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no_hypocrisy

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2. What gets me is that Charlie Kirk had/has all the benefits of the First Amendment's

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 08:52 AM

Sep 2025

Freedom of Speech and the rest of us lose our jobs, risk retribution, and "invite" terrorism upon Democrats generally for having our own opinions. They're just words, not actions.

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People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. It looks like a coordinated effort [View all] Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 OP

Big Brother is watching all of us. nt doc03 Sep 2025 #1

What gets me is that Charlie Kirk had/has all the benefits of the First Amendment's no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #2

What gets me is...WE (THE PEOPLE) ARE FUCKING ALLOWING IT! maxrandb Sep 2025 #10

Elon Musk bought Twitter specifically to "restore" (sic) free speech Arazi Sep 2025 #3

Businesses don't have any obligation... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #9

Absolutely. My point is the hypocrisy Arazi Sep 2025 #21

Post removed Post removed Sep 2025 #4

Kirk was a hateful misogynistic bigot. Nobody should be fired for telling the truth Arazi Sep 2025 #6

That was quick. :) I think he raised an interesting case RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #15

They were absolutely spewing rightwing talking points Arazi Sep 2025 #17

I agree, RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #19

Their larger point was people are saying shit online that they wouldn't IRL Arazi Sep 2025 #20

I wonder where are the consequences RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #16

This is huge. The RW is instilling a systematic chilling effect on valid, protected free speech. Celerity Sep 2025 #5

McCarthy is dancing in his grave Iris Sep 2025 #8

Doxing OC375 Sep 2025 #7

If we were smart, we would set up a similar site of RIGHT-WINGERS who were Scrivener7 Sep 2025 #11

And submit JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #23

This is a straight up memoriam to him Cosmocat Sep 2025 #12

How do we fight this?? 58Sunliner Sep 2025 #13

Society is barely funcitoning right now... ananda Sep 2025 #14

A lot pf people are invested in seeing the obvious called anything other than the obvious Torchlight Sep 2025 #18

There's actually JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #22

Who Is.com JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #24