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WSHazel

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1. This ruling turns free speech on its head

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:42 PM

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People should be allowed to provide political speech, but free speech does not include presenting political opinions as medical or mental health treatment. By this logic, someone could hand you a glass of arsenic and claim it was a magical elixir to cure all your ailments.

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