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RandySF

(80,879 posts) Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:16 PM 14 hrs ago

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Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.”

https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/26/cancel-cultures-boomerang-effect/

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FINALLY!!!!!!!! [View all] RandySF 14 hrs ago OP

Doesn't this apply to some from the other camp also? Free speech for me, but not for thee. erronis 14 hrs ago #1

We live in such a selfish society with zero sum thinking, SouthBayDem 13 hrs ago #10

True that. NotHardly 14 hrs ago #2

Worse Cirsium 13 hrs ago #3

cause them shame, guilt, confusion or embarrassment LiberalArkie 13 hrs ago #5

We embarrass them Cirsium 13 hrs ago #8

That is why conservatives own all the radio stations and the control of all television company boards of directors. Only ShazamIam 13 hrs ago #4

The hardest part of freedom is not denying it to others...nt Wounded Bear 13 hrs ago #6

Indeed RetiredParatrooper 13 hrs ago #7

Yes, makes perfect sense in MAGISTAN.... OhioBack2Blue 13 hrs ago #9