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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • They do that so that legally your wife can open the advertisement. They don’t and you wanted to be a loser, you could report her for tampering with your mail. I’m not sure what the postal investigator would do. “Knock it off and call a divorce lawyer” might feature somewhere in the possibilities.

    In any case they’re just pulling names off a list some where. They assume you’re married and in a typical cis relationship.

    Same reason they add “or current residents” as well.

    They want it read, they don’t care if it’s you or your wife or the luchador that’s randomly moved in with you.


  • The first amendment doesn’t really enter into it. It’s been long settled that the relevant authorities can stipulate approved used for particular parcels of land- including when and where you can organize protests.

    You can tell by the whole “they got permits” thing. Like if the first amendment said they could just do it… you really think the NPS would bother with trying?

    Also, do you understand how much of a shitshow it would be, if they had to tolerate everyone’s art?

    (Like seriously, do you think they’d permit an installation depicting trump raping lady liberty? Probably not. But that would be protected speech. Or even let’s make it non-personal. A cartoony-capitalist raping lady liberty.)

    The Mall is a place of ceremonial and historic significance for this country, which, is part of the reason they control it so heavily. As well as, it’s home to several monuments that hold deep significance and solemnity. There is a certain amount of decorum that is appropriate- at least as far as temporary exhibits and such go.

    Do you really think we should be tolerating any kind of satire? submit there’s better and more appropriate venues.

    And again, I’m not entirely convinced it was satire. Far too often repugnant statements have been excused by “it’s a joke bro”, and “it’s satire” is about the same.

    *From what I can tell online, there’s actually three (or more) groups, including the NPS and the Trust for the National Mall.