This is free-speech absolutism, you guys!
Also, even though we are actually trying to cancel all real comedy, we legalized comedy again, because prior to Taco, no one ever punched down!
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the gop have been soft-censoring democrat/left leaning free speech for a while, through media/Social media.
Democrats have been soft-censoring left leaning social media as well.
Oh but its exactly the same thing as people telling racists to fuck off though! BoTh SiDeS!!!
/s
It's also exactly the same as fact-checking organized medical disinfo or Russian agitprop campaigns aimed at a politician's son just before an election...but mah freezed peach! I should have a right to use others' private platforms to spread Confederate Party propaganda and force their algorithm to shove it into everyone's feeds whether they want it or not! FREEEEEEDOM!
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".
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Exceptions apply.
Try our tiers:
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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.
Of course. Then I'd just be a prick perpetuating a system of priviledge.
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.
Nah, Kamala had a stance on Palestine therefore this is the okay alternative. /s
Good thing that situation is completely resolved now /s
This is pretty much what occurs to me nearly every time I see the pedo-in-chief or one of his criminal syndicate doing something incredibly illegal and/or something to make American lives miserable.
I wish I could find some more decent leftist content via podcast. Right now, I swear about most of the content coming out of TYT seems to be about Gaza.
We have crazies running the place, and it seems to be a race to whether the Seven Mountains Mandate nutjobs or the insane dipshits from the Peter Thiel/Curtis Yarvin wing get to decide how our democracy is carved up. Normal Americans, while the majority, don't seem to matter, at all. Gaza is a thing, but it's not the only thing. I wish that people could understand this and bring it into sharp focus.
Meidas seems to do a decent job as do a few others, but that's via Youtube. Pod Save America is sometimes okay as is Thom Hartmann. I sometimes dip into John Fugelsang. Anyone else have any recommendations for decent podcast content that isn't the all-Gaza show?
Two thirds of registered voters didn't vote for Harris yet some people only want to criticize a tiny sliver who were (de)motivated by a damn genocide. That says an awful lot about your priorities. I'm almost starting to wonder if this isn't an AIPAC thing.
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.
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