Is Free Speech Under Attack in this Country?

You have literally never been freer to say what you want than you are right now and there has never been more choices of media readily available to you. What you are lamenting is you are on the wrong side of the free market. Companies prefer the money from the 100 million Biden voters more than the 30 or so million that voted for Agent Orange.
 
cajunrevenge said:
You have literally never been freer to say what you want than you are right now and there has never been more choices of media readily available to you. What you are lamenting is you are on the wrong side of the free market. Companies prefer the money from the 100 million Biden voters more than the 30 or so million that voted for Agent Orange.
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Cajun's descent is depressing to watch.
 
Jaw said:
Cajun's descent is depressing to watch.
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His statement about people never having more avenues and platforms to express themselves is literally true. If saying something that is literally true is "depressing to watch" I think it says more about the person doing the watching than the person being watched.
 
We literally have more platforms to express our views than ever. From baseball discussion boards to twitter, instagram and facebook to substack to reddit to youtube. Our ancestors who merely had the town square would be green with envy. Free speech (especially for purveyors of deza) has never been more robust in human history. It is a golden era if you are an anti-vaxxer. Some of them have become wealthy peddling their material. Good for them. It is up to the rest of us to decide whether to buy what they are peddling. For me it is a hard pass. For others it is like being in a candy store. Bon appetit y'all.
 
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nsacpi said:
His statement about people never having more avenues and platforms to express themselves is literally true. If saying something that is literally true is "depressing to watch" I think it says more about the person doing the watching than the person being watched.
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Perhaps you stopped reading after you found something to agree with? This quote is 57 level bad:

What you are lamenting is you are on the wrong side of the free market. Companies prefer the money from the 100 million Biden voters more than the 30 or so million that voted for Agent Orange.
 
Jaw said:
Perhaps you stopped reading after you found something to agree with? This quote is 57 level bad:

What you are lamenting is you are on the wrong side of the free market. Companies prefer the money from the 100 million Biden voters more than the 30 or so million that voted for Agent Orange.
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They’re both full of **** anyway. They had all the conservative voices kicked off of Twitter and YouTube. So they started a conservative platform (Parler) and they bitched and whined and got that taken down.
 
Krgrecw said:
They’re both full of **** anyway. They had all the conservative voices kicked off of Twitter and YouTube. So they started a conservative platform (Parler) and they bitched and whined and got that taken down.
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The Parler situation is the biggest example of how the leftist argument is completely dishonest.

They are frauds. They are idiots and we are seeing what their leadership does to the world.

This all started with Libya/Syria. The progressive ideology destabilized the world. Its poison and it needs to be destroyed.
 
Jaw said:
Perhaps you stopped reading after you found something to agree with? This quote is 57 level bad:

What you are lamenting is you are on the wrong side of the free market. Companies prefer the money from the 100 million Biden voters more than the 30 or so million that voted for Agent Orange.
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That's speculation on his part. Only you know what is in your mind. But it doesn't strike me as wildly implausible speculation.

I don't say this disrespectfully. But from chatting with you over the years, I get the impression (and I want to label this as clearly speculation on my part) that the culture wars and a sense of dismay about the evolution of social attitudes is one of the strongest animating factors behind your posting. I have an impression similar to cajun's that there is a sense of loss and being on the side that is losing ground that animates your posting. But maybe cajun and I are both wrong.

Btw, I might mention that many social groups (including religions) often are at their strongest when beleaguered or marginalized. The history of the Catholic Church in England is something that has always interested me. As we both know, it has been suppressed and persecuted by "the establishment" in various ways for a very long time. I think of it as a diamond, however. The processes that form a diamond have in an analogous way formed the English Catholic Church today. Of course no one involved enjoyed the formative process. But I do want to suggest that not being part of the mainstream establishment culture has its consolations.
 
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Pretending that the current technological age we live in is the same as any point in history is laughable and yet another thing that you just can't seem to understand.
 
nsacpi said:
That's speculation on his part. Only you know what is in your mind. But it doesn't strike me as wildly implausible speculation.

I don't say this disrespectfully. But from chatting with you over the years, I get the impression (and I want to label this as clearly speculation on my part) that the culture wars and a sense of dismay about the evolution of social attitudes is one of the strongest animating factors behind your posting. I have an impression similar to cajun's that there is a sense of loss and being on the side that is losing ground that animates your posting. But maybe we are both wrong.

Btw, I might mention that many social groups (including religions) often are at their strongest when beleaguered or marginalized. The history of the Catholic Church in England is something that has always interested me. As we both know, it has been suppressed by "the establishment" in various ways for a very long time. I think of it as a diamond, however. The processes that form a diamond have in an analogous way formed the English Catholic Church. Of course no one involved enjoyed the formative process. But I do want to suggest that not being part of the mainstream establishment culture has its consolations.
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Hope you enjoyed this lecture, jaw
 
He is a tool. Talking out of his ass to mask that he is proud that the government along with Big tech are legislating thought crimes.

We need to defeat this poison at every turn.
 
thethe said:
The Parler situation is the biggest example of how the leftist argument is completely dishonest.

They are frauds. They are idiots and we are seeing what their leadership does to the world.

This all started with Libya/Syria. The progressive ideology destabilized the world. Its poison and it needs to be destroyed.
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I haven't checked on Parler or Gab lately. What's the deal with them. Are they up and running? Thriving? Anyone know?
 
nsacpi said:
I haven't checked on Parler or Gab lately. What's the deal with them. Are they up and running? Thriving? Anyone know?
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Parler was the number 1 downloaded app for a couple of weeks and then they shut them down.

Stop pretending like you are asking real questions.
 
thethe said:
Pretending that the current technological age we live in is the same as any point in history is laughable and yet another thing that you just can't seem to understand.
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I'm not saying it is the same. I'm saying it is superior to any previous age in terms of the opportunities and platforms that people have for expressing their views.
 
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