• neoman4426@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Those two sentences are unrelated since the GOP is pretty explicitly against freedom of speech given all their book banning and don’t say gay bills and the like. Unless you’re defining freedom of speech their absolutely brain dead way they use it of ‘We’re free to openly be as big of a piece of shit as we like with no consequences. If you use your freedom of speech to call us out, or use your freedom of association to kick us off your property you’re oppressing us’ in which case yeah, that’s still a bad policy, naming a bad policy after a good one to trick people doesn’t make it a good policy

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      1 year ago

      Freedom of speech means you can’t be arrested for what you say. Any policies that ban certain types of speech are very clearly unconstitutional.

      We’re free to openly be as big of a piece of shit as we like with no consequences. If you use your freedom of speech to call us out, or use your freedom of association to kick us off your property you’re oppressing us

      Using freedom of speech to defend your opinion is literally saying “my opinion is valid because it’s not illegal”.

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        So the GOP is by policy against freedom of speech as you’ve defined it, and is passing laws that are unconstitutional, and thus the initial mention of freedom of speech is a non sequitur not intended as an example of GOP policy that isn’t bad, got it, glad we established that. So do you have any examples of policies the GOP does have that aren’t bad?