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Old 06-05-2023, 09:24 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I always wish that I could go back in time and do world-saving things, like preventing war, providing everyone with clean water, or preventing Volkswagens from ever being built, but sometimes, just sometimes, I wish that things worked the way they were supposed to.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu › wex › fighting_words
fighting words | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Fighting words are words meant to incite violence such that they may not be protected free speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court first defined them in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire (1942) as words which "by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
My fee-fees take offense.
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