> not an existential threat to the republic.
Because it wasn't. Not even close. Snowden materials demonstrated a threat to the republic.
This is nothing by comparison.
Inexplicably lax security allowed a mob to get access to the Capitol building and break the windows and fight and take selfies with police (including a few tragic deaths), a bad situation that was corrected within hours.
It's like saying the protests of Summer 2020 put Minneapolis in existential danger, or Seattle in existential danger.
> If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire fucking thing down.
> Sep 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330
You could make such wild claims (and many on the other side HAVE), but hopefully most people understand that for what it actually is.
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There's so much exaggeration and hyperbole on all sides, and this just proves provides more evidence for conspiracy theories. It might be your moral right to fan the flames of this fire, but I wish you wouldn't.
The solution to bad speech is more speech, not less.
EDIT: And let's say you're right, that there's large amounts of open unironic sedition in the US. I doubt forcing it onto Gab or elsewhere is really a net win.
Revolutions happen when people believe they do not have a voice. It's mindboggling to think that removing people's ability to speak is going to make people less violent.
You're taking away their peaceable recourse and leaving them with unpeaceable options. What do you think is going to happen??
That just so backwards from what should be the goal. Proponents of free-speech intuitively realize this.
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WHAT WAS WORSE: The Reichstag fire, or the reaction to it?
Because it wasn't. Not even close. Snowden materials demonstrated a threat to the republic.
This is nothing by comparison.
Inexplicably lax security allowed a mob to get access to the Capitol building and break the windows and fight and take selfies with police (including a few tragic deaths), a bad situation that was corrected within hours.
It's like saying the protests of Summer 2020 put Minneapolis in existential danger, or Seattle in existential danger.
> If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire fucking thing down.
> Sep 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330
You could make such wild claims (and many on the other side HAVE), but hopefully most people understand that for what it actually is.
---
There's so much exaggeration and hyperbole on all sides, and this just proves provides more evidence for conspiracy theories. It might be your moral right to fan the flames of this fire, but I wish you wouldn't.
The solution to bad speech is more speech, not less.
EDIT: And let's say you're right, that there's large amounts of open unironic sedition in the US. I doubt forcing it onto Gab or elsewhere is really a net win.
Revolutions happen when people believe they do not have a voice. It's mindboggling to think that removing people's ability to speak is going to make people less violent.
You're taking away their peaceable recourse and leaving them with unpeaceable options. What do you think is going to happen??
That just so backwards from what should be the goal. Proponents of free-speech intuitively realize this.
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WHAT WAS WORSE: The Reichstag fire, or the reaction to it?