Reply #01
If 86 only means murder, then Merriam-Webster accidentally criminalized half the restaurant industry.
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Reply #01
If 86 only means murder, then Merriam-Webster accidentally criminalized half the restaurant industry.
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Reply #02
The mainstream definition is the point: throw out, get rid of, refuse service, eject, dismiss, remove.
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Reply #03
Political speech does not become a threat because a politician picks the scariest possible reading.
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Reply #04
No violence. No threats. No criminalizing dissent. That is the line.
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Reply #05
You do not get to rewrite slang in real time and call the dictionary a crime scene.
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Reply #06
86 the policy. 86 corruption. 86 bad laws. Everyone knows this means reject or remove.
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Reply #07
The burden is on the government to prove a true threat, not on citizens to surrender ordinary slang.
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Reply #08
Calling for lawful removal through elections, impeachment, resignation, or defeat is protected political speech.
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Reply #09
They are trying to turn 'remove him' into 'kill him' because the actual meaning is inconvenient.
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Reply #10
If your argument requires pretending '86' has no nonviolent meaning, your argument already lost.
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