• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Once donvict can finish the creation of The Ministry of Love, he’ll be able to sic the Thought Police on these illegal news outlets.

    Meanwhile, the Ministry of Truth will be very busy putting out the real news. Faux, Breitbart, Newsmax, OAN, and a whole lot of podcasters and youtubers are going to be subsidiaries in this new glorious world of free speech maximalism.

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    I guess if you make all of the articles about journalists being traumatized then you get no stories about the other victims…

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    For how many years have Republicans gone on about the constitution and the first amendment, and cried censorship at the slightest criticism of their utterances? And now Trump is explicitly having people arrested and deported for vocing opinions, and Republicans range from silent to enthusiastic. They never believed in the constitution or in free speech. They just didn’t like it when people disagreed with them.

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      They never believed in the constitution or in free speech. They just didn’t like it when people disagreed with them.

      The evidence has always been in their actions. Hate speech hampers freedom of speech, and they wanted to protect hate speech. This puts them in direct conflict with a genuinely free society.

      Preserving the greatest amount of freedom for the greatest amount of people usually means giving up some smaller specific freedoms, like, you know, the freedom to threaten the lives of minorities.

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      At this point, the attempts to explain to the uneducated are futile, there is no going back.

      Americans, sadly even the good ones, will now reap what the R’s have sown.

      There is nothing left to defend if nobody is willing to defend it.

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      Maybe this time explaining this in reaction to them behaving this way for the millionth time in the last 50 years will get em.

      No? Maybe we should take action instead. This is no surprise. We know what they are.

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    So… back to Tritler Bingo….

    Did anyone have:

    Trump not only takes a page from Hitler’s playbook, but openly recites it for all to hear?

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      He spent a lot of time preparing for that.

      Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

      “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

      Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

      “I don’t remember,” I said.

      “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

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        Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

        That’s not quite true. Hitler wasn’t an effective speaker when he started, knew it, and got a lot of coaching. From the beginning, when he was an Army snitch spying on the fascists, he was being groomed.

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    Soon, he will begin borrowing from Putin’s book by making criticising the government illegal, and forcing news organizations to register as foreign agents.

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      The Free Speech crowd will be here any minute now! /s

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      One day he’ll be convicted in the court of public opinion but by then Not Sure will be the smartest person in history and President Camacho will pardon him.

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        I’d say he’s gonna be the bad guy in the documentary, but he’s gonna be the bad guy in the cautionary warning we leave to any spacefaring species that finds our ruins on the dead earth.

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    After trump is finally ousted and declared anathema, we should make it illegal to be orange.

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    I would love to hear him cite the exact laws he thinks they have broken and in what way.

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    If you start looking, you will always find something in such a large organization. Whether that’s worth it, well…

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    i have run out of things to say about what’s going on with him. all the shitty awful things he says/does/will do.

    all i have left now is “this fucking guy”