If anyone's curious, this is the meme that Doug Mackey was convicted for.
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If satire were required to be labeled, it would be crippled. That's literally a Supreme Court decision from decades ago.
Satire has to be making some kind of a point. There is no other point being made except tricking people into missing an election. Would this exact flyer be illegal if it was printed out and left in Walmart for Democrats to find?
No, it should not be illegal then, either.
Here's a point, not that there needs to be one for any form of speech: "Man, ain't it ridiculous how easy voting is, and how error- and corruption-prone? Why, we're one step short of 'Text this number and your vote will count!'"
Well that's a whole nother argument. It's illegal under current law
No, it is legal under current law, as written and properly interpreted through the common law lens which out legal tradition claims.
However, we don't have a functional legal system, we have a system of rituals for legitimizing the exercise of power by those who wield it.