"Liberalism’s devotion to fairness and belief in the honor system has made it incapable of taking its own side against those who would replace it with fascism."
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2/"The problem isn't devotion to fairness, it's the challenge of healthy censorship." Censorship must always be controversial, intention is nuanced, humans often irrational. We must strengthen separation of church and state and we must set clear standards for truth - no more gods, no more bullshit.
1/Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, unlimited tolerance can destroy tolerance. My stance: intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance, but what about intolerance and the First Amendment, is hate speech free speech? The problem isn't devotion to fairness, it's the challenge of healthy censorship.
The old political norms are dead. Putin stooges Trump and Musk are dismantling American democracy while establishment Dems are worrying about decorum and the “high road”.
This isn’t Queensbury rules. This is a street fight.
But yet (according to Pinker’s Enlightenment Now) liberal democracies have been expanding over the last two centuries as authoritarian regimes eventually go up in flames.
Liberals struggle to even fathom the fascist minds because they never think to behave that way. I've had several ppl over three last decade tell me I was crazy only to later apologize because Republicans did what I said they would.
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government." "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty."
I just responded with the PoT! I've been sharing it for years. We were too respectful of the spiritually certain determined to replace our freedom of or from religion with their own. Now women are dying because of it, a generation has been denied civic education, and evolution is a dirty word. smh
Sorry but it’s too late for your tepid defense of “good Nazi” balanced reporting. When you are fighting for the survival of democracy you don’t share or give some bullets to your enemy and the quisling GOP and their media mouthpieces have been on their path of destruction for quite some time.
I think it’s as simple as this: the right are morally bankrupt and will lie, cheat, steal to get power for the sake of it. Their hatred of ‘other’ and their willingness to harm others to protect themselves is how they live. Leftists, by default, are the opposite to this. Just my opinion though! 🤷🏻♀️😊💙
Seeing how this has played out over and over in the past, shouldn't we just quickly move to a violent solution to the problem or suffer horribly like our ancestors did yet again?
Mark Lazarus already sounds like a clown. I want right wing voices on news programs, but I want their lies challenged. Fact check every lie. Don’t move on until the liar admits they lied or gets up and leaves. Challenge every lie.
Not for me.
I'm one liberal progressive who hates everything our current conservatives stand for & want them out of office stat.
I cannot stand their corruption & self-dealing.
I cannot stand their lying as policy because they offer nothing of value to non-rich U.S. citizens.
I hate their fasicsm.
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Shame on anyone who favors fascism over freedom.
That’s why maga fascism is winning…
This isn’t Queensbury rules. This is a street fight.
Floridians, join me!!!
Florida doesn’t have a recall mechanism for Senators, but since we’re ignoring the rules….
Let’s remove this fraud, waste and abuse. Let’s raise our collective voice and send a message!!!
https://chng.it/s6J7sfDmHD
I'm one liberal progressive who hates everything our current conservatives stand for & want them out of office stat.
I cannot stand their corruption & self-dealing.
I cannot stand their lying as policy because they offer nothing of value to non-rich U.S. citizens.
I hate their fasicsm.
it's one thing for people to fight the government
but another to ALSO fight the companies that not only provide jobs.....but also health insurance and services people depend on