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RandySF

(80,879 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:16 PM 12 hrs ago

FINALLY!!!!!!!!

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.”


https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/26/cancel-cultures-boomerang-effect/

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FINALLY!!!!!!!! (Original Post) RandySF 12 hrs ago OP
Doesn't this apply to some from the other camp also? Free speech for me, but not for thee. erronis 11 hrs ago #1
We live in such a selfish society with zero sum thinking, SouthBayDem 10 hrs ago #10
True that. NotHardly 11 hrs ago #2
Worse Cirsium 11 hrs ago #3
cause them shame, guilt, confusion or embarrassment LiberalArkie 11 hrs ago #5
We embarrass them Cirsium 10 hrs ago #8
That is why conservatives own all the radio stations and the control of all television company boards of directors. Only ShazamIam 11 hrs ago #4
The hardest part of freedom is not denying it to others...nt Wounded Bear 11 hrs ago #6
Indeed RetiredParatrooper 11 hrs ago #7
Yes, makes perfect sense in MAGISTAN.... OhioBack2Blue 10 hrs ago #9

erronis

(22,513 posts)
1. Doesn't this apply to some from the other camp also? Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:44 PM
11 hrs ago

SouthBayDem

(33,106 posts)
10. We live in such a selfish society with zero sum thinking,
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:54 PM
10 hrs ago

a widespread belief "your gain is my loss".

Cirsium

(3,312 posts)
3. Worse
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:57 PM
11 hrs ago

Their concept of free speech forbids others from disagreeing with them (which might cause them shame, guilt, confusion or embarrassment.)

ShazamIam

(3,016 posts)
4. That is why conservatives own all the radio stations and the control of all television company boards of directors. Only
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:15 PM
11 hrs ago

the pro=fascists message can be allowed.

OhioBack2Blue

(83 posts)
9. Yes, makes perfect sense in MAGISTAN....
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:30 PM
10 hrs ago

In an authoritarian governmental arrangement:
1) They are the authority
2) We are the submissives (no talking back allow children).

Only 1 problem, as is always the case. We are in America, not some delusional, dystopian Magistan.

As such, every citizen in America is protected by the U.S. Constitution, which states the govt cannot suppress any citizen's right to speech.

Suck on it hard MAGA!

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