• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    Tldr: weirdos are saying she was making “devil horns.”

    Not so fun playing with hyper-religious theofascists, after all…?

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    The pinky up by itself is “I”. Index and thumb out by themselves is “L”, Pinky and thumb by themselves is “Y”.

    So that hand shape is just the combination of the 3 letters together for ILY=I love you. It’s probably the most generally well-known ASL sign.

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    This garbage has been going on since the satanic panic. Britain should have kept their crazy puritans.

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      They left for the Colonies because they were unwelcome in Britain. A lot of them had previously been in exile in the Low Countries and had been kicked out of there too.

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    I’m willing to accept the ILY in ASL explanation for her hand gesture, but I wonder where she’d know it from. The devil horns thing seems pretty silly.

    How many Americans have been celebrated like this? It feels so over the top for a political public figure.

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      How many Americans have been celebrated like this? It feels so over the top for a political public figure.

      Yeah, and he was barely “public”. Reaction from most people I know IRL - “Charlie who?”