• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        This. All these losers champion free speech absolutism, and yet every single one of them tries their hardest to shut down dissent.

        They know the slower among us will rally around the idea without thinking about it too much.

    • nexguy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Not supporting this but freedom of speech is freedom from prosecution. If you are flipping burgers and tell a customer your favorite category of adult film, your getting fired.

      • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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        4 months ago

        From what I searched, the meteorologist criticized Elon Musk on her private social media, not while working.

        If you’re flipping burgers, and later you get home and post online on a personal account about your favorite category of adult film, it’s none of your employer’s business.

        • nexguy@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I totally agree. Still nothing to do with freedom of speech itself. The 1st amendment.

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              3 months ago

              Freedom of speech is just that, free from government interference(look it up). You are referring to censorship.

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        4 months ago

        Yep you are free to call out fascist your employer supports. And your employer is unfortunately free you to fire you. No free speech violations there. Now if they called in the government to take you off to a camp to be exterminated or re-educated. Once the government becomes involved it’s most definitely a free speech / human rights violation. Will get there soon enough. Still plenty of reason to be outraged.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    From the same people who scream and bitch and moan about their right of free speech. It’s only their right apparently.

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        4 months ago

        I can’t name anyone who fired her and you know it. You also know that Elon Musk literally claims to be a “free speech absolutist” and then censors people who disagree with him and his fans are all in support of that.

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          4 months ago

          There’s also not a word from muskrat denouncing her being censored and fired, which is hipocritical, to say the least, from a “free speech absolutist”

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    4 months ago

    A lot of people here thinking the USA is speed running fascism here.

    No, the USA was always an inspiration to fascism (just ask the remaining Native Americans as an example).

    That’s why it was able to adopt into it so quick. Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

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      4 months ago

      Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

      Is almost a good analogy, but that’s not so easy 😅

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      4 months ago

      Oof… just because the Russians are our enemies now, doesn’t mean they were Nazis during world war II. They fought the Nazi a lot longer than America did for sure.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah they fought the Nazis - but first they made a deal with the Nazis to divide eastern Europe and went on a campaign of rape and plunder. You should look into the atrocities committed by the USSR during the 20th century - Germany paid a heavy price for their evils. Russia never did.