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And she's calling us "libtards" (Original Post) SHRED Aug 2018 OP
Wow Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 #1
Isn't it fun... The Conductor Aug 2018 #47
And get "publicly owned"! That is a great pun. nt tblue37 Aug 2018 #53
The stupidity peabody Aug 2018 #2
Point and giggle/ lpbk2713 Aug 2018 #3
She is demonstrating her First Amendment right to demonstrate guillaumeb Aug 2018 #4
Well said, sir! (n/t) PJMcK Aug 2018 #5
:) Her first amendment right to not be kept from Hortensis Aug 2018 #18
Another proud graduate of Trump University. smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #6
She was a business major. TexasTowelie Aug 2018 #51
Bless her heart... Sylvarose Aug 2018 #7
She spews hatred vlyons Aug 2018 #8
it is such a nasty comment d_r Aug 2018 #9
AMEN! n/t kozar Aug 2018 #11
Well, she's part of InfoWHORES, so what do you expect? Fritz Walter Aug 2018 #38
Didn't you know? The RW has the right to call anybody an offensive name FakeNoose Aug 2018 #52
Millie needs some more schoolin' I think. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2018 #10
More to the point, PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2018 #12
That does it! Aristus Aug 2018 #13
I want to live on a planet with smarter people ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #23
Looks like she is a "REPORTER" :)))))))) for infowars pangaia Aug 2018 #14
I looked up young Millie jmowreader Aug 2018 #15
Oh damn! That zinger stung!! Roland99 Aug 2018 #16
Millie Liberalagogo Aug 2018 #17
Whoopsie! MontanaMama Aug 2018 #19
So all you Dummies.. Permanut Aug 2018 #20
If you work for Breitbart, then you have to be an idiot Gothmog Aug 2018 #21
LOL SunSeeker Aug 2018 #22
Just another Republican Saboburns Aug 2018 #24
She is young and blonde. Blue_true Aug 2018 #25
I think she may be technically right...at least what she's trying to say. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #26
Uh...No RobinA Aug 2018 #44
My post wasn't about the 1st Amendment. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #45
Dear Millie Weaver (and Infowars): DinahMoeHum Aug 2018 #27
Ha, ha, ha! cp Aug 2018 #28
For all the crap on the internet, that I hate. I love this so much. rogue emissary Aug 2018 #29
Who is millie weaver?...and why do we care?? Hulk Aug 2018 #30
She can put this theory to the test Algernon Moncrieff Aug 2018 #31
They have no idea what the constitution says hurple Aug 2018 #32
LOL Scurrilous Aug 2018 #33
Being a blonde MAGA head is now a business RhodeIslandOne Aug 2018 #34
... publicly owned. Lol! yardwork Aug 2018 #35
Best Twitter response: skypilot Aug 2018 #36
Lol 47of74 Aug 2018 #41
She'd be ripe picking in a Sacha Baron Cohen interview AdamGG Aug 2018 #37
That would be so funny SHRED Aug 2018 #39
We're "libtards" when she's on her high horse, but "progressives" when she falls off miffelplix Aug 2018 #40
Who is this jackass? GoCubsGo Aug 2018 #42
bravo! yuiyoshida Aug 2018 #43
maybe she's RIGHT in that it SHOULD be a public utility. yurbud Aug 2018 #46
I like Hank Scorpio! BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2018 #48
The icing on the cake was when she doubled down on her initial idiotic tweet. catbyte Aug 2018 #49
Publicly pwned Hekate Aug 2018 #50

The Conductor

(180 posts)
47. Isn't it fun...
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 01:41 PM
Aug 2018

When one of these rightie jerks thinks they've been clever, but only revealed more of their ignorance?

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. She is demonstrating her First Amendment right to demonstrate
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 05:21 PM
Aug 2018

that she is not very aware of what she is talking about.

I applaud her willingness to demonstrate her own lack of understanding.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. :) Her first amendment right to not be kept from
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:11 PM
Aug 2018

making a fool of her by the federal government. I have every right to deny her free speech in my home, and boy wouldn't I if she abused my tolerance.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
8. She spews hatred
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 05:44 PM
Aug 2018

I'm less concerned with her ignorance about the difference between public and private entities, than about her aggression. The "libtards" thing that implies that liberals are retarded, as in stupid, is indicative of a mind filled with hatred and condescension. I doubt that she's every considered that giving women the right to vote, to own property in their own right right, to consent to a marriage, to get a divorce, get an education -- that those are all liberal ideas. And in their time, quite radical liberal ideas.

