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Zorro

(18,772 posts)
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 05:48 PM Apr 2023

Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type 'Trans'

NAMPA, ID—Expressing their dismay with yet another product overtaken by the liberal conspiracy to destroy traditional lifestyles, conservatives around the country reportedly began boycotting computers Friday after noticing their keyboards could be used to type the word “trans.”

“These woke keyboards are attempting to force conservative fingers to type ‘trans,’ and I call on my fellow American patriots to destroy their computers immediately,” said local conservative man Bryce Whitten, adding that this was just another attempt by the global woke conspiracy to compel Americans to use the establishment alphabet.

“I hate to think of the damage these anti-American computers have already done. I’ve used computers for years, but yesterday I found myself typing out the word ‘trans,’ and it hit me—this is an obvious effort by Marxist left-wing corporations like Apple and Microsoft, probably funded by George Soros, to make us type things we don’t want to type. They even have the T and R keys right next to each other to subliminally encourage innocent people to type ‘trans.’ I tried removing the T, R, A, N, and S keys, but then I realized I could still type ‘woke,’ and that was it for me. Who knows how deep into the alphabet this conspiracy goes. For Christ’s sake, they’re trying to market these computers to children! I urge my fellow conservatives to remove all computing devices with keyboards from their children’s hands so they can’t be groomed!”

At press time, sources confirmed conservatives across the nation were trying to escape the woke conspiracy of left-wing letters by renouncing the English language entirely.

https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-boycott-computers-after-noticing-keyboard-1850337910

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Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type 'Trans' (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2023 OP
Thank you! nt LAS14 Apr 2023 #1
Another good one. Thanks for posting Deuxcents Apr 2023 #2
lol BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 2023 #3
I had to check the link. niyad Apr 2023 #4
Lol me too! Lol nt Javaman Apr 2023 #8
It won't be long before they insist moniss Apr 2023 #5
Also, there are certain Pontiacs which must be crushed... Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2023 #11
Banning Neil Young comes next . . . hatrack Apr 2023 #6
if only this were true......... lol Takket Apr 2023 #7
Manhattan TRANSfer will have to change their name! Chipper Chat Apr 2023 #9
Anybody remember this hysterical overreach? central scrutinizer Apr 2023 #10
Clicked just to see if the source ExWhoDoesntCare Apr 2023 #12
XD sakabatou Apr 2023 #13
Don't forget the Pontiac Trans Am dalton99a Apr 2023 #14
I know this is satire, but I'm seriously convinced that right-wingers renounced English years ago. Aristus Apr 2023 #15

moniss

(9,101 posts)
5. It won't be long before they insist
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 06:18 PM
Apr 2023

that the US history books used in schools stop using the name Transcontinental Railroad and demand it be replaced with Coast to Coast Railroad. Likewise the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. The Bay Area Rapid Transit will be renamed the Bay Area People Movers. The GQP will likely issue a consulting contract to a wealthy donor worth billions of dollars to have them go around the country and root out any of the governmental uses of the "word that must never be spoken" and to make donations for legal expenses to be used for bringing lawsuits against private companies who use or display the offending word. On a related note Some People Say News is reporting that GQP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has demanded that any reference anywhere in the US to there ever having been an airline named Trans World Airlines be forever forbidden. He noted he was instructed to do so by his supervisor, world renowned linguist and scientist GQP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
11. Also, there are certain Pontiacs which must be crushed...
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 08:36 PM
Apr 2023

and that means those 3 old "Smokey and the Bandit" movies must be banned.

I've heard rumors that the Bible makes reference to transgressions. Groomer books must be banned!

central scrutinizer

(12,655 posts)
10. Anybody remember this hysterical overreach?
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 08:03 PM
Apr 2023
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/sport-olympics/london-2012-olympics-sprinter-referred-to-as-tyson-homosexual-because-of-website-s-ban-on-word-gay-8015664.html

Excerpt

A
Christian website that published a story about sprinter “Tyson Homosexual” because of its auto-ban on the word “gay” has vowed not to make the same gaffe twice.

Right wing website OneNewsNow wrote how “Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has”.

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
12. Clicked just to see if the source
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 10:13 PM
Apr 2023

Was Borowitz or the Onion.

BTW: If you really want to get the idiot paranoia going, tell them that you only need one hand to type "trans." Proof of the Deep State!

HA HA Checkmate, Libz!

Aristus

(72,329 posts)
15. I know this is satire, but I'm seriously convinced that right-wingers renounced English years ago.
Sun Apr 16, 2023, 10:18 PM
Apr 2023

Judging by that incomprehensible drivel that’s always jetting out of their festering face-holes.

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