've been handed responsibility for, is going to be a pretty tough legal minefield to navigate... because there are Mickey heads all over everything in the area including power poles and road signs.

My favorite part, though?

"๐˜๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ, ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ญ 21 ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜’๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜๐˜, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฅ."

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No wonder Disney didn't seem overly concerned. They were waiting with popcorn for TheNazi to find those little surprises.

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Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind

Hey Mickey

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A choice between Disney and DeSantis? God help me, I guess Disney by a nose.

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Mar 30, 2023ยทedited Mar 30, 2023

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

โ€œItโ€™s a subversion of the will of the ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด and the Legislature and the governor."

Bull๐Ÿ’ฉ!!! This was never voted on by the people of Florida. It is nothing more than a DeNazi hissy fit, that his lackeys in the legislature went along with.

For more:

https://www.indiewire.com/2023/03/disney-world-ron-desantis-royal-lives-clause-1234824230/

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It's a huge-ass wound to his ego is what it is.

And the first time we're cheering the House Of Mouse being all sneaky.

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๐Ÿป And here's to hoping the Mouse wins. ๐Ÿฅ‚

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I'll drink to that!

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Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?

M-I-C-K-E-Y--M-O-U-S-E!

Hey there, Hi there, Ho there. You're as welcome as can be!

M-I-C-K-E-Y--M-O-U-S-E!

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Mar 30, 2023ยทedited Mar 30, 2023

๏ธ๐ŸŽต Now it's time to say goodbye, to all our company

M-I-C, See you real soon!

K-E-Y, Why? Because we like you!

M - O - U - S - E ๏ธ๐ŸŽต

https://youtu.be/QNK5KzI48mM?t=51

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Nobody fucks with the Mouse. Nobody.

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Si tu le dis https://images.app.goo.gl/zfn6s7zJXzUG6sgn6

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That's what Disney has in store for anyone who messes with them.

Mickey will make them squeak like a mouse.

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With their army of lawyers (who are actually paid) I imagined more something like this. Don't click if you are about to eat.

https://images.app.goo.gl/GuAQcDzCMjfpjinVA

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What the Church thinks of as "the good old days."

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Xtians were given ONE RULE just one SIMPLE rule about preying (oops) praying. Do it in the closet. J was VERY VERY clear on that. And yet that is the very first rule that so many xtians break as soon as they join the club.

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The world is my closet.

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The world used to be my ashtray.

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