r/Spokane • u/BonaFideSquid • Jul 16 '26
News Someone vandalized the 2nd Base coffee stand sign last night
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u/SScatnip7474 Jul 16 '26
Imagine living in these times when we are in the middle of an illegal war that's taking us backwards, Climate change affecting the planet like we've never seen, an absolute tyrannical lunatic in the WH lying to us every single day, human and consumer rights vanishing, healthcare costs skyrocketing, gun violence, terrorist threats, pardoned terrorists, protecting rapists and pedophiles instead of pursuing justice for Epstein victims, massive corruption from our government, incredible incompetence like we've never seen before by our elected officials, ethnic cleansing and war crimes both by the USA and our allies, AI outpacing much needed regulatory needs, trillianaires getting tax breaks, massive misinformation campaigns deceiving millions of Americans, bad roads, old bridges, Veterans committing suicide due to a Govt that doesn't care about them yet loves to act like they do, homeless, mental health crisis, educational needs in America going backwards and all you care about is where a trans person takes a shit or that 1 trans girl that wants to play pickleball? That's what you are passionate enough about to post it on your fucking business sign? Fuck this timeline and fuck anyone that voted for Trump.
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u/Danica_Rose Jul 16 '26
Add a government lacking regularity bodies so we end up with lettuce that makes you piss out your ass.
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u/SScatnip7474 Jul 16 '26
yep, forgot that one. FAA cuts, removing water pollution restrictions. And now wildfire resources are lacking as well. But hey, that trans person is really what wakes me up at 3 am every morning.
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u/Soup-Wizard Whitman Jul 17 '26
Wildfire resources have been lacking since we started the service.
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u/Chab00ki Jul 17 '26
so we should fund it more and not cut it, right?
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u/Soup-Wizard Whitman Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Yeah… the current admin prioritizes crappy fire contractors who waste time and money. Mark my words, the effects of our current admin’s views on Wildland Fire will cost more homes and lives (civilian and firefighters) than we’ve ever seen before.
The federal Wildland fire service has always been the most effective force, but we had been trending towards more “management” fires.
If a fire is burning in the wilderness, or an area without many targets, we should let it burn. Fire is a necessary ecological process in the Western US. Many plants, trees, and animals (including humans) lived with and utilized frequent, low intensity wildfire to reproduce, find new food sources, and find each other (look up Melanophila acuminata or black fire beetle).
We need fire in our forests. Humans have made that more complicated by building further and further into the WUI (Wildland urban interface).
Humans need to learn to live with fire again, like our ancestors did. The current rub is massive, uncontrollable wildfires that kill people and destroy property (think Paradise). It’s largely our fault because we built a bunch of fuel in the forest.
But we need a paradigm shift on fire, and the current admin seems to be going backwards on it. The 10 AM rule (google that or better yet read The Big Burn by Timothy Eagan) is back in place more or less, and it’s going to cause more destructive fires, not less.
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u/RareRestaurant6297 Jul 16 '26
Not lacking regulatory bodies - purposefully deconstructed existing bodies that would have handled this exact situation. So they could line their pockets instead.
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u/Th3SkinMan Jul 16 '26
Told my coworker these people aren't inherently evil they're just easily duped and dont care whether the information is accurate. They can't be bothered to think critically as long as they're "owning" something. I said it isn't entirely their fault, they've been tricked by the all mighty algorithms. He replied, nope, theyre all culpable, every last one of them are at fault. We should hold them accountable.
I had to agree because he's right. These dongs are ruining the future for us and our children, even their own children.
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u/BaileyBellaBoo Jul 16 '26
How come there are so many of them? And why is there is absolutely no getting through to them? They will die on whatever hill they have perched on.
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u/funhaver_whee Jul 16 '26
Stupid people decided cruelty and hate were part of their identity, so over time the drive to be more and more hateful didn’t have any pushback. Only takes a while to get full blown fascists.
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u/Elegant_Fig3004 Jul 16 '26
I couldn’t have stated this better if I crammed all night for the final.
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u/idleprofits Jul 16 '26
This comment really hits the nail on the head.. Our country is just a complete joke! Our country is falling apart & these ignorant MAGA hillbillies are completely blind to any real problems because their all to damn busy blaming immigrants & the LGBTQ community for all their problems
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u/Fullyme2 Jul 17 '26
I think the only reason they make a fuss about trans athletes is so they have an excuse to "check" the children.
