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Someone else's opinion is not oppression.

Someone insulting you, also is not oppression.

The first is just disagreement, the second is, at worst, being rude.

However, if you attack them, make "hate laws" that literally send the state to steal from them, restrict their actions or speech, or fire them from their jobs over it, that actually IS oppression.

People in this country have become so mentally weak, that they become psychotic and violent when they hear something as innocuous as a contradicting opinion on very simple issues.

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ESE 6mo ago

Do you have examples of the United States government targeting specific people, stealing from them, and firing them from their jobs?

Guy Swann 6mo ago

Why is that relevant to my post? I didn’t say anything about the US govt. There are some examples however regarding “hate speech” laws but I don’t know them off the top of my head.

Guy Swann 6mo ago

The other relevant situation here if we are focused on the US govt, is regarding vaccines in 2020. The govt and its agencies went full on psycho regarding an extraordinary amount of measures and broke dozens of their own laws doing so, but everyone just kinda said “I guess they can do that.”

ESE 6mo ago

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I am still trying to understand the concept of free speech. So far, I have formed the opinion that free speech does not mean free from all consequences. I am genuinely trying to keep evolving on the matter and not to camp in my opinion.

FiddleHodlHomestead 6mo ago

"Free" just means that the government does not use its power to silence you. In the US, this is interpreted quite broadly, with the exceptions being specific threats or incitement to violence, slander, and fraud.

So no, not freedom from consequences unless one of the consequences is being thrown in jail or fined.

ESE 6mo ago

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Thekid.999 6mo ago

Yes just watch this little history lesson

https://youtu.be/j4kI2h3iotA

0dcd32e4... 6mo ago

Plenty of examples in Europe and plenty of politicians pushing for it in the US

ESE 6mo ago

That makes sense. Hopefully, the good people of the US will continue to stay vigilant.

Zaikaboy 6mo ago

Even though you are quite correct, we will be sending the Stasi to arrest you for spreading such malicious gossip. Your AIPAC handler has been informed

MAHDOOD 6mo ago

I agree with everything you said except the last part about people becoming mentally weak. Where is the evidence that people have ever been anything different?

I wish I had the actual quote for you but I remember the sovereign individual quoting a report that said a large percentage of Americans in the past were literally considered incompetent. Many couldn’t read. This would explain why old studies showed Americans obeying authority simply because they were wearing white lab coats. They still obey authority today. The majority of humans have and will likely remain retarded. But we keep looking at people in the past as being different/better which isn’t necessarily true.

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aldum 6mo ago

Just in an evolutionary sense, they couldn't have been as week as today, because there was no environment to coddle them, i.e. in the workplace. So they must have learned to cope to some degree or die of poverty, as welfare was also a lot more scarce.

garagebob 6mo ago

I wonder if society elevates and rewards fragility more than it used to. Stoic? Pah. Privileged.

Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah 6mo ago

Familiar with the quote, "The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself"?

I think the inverse is equally true. Lies are brittle, vulnerable, and weak. