I think you’ve misinterpreted the picture. These are supposed to be domino bricks. “trans rights” isn’t the first brick because it is the most important - it’s the first brick because it’s the first that’s going to fall.

How did you manage to mix Putin into this one?

There is a big difference between voting/supporting them and following them on social media. I encourage everyone, Left as well as Right, to follow people, pages and communities of the other side. You should know the story the other side tells itself. Even if you don’t agree with it - it’s better to not agree with the real thing than to fight straw men in echo chambers.

Placing exceptions on the freedom of speech does not mean that lies will get silenced. It means that whatever the government wants to censor will get silenced. Because the government will be the one who does the censoring. Or, if the censoring is not done by the government directly - the government will still be the one appointing the organization who does the censoring.

The freedom of speech must be protected - even if it means letting bad agents spread their lies uncensored. Because if you try to give the government the power to censor them, you’ll end up with a new Department of Truth led by Alex Jones (who is now unoccupied)

This is a terrible, horrible idea. It would give the government the power to censor anyone and anything, and all they have to do is claim that the thing they are censoring is a lie.

Okay, I did a bit of googling and I think they refer to this desk:

Which… I guess… is iconic if you watch InfoWars?

This whole conversation makes this post make a lot more sense.

Do you think the colonization by Europeans was good for the continent and its people?

Yes, but these immigrants did kind of ruined the entire continent, so not a great example…

Was this written by a prev-gen LLM?

Since I doubt he is a certified member of the National Socialist Party, I’d argue the more accurate term would be “neo-Nazi”.

This slogan sounds so much like a parody on Rightist ideology that despite all evidence I’m still struggling to believe it’s an actual Rightist slogan

He’s the punishment America deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

Challenge accepted

It’s the sentiment that counts.

What’s “heterolingual”? You can only talk to people who speak a different language than the one you use?

The capitalists want to solve the problem of people not being incentivized to work (or to work harder) because their increased income will decrease their welfare benefits. Capitalism’s solution, as you’ve said, is to destroy the system - remove the problem entirely by removing the benefits. But just because you don’t agree with that solution (I did say that “either side will fight to the death to prevent the other side from implementing their solution”) doesn’t mean they don’t see it as a problem to be solved.

The thing about welfare cliffs is that both sides acknowledge them and want to solve them, but either side will fight to the death to prevent the other side from implementing their solution.

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I’ll never get the American mindset which considers “used the n-word 200 times” the main offense, the one worthy to be in the headline, while “struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach” is just a minor detail that happens to be mentioned somewhere in the article as an afterthought.