Missouri GOP lawmakers use flamethrowers in symbolic book burning (video)

Yes, but the princess realizes that the prince is a bum and dumps him. Unacceptable in MAGA thinking.

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Public book burnings typically illustrate extreme censorship related to political, cultural and religious materials.

Funny how they’re sometimes accompanied by weapons, in this case flamethrowers. :man_shrugging:

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“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”
– Heinrich Heine (1821)

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Here you go:

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Fundraising going that badly, huh? can’t even afford to burn real books :person_shrugging: what’s next, punching their bedroom pillows?

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Wow, that display certainly drew a crowd.

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“Symbolic”… for now. How long before they start symbolically hanging their opponents in effigy?

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I think they didn’t have the courage at that moment to actually burn books. They didn’t even cite any particular book. They made threats about generic things. I think they did it because they consulted their lawyers and a 7-year-old child, who, very wisely, said that burning real books, offending real authors and real minorities could have serious consequences at this time.

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Paper Bag Princess is banned because she doesn’t marry the creep prince.

How fucked up can they be that they will literally ban a book because the woman doesn’t submit to marrying the man she’s expected to marry? I mean, how the fuck do they explain it?

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The Agnes Nutter response might be a bit extreme when they haven’t even worked their way up to real books, but it would certainly stop them from moving on to people.

They explain it by believing and arguing (both covertly and overtly) that the only proper role for a woman is as a wife and mother.

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They are authoritarian worshipping “Christians”. Their highest aspiration on this planet is to subjugate women and children. Anything counter to that goal must be eradicated.

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There’s a whole genre of “delux” classic children’s books with popups and envelopes with letters inside and what-not.

I don’t really see the problem with releasing an edition of Are You There God with fifty pounds of gunpowder and thirty pounds of roofing nails between the covers, do you?

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Or if they’re doing more adult books, Damnation Alley with a load of Hell Tanner-ite.

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I’m woke liberal agendizigng right now!

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Some people already did that in Germany on 10th May 1933.

Just in case anyone thinks it would be a good idea this arsehole the benefit of the doubt.

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And the moderate right. And the business-friendly center left.

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Jimmy Fallon Agree GIF

I don’t know about in Europe, but it’s clear that the university system (with maybe the exception of the more elite universities) are really getting hollowed out here thanks to this unholy alliance…

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Yup. Same here.

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