Tony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLouisiana Republican demands social media companies delete anti-Charlie Kirk posts & ban userswww.advocate.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1231arrow-down1external-linkLouisiana Republican demands social media companies delete anti-Charlie Kirk posts & ban userswww.advocate.comTony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squareRunningInRVA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up113·2 months agoSo they don’t support free speech? I thought that’s why this guy was a martyr somehow.
minus-squareArchangel1313@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up33·2 months agoYeah…these people really don’t understand irony, at all.
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoFascists don’t believe in the meaning of words. They are free to play in bad faith, while libs waste time and energy debating their bad faith arguments; exactly what the bad faith actor wanted.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoExactly. Words are nothing but weapons to them, tactics to distract, demoralize, dogwhistle, whatever. You do not speak to a fascist with words. You speak to them with a fucking baseball bat. … not like they would ever do any good with a working jaw anyway.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoIt’s only about Nazi free speech. They’ll pretend we all need to allow their free speech, no matter how hateful, because, “free speech”. But they don’t have any intent of YOU having free speech. That’s the paradox of tolerance that Popper talked about…
So they don’t support free speech? I thought that’s why this guy was a martyr somehow.
Yeah…these people really don’t understand irony, at all.
Fascists don’t believe in the meaning of words.
They are free to play in bad faith, while libs waste time and energy debating their bad faith arguments; exactly what the bad faith actor wanted.
Exactly.
Words are nothing but weapons to them, tactics to distract, demoralize, dogwhistle, whatever.
You do not speak to a fascist with words.
You speak to them with a fucking baseball bat.
… not like they would ever do any good with a working jaw anyway.
It’s only about Nazi free speech. They’ll pretend we all need to allow their free speech, no matter how hateful, because, “free speech”.
But they don’t have any intent of YOU having free speech.
That’s the paradox of tolerance that Popper talked about…