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R.I.P. The 1st amendment 1791-2021

 
 
longjon
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 04:20 pm
@maxdancona,
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So your point is that life isn't fair.


It's only ever unfair in one direction.

Only one direction ever.

oralloy
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 04:33 pm
The obvious solution is Russia.

Mr. Putin already supports the American people in their struggle to resist and undermine the illegitimate Biden Administration.

I'm sure he will be happy to have Russian servers host a forum so the people of America can discuss their resistance to tyranny in the coming years.
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longjon
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 05:00 pm
Anyone who thinks it's not only conservatives being persecuted is not acknowledging objective reality.

No payment processors are closing down leftists. No banks are refusing leftist's ability to fund their activities.

This is not up for debate, this is a fact.

Banks, big business cut ability to donate to Republicans

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6221928365001#sp=show-clips
hightor
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 05:01 pm
@maxdancona,
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This is not a hypothetical.

1. For me it is...the social environment you describe no longer exists.
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The answer seems to be large corporations.

2. Lately I've come to see this as the answer to nearly everything.
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The issue is how much power we give large corporations to control public discourse.

3. And not just to control discourse but to control our f***ing lives.

Thing is, what's the alternative? Corporations only really care about the bottom line. And we certainly can't have the government step in because that's socialism and I doubt the state's ability to host content critical of itself.

I can imagine theoretical approaches toward solutions for these problems but, somewhat like your first example, they only work in a world that doesn't exist.

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hightor
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 05:26 pm
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It's only ever unfair in one direction.

Only one direction ever.


Cue the wailing violins...I believe I'm going to cry.

The poor conservatives. With the help of the evangelicals, it took them over fifty years to finally wrest total control of the Republican Party from the old country club crowd and Make America Great Again. Trouble is, their brand is dying. Demographics, man. You're goin' down. "America" doesn't mean what it used to. It's hard to put your finger on only one offensive characteristic of our current culture, but the destruction caused by the MAGA movement is right up there. The whole pathetic "grievance" thing — why would anybody want to view life from their perspective, acting like perpetually sodomized crybabies? It's all so unfair. It's such a burden to be white. At least I can have a gun. Where's my percocet?
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oralloy
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 05:32 pm
@longjon,
longjon wrote:
Banks, big business cut ability to donate to Republicans

Chinese banks will be happy to open accounts for American conservatives.
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longjon
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 06:13 pm
Only conservatives are being silenced and persecuted. Anyone who can't acknowledge that fact is either insane or a liar.

Facebook to remove all 'stop the steal' content ahead of Biden inauguration

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/facebook-remove-stop-the-steal-content-biden-inauguration
oralloy
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 06:38 pm
@longjon,
I think the government should break up Twitter and Facebook and Google the next time conservatives are in charge.
longjon
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 06:49 pm
@oralloy,
230 years of the 1st amendment.

Well, I guess we had a good run at least.
oralloy
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 07:31 pm
@longjon,
There is no question that progressives hate freedom and civil liberties. But Russia and China are willing to help the American people resist progressivism.
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hightor
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 08:04 pm
@longjon,
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Only conservatives are being silenced and persecuted.

No, not really. Conservatives are the persecutors — persecutors with a martyr complex.

The particular element of the political right that's now driving the Republican Party needs to keep its base fired up all the time. All. The. Time. Keep them angry they'll ignore everything else. Keeping people's political fury on a back burner or bringing it to a boil requires a constant supply of accusation, innuendo, and denunciation, and in order to stew resentment, incite anger, and prolong outrage, political operatives shovel loads of half-truths, dubious rumors, and outright lies into the media stream, many of which violate carriers' terms of service or might be legally actionable. "Persecution" has nothing to do with it. Wasted all that anger for nothing.

one of those angry people wrote:
Anyone who can't acknowledge that fact is either insane or a liar.

Yeah, okay.
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longjon
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 08:55 pm
@oralloy,
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There is no question that progressives hate freedom and civil liberties.


Several scientists have also noted that progressives lie more on average, have less personal integrity, and display more sociopathic tendencies.
BillRM
 
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Mon 11 Jan, 2021 09:39 pm
@longjon,
longjon wrote:

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There is no question that progressives hate freedom and civil liberties.


Several scientists have also noted that progressives lie more on average, have less personal integrity, and display more sociopathic tendencies.


LOL given the last few years including the last few days you got to be kidding about which group is the major liars.

sociopathic-Trump and a large percent of his supporters.
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longjon
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2021 06:22 am
Many noted doctors have pointed out that leftist males have much lower testosterone than conservative males, and that women find them less attractive.
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longjon
 
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Tue 12 Jan, 2021 06:34 am
@longjon,
There's a zoological term for it, it's called being a "beta male." Some contemporary people would say something like "girly man."
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