(02-18-2025, 10:03 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-18-2025, 09:49 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Why give anyone any freedoms? There's always a risk.

I am not arguing against free speech.

Even if the Weimar government executed all the Nazis in 1923, France and Germany probably still go to war by the 1940s and there might have been a genocide or two to go along with it.

Even so, the lady was not wrong to attribute the rise of Nazis in particular to free speech.

Every good thing on this planet has a downside.

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(02-18-2025, 09:52 PM)Jag149 Wrote: The ability to speak freely exists everywhere, some places they punish and persecute you.  Kind of like what the Nazi's did when they came to power or the Dems were doing the last 4 years.

Lol, no. The Dems did not punish speech in the United States during Biden's time in office. They punished riot and insurrection.

A. The actress pretending to be a journalist was completely wrong,  your interpretation of what she was attempting to do is incorrect. She plays people like you, but not someone like Rubio.

B. They punished the people whose opinion and politics that did speak up did not fit their agenda. The IRS, FBI, DOJ, USAID, the cancel culture you name it.

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