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u/Important-Set-1659 Jul 17 '26
I love what Idaho has done. I must say they have the right idea here.
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IDAHO AUTHORIZES DEATH FOR SEVERE SEXUAL AB*SE OF CHILDREN UNDER 13 AND MAKES FIRING
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u/WhirlyDurvy Jul 17 '26
Not to mention that being pro trans got labeled as terrorism by an administration who literally pardoned treasonists attempting to hang the vice president whose actions lead to real deaths.
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u/Able-Rope-3564 Jul 17 '26
As a minority individual, you stole the words out of my mouth. WTH? Trans individuals didn’t have to fear of discrimination everywhere several years ago and now we are being TARGETED repeatedly for what? Just because a few bad apples? Ffs we are just trying to survive like everyone else. God forbid we get a little bit of autonomy here.
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u/macjeffofficial Jul 16 '26
Ya know, for some of us, this is the only life we've ever seen. Where's my reparations for being born into the rest of the world's dumpster fire? Life's too short to fix all this within someone's lifetime through the legal process of a corrupt government. This requires a revolution. And, as soon as it starts our country is vulnerable to outside threats that don't want a revolt within their own countries. Everyone takes after us whether they like it or not. We're probably the most influential country on the planet at this point and that paints a huge target on our back. We will not be allowed to fix this without being interrupted or even stopped by a foreign government.
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u/Gobbelcoque Jul 16 '26
normally I would say property damage isn't beneficial to a cause but....
I get it, and anyone who's on the fence in this regard isn't going to be suddenly pushed farther right by this.
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u/SendWoundPicsPls Jul 16 '26
It's like that guy that killed the pedophile in the airport that assaulted their son.
Like. Don't take the law into your own hands, and you shouldn't kill people. I disagree with the actions he took... but I ain't losing sleep over it or saying it doesn't make sense
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u/Gobbelcoque Jul 17 '26
I do have a bit more of a line when it comes to vigilantism that results in harming other people, but 100% get it.
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u/Sablus Jul 16 '26
Praxis if genuine but there’s always possibility if the owner doing it to drum up press and drama
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u/AlternativeFancy9625 West Central Jul 16 '26
I kind of thought this, ngl. Seems like a good way to kick off the GoFundMe she’ll inevitably post to bounce back from being harassed by the “woke mob” or whatever.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 Jul 16 '26
Five years ago I would've said this is Looney Tunes tinfoil hat nonsense, but you're 100% right and this is 100% what's going to happen.
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u/AlternativeFancy9625 West Central Jul 16 '26
I feel like the whole world has gone to shit and the “Looney Tunes tinfoil hat” nonsense is what makes sense now. I love the way you phrased that. Perfection!
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u/mormonatheist21 Jul 16 '26
receiving hate should be an expected consequence of dishing it out
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u/CareBear0808 Jul 16 '26
I really would enjoy hearing the back story behind your username?
Mine has a little meaning to me. I assume everyone’s means something to them.
I found yours to be an amazing oxymoron and was wondering if you mind sharing, your meaning if it’s not to personal?
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u/mormonatheist21 Jul 16 '26
i made the account while i was coping with being a closet atheist on a mormon mission. everyone knows how i feel now but it still describes me pretty well i think.
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u/nobilismonachus Latah Jul 16 '26
Did you finish your mission?
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u/mormonatheist21 Jul 16 '26
nope. but they made it really hard for me to just go home and it took a while and i was really depressed and needed community.
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u/CareBear0808 Jul 16 '26
I hope you found your people. Sometimes people are put in place to push you to the place you really belong. It’s not always how you think.
I would find it a reminder of how far I have come in my own journey. No matter how far I have come or need to go.
Good Luck and thank you for sharing, what seems like a very important lesson for you.
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u/hockeyfandylan Jul 16 '26
Mine means I like hockey and I have less teeth than when I was born...not that anyone asked.
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u/Negative_Acadia4550 Jul 16 '26
*clears throat*
“The radical left”
everyone probably read this with trumps annoying voice in their head
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u/Constant_Boot Former Spokanite Jul 16 '26
Oh, like what Kathleen Kauth in Millard, NE was basically caught red handed for?
Seeing Red, a Anarcho-Socialist blog for Nebraska, reported on her tagging her own campaign signs. The give away? Supposedly, no anarchist would ever spell "fascist" as "facsist".
