• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    Perhaps what Speaker Johnson is saying is true (who am I kidding?). The political violence from “the Left” has been such a nothingburger that the most henious thing that he had seen thus far is a cycling group with a few naked people. Write that down as public testimony for the state attorneys’ cases.

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      Yeah I thought tuffs as well. It’s the most threatening thing he’s seen because there hasn’t been any other threatening things.

      Pinching a ball on a bike seat is a clear and present danger on a naked bike ride though.

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    Isn’t that the most American statement ever. Belligerent assholes walking around with automatic rifles and tacticool pseudo military gear from Ebay? What a patriotic display! A bunch of people without clothes just biking around? The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet!

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    So, he considers unarmed, naked people “threatening”? What a weak, cowardly snowflake.

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    He saw it on TV instead of through his porn accountability app. It was terrifying for him to not share his viewing with his son.

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    Just wait till No Kings II. We’re going to turn out so peacefully it just might scare him into a coma.

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    Trust the sexuality repressed American to see a naked person and get scared.

    They’re not all like that of course but their culture is kind weird, like they don’t even seem to teach proper sex education in all their schools? They teach abstinence and such even sometimes? Wild.

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      This reads to me like mockery. As in, “Naked bike riding is the most dangerous demonstration so far.” Not dangerous at all.

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      Naked events like this aren’t about showing off your smokin hot body, they’re about freeing oneself from the confines of clothing and the societal expectation that everyone cover up. It’s about embracing the natural state of nudity and enjoying the feeling of nudity. There’s also a shock factor that’s similarly effective in protest like this, particularly in illiciting reactions from conservatives while ridiculing them

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    Portland does this sort of thing every year. Clutch your pearls harder, you mushroom-fluffing fascist.

    The only thing it threatened was your fragile sense of heterosexuality upon seeing all those chilly willies.

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      all those chilly willies

      Yeah, I heard the weather was pretty bad this year. Ngl, though, I feel feel like my fragile sense of masculinity would be much more threatened by a bunch of massive flopping songs on a hot day, than it would be by a bunch of tiny chilly willies on a cold day.

      …Hold up. Poor/middle class guys with small schlongs drive huge trucks and loud cars. Does this mean that rich guys with tiny tallywhackers go into politics?

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        Time to start up a winter solstice festival. I’m actually a little surprised we don’t have one (or do we?).

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          Apparently there’s something at Green Lake on two weekends, 5-8pm. But I’m always too seasonally depressed to go anywhere for the winter solstice.

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    Motherfucker hasn’t met me yet. Because I’m far more threatening to ICE than anything Portland has to offer.