Walz is a total nightmare
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Ripe Leggings — 1 year ago(August 10, 2024 12:46 AM)
Once the libs stopped being free speech absolutists and switched to Marxist totalitarianism -they wanted to control language and thought.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 10, 2024 01:30 AM)
I was watching a video of some of his speeches. It was a statement he made among a much longer speech. Those were his own words.
It's kind of awkward because it seems like Harris is letting Walz do most of the speaking, and I wonder if it's because she knows she'll blurb out word salads and he's less likely to do that.
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MechaHitler — 1 year ago(August 10, 2024 01:34 AM)
[MARIA TERESA KUMAR, MNSBC HOST]: … I want to talk about what you just mentioned about misinformation, because, oftentimes before, in previous political chapters, disinformation, telling people were to vote the wrong way, that was kind of—these were called—considered shenanigans.
But it's becoming more ominous. Can you talk a little bit about that…
WALZ: Oh, yes.
KUMAR: … and what you will do to ensure that there are penalties for that?
WALZ: Yes.
Years ago, it was the little things, telling people to vote the day after the election. And we kind of brushed them off. Now we know it's intimidation at the ballot box. It's undermining the idea that mail-in ballots aren't legal.
I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy. Tell the truth, where the voting places are, who can vote, who's able to be there….
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 10, 2024 01:05 PM)
Those were exactly my points. If he has his way, the only "free speech" will what is allowed, and that is if it everyone else agrees with him/them. This is dangerous speech; to suggest we must curtail our words about our government. This is definitely dystopian, and he means to not only remove free speech but compel other speech. It's the foundation to all sides of our parties and all people to engage in conversation, including those we disagree with. Who gets to decide what "hate" speech is? I've recently seen someone jailed for a Twitter post, and in the UK you can get jailed for retweeting someone else's post from the privacy of your office. I fear we're headed there if people don't wake up.
Our very democracy is threatened, and it certainly isn't Trump.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 10, 2024 11:06 PM)
This is probably why I feel so passionate about this at the moment, because I'm watching things happen in Canada and in the UK where people are being arrested and given prison time for their words.
I agree that every administration has plenty to criticize, and with the advent and evolution of social media, we are losing our privacy more and more, and with it, our freedom of speech. I think we need to be free to have open discourse with each other and there needs to be the freedom for differences of opinions to exist. Shutting down speech because someone says something "the government" disagrees with is ripe for the poisonous infection of corruption.
You're absolutely right, and it is pretty scary what's already happening in "free" countries, and watching the way this is impacting peoples' lives (including getting people cancelled, people losing their jobs, and now being put in prison) - leads me to foresee a totalitarian regime, and that is not the kind of country I want to live in. It surprises me that people cannot see how this is closely comparing to North Korea.
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 