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I don't support a government telling you what language you can write and speak publicly, no.
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literal censorship by an oppressive authoritarian regime. at this point we have to ask why Ghot wouldn't be for it.

now let's imagine for a second what Ghot would say if they banned english from being on restaurant signs.

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I'm tired of telephone computers and ATMs with language choices. If someone wants to emigrate to America, they should learn English.


yes having to click 1 extra button, that is like 100% of the time the #1 key for english, sure is a chore.


language is one thing, and still a silly argument by itself in a free society, but removal of symbols serves only the cause of cultural genocide.

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I don't support a government telling you what language you can write and speak publicly, no.




This is about signs. I was in Chinatown in SF 25 years ago... still working construction. Had to find an apt. complex address in Chinatown.
The street signs were in Chinese... ONLY.

Here I am, in the country I was born and raised in... and I can't read the street signs. Fuck that shyt!

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literal censorship by an oppressive authoritarian regime. at this point we have to ask why Ghot wouldn't be for it.

now let's imagine for a second what Ghot would say if they banned english from being on restaurant signs.


what if the government instead forced something not so reactionary like forcing you to use preferred pronouns. controlling language isn't acceptable as it changes how you think, there's a reason the first amendment is important.
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This is about signs. I was in Chinatown in SF 25 years ago... still working construction. Had to find an apt. complex address in Chinatown.
The street signs were in Chinese... ONLY.

Here I am, in the country I was born and raised in... and I can't read the street signs. Fuck that shyt!


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ordered halal restaurants and food stalls

these are private businesses using their preferred language, not government signs for streets

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what if the government instead forced something not so reactionary like forcing you to use preferred pronouns. controlling language isn't acceptable as it changes how you think, there's a reason the first amendment is important.


ghot only supports free markets and free speech when it suits him. he's an authoritarian hack who wants to control markets and speech because he couldnt find an apartment complex 25 years ago.

but tomorrow he'll be railing on about how authoritarian china is bad. he's as consistent as rice pudding.

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what if the government instead forced something not so reactionary like forcing you to use preferred pronouns. controlling language isn't acceptable as it changes how you think, there's a reason the first amendment is important.


these are private businesses using their preferred language, not government signs for streets




I feel the same way about the business signs in the US. They should be in English. I don't care if it is a private business. You want to run it in the US, the signs best be in English.
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I feel the same way about the business signs in the US. They should be in English. I don't care if it is a private business. You want to run it in the US, the signs best be in English.


you dont believe in the constitution then.

i can call my business 'triangle symbol' 'dog emoji' 'poop emoji' 'pound sign'

just as the founding fathers intended. you america hating hack.
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I feel the same way about the business signs in the US. They should be in English. I don't care if it is a private business. You want to run it in the US, the signs best be in English.


thats the difference between boomers and zoomers i guess

here's how I'll put it I would prefer to see every sign in English so I can read it but I don't want to enforce this by law because it's directly opposing the first amendment and what it stands for

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thats the difference between boomers and zoomers i guess




Well, speaking for the boomers... "we ain't gonna be the ones without a country". LOL
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Well, speaking for the boomers... "we ain't gonna be the ones without a country". LOL


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