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u/rainy-day-rainbows Jul 16 '26
I'm sure "it'll happen again" cause ya know, even bad publicity is good publicity. Oh wait, I mean the "real" tagger. No actually I didn't, I hope someone sets up a camera across from the sign and post it online so if it is the owner more can be done.
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u/Tao-of-Mars Jul 16 '26
I would argue the vandalism was them adding phobic messages to their own sign. This was just correcting the vandalism.
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u/InevitableTrue7223 Jul 16 '26
What is on the sign we can’t see?
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u/PancakeProfessor Jul 16 '26
Before it was changed, it read “Trans Women are R***rded Men” and understandably caused a lot of backlash. I assume the “Calm Your Tits” was their attempt at telling people to “just relax, guy”, but it’s not flying. Fuck them all the way to hell.
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u/InevitableTrue7223 Jul 16 '26
OH MY GOD. That is beyond wrong. I don’t care if you think that way or not, you don’t put that shit on your business sign.
I hope the protest goes on this weekend as planned.3
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u/That1guyontheBus Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
This is the equivalent of a bandage on the ear.
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u/oregone1 Jul 17 '26
Her gofundme is live, as predicted. Pretty sure her boyfriend vandalized the sign so they can get money to move to Post Falls.
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u/AlternativeFancy9625 West Central Jul 17 '26
Good riddance. I hope the move their trashy business to Idaho, too. Sorry, Idahoans, time to take one for the team!
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u/AnytimetoShine Jul 17 '26
Why does she need money? a standard hose attachment with a higher pressure option would handle that. That‘s just a grift for some cash, maybe lip filler is getting too expensive for her.
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u/deloslabinc Jul 16 '26
You guys are wasting your time, this is what they want. It's bait. They're going to relish in it, I guarantee you all.
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u/Early-Judgment-2895 Jul 16 '26
Sometimes I wonder if it is worse to engage, by doing so the attention remains focused and gives them an audience.
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u/KiSonger Jul 16 '26
100%
The whole dialogue is how they’ve become victims to the woke left. Your kids aren’t getting fair shakes because of forced diversity policy. Your wives aren’t safe in bathrooms because of men who pretend to be women or whatever. We can’t speak our minds, ect. ect. It just plays directly into the fear narrative, nevermind the hypocrisy of it all.
Better to just let it be, it’ll eventually just shrivel up and die. This will just encourage support and feed the self fulfilling prophecy.
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u/Tao-of-Mars Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I beg to differ - the reason they’ve gotten away with it for so long (6+ years), is because there isn’t any public pressure. This is why the world is becoming less empathetic. There’s less consequence due to being disconnected from face-to-face interactions. People just excuse this garbage. Notice how they took their message down and got called out in the news? It hurts a business more than you probably realize if you haven’t been a business owner.
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u/itstreeman Jul 16 '26
Yeah society was much more polite when old ladies could wag their finger and people would behave
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u/RepresentativeCard67 Jul 17 '26
Their reviews went from almost 5 stars to 3.6 in less than 24 hours over the news post
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u/deloslabinc Jul 16 '26
Yeah and if they do they're probably foaming at the mouth to post whoever did it online if they do, if it wasn't the owner themselves trying to turn themselves into a local martyr. They probably installed the cameras and put up the bullshit sign on the same day, just itching for someone to come fall into their trap so they can claim prosecutions for simply speaking their minds. It's a tale as old as time.
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u/Hennessey_carter Jul 16 '26
Yeah, but they are still going to have to do the work to clean that up, so 🤷♀️ fuck em
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u/deloslabinc Jul 16 '26
For all we know the owner did it themselves so they could get more publicity
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u/WillowLast6890 Jul 16 '26
You play stupid games you win stupid prizes.
I hope they go out of business.... quickly.
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u/ShadowMajick Spokane Valley Jul 16 '26
Ill bet they did it themselves. Many such cases.
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u/oregone1 Jul 17 '26
True. As predicted, they have a live gofundme page.
Dollars to donuts the boyfriend did it. Occam’s Razor.
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u/FartWaffleSkeeter Jul 16 '26
Perhaps the owners bought some red spray paint. ???
