School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law

Gingerlegs , 5 months ago

Why does he always look like he just got done crying?

ShepherdPie , 5 months ago

He also looks like both Joe Dirt’s and Ricky’s (Trailer Park Boys) dad. How fitting for a Floridaman.

Subverb , 5 months ago

Have you seen his poll numbers?

moistclump , 5 months ago

I thought this was an onion article? Can someone confirm if this is satire? It doesn’t seem like a satire site but I still thought I would check. Because if not… I don’t even know what to say. I don’t even know.

intensely_human , 5 months ago

I mean it’s kinda satire in a way. Only one school district is interpreting the law this copiously. The others don’t seem to have trouble understanding the spirit of the law.

lntl , 5 months ago

How does Desantis cope with the internet? Is it banned in Florida too?

sebinspace , 5 months ago

Still here. For now.

MushuChupacabra , 5 months ago

There’s a lot of smut in the Bible.

HikingVet , 5 months ago

Other places have gone after the bible where laws like this are in place.

Speculater , 5 months ago

You mean the incest, beastiality, rape, and obsession with virginity would be considered ban worthy?!

this_1_is_mine , 5 months ago

Matricide patricide infanticide … Its got all the sides.

Perhyte , 5 months ago

Not to mention all the genocide.

Goferking0 , 5 months ago

Which is why they added exceptions for it after people got it removed.

HikingVet , 5 months ago

Maybe they go after all Christian books ,you know the ones praising the glory of Yahweh, which is just a semitic war god (if you pay attention to history).

nbafantest , 5 months ago

Once when I was a kid, our pastor gave a sermon. Something about lions.

But he mixed up how to spell lions. He was old. So all the Bible verses he used were actually about loins.

That was a funny lesson and complete waste of time.

But there are a lot of loins in the King James Version

cows_are_underrated , 5 months ago

I remember that someone actually challenged the bible because of that.

Papanca , 5 months ago

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

FuglyDuck , 5 months ago

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

Brickhead92 , 5 months ago

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

vind , 5 months ago

No E because of Estrogen

No T because of Testosterone

No X or Y because of chromosomes

lseif , 5 months ago

g means gay.

NatakuNox , 5 months ago

A means abortion

Zugyuk , 5 months ago

ou r mking his difficul

Stovetop , 5 months ago

Ron DSanis and Donald Rump approv his mssag.

caoimhinr , 5 months ago

Now without the D for Disney.

Stovetop , 5 months ago

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

TheGalacticVoid , 5 months ago

You forgot A for Agenda.

darklamer , 5 months ago

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.

Dagwood222 , 5 months ago

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.’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta

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

darklamer , 5 months 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 , 5 months ago

TIL

Carighan , 5 months ago

I can readily understand that someone like Ron would have no idea why anybody would ever use a dictionary. 😅

EmergMemeHologram , 5 months ago

The most confusing thing about dictionaries is why are they so torn on the topic of bridges?

My mom always has an “unabridged” version but mine is a regular dictionary complete with the word “bridge”.

meyotch , 5 months ago

That joke is a bridge too far! 🙄