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I really don't understand this one. They seem to think that it still counts as freedom of speech even if you can be arrested for saying certain things. But by that standard, what would they consider to be "not freedom of speech"? Like, would people have to be physically muzzled for them to say that it is an infringement on freedom of speech?"We have freedom of speech! Just don't say anything illegal!"
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I noticed this a few election cycles ago. The Democrats really love the "Republicans are racist, misogynist, xenophobic, etc. etc." shtick. But to keep their base energized, every election cycle the have to say, "I know we basically said the last Republican candidate was Hitler 2, but this one is even worse!" From Bush to McCain to Romney to Trump, their rhetoric just got more and more extreme. I fucking guarantee that the next Republican presidential candidate, whoever it is, will be called "worse than Trump," and in 12 to 16 years the Democrats will be saying things like "this new Republican candidate is just crazy, at least with Trump you knew where he was coming from even if you didn't like him!"You think Redditors (and shitlibs in general) are ever gonna mellow out on Trump? Dubya and Cheyney were their ultimate supervillains for damn near a decade, but in time Dems were begging for an endorsement from them against Drumpf.
I'm at least 60% sure that by the end of his term the left is gonna be completely gassed out from fuming over Trump for over a decade. Remember that until around 2022 Reddit was utterly smitten with Musk and around 2012-2013 every post in r/pics was about how badass Putin was. They're perhaps more fanatical than ever, but these people have zero convictions or loyalties beyond who can provide them a sense of moral righteousness and consumerist comfort. I think the only reason they've been so fanatically anti-Trump for so long is that his victory in 2016 was such an intense undoing of their sense of reality that they felt they had no choice but to continually double down on the rhetoric that turned everyone against them.
Don't mean to derail the thread, but this new wave of "AMERICA IS DONE RUSSIA WON IT'S OVER WW3 NOW" got me thinking, is all.
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