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[–] Papanca 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's next; banning certain letters from the alphabet, because they can be used for banned texts?

[–] FuglyDuck 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I vote we just ban DeSantis because he’s a dick. Clearly adult content…

[–] Brickhead92 3 points 1 year ago

He doesn't seem like much of an adult to me

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Erdoğan unbanned the letters Q, W and X, which can be used for Kurdish texts, in his 2013 reforms, so I think it'd be a bit too soon to re-ban them now already, so that's probably not next.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to look this up, but it is a fact that certain letters were banned. I should not be so amazed. Back in the 1960's the Greek junta banned the letter Z, because it meant 'he is alive.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) the movie is a fictional, but based on the actual events.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I should not be so amazed.

The one thing that amazed me was that it was Erdoğan of all people who eventually found it politically expedient to lift the ban.

[–] Papanca 3 points 1 year ago
[–] vind 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No E because of Estrogen

No T because of Testosterone

No X or Y because of chromosomes

[–] Stovetop 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ron DSanis and Donald Rump approv his mssag.

[–] caoimhinr 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now without the D for Disney.

[–] Stovetop 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

May as well also get rid of G for gender, H for healthcare, I for intersectionality, L for liberal, M for marijuana, N for nonbinary, O for orange, P for progressive, R for radical, S for socialism, U for union, and V for vaccine.

Aaaaa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You forgot A for Agenda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NatakuNox 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zugyuk 5 points 1 year ago

ou r mking his difficul