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We brought it on ourselves —we trusted them & they betrayed us | FREE SPEECH? WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS...
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690 views 36 upvotes Made by VinceVance 4 years ago in politics
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5 ups, 4y
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men..." —John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.
4 ups, 4y,
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Just go to Parler or Gab. They don't censor anything, but they let you censor what you want.
0 ups, 4y,
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Kylie car | image tagged in kylie car | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Don’t tell them

If all the hateful righties leave ImgFlip, where will I get my daily kicks?
0 ups, 4y,
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Nah, we really need to get back to free speech so we can share ideas and find the best ideas to implement. We don't need a babysitter like twitter, facebook, or others...
0 ups, 4y,
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I did Nazi that coming | image tagged in i did nazi that coming | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
There are some ideas we can take off the table right away.

The meme offers a hint
1 up, 4y,
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Nope, they should be allowed to speak, because the moment you decide who can speak and who can't, you start moving down the Nazi censorship path.
1 up, 4y,
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X doubt chomsky | image tagged in x doubt chomsky | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Censoring Nazi propaganda is not what makes one a Nazi believe it or not

Quite the opposite
0 ups, 4y
Nope, but when you start doing the other things the Nazi's did shortly after they censored people, then you do become a Nazi and we are going down that path. See it started with censorship, then it moved to banks and other financial institutions pulling accounts of those that were censored. We are now talking about making lists of names and jailing people for supporting a political opponent. What do you think the next step is?
2 ups, 4y
1 up, 4y,
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I mean just because they don’t let the president of up the USA spread lies like a baby, that doen’t mean stopping of free speech
1 up, 4y
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20200517/from-right-congressional-transcripts-reveal-liars
1 up, 4y,
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Twitter isn't a government agency. It is Not censorship! Why do people confuse this all of time? I hate Facebook amd twitter just as much as the next guy or gal, but it isn't censorship.
0 ups, 4y,
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When you stop another from speaking but you allow others that is censorship.
0 ups, 4y
You are right, any public or private agency can censor who ever they want... the Government cannot censor you. That is the difference. One is protecting their own interest, and the other is trampling on your 1st amendment right. Do you get it now?
1 up, 4y
Upvoted!
1 up, 4y,
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News flash! This should be template.
Upvote
1 up, 4y,
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Please, tell the powers that be! I'd get a kick out of it.....
1 up, 4y
They've got their own way of thinking.
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2 ups, 4y,
1 reply
3 ups, 4y
A Nancy Drew Mystery...
2 ups, 4y,
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That’s because you are overly sensitive and emotional leftist. You believe that what you believe is the only proper belief and want censorship power over others. You have reasoned that only your approved actions and arguments are valid and all others are problematic.

This is a weakness in your character that you fear words of disagreement or dissent. Like all leftist you abhor dissent unless you approve of it. I have never nice seen you post any denouncement of violence against rightists. Never once have you denounced violence against police, old people, or families aside in DC recently. Thank god we gave free speech because tyrants like you are a dime a dozen. You reap what you sow. Racism, division, violence are the crop you grow.
0 ups, 4y,
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Show me a meme promoting violence against “rightists, police, or old people” and I’ll be first in line to condemn it and flag it.

I’ve gone after a couple especially hateful Leftist memers here on ImgFlip politics stream multiple times.

I have an entire stream dedicated to calling out stupidity by far-Leftists and commies: imgflip.com/m/Cringe_Left

Follow the link and find all the denouncement that you care to

And what have you done lately to reign in the nonsense on your side?
0 ups, 4y,
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I like how you changed that from denounced to promote. Show me the one where you spoke out against it or denounced it on this stream. You are going to use the old, “I always denounce it on other sites or streams” You don’t denounce it because you silently support one sided violence and you celebrate death of people to the pandemic simply because of who they support. I have seen that myself. You are not alone Credibility is a fragile thing. The Democrats have none.

I see no reason to do what the left has been refusing to do since the riots. Hell they deny anything is happening. No chop zone, Antifa is an idea, lies and liars. No credibility so it appears a fight is coming to determine the future direction of the USA as a sovereign nation guided by the constitution or a globalist puppet government. Whatever happens the left brought it on by not maintaining standards of civility and a semblance of decorum. By sitting silently by as violence is used against political opponents, supporting attack on police and law and order, pronouncements to destroy the lives of political opponents and a thousand other stupidities. You reap what you sow. Enjoy your harvest.
0 ups, 4y,
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Trump’s systemic pattern of lying over the past 5+ years has been pointed out 100,000 times.

The “riots” have been tremendously exaggerated (95% of the protests were peaceful), and are a reaction to discrete injustices and a culmination of generations of failure on racial justice; but for what it’s worth, Biden & Harris have indeed condemned them. So stop parroting that lie.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN25V2O1

I live in one of those cities that was supposedly burned down by riots. It wasn’t, but we’re all still dealing with Trump’s Covid failures just like everywhere else in the country.

He’s currently actively seeking to reverse an election. Where the law failed him, because his claims are baseless, he’s turned to naked political pressure as a substitute.

If you ***still*** support Trump, after all of this, you’re a fascist.

The adults will begin putting the country back together with or without you.
0 ups, 4y,
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The riots were televised and all over social media. I don’t buy your percentage anyway. Who made up that percentage. Lying and fabrication has been apparent in the media bias, voter suppression polling and various other metrics and initiatives from the left and their propagandists. Biden and Harris are insincere when they denounce violence and single out right groups as the provocateurs when it is clear it’s coming from the left. That amounts too the Willie Wonka,”no, stop” insincerity. The fact is you spent four years in open opposition and practically enacted a coup on the government because of “injustices”. There’s all kind of injustices in this world and it is a motivator for the right as well as the left. The “adults” will be dealing with an increasingly militant insurrection as they seek redress for their perceived injustices just as the left did.
0 ups, 4y,
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The “riots” were blared over and over and over and over (and over) again on right-wing media, weeks and even months after they happened, creating the impression they were more prevalent than they really were.

Here’s a citation for the percentage of peaceful protests.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/%3famp=true

And here’s another famous guy who you will probably say was “insincere” in his denunciation of riots.

He was right on the money though. And unfortunately, given the lack of progress in racial equality in this country ever since he was assassinated, he still is.
0 ups, 4y
You literally believe no progress since his assassination? That’s ridiculous from segregated hotels, drinking fountains, to now? America has made astonishing progress in literally a generation. From where it was in the 60’s to now. The minds of American youth are much more open to equality than they were. The opportunities have expanded to those who seek them. Not perfect but astonishing progress in a generation.

As usual the left overplayed their hand, they had everybody on board for police reform, but they decided they needed to promote racial hatred of whites and denunciation of law and order in a criminally aligned society. It don’t sell outside the leftist Democratic controlled cities who are the primary people I charge of such “atrocities” Trump didn’t train the Minneapolis police department.
0 ups, 4y,
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If you want to compare the harm “riots” have done to our country vs. Covid, here’s a good place to start.
0 ups, 4y
Your childish reasoning that Trump is to blame for Covid deaths is absurd. You talk about adults while you ignore the basic facts.

As of 21 November 2020, 288,444 deaths have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK. Yet Trump was not in charge. How do many deaths? Whose negligence is responsible? No you will say well the population is larger. Sure they also didn’t do the stupidest thing on earth during a pandemic. Gather in huge masses of strangers repeatedly over a couple weeks. History will prove out. Unless revisionist lefties write it and say no everyone died because of Trump. Children believe in boogeyman parents use to get them to do what their told. Just like you and the rest of the militant left.
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