The assault on the first amendment (and the return of McCarthyism)

The assault on the first amendment (and the return of McCarthyism)

I believe this merits its own thread now. The first amendment is definitely under assault.

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18 September 2025 at 02:13 PM
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by chezlaw

We might be able to prove god exists. Fredric Brown had the answer

A pantheistic one, anyway. I recall an argument showing we can never gain as much knowledge about a system from without as the system could from within. That puts the idea of an omniscient AND transcendent being in a bind.

I’ve slipped into solipsism while meditating. It gives a different meaning to “do unto others…” when there aren’t any. If everyone were in that state, we’d all think we were It, the godhead or whatever we want to call It. So I think we could prove "god exists" in that sense because it would be self-evident in the same manner the laws of thought seem self-evident.


He is Julius Caesar, Nero, and Caligula.

lol


by chillrob

Wow, more people putting words in my mouth. I did not say that I hoped the president (or anyone) would get killed.

You explicitly did, you're just trying to row back from it. On 22 November 1963, the BBC reporter Martin Muncaster was waiting for a plane at St Louis airport when the PA announced the murder of President Kennedy. The announcer then put dance music on and everyone in the departure lounge, except the Englishman, got up and joyfully did the twist. After a while the music stopped and people sat down, looking, to Muncaster's eye, slightly ashamed of themselves, which I suppose was something.

In 1966-7 the British novelist Kingsley Amis did a year's fellowship at Vanderbilt University, Nashville and, at a campus party, met the academic and novelist Professor Walter Sullivan, who announced, 'I can't find it in my heart to give a nigra or a Jew an A,' to be heartily congratulated by the faculty and wives ('Thank you for saying that, Walter'). Sullivan, it turned out, had thrown a party in 1963 to celebrate the Kennedy murder, and so had a number of his neighbours. Sullivan remained a respectable member of American society till his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sul...)

Claiming to be on the supposed American 'left' (the side that has just committed a grisly political murder) doesn't really make that kind of thing any better.


Claiming to be on the supposed American 'left' (the side that has just committed a grisly political murder) doesn't really make that kind of thing any better.

Yes sir, Biden himself ordered the assassination.


by BGnight

Communist directive of 1943. "label them a Nazi or a fascist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8PBaj6...

Ok, fascist.


by 57 On Red

No, he'll just leave office when he reaches his term limit.

Not if he's successful in his 2nd term.


by Nut Nut

This thread is about 30 years too late. When Clinton and the GOP Congress collaborated on the Telecommunication Act and allowed companies like Sinclair to own all three of the radio, print and TV outlets in rural America, the seeds of fascism were sown.Get in your car and drive through the country listening to AM radio and you'll understand the polarizing brainwashing apparatus

Trump and the 1% does exactly the plan that always been .
Create massive discontent between regular people on the left and right and empty the treasury coffers in the process .

Working great .
All time high stock market
All time high debt
All time high deficit
All time low taxes (for the rich)
Idiot at the bottom fighting for dumb stuff …

Win win win

Go maga go


by BGnight

Communist directive of 1943. "label them a Nazi or a fascist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8PBaj6...

The playbook of republicans vs democrats since the 1950 .

I don’t know why the right so piss off about fascism term shrug
Don’t worry republicans will get used to it .

Fascism and communism are equivalent .


by BGnight

Pure conspiratorial nonsense while advocating for the assassination of our sitting President. But we're the unhinged ones.

Sure, I HOPE he could use this phantom power to keep the left from "winning" another election but I'm not stupid enough to believe he could pull it off. He simply DOES NOT have that power.

Successful or not doesn’t matter .
Trump will try that’s for sure .
He even admitted for election purpose , not respecting the constitution was ok .
Just his third term aspiration shows it shrug .

Keep your hand in the sand , the light is too strong for your enlightenment .


by Montrealcorp

Fascism and communism are equivalent .

THANK YOU for exposing the projection of the left and who the real fascists are.


by BGnight

THANK YOU for exposing the projection of the left and who the real fascists are.

Well u got a problem .
Left can’t be fascist , but I let learn why by your own ….
And certainly us democrats can’t be communist or fascist ,
They are “shamefully” called liberals , again I let you learn on your own why they can’t be either …


by Montrealcorp

Well u got a problem .
Left can’t be fascist , but I let learn why by your own ….
And certainly us democrats can’t be communist or fascist ,
They are “shamefully” called liberals , again I let you learn on your own why they can’t be either …

incoherent gibberish.


Kimmel returning.


by biggerboat

Kimmel returning.

Direct action gets the goods. We did it Joe!


by Montrealcorp

Well u got a problem .
Left can’t be fascist , but I let learn why by your own Â….
And certainly us democrats can’t be communist or fascist ,
They are “shamefully” called liberals , again I let you learn on your own why they can’t be either …

Fascism and communism are equivalent.
Left can't be fascist.
Therefore ?


by biggerboat

Kimmel returning.

Does he apologize? See if his advertisers return .


by Victor

lol

I said I was using some hyperbole!

I predict he will do some really crazy stuff before leaving office though


by biggerboat

Kimmel returning.

Oh good, those 100,000 boomers that watched him will be happy.


by BGnight

Oh good, those 100,000 boomers that watched him will be happy.

And millions of idiots will be enraged.


by BGnight

Keep conveniently ignoring bill SB 771 that Newsom just passed.

Never heard of it. Feel free to tell us about it, that's what the forum is for.

But please stop lying about things, like when you implied I advocated an assassination.


by 57 On Red

No, he'll just leave office when he reaches his term limit.

We'll find out, I suppose. But he has been displaying Trump 2028 hats, so he certainly wants us to think that he won't be leaving.


by 57 On Red

You explicitly did, you're just trying to row back from it.

Lol, feel free to quote me.


by chillrob

We'll find out, I suppose. But he has been displaying Trump 2028 hats, so he certainly wants us to think that he won't be leaving.

Afaik he has 2023 2036 and 2040 hats already as well


by lozen

Does he apologize?

For what? specifically.


by King Spew

For what? specifically.

The fact that he implied the shooter was MAGA when he knew damn well he/she/they wasn’t as he has a crack research team that he brags about . His jokes were distasteful but hey he is a comedian have no issues with them

Personally ill respect him more if he doesn’t apologize

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