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Re: 'Choose Life' license plates
We have these in TN too. Each time I see them I roll my dayum eyes so hard I think they will fall out of the sockets.
We have them in Maryland too.
http://www.chooselifemd.org/
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This has always bothered me since it came out, but Colorado has a license plate for the Columbine shooting, It has a columbine flower and it says "Respect Life" at the bottom. They should have chosen a different slogan, IMO, because that phrase is pretty tied to the pro-life, anti abortion stuff. So there are all these people that think you would be supporting pro-life, when you're trying to advocate for less school violence.
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So those wild life license plates, purple heart ones, save the tatas plates those are all symbols of forcing your beliefs on other people?
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I, for one, am trying to force my love of the Milwaukee Brewers on EVERYONE.
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this is the TN one... I'm not a violent person but every time I see this plate I want to key the offending car
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I saw some Virginia plates recently that were "choose life" plates, and they were vanity plates reading, "QUIVRFL." Leave it to the pregnant lady to get stuck behind them in line for the bathroom at the rest stop. I swear they had 7 kids, all girls, and the mom had to pee, too. WHAT ABOUT MY BABY? MY BABY WANTS ME TO GO PEE RIGHT NOW.
Can I get a pro-assisted suicide plate that says, "Choose Death?" It would have black letters and maybe a little sickle design, and the money would go to some legal defense fund for doctors who help people who choose euthanasia.
I think the chain license plate holder is a nice touch.
No, just the ones you happen to disagree with.
HTH.
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I honestly don't get this. If you are sure of your choice (whatever that is) who cares whether others judge you for it?
I know it CT you have to have so many people that want a certain plate and then it cost extra money to get it.
I know that--I live here too. It just surprises me that we have a pro-choice one since we are the ones that have state-mandated, self-funded rape to shame women into not considering abortions.
But VA does like to get it's extra $ for special plates--they allow a Duke University plate, they'll allow anything for the revenue
. There is a reason I believe VA either has the most styles and numbers of vanity plates out there (at least they used to have that title).
Me, I just choose to read Choose Life and think "why yes, I choose my life, the way I choose to live it, thanks"
SIL has this plate. She is a Columbine survivor, but yeah, unless you know the Columbine flower with it, it's easy to mistake it for something else.
Get an application going and find enough other people willing to join you and you could. I'd be all for it, but I'm not giving up my old-style Hybrid plate as long as it lets me ride in the HOV lanes. Now if you could get different design plates for the front and back--I'd love to see a Choose Death? one on the front with an "Organ Donor" plate on the back:)
oh please.
i agree with animal rights, breast cancer research and environmental activism with regards to saving the jersey shorline and i still judge people with those plates.
if you really belive in those causes why not just donate directly to the cause rather than giving a portion to the state?
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Because then how will strangers on the street know just how much you care??
Let's make a shop together on Etsy. It will sell bumper stickers that say, "I <heart> my DNR."
Of course without those plates, people might think it refers to the Department of Natural Resources and not a Do Not Resuscitate order, but I'm ok with that.
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another empty gesture. Frankly, in this case, I prefer empty gestures to action.
If the choice was a horrible, agonizing decision, as it is for many people, I can't imagine that you'd appreciate being reminded of it or being reminded that people are judging you for it every time you drive somewhere.
Really? By that logic vet license plates should be banned because of the risk of flaring up someone's PTSD.
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To be fair, if I see a Cardinals license plate, I still get all ragey about Shawn Marcum's abysmal first inning in Game 6 of the NLCS and Tony "I'm a douche" LaRussa accusing the Brewers of cheating.
(Can you tell I'm not in a mood to discuss anything remotely serious today?)
Here's my official opinion:
I don't think the message "We appreciate veterans" is anywhere remotely near "If you had an abortion you killed your baby and we judge you for it"
At any rate, who said any of them should be banned?
Good thing there aren't Eric Lindros license plates. I could guarantee you I'd cause a wreck when I stroked out thinking about my lost Stanley Cup.
Muthafuuker! I feel a tic coming on right now.
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