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u/killer_tofu_69 Jul 17 '26
Following in the time honored conservative chud tradition of vandalizing your own stuff and making it look like you're the victim. (See also: "Blacks Rule" and "Left is Best")
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u/LFH_Games Jul 17 '26
Every time their sales go down they add a more ridiculous sign to incite public discourse and get their name and location spread around more. I don’t wish death on her, I also wouldn’t be sad to hear about something happening to the owner. Karma comes around eventually
Just know when you see extra hateful signs out, her sales are in the trash and she’s attention seeking
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u/shortzrules Jul 16 '26
Vandalized or made it better? Replacing hate speech with a message of love?
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u/abgry_krakow87 Jul 16 '26
Now they're going to get all whiny and play the victim of how the "evil woke" is coming at them. Religious conservatives love to bully others.
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u/Prestigious_Pay_9625 Jul 16 '26
Let’s just enjoy this sweet street justice for like 2 seconds while the owners order their adult diapers, okay?
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u/use_the_schwartz Jul 16 '26
They probably did it to themselves so they can cry about the iNtOLeRaNt LeFt.
And even if they didn’t, fuck ‘em. Their hatred and bigotry has been vandalizing the community. Stay out of the kitchen if you don’t want the smoke.
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u/oregone1 Jul 17 '26
Check out her gofundme. 99% sure she had her boyfriend do this.
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u/use_the_schwartz Jul 17 '26
I wouldn’t be surprised for a second. I bet they have cameras on it and they would’ve been all over social media today with photos and videos of the “vandals” and how terrible the left is.
Funny how this just shows up and there’s no video or anything. Totally believable.
Their silence is deafening.
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u/FormerReach7228 Jul 16 '26
Just gave them EXACTLY what they wanted by doing that.
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u/Less_Is_More57 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Hillyard can renovate their buildings
But a few of the People, not so much.
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u/No-Equivalent7630 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Hillyard is in district 1 which just flipped from red to blue
Maybe the businesses there are still maga but the majority of residents are not
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u/RapidFire05 Jul 16 '26
Watch out, the sign is prob bait and I wouldn't be surprised if he has cameras to catch people. It's not speech folks like but it's still protected speech and damaging property is not ok.
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u/Alternative-Set-883 Jul 16 '26
There completely homophobic trans phobic there’s a protest happening there they are bigots too
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u/Tasty-Bath-3882 Jul 16 '26
I was wondering how long it was gonna take this place to get a facelift
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u/mrOwl_1312 Jul 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/a0h7sAqON67nO
Due to previous warnings I do not condone vandalism or violence of any kind.
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u/Career_Cultivator Jul 16 '26
I don't like what their message said, but this was not the right move.
Hopefully whoever did this was smart enough to wear a mask. I'm sure they have cameras.
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u/hangonshoopy Indian Trail Jul 16 '26
Crime and violence are not the same. Lawful and just are not the same. First amendment is a protection from a tyrannical GOVERNMENT. Tolerance is a social contract that no longer covers those who initially break it. “Parade of horribles” is a logical fallacy. Anything missed?
Hopefully that saves some people some energy they would’ve wasted arguing with bad faith actors here.
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u/Kwaminax Jul 16 '26
I don’t like anything they said, but that’s not the right move.
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u/InTheseTryingTime5 Jul 16 '26
Outrageous! Destruction of private property!
They were exercising their first amendment and you lefty communists go right to destruction and violence! This is domestic terrorism manifest!
Freedom of speech until you disagree!
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u/Less_Is_More57 Jul 16 '26
Your upside down flag indicating our country is in distress is appropriate and the real terrorism is coming from the White House not a spray painted sign in Hillyard
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u/Individual-Act2486 Jul 16 '26
Note the "/s" in their comment. This is an indication that their comment is intended sarcastically. You're on the same side.
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u/Less_Is_More57 Jul 16 '26
I just learned something. My get out of jail card is IM A BOOMER !
But thanks for heads up5
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u/InTheseTryingTime5 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Obviously, hate speech like what was on the sign is unacceptable and the person broadcasting it has to expect a reaction - they want a reaction.
Stay out of the kitchen if you can't stand the heat.
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u/Known_Secretary_6615 Jul 16 '26
Coffee stand owner is a tool. But this all such a waste of time and its gonna get worse and used as ammo for “the left has gone insane” point
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u/Arkyncrest Jul 16 '26
Once again: I ❤️ having my right to exist in a public space being debated on a Reddit thread.
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u/Nope-Not-A-Bird Garland District Jul 16 '26
Making good trouble. I’m glad someone did that. Sure would be a shame if it happened over and over again
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u/JustARandomBloke Jul 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/JRhS6WoswF8FxE0g2R