What the right wing has forgotten is that individual rights only apply so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others. They ignore that second part, and define anything that protects the rights of individuals or groups that have long been oppressed as "taking away their rights".
Freedom of speech means freedom.for.the one you hate the most.
I could not agree more, but it does not mean you can make any statement you want, just because you are siting anonymously behind a computer, and say/do tings you would not get away in the real physical world.
Are you sure, not saying that SJW's are always right, sure there are some unreasonable righteous a-holes among them to, but imho is indifferens much worse, same for lying politicians that twist the truth just because it fits the popular ''political'' moment!
Absolutely. As I see it, this is what conservatives in the US fail to understand as they get butt hurt when they claim and if their posts are censored from certain sites.
In the US, what US conservatives seem to fail to understand, from MY perspective, is that the US Supreme Court has placed definite limits on 1st Amendment Rights (Free Speech). It seems to me that US conservatives will only support the law when the law agrees with their viewpoints. Just in case anyone is wondering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...volving_the_First_Amendment#Freedom_of_speech
As a US Citizen, I think the US just barely got through an entire four years of a US Presidential Administration that thought nothing of twisting everything this his political moment. If he got his way, it would still, against a completely legal and valid election, be HIS political moment.
This entire comment reads of heavy projection. Nothing you have written couldnt be equally applied to any democrat. Republicans are far from perfect, but to act like they are the only ones that willingly refuse to understand the rights of the american citizen is disengenuous at best.
Well, when our government tried to force everyone to stay home for a year plus, and we told them to screw off, they LISTENED. This is something that mystifies most australians (and europeans as well) who go along with whatever insane BS their government comes up with. If the american people truly do not want something, the government listens to the people isntead of forcing it through anyway.
Australians and Europeans governments listen to their people as well. It’s called elections. They have them, and then they respect them. Something Americans seem to have difficulties with lately.
The same things happened during the flu pandemic of 1918. There was debate over whether masks helped even though there was plenty of evidence that they did help and there is plenty of evidence that they helped prevent the spread of COVID. So the lesson should have been learned in 1918. But yalllqaiduhs freedumb is more important than contributing to the prevention of the spread of the virus and not contributing to the deaths of your fellow citizens. Uh-huh. That's respecting the rights of your fellow citizens all right. So your argument is that the red side decided to ignore science and damn the rights of anyone that disagrees with you? That's what I call respecting rights - not.
And two prominent JAs got convicted for brandishing on video, no less. Oh, and peacfully storming the capital (that is, if you call peacefully breaking through barriers like doors and windows, beating capital police, not to mention spreading red feces where ever) is perfectly fine. I think your spin that all Democrats condoned the George Floyd violence is BS. But go ahead and deny there is a problem with how non-white people are treated by police in the US as if the outrage that boiled over and the deaths at the hands of police are not symptomatic enough.
The simple truth of the matter is that "big daddy government" (talk about projection) is necessary in any modern civilization. Without that, I bet there would be plenty of people in the US, and elsewhere, who would welcome a return to a state of the state similar to how the movies have portrayed the Wild West days.
No, Australia has had a right wing government for most of this century, getting progressively more secretive as time goes on. This is a distraction to stop voters thinking the government does nothing, all smoke and mirrors, because we have an election coming up.
