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Pretty funny indeed (Crossposter note: thought it would fit here very well)

Atheist Memes @lemmy.world

Pretty funny indeed

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Black background would have been better.
- The law specified the background color.
  
  Legalist authorization bureaucracies will hinge the draconian punishment for failing to hang a sign on the dye used to color fabric.
- Or pink.
- Rainbow

I've seen this before, but I've never been able to verify it as being real.
- It was a legitimate protest of a stupid law that uses a legacy of inconsistent thought and limited perception to do an end run around the first amendment, but the text of the law requires a poster per building, so if they have enough in English, there would be no "need" to accept or post them. Now, if a principal or administrator had some balls, I certainly don't see why they couldn't use one of these or to flank the posters they do post with lots of context or more diverse ideas.
  
  Now, if a principal or administrator had some balls
  You don't become a public school middle manager in Texas by showing balls. You'd get weeded out before you even got through the substitute program for teaching gym class.
- Real https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119488708/in-god-we-trust-texas-signs-arabic

Doesn't that go against separation of church and state, and if this is government pushed, isn't this a first amendment violation?
- Welcome to the fun world of ceremonial deism.
  
  Fucking hate this. There is a local public meeting that starts with a prayer to the Evangelical God in Jesus’s name that I’m forced to attend because of my job. I hate being essentially compelled to participate in prayer. The SCOTUS precedent supporting this is 100000000% Christian bias.
  
  Interesting. I'm going to be petty and start defacing my money.
  
  Required ceremonial deism, even worse, yuck!
  
  The worst part is that for the people making these policies it really isn't religious, just a thing they can trick followers with.
- Hahaha! They don’t give a fuck
- Look at the dollar bill. America has never given two shits about the separation of church and state.
  
  In god we trust was added in the cold war because the old saying may have promoted something other than capitalism
- The way it was worded basically said that it had to be the national motto, thereby not making it a religious text to bypass the concerns you mentioned.
  
  What I don't understand is how the national motto can be a religious one without breaking the first amendment.

Rainbow background would’ve been the cherry on top
- I actually looked into this back when it was originally happening and the rules were fairly strict. It specified background color and wording but it didn't give a language so this guy did about the best you could given the rules.
  However it would be a shame if someone printed a poster with UV reactive paint that changed to something else over time while it hangs.

Apart from this, what if you just donated several hundred posters at once? They all have to be displayed?
- New MrBeast video
- No. They're not interested in playing fair or being consistent. They'll simply warp the rules to fit their outcome and declare these posters noncomplaint. You can't out-maneuver people who simply cheat.
  The assholes on that side of things are a mixture of those who actually believe and want the US to be a religious state, and those who simply are using religion as a method of control. That second group is happy to see religious conflict because a) it distracts from real problems while they consolidate money and power, 2) they can use the fervor to further solidify their support form that religious base.
  This is absolutely not new and has happened before in history. It's just sad to see the US going down this path.
  
  (I'm going to set aside the fact that your Very Serious reply to my joke post is off-tone, and actually give you a serious answer.)
  If you sent hundreds of posters to a school, you would find some school administrators who were only too happy to have the opportunity to plaster the word "God" on every school wall because they're warped. I acknowledge that's a thing, let's move past it.
  Most school administrators either a) hate this shit, or b) don't really give a fuck. If you pulled this prank on one of those schools which--and I really want to stress this--are not on board with the stupid law in the vast majority of cases, you are actually handing them a chance to pull a glorious act of malicious compliance. If I were one of them, I would comply with the letter of the law and wallpaper every wall in the school with these things. Give the kids and the parents a chance to see them, and complain. Who are they complaining to? Not you, your hands are tied, you're just complying with the law. You will explain this very patiently to every single one of them complaining about a school where every surface says "In God we Trust". You're on their side, but the school board and your legislators need to hear about this, because hey, we're on the same team.
  You can even go with them, and testify that your staff had to spend hours putting them up, taking time away from school activities. What are you supposed to do? This hurts the children.
  School administrators don't make the laws, but they can act in a way that brings the issue to the forefront of everyone's mind. School administrators can give the parents a good reason to take the fight to someone who can actually do something about it.
  That might not work, in the end. Texas is run by lunatics, after all. But a huge pile of posters might just be the reason you sleep at night knowing you did what you could.
- One... Hundred... BILLION POSTERS!
- That's where I thought it was going.

Southern US moment
- (another) Texas moment

*"Not like that!"

Donate thousands of them to a single school
- I think they made the rule that just the first one has to be displayed.
  
  Then just change the background color
  
  We now have AI to create thousands of different ones

What does it even mean to donate a poster?
- It means this.
- It's something to do with donuts.
  
  And a dude named Nate. He mostly does kittens hanging in there, but he's actually very versatile when allowed to spread his proverbial wings!

Selective enforcement is the name of the game. Ken Paxton won't be using this rule to take over a school district in Bastrop.
- Well he won't be doing anything regardless, since he's currently suspended. Texas law dictates that anyone impeached by the state House (such as Paxton) is suspended from office while they await trial in the Senate.
  
  Party's over and Paxton is free to go back to business as usual.

Very slim chance this actually happened. There no actual photo of the flag, just a digital image that was created. Which means if it was not the creator of the flag, but a third person- they’d have a photo of the flag or in the least- not bothered recreating it in photoshop, but just describing it in enough detail. And if it was the creator that posted this- it wouldn’t be in 3rd person suggesting “someone” did this.
Additionally, In the rare chance it did happen- it wouldn’t be enforced.
- What? You mean someone would just go on the Internet and lie like that?
  
  Based on all the comments here, you’d think anything posted on the internet is accepted as absolute truth. It’s not such a stretch to assume everyone believes this bullshit.

Rejected https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120239381/texas-in-god-we-trust-arabic-signs-chaz-stevens
- And there's tons of other schools who may not reject it. What exactly are you trying to say here with the single word "rejected" and a link?
  
  It was rejected, sorry the meme wasn’t truly what you expected.
- The way you present your message, it implies the effort was rejected statewide. That could be misleading some folks.
  It was actually rejected by Carroll ISD, which is the school district covering the disproportionately white and wealthy suburb of Southlake, TX.
  There are 1,021 more ISDs in Texas to go.
- Very interesting read. Ty for sharing.

The law requires that schools hang up "In God We Trust" signs, but I don't believe it requires them to hang up every sign that is donated to them.
- Yeah, I don't read it as "must display every poster". It says it has to be displayed in a prominent place in each building and that it has to be donated or purchased with donated funds. https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00797I.htm

I've always thought that the upholding of these laws should instead result in quotes and "imagery" from Islam directly...or any non-Christian religion, really.

the crossposts
- oops, i extra checked but it seems like two idiots had the same idea at the same time
  
  np

Make poster: "In god we trust..."
Second line: "we pity fools"

Is there a translation for this headline? What the hell are they saying?

How is this funny? It's still religious doctrination. Oh I get it. Its a boomer catch phrase like "you couldn't make this up"... Still not funny.
- Its a pathetic liberal gotcha that fails to reconcile with the power of state government.
  Either the sign goes up and some evangelicals vandalize it with impunity. Or the sign never goes up because school administrators don't think the Texas AG will punish them for ignoring the law in this instance.
  In this case, it doesn't look like the flag was ever actually displayed.
  Either way, evangelicals hold all the cards. Secular Liberals only manage to performatively protest in order to feel better.

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