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        What has? The article literally never explains what the fuck it’s talking about. I would assume it’s not referring to the common English definition of turning on cruise control.

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              By selectively applying it only to the people you were targeting, like most racist-ass laws put on the books by white people in the US.

              See: The gun restrictions Reagan put in place while he was governor of California and POTUS.

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            But given that it’s really not about a homosexual mating ritual, I guess it’s still different from just driving from A to B? Like are they blocking traffic by driving intentionally slow, swerving, not using their turn signals? I assume there would be some kind of element to it that makes other people want to see it banned?

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              Yeah… it’s an easy way to harass Hispanic and Black people while selectively not enforcing it against white people.

              Those oh-so-amazing 50’s just happened to be full of racist-ass laws enacted by the racist-ass “greatest generation” after they got back from PTSDland with nothing but alcohol and spousal abuse to help them cope.

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          Context, dude. No one but you interpreted that headline to mean enabling cruise control

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            I could be wrong, but I think his allusion went over your head… where I’m from, cruising often means driving around looking for guys to bang.

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                  If you’re referring to your magnum dong, congrats. If your referring to my magnum dong, we might have different definitions of the word, ‘magnum’. Anyways, can I offer you an egg in these trying times?

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                    Look, you can’t just go around scattering magnum condoms on the floor if you don’t have a magnum dong. She’ll end up disappointed and you’ll have to D.E.N.N.I.S your way out of it.

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            How illiterate can you be? I specifically said I didn’t interpret it to mwan that.

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          I am American; my first language is English.

          I would never define “cruising” as “turning on cruise control”.

          “Cruising around in my beamer” does not mean that I turned on cruise control in a BMW…

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        Yeah cruising in the scenes/area I’m in is hanging out in a public area looking for casual sex, especially of the gay variety. It was killed by a combination of aids, the rise of social acceptance, and grindr over the decades. So yeah this is just a very different thing from what the word means to me