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Freedom of Speech is Dead — Not Just on Facebook, but in America
“We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.”
— Tracy Morgan
Most would unthinkingly, immediately agree.
But it’s dead WRONG.
Freedom of speech means precisely the opposite: NOT having to watch what you say.
It may be true that you must watch what you say IF you wish certain people to regard you in a certain way. If you desperately care about what everyone thinks of you, then it’s best to keep your mouth shut. If you care more about certain principles or ideas than about “other people,” then you speak accordingly.
But if you actually enjoy freedom of speech, you don’t have to worry about what you say — not for any other reason.
And that’s precisely what we no longer have in this country. Not on the Internet, not on social media, not in government-run schools nor in government-funded universities. Not in the government-run corporate fascist world.
Freedom of speech is dead.
Long live freedom of speech — the next time human beings attempt an experiment in a rights-based society.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
This Explains Why Leftists Hate Free Speech
“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology
Just because someone says something does not make it true, obviously.
But controversial speech often involves a statement of fact that many are afraid to say, because of censorship, intimidation or shaming by others.
When you’re afraid of truth, you tend to foster the violation of free speech. Leftists are, of course, major hypocrites. When they perceive their own speech silenced, they are the first and loudest to scream for their rights.
But those same leftists are the most comprehensive and vicious advocates of the violation of another’s free speech.
Go figure.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Governor DeSantis: Take the lead—SECEDE
“Biden declares that the COVID-19 pandemic ‘is over’ weeks before the midterm elections.”
So the perverted, decrepit puppet thinks totalitarian tyranny, threatening dissenters with a Hitleresqe speech and turning the FBI into a hybrid of the Gestapo and KGB will sell better than Faux Pandemic: The Sequel.
In other news:
“Now we see, in New York and D.C., they used to beat their chests when Trump was in office, saying they are sanctuary jurisdictions,” DeSantis said. “Then the minute Texas starts busing there, they get very bent out of shape about it.”
“These are just the beginning efforts,” DeSantis continued. “We got an infrastructure in place now. There is going to be a lot more that’s happening.”
Entirely justified (and minimal) retaliation against the worst tyranny since the 1940s: the lawless, out of control Biden regime.
America’s second civil war has started. It doesn’t have to be bloody, and I hope it isn’t. But I know it will be. These monsters in D.C. are a ruthless combination of fascism, Communism, and sheer mafia-like terrorism. They will get even more violent than they have been. There is nothing good about this, other than perhaps the fact that Americans who have been asleep might finally wake up to the reality of what serious trouble we are in.
Take the lead, Governor DeSantis. SECEDE.
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Mob Rule, in a Nutshell (Asimov/Jefferson)
Trevize said, “I know what the word ‘skeptic’ means in Galactic, but how do you use the word?”
“Exactly as you do, Councilman. I accept only what I am forced to accept by reasonably reliable evidence, and keep that acceptance tentative pending the arrival of further evidence. That doesn’t make us popular.”
“Why not?” said Trevize.
“We wouldn’t be popular anywhere. Where is the world whose people don’t prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?”
from “Foundation and Earth” by Isaac Asimov
“A democracy is nothing but mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson
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Finally, a Republican besides Trump who Fights Back
Florida’s shipping of outlaws to Martha’s Vineyard is a brilliant tactic. It won’t win the civil war we are already in. The feds, an outlaw regime under Biden/Obama/Soros & co., will simply find a way to punish Florida and American dissidents more than they already are doing, and along the lines threatened in Biden’s Hitleresque speech. Then hopefully, Florida, Texas and a growing number of allied states will fight back even more forcefully.
But at least DeSantis fights. The Bidenistas are thinking we will go down without a fight.
DeSantis begs to differ.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Nobody Oozes Hatred Like a Leftist
Another example of leftist projection: They accuse you of “oozing with hatred” when you criticize the rampant irrationality, mass psychosis and totalitarianism overtaking our world.
Think about it. THEY are the ones who ooze hatred. They HATE America. Which means: they HATE freedom. They HATE liberty. They HATE self-responsibility. They HATE immigration, when it means self-responsible, courageous individualists entering a country with nothing but the shirts on their backs and having to learn how to take care of themselves, in total freedom. This very image makes them sick and causes them to shake with loathing. Hence the resulting rage, hatred and advocacy of dicatorship they now openly encourage, with all the masks off.
They cannot STAND the idea of independence, of competence, of achievement, of productivity, of wealth. And, of course, they LOATHE things that aren’t themselves. They LOATHE religion, even though their sycophantic allegiance to the unreasoned and unproven claims of Green religion tops the most fervent irrationality seen since the peak of the Middle Ages. They LOATHE happy families. They claim all families are dysfunctional by their very natures, and then they turn around and excuse or ignore — in some cases, even champion — child molesting and the physical mutilation of children before they’re old enough to have any concept of what’s happening.
They DETEST all who are not like them. They DESPISE people who don’t live in cities or in affluent left-wing suburbs. They openly say, in many cases, that America only needs the cities, not the truckers, the blue collar workers who voted for Trump, and certainly not anyone who owns a gun or a Bible or (in other cases) a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged or (heaven forbid) a copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. They reserve their most robust HATRED for anyone whom they believe should be like them — a gay person, a black person, any other “person of color” — who dares to disagree with them. In their minds, those are the first to go to the gallows. Right now, it’s just in their minds; but if the tone and content of Biden’s inconceivably irrational and hateful speech of a couple of weeks ago (the American Nazi speech) means anything at all, the real gallows are coming.
THESE are the people — these tortured, twisted, irrational, amoral and utterly intellectually dishonest, irreparably crippled souls — who seek to make reasonable, decent people feel guilty or ashamed by saying things like, “You’re full of hate.”
Nobody oozes hatred like a leftist. It’s because leftism/progressivism (or whatever you wish to call the monstrosity destroying our worlds) is, by its very nature, based upon the idea of destruction and mutilation for their own sake. All that you hold valuable, and all that you potentially might hold valuable — materially, psychologically, spiritually — is what they are after. It’s deeper than politics. That’s why it’s everywhere, not just in the government but throughout the media, all levels of schools, entertainment, sports, music … Destruction and mutilation of all things beautiful is their quest. And — so far — it’s working.
Don’t let the bad guys make you feel guilty. THEY are the bad guys. THEY are the ones guilty of ALL the things they accuse you of. It’s such a ridiculous and obvious form of projection that it’s hard to generate the motivation to even say so. But we have to say so; because if we don’t, they win.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
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