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Beachnutt

(8,873 posts)
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:03 AM Nov 2020

I was just reading on a stock message board and some of

the crazy trumpers posting that trump will win the election, I just don't understand these people are they even from this planet ?

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I was just reading on a stock message board and some of (Original Post) Beachnutt Nov 2020 OP
Agreed padah513 Nov 2020 #1
Isn't this akin to yelling fire cilla4progress Nov 2020 #2
according to SCOTUS, yelling fire in a crowded theater is protected free speech. Kaleva Nov 2020 #5
Seems to me they're yelling "Fire!" after the theater already burned down around them. Efilroft Sul Nov 2020 #6
Not sure which one you're reading but most of the wall street boards seem notoriously reich-wing. CincyDem Nov 2020 #3
My sister was saying the same thing yesterday blue cat Nov 2020 #4
"True Believers" are "True Believers". n/t PoliticAverse Nov 2020 #7
Wasn't ZeroHedge was it? Roland99 Nov 2020 #8
No, it was on stocktwits under the DJIA symbol Beachnutt Nov 2020 #9

padah513

(2,708 posts)
1. Agreed
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:11 AM
Nov 2020

Ever since yahoo closed out the comments section after the stories they run, trumpers are posting nonsense everywhere else. I was reading the comments during the Lions/Texans game in yahoo sports and there they were, posting that same old crap. Don't these people have lives?

cilla4progress

(26,514 posts)
2. Isn't this akin to yelling fire
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:16 AM
Nov 2020

in a crowded theater?

Especially the orange menace himself.

I don't believe he is protected from calling for overthrow of an election, given his platform, by the 1st amendment.

Kaleva

(40,281 posts)
5. according to SCOTUS, yelling fire in a crowded theater is protected free speech.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 12:29 PM
Nov 2020

"In 1969, the Supreme Court's decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech--and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan--is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" (emphasis mine)."

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/

Efilroft Sul

(4,366 posts)
6. Seems to me they're yelling "Fire!" after the theater already burned down around them.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 12:37 PM
Nov 2020

And they're a bit slow at comprehending the news.

CincyDem

(7,341 posts)
3. Not sure which one you're reading but most of the wall street boards seem notoriously reich-wing.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:30 AM
Nov 2020


Zerohedge is one of the worst. I follow them because their technical analysis is solid stuff but their opinion stuff (and the comments)...sheesh, what a cesspool.

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