Trump und seine Verbündeten sagen, die GOP sei die Partei der freien Meinungsäußerung. Ihre Taten sagen etwas anderes. Für sie bedeutet freie Meinungsäußerung, dass sie am lautesten schreien und jeden zum Schweigen bringen dürfen, der nicht ihrer Meinung ist.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-free-speech-hypocrisy-rcna184445
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He just sued someone because they released a poll he didn’t agree with
They believe in the freedom to oppress
Yeah until all the former slave states stop banning books, they’re just hypocrite jackasses.
Conservatives love censorship. They invented cancel culture.
Free speech has always been a big Republican lie. As a clever alternative to banning speech (although they still do that anyway but I’m just going to focus this comment on money=speech), Republicans have invented the notion that money=speech and elevated it to a Constitutional right in direct defiance of the words of the First Amendment.
Money=speech means that the more money you have, the more you get to spam *and censor* the speech of everyone else to your own tastes. Flood the zone with your money and organic speech suffers. And who can afford to do this? The wealthiest economic class.
Conservative “free speech”:
‘I can say anything I like and you can also say anything I like.’
Also, freedom of association is no longer a part of free speech and I can force you to hear what I have to say and to give me a platform to say it.
Free speech is the freedom to insult everyone except them
Because remember kids, the N word is ok, but calling an old bastard an ignorant boomer is offensive
Good thing you media forkers spent the last 8 years sanewashing him.
Remember the Dixie Chicks say they don’t care for Bush jr. Or Starbucks writing happy holidays on a paper cup?….
It’s just like their idea of freedom of religion.
MSNBC must have consulted a crisis PR firm. They are spinning up articles as fast as they can to try and reshape their image as anti-Trump. Too late, the time to do that was before the election. Enjoy the decline.
Free speech to them just means they get to say the N word
Explanation
https://www.cnet.com/science/compensating-loudest-howler-monkeys-have-the-tiniest-knackers/
And what of that don’t you understand?
He literally said, multiple times, that people should be JAILED for criticizing judges – something he’s done countless times, mind you.
https://demandjustice.org/trump-calls-for-supreme-court-critics-to-be-jailed/
Duh
They’re fighting for the freedom to slur. That’s the freedom they want. It’s parallel with their concept of religious freedom.
We saw the same level of “free speech” during Covid. Doesn’t matter what party is in charge Both want to control the narrative to favor them and degrade the other… The art of politics.
Citizen’s United declared that being rich means your voice is louder and more important than any other American. The Supreme Court has been quietly rewriting the First Amendment to insure that only certain people and groups are included. Of course the GOP is going to claim that they are the party of free speech, because free speech has been redefined to exclude most Americans.
“Freedom of Speech”
^^terms ^^and ^^conditions ^^may ^^apply
It’s almost 2025, and we still get articles from journalists shocked he is doing the opposite of what he said he would
This is from the money == speech republican party.
50% of the US holds just 2.5% of the wealth. According to republicans ‘the poors’ are only entitled to 2.5% of speech in the country.
That’s scary.
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
“*My* speech is free, yours is not!”
In line with the rest of their, uh, thinking on law, conservatives believe that ‘free speech’ means the ability to inflict actual harm without consequence.
100%
Free speech unless they disagree.
Party of misinformation say they are free to disinform, and that is their “free speech.”
Thats their whole schtick, the claim to be something they are not so often people assume it must be true without checking.
Ah yes the party of free speech, that can’t even see a rainbow without blowing a gasket.
You would have to be pretty fuckin stupid to believe Elon and Trump are for “Free speech”. Trump rages when any random bullshit he declares is challenged and Elon bans people on Twitter for saying “woke” things while backing straight up racists.
Ima get banned if I say what needs to happen for us, as in the not rich humans.
I would be prepared for any number of contradictions.
WOKE and Project 2025 tells us this! This is not NEW! Why didn’t you tell us every day this was going to happen? Why didn’t the Democratic Party FIGHT WOKE and put a plan together 3 years ago to stop this?
Read Project 2025, one goal to shutdown all opposition by, closing progressive organizations, seizing progressives’ assets and business, removing from public service teachers, politicians, librarians and anyone who has a different opinion, and the list goes on. Even though in the once American Democracy this was against the law. So what do we do?