Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Imagine being a professional writer and being that proud of the āhide the hammerā line.
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This, totally sane, parent at my kidās school has a bumper sticker that says āMasks are for criminals and slaves.ā
So sadly I donāt think youāre too far off base.
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What a fuckinā weirdo.
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I appreciate the post. I think the problem is that we figured out that a combination of democracy + poor education + absolutist free speech + internet/social media is a toxic combo.
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Silly me for thinking this must be a joke.
Thatās not how trademark law works, but I guess they paid their $250 filing fee and get some yucks.
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What else do they have to do?
Be the first to sell goods or services that use the applied for mark as an indicator of the source of goods or services and not for its informational content. They also have to provide actual specimens of use (well, jpgs or pdfs), and a slogan on a t-shirt is not a valid specimen.
They could apply for āWhite Lives Matterā as a trademark for, say, pool cleaning services (under the recent āSlantsā rock band case where the Supreme Court loosened restrictions on profane or offensive marks), but they would need to be actually selling pool cleaning services (or paint, or toothpaste) under the White Lives Matter brand.
If they then sent a cease and desist letter to my client who sells White Lives Matter hand cream, I would tell them to get lost because there is no likelihood of consumer confusion regarding the source of goods because they are distinct in character.
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Oh yeah Iāve been gone for a while. I temporarily forgot your backstory. Letās touch basis about it later.
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He always went for the spiciest sports take over all reason or common sense. He liked the attention. Heās long been ignored in the sports world. So now heās found a new source of attention.
Itās interesting, because sheās playing a recognizable game with rules, itās just a game totally divorced from any concern with truth or ethics, but I think to understand trumpist politicians and voters we need to empathize with their understanding of politics as a game that you try to win for personal advantage. For voters politics is primarily a means of identity expression, where the identity is that minorities and egg heads and queers are trying to take my stuff. (And my stuff, or my feeling of entitlement to stuff I donāt actually have but should have, is allotted to me by virtue of a just universe that recognizes my natural entitlement.) The bummer for them is that other than president the thing that you win isnāt that great unless you have significant concerns about public policy. I guess a lot of people kiss your ass and you think youāre a big shot, but just ask Rudi, or Chris Christie, or John Boehner how much that is worth, whether psychically or monetarily, in the long run.
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Cool. Thanks.
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Trump / Desantis 2024 all but a lock now.
Why? Because itās the worst thing I can possibly imagine. Itās the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man of US politics.
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1589059845235302403
Man of the people. Heās a fan just like us! (Steelers are on a bye).
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