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b_b  ·  4229 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

I don't even know what that means. I guess I'm denouncing my right to vote.





mk  ·  4229 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I had no choice but to follow that meaningless gibberish, I'd go with this:

I considered the olympic rings, but they don't "that one common inter-locking part".

ecib  ·  4228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit. I drew 5, then circled that one, and then a common interlocking part.

I guess it doesn't matter since I voted 3rd party.

sounds_sound  ·  4229 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was thinking something more like this:

mk  ·  4228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty. Ok, you can vote.

b_b  ·  4229 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps, but the main point is that the command was written by someone who clearly isn't literate; pot, meet kettle, and all.

ecib  ·  4228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Look at you using a semicolon in a literacy thread. Show off.

b_b  ·  4228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Me go college.

user-inactivated  ·  4228 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If there was a right answer at all, I'd guess the right answer was five overlapping circles with concyclic centers, because the five circles theorem shows up in a lot of old school geometry books; then the "part" is either the implicit sixth circle or the implicit pentagram.