Reddit is positively tumorous now

But i basically spend all my time on WG and gundeals

And colopolitics

I saw a mate the other day use "freedom from consequences" argument about free speech

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Shhhhhhhhh

rule 6

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How would you argue with someone who thinks free speech is only used as a shield by fascists

Tell them that they should be arrested for the smallest slights

Punch them in the face for being a commie

@MadLarkin why punch?

Bashing them with a hammer is better

Becuase if words are violence, then may as well be violent

God damnit

I dont wamt to carry framing hammers everywhere

`How would you argue with someone who thinks free speech is only used as a shield by fascists`
that's pretty dumb and historically illiterate famalam

the US could never have happened if the people agitating against the crown were suppressed

something the founders acknowledged by explicitly protecting the right to the same in literally the first amendment

Well you see

Fascism is just what the people who I don't like follow

So when the people I don't like argue for free speech, obviously that means I must remove it because it's something the people I don't like like

And to do this I must build up extreme state power over the individual

It's not fascism because I'm the one doing it and I'm a good person

they are just scared that they have zero ability to form counter arguments

@nolsen that is probably how i would turn it around on them; censorship of political speech is a shield used only by those unable to defend their ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLySvAv36E

AP party has a white chick with problem glasses!

im dying

@nolsen plus, fascism is unironically less worse than communism so there's that, too

I'd argue that in fascists nations, you cannot use free speech

you would get arrested

or sent to the FUCKING HOLOCAUST

that's actually true of most kinds of governments

So their "free speech" to call other fascists

permitting free speech is a rarity if you look at all the countries ever

would not be allowed

free speech is a traditionally liberal value

pretty much no other country on any other ideological basis has ever permitted free speech

unless it was a benevolent monarch or something

fascism isn't worse than communism