It's also probably never occurred to her that she's even aggressive and projecting emotions of blind hatred. I see people like this all the time. It never occurs to them to be nice, to say a few kind words. It's very sad. It takes such little effort to speak words of kindness.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
9. it is such a nasty comment
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 06:02 PM
Aug 2018

because it is also nasty towards people with intellectual disabilities, it is just a horrible comment.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
38. Well, she's part of InfoWHORES, so what do you expect?
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 08:59 AM
Aug 2018

I accidentally clicked on the Twitter link and saw her page. Almost lost my breakfast!

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
52. Didn't you know? The RW has the right to call anybody an offensive name
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 05:02 PM
Aug 2018

... especially if they don't agree with them. But in actuality, they don't even need a reason, they just do it.



ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
23. I want to live on a planet with smarter people
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:25 PM
Aug 2018

A smarter planet might be smart enough that it kicks me off.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
15. I looked up young Millie
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:02 PM
Aug 2018

She lists her occupation as “Infowars reporter.”

Which gives her a financial interest in keeping Jones on the air.

Permanut

(5,608 posts)
20. So all you Dummies..
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:17 PM
Aug 2018

Who think stock is privately owned are showing that you don't know nothing about business, and you need to get some more learning.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
24. Just another Republican
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:25 PM
Aug 2018

The rest of the Republicans are as stupid, or stupider than she.

If you interact with them at all on social media you will be Gobsmacked by the amount of, and the depth of their stupidity.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
26. I think she may be technically right...at least what she's trying to say.
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:30 PM
Aug 2018

I hadn't thought of it before, so looked it up. In countries that have a publicly-traded market, like the U S, a privately held company doesn't, or can't, trade on the market.

But what it seems like people were saying, when they said FB was a privately owned company, is that it's not owned or run by the government, and it's not a business that serves the public in general, like a bakery. It's publicly owned...that is, it's owned by the original owners who put it on the market, AND it's owned by shareholders. Those who own the most shares control the company and can take it private again, if they want. So it is still owned by a definite group of people who can set the rules. People in the public have to "join," like a club. The owners of the club can decide who gets to join, and all the other rules.

Something like that?

RobinA

(9,893 posts)
44. Uh...No
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 12:35 PM
Aug 2018

The 1st Amendment doesn't talk about public and private at all. We talk about it that way as shorthand. It says, "Congress shall make no law..." So Congress can't make a law forbidding a company, any company, from airing certain content. However, Joe Smitherberg as head honcho at Companybook, can say that the company he runs will not air certain content. He is OK unless his prohibition runs up against some other law that could be applied to content. For instance, if there were a law prohibiting discrimination against white, middle-aged, rotund men and Smitherberg axed someone because said content-provider had thinning hair, Mr. Content-Provider might successfully argue that axing men for thinning hair unfairly targeted middle-aged, rotund, white man.

So no, technically she is not correct. She's jaw droppingly off base.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
45. My post wasn't about the 1st Amendment.
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 12:45 PM
Aug 2018

It was about whether FB is a public or a private company. It is not a privately held company, like she says. I said in my post that my research and opinion ended there.

So the posts saying it is a privately held company are not accurate. But it is not a business open to the public generally and can set its own rules. Just like any media company that is publicly held can. Like NBC, ABC, Twitter, etc.

SHE was saying that people were wrong to say FB is a privately held company. She is correct about that. She is wrong to assume that that means FB can't have rules for participating in it.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
30. Who is millie weaver?...and why do we care??
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:38 PM
Aug 2018

Name calling is the new norm sine the reoubs put their chips behind the biggest insulter of them all.

"Libtard" is common terminology for the right. I'm supposed to be hurt by a name from such a small person. Sorry....her ignorance pretty much speaks volumes.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
31. She can put this theory to the test
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:42 PM
Aug 2018

Buy a share. Contact the corporate Secretary. Demand the issue be submitted to the shareholders. See how far she gets.

hurple

(1,306 posts)
32. They have no idea what the constitution says
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:50 PM
Aug 2018

The first amendment states the GOVERNMENT will not stifle free speech.

Last time I looked Facebook was not a government entity.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
42. Who is this jackass?
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 12:21 PM
Aug 2018

I mean, besides being just another semi-attractive bleach-blonde with an opinion? She is not very bright, is she?

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
46. maybe she's RIGHT in that it SHOULD be a public utility.
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 12:52 PM
Aug 2018

but in the literal sense, she is rightarded.

catbyte

(34,386 posts)
49. The icing on the cake was when she doubled down on her initial idiotic tweet.
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 02:48 PM
Aug 2018

Like Judge Judy says:

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