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Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.” Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Yeah, none of that is justified. Whether religion, opinion, or ideology, it's your duty to protect everyone's right to them, just as it's your duty to prevent people taking harmful action with them—like any other scenario. There's a big difference in two people yelling their opinions back and forth at each other, and someone planning or insighting crime onto the other because of it. That's why the street preacher can feel as safe as the guy walking past with 666 tattooed on their forehead. They're expressing themselves, not harming anyone, whether their opinion is popular or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As in the US "free speech" is a white supremacist code word for hate speech.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And what happens when people you don't like are in power and start censoring you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You vote. And you make sure you're voting for someone that won't try to fuck over society for their own benefit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So how many elections do think you can guarantee that you won't have someone who might do something with that power you won't like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can't guarantee. But you can look at a candidates statements and the history of the party they represent, to get an understanding of what will happen.

When one candidate says "I'll only be a dictator for one day" and his party doesn't react to this statement, that's a pretty big red flag that your civil rights will be severely eroded if they get into power.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So what happens when people vote for someone you don't like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

What would that accomplish?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not upset when someone uses their democratic right to vote for the person they want.

I'm more upset that we live in a society where people see a person that wants to take away their democratic rights and thinks "Yup, that's the one for me".