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Is it Time for Our Own Lawn Signs?
For the first time, I am seriously considering doing lawn signs that express my political views. (Inspired by @gregstrange).
I am going for pithy and defendable – something that starts a conversation. What do you think of:
All Human Lives Matter
Souls are on Loan from G-d
Science is a Process
Earth is not my Mother
We are all Responsible for our Choices
Love is as Love Does
I think this gets the main points across, and does it in a way that makes it harder for the reader to discount as being something they already know they disagree with.
Suggestions? Changes?
Published in General
My yard sign:
“It’s None Of Yer Damn Business”
Objective reality is really real, and does not give a tinker’s damn about your personal “reality”.
“Black lines matter
Marxist lives not so much”
if black lives really mattered, they’d be tearing down crack houses, not statues
I found this online
Black Lives Matter
So Stop Killing Each Other!
Black Lives Matter – when it comes to Democrats looking for votes.
Or as my current favorite T-shirt says, “Just because I’m old doesn’t mean you’re out of range.”
I’d like to amend my yard sign. It should say,
In this House
we believe
You don’t get to kill innocent people
to solve your problems
even if they’re babies.
Or as Scarlett O’Hara said to Rhett Butler, “I can shoot straight, if I don’t have to shoot too far.” To which Rhett replied, “What a woman!”
(Speaking of which, I need to do some dry firing….)
I only ever had one bumper sticker, which I bought out at Dan’s Bake Sale. It said
“You make it happen, not the govenment”.
Though true, I don’t think it would make a great yard sign.
Yard signs are tricky, because whatever is printed there, they are also saying “I care enough about this to expend the calories to bother to get a sign and put it here, so I can tell a bunch of total strangers something that I think.”
So you’re sort of wearing your heart on your sleeve, and giving strangers a chance to size you up in their minds without even meeting you to get a better picture.
It’s probably just my antisocial nature poking through – my first reaction when reading someone’s yard sign or bumper sticker is “Yeah, who asked ya?”
Oh, I appreciate it when people advertise their idiocy on their bumpers. I know who to steer clear of then!
Just because I don’t care, doesn’t mean I don’t understand
I used to love Brietbart, rollerblading around social justice protests wearing a white T-shirt with “So?” written in plain black font on it.
This right here–whether the expressed sentiment comes from the left or the right. We’d all be better off if the default assumption was that no one is interested.