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angrychair

(8,685 posts)
10. Disturbing
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 01:01 PM
Dec 2015

These talking points are almost word-for-word the teapublican talking points last night.

"especially by denying them virtual territory;"
Translation: spying on innocent citizens and blocking websites someone has decided they don't like what it says.

To poorly quote a great movie line: "U.S. citizenship is hard. It means fighting for the right of someone to say something you would happily spend a lifetime fighting against."

It has nothing to do with what some website says or what some Twitter account or Facebook page says. That is the wrong question. The right question is, why are people listening to them?
Because so many make them feel like outsiders, like second-class citizens. Many of them, like many Americans, are economically and socially oppressed.

This country's income inequality and for-profit justice system have a lot more to do with it than what some stupid website says.

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