the gop have been soft-censoring democrat/left leaning free speech for a while, through media/Social media.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Why wouldn't he? Americans continue to allow it.
I don't recall allowing it. I only recall waking up every day and doing personal hygiene and getting dressed and eating breakfast and going to work and going to the gym and coming home and where the hell in my daily survival routine can I control whether or not the president of the United States allows me to have free speech?
Sounds like you had a nice comfortable day. That’s what I figured.
Wouldn’t want to risk that comfort, right? Sounds like you’re willing to put up with quite a lot in order to remain comfortable.
You’re allowing it every day you aren’t a threat to them.
You individually? No
Americans collectively? They elected the fucker. They allowed the system to degenerate to the point where a plurality could install him in a place with such extensive powers.
But also, individually.
The era of free speech is over.
Introducing $19.99/month speech. Say whatever you want for only twenty bucks a month!
I'm a free speech pirate. Join our XMPP or Matrix room, ask for "gus".
We feature such hits as:
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8647
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Free Luigi
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Free Palestine
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Epstein didn't kill himself
AND MANY MORE!
Exceptions apply.
Try our tiers:
- free speech basic
- free speech plus
- free speech ultra
If it comes with full criminal and civil protections, gimme. I'll squeeze every penny out and enrage a very choice populace whilst bringing others to tears.
Killing these fascists will be a real victory, albeit temporary.
You jest, surely.
He might think he did but he sure as hell didn't.
He's sure as hell trying and the supreme court will likely cosign everything.
It was a stupid way for him to word that (no surprise, literally everything that comes out of his mouth is stupid), but I just want to point out that in the context of what he's saying, what he intended to convey is that he got rid of the "freedom of speech" defense specifically for flag burning. Which... he didn't. But he's trying to by writing yet another executive order to instruct the DoJ to prosecute flag burners. Because, you know... a plague of flag burning is among the biggest problems facing our nation today.
Literally The Simpsons
we need to update the definition of comic book villainy to include "the simpsons called this"
!remindme when krasnov or putin tries to block out the sun
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Nah, Kamala had a stance on Palestine therefore this is the okay alternative. /s
Good thing that situation is completely resolved now /s
God, get over it, kamala lost because she couldn't get people to actually vote. Just like Hillary. Same shit would have happened to Joe if he stayed in the race. Kamala lost because the party fucking sucks so hard that they can't out message the fucking GOP.
The election was a year ago, stop bitching about how nobody voted because Palestine. If you don't like it, fucking do something about it.
It was that laugh.
It was so bad that we had to make the Palestinians suffer more by letting a fascist win instead.
GO AMERICA!!!!
The media is mostly controlled by republicans and anti-left billionaire centrists, so yes msnbc wants you to think people who care about gaza are the only people responsible for the last election just like they want you to believe that trans people "going too far" are why gavin newsome will lose the general election in 2028 (despite a large portion of democrats being LGBTQ voters and him falling into many right wing pitfalls on the issue)
I haven't seen any math that holds up that gaza lead to Trump's win on its own. What it likely did is create a lack of volunteers that led democrats to lose. You can't scold people into knocking on doors, that's a "lead by example" situation.
Democrats stepped on a lot of fucking rakes by trying to triangulate immigration and homelessness as well as catering their messaging to (and enriching right wing media with ad revenue in the process) people who will never vote for them.
Specifically Trump has also said Elon helped him rig the election. Elon musk and other social media owners hire people that understand psychology and will make AI clones of the most annoying people they can find and bury twitter in bots emulating those people just like they already find the people that upset conservatives the most (scientists have found conservatives overreact to disgust) and use that to ragebait them constantly. I've seen people calling themselves anarchists on this site who mimic media talking points about "online leftists". Psychology works.
Assume somebody that makes more in a day than you will make in 100 lifetimes is spending a small fraction of their money trying to make you blame the people next to you for your problems instead of themselves because billionairs are doing exactly that.
If there are future elections any time soon, knocking on doors is going to be a lot more effective than screaming into an internet void full of chat bots that all disappear after elections. But if democrats spend all their money and goodwill buying ads on fox news again we're doomed.
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Correction: The Heritage Foundation stole your free speech.
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