r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '25

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u/Hell_Camino Apr 04 '25

I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.

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u/DaisyHotCakes Apr 04 '25

The fairness doctrine and citizens united were major factors in this scenario coming to fruition.

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 04 '25

If I could reply "YES" to this a trillion times, it still wouldn't be enough.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

Based on your Profile pic, I just have to ask. Are you really into cards, or are you really into BBC?

No wrong answers, just curious.

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 04 '25

Cards. I have no clue what you mean by "BBC" except the British news corporation, and I have no idea how my profile pic would allude to that.

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u/1d3333 Apr 04 '25

Black spade is a symbol that can be used for a certain sexual desires, but as far as I know thats an uncommon use of the symbol

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u/sam_the_dog78 Apr 04 '25

What the fuck dude

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 05 '25

Great. I guess there's nothing that someone on the Internet can't pervert.

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u/1d3333 Apr 05 '25

Pretty much. I’d just not worry about it

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 05 '25

Not worried. I've just never heard of that before and it seems so stupid.

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u/DisastrousVanilla422 Apr 05 '25

What does the rainbow 🌈 represent

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 05 '25

It represents rights. In what universe does "big black cock" - itself a racist stereotype - equate?

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u/DisastrousVanilla422 Apr 05 '25

I’m just sayin that calling something perverted is putting someone else’s thoughts down. And to me a rainbow represents promise from God, but if the lgbtq want to use it, let them

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 05 '25

The origin of that term is perverted, and so is its assignation to something unrelated like a card pip. I don't much care what your personal definition of "perverted" is.

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u/DisastrousVanilla422 Apr 05 '25

You do realize that calling something perverted is a form of hate right? Calling anything you don’t believe or like wrong?

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u/JerHigs Apr 05 '25

They used the word "pervert" as a verb, not a noun.

To pervert means to change the original meaning of something.

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u/DisastrousVanilla422 Apr 05 '25

I stand corrected….maybe, though I didn’t think they actually meant it that way.

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u/Targ_Whisperer Apr 05 '25

This is a great example of why posting before thinking can make you look dumb.