• ikidd@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      These laws are performative. They know they’ll be struck down, they just put them in so they can point at them to justify authoritarian policy going forward.

    • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      In idiomatic english, the “ermagerd” signifies a mockery of stupidly saying ’oh my god’ followed by equally stupid conclusions.