Oh, spare me your $#@!ing dramatics and absurd hysterics, and just stick to the substance of the post if you want to respond to me. All I want is for people to stop trying to silence each other. All I want is for people to respect each other's rights. So you can shove all of this drivel right back up your ass from whence you pulled it. "Free speech" that prevents "free speech" isn't "free speech." I don't mind that people disagree with Trump and want to protest his ideas. In fact, I encourage it. I mind when they use that as a justification for silencing him through coercion and intimidation, and if you gave a $#@! about liberty in any legitimate sense, you would too.
I'm not sure I'd just tuck that into an issue of free speech. Sounds like more than that. But yes, they're probably in the wrong. Not that the issue of abortion is at all analogous with this.
So thanks for introducing a very irrelevant tangent into the discussion, I guess?
Oh, yeah? While you're at it, could you see a case being made for assassinating Trump as a measure of self-defense, too? That'd certainly stop him... dead in his tracks. What other violence would you like to rationalize today? And all on the basis of talk (campaign talk, no less) considering Trump hasn't actually even done anything one way or another, except for talk. Tell us all how much violence you think is appropriate when people say things you don't like. Oh, right, you're just playing devil's advocate.
I nearly forgot.
I don't care what he has said. I don't care how authoritarian or hateful he is. I don't care if he gets up behind every rally podium and promoting the censorship and shut down the internet, and nationalizing all news media. I don't care if he uses the harshest language full of racial slurs. I don't care if he hates free speech. None of that matters. None of that gives anyone any right to silence him, or prevent others from voluntarily hearing what he has to say.
Now, by all means, argue against him. Expose his ideas as intellectually and morally bankrupt ones. Oppose them as you see fit. But no one has a right to silence him. If you're following "free speech" with a "but" or an "except," you're simply doing it wrong.
It's amazing to me how so many here fail so miserably at understanding one of the most fundamental--and perhaps even the most easily understood--principles of liberty there is. Liberty movement, my ass. Just another group of people who are totally fine with force of all kinds (though most wouldn't themselves have the balls to carry it out on their own), so long as it's being used to do their bidding where all of their preferences, inclinations and pet issues are concerned.
Embarrassing.
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