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    *trying to buy salad ingredients for the family cookout*

    The cashier: sorry state prevents us from selling more than 5 cucumbers at a time.

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    Is there a shortage of dildos in Texas that they need such laws to stop hoarding?

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    Snorted and almost choked on my coffee when I scrolled past this.

    The worst part about this is that I’d rather Republicans waste time with pointless legislation such as this rather than something damaging that they could actually enforce.

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    Look, I have SIX perfectly fine dildos, all in their individual velvet pouches. My grandma even gives me a knowing wink when she sees them on my nightstand (she’s very with-it, my grandma). But the minute I walk into Walmart and snag NUMBER SEVEN - BAM! 💥 The world implodes. Little Timmy starts twerking in the cereal aisle, the self-checkout beeps incessantly with unholy vibrations, and a rogue bag of gummy worms spontaneously transforms into a life-size silicone replica of the Lone Star State… it’s CHAOS, I tell ya! This clearly-reasonable six-dildo limit is PROTECTING our precious Texas innocence. Seven just unleashes the primal urges, and nobody wants that, especially not while picking out a new can of Copenhagen. 🤠

    #SixIsTheMagicNumber #TexasStrong #ProtectTheInnocence (and the Gummy Worms)

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    Neo-puritanism needs to die. I’m getting excited because I think humanity is just generally getting fed up with control. We’re done with this shit.

    At least none of these people should be violent. They can have their views. But law is always violent. So it has no business being an extension of anyone’s sexual views. If you violently impose your sexual perspective on others you are as good as a rapist in my book.

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      I’m getting excited because I think humanity is just generally getting fed up with control.

      Only 33% of the US voting population actually voted against Trump who ran on a platform of control. You might be putting too much faith in the general population.

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      So I know what you mean and I agree, but there are plenty of sexual things that we would want outlawed because of our sexual perspective. Things like rape, sexual assault, pedophilia, etc etc.

      The difference between our sexual perspectives and theirs is that we draw the line at harm or lack of consent, they draw the line at disgust.

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      What about a service where you could rent sex toys through the mail? They would never interfere with mail delivery, right?

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    I would never have thought to go to walmart to buy a sex toy if I hadn’t seen them somewhat prominently displayed on my way towards the vitamin aisle.

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      Don’t most people just buy them online anyway? How the fuck would they even enforce this? The whole thing is a joke.

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        They’re criminalizing things more likely to be owned by people they’re trying to cleanse. Maybe cops show up and find you’ve exceeded your government allotted sex toy limit… would you lose your job? Your kids? Do you even call the cops? Do you hide the dildos in a gun safe and leave the guns out, to make the cops happy?

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          I find it hilarious that cops are going to start driving around with dildos in their car. You know, in case they need to plant one.

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        It’s more of an excuse to pile more charges onto the types of people they don’t like.

        While already in the house to investigate something (real or made up) it gives them an excuse to look through their underwear trying to find excuses to charge them.

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    So its now illegal to have more than 6 bananas in your home in Texas?

    Sigh, this is gonna be an awkward call to mom…