Absolute Free Speech
Absolute Free Speech works. As freedom tends to do, it sorts itself out.
Exceptions made to inalienable & civil rights are the poison pill.
If you could say anything society would actually learn words are just words. Would people lie all the time? YEP! And we would all figure out how to be far more decerning. We would innately learn to look to facts, evidence, and one of Western civilizations’ most significant losses: logic.
We might not believe “we are not suppressing conservative speech” when clearly they are, and they won’t let us look under the hood. Without Elon showing the digital records, how many would still believe this lie?.. how many still do?!?
We might not trust the words “we audited the election.” when all we did was say we did. We might demand with force to see the digital records.
“Well, you can’t call for violence; that is wrong, and the First Amendment doesn’t protect it!” You sure about that? What is the very next amendment if it isn’t a threat of violence against our government and or any other who wants to fuck around and find out?
The Second Amendment is a codified and ratified threat of violence.
What do you think the oath to defend our constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is? A call to a pillow fight? It’s a call to rip people’s heads off and shit down their neck. IT. IS. AN. OATH. TO. VIOLENCE.
“But, but people would be mean”… we would get better at cutting them out. Facts don’t care about your feelings.
Again, any exception to our inalienable rights becomes the very tool that dismantles them.
No violent speech turns into hate speech is a call to violence, turns into you can’t criticize those in power, turns into more people in England arrested for Facebook posts than in Russia.
The often brilliant and foolish Sam Harris did a podcast on free speech recently and got a bit emotional when declaring that no reasonable person is a free speech absolutist. Sam, you have been found wanting. So have most of you.
Using claims of consensus is an excellent sign that in your gut and heart of hearts, you know you are mistaken. When the foundation of any argument is built from chattling together group think and fear as validity, you can be certain there is no there there. Keep your certainties and guarantees. I’ll take freedom and logic.
When this world finds itself under a tipped scale of tyranny yet again, we should all call for violence and refuse the silent cattle car to internment. At such a time, I CALL TO KILL THE TYRANT. I call for violence against such tyranny, foreign or domestic.
