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The BBC was able to report on his controversy easier

Free speech is to allow the multi-billionaire companies to advertise their products to the masses. It isn't free speech so much as a right to advertise. It helps billionaire companies much more than anyone else.

Sounds like a bunch of snowflakes enacting their cancel culture.

Fuck man. We are at peak stupid right now. Kirk was a piece of shit, the people leading the us are pieces of shit. Ceo's and leaders of racist/ fascist movements are getting shot in the streets.

The people are pissed, we are entering a tipping point

Both sides are held to their own standards – but only one side actually has standards.

If you have zero standards, as does the right, what is there to hold anyone to?

Worse, when you’ve swaddled yourself in fanatic Christianity, where the only one who can judge you is a god, and he’ll forgive all your sins if you accept some guy into your heart, and the way to do that is to say you have, you can do literally anything and be accepted.

The rest of us hold each other accountable. As we should.

Don’t pine for the blind acceptance of sociopaths – it’s infernal for all of us.

That's basically the playbook.

The right cries free speech, but demands everyone else's free speech be removed.

The media is captured by the right.

That's a VERY, VERY bad sign for our nation and democracy in general, and, historically, that's an indication that things about about to get REAL dark.

We should start printing flyers expressing views like the views this guy was fired for and posting them up all over our cities. We can't rely on the media to be able to express truth anymore. And posting said views on here or other, more censored, social media isn't going to cut it anymore. Doesn't reach enough people, and not the right people. The people on the fence. The people on the middle. The people that will end up being captured by the right because they control the media.

Posts like this, and most comments to be honest. Really makes me question how low the bar is in the US in terms of general education. You all talk about "Freedom of speech" while not having a single clue as to what it actually is.

Freedom of speech, protects you from your government (with some exceptions, often being, threats, incitement, disclosing classified information, and things of that nature), that's it.

Freedom of speech, is all of those people saying all of those things, without facing criminal charges or other forms of retaliation from the government.

It does not, will not, and never have, protected you from losing employment because of what you say.

There is some notable discrepancy between how USA citizens describe their (theoretical & practical) "free speech" vs how the rest of the world sees their "free speech" in the same regard.

It's def a complex subject but I don't think a lot of people think USA is at the forefront of this.
(But it is extensively marketed - most countries/cultures/regimes have such tidbits, which differ a lot.)

I love reddit screenshots of a twitter post.

Yeah, because only one side cares about language and the words we use. The other side is a bunch of disengenous fuck bags with zero beliefs outside of economics

Fear of retribution by the current president is why.

Freedom of speech is words that they will bend. Metallica taught me that in 1988.

Слава Україні, Cлава Палестині.

Gramsci talked about this long before the 24/7 news cycles even existed. This is what the bourgeois hegemony is. Hegemony isn't defined only by the brute force of the state to enforce itself onto the people, but encompasses the ownership of cultural, political, and intellectual institutions too. The role of hegemony is to shape the views and values of the underlying classes as to make said values seem normal, organic, and timeless. This in turn will manufacture the consent the owning class needs in order to pursue its interests. As of now, the bourgeois hegemony has decided that Charlie Kirk needs to be brought on equal footing with other political activists. They have decided that the subordinate classes need to accept that Charlie Kirk's very real and tangible political activism is nothing but "opinions" in "the marketplace of ideas" and the consequences he has suffered at the hands of the system he helped build are unexpected. This is why everyone from the democrats to the republicans, from the liberal media to the conservative media is suddenly calling out "political violence" and mourning Kirk publicly. The bourgeoisie is trying to instill a new Zeitgeist and the people calling it out are a thorn in their side.

The only "way" free speech goes is... Leaving the US as we speak.

Yah but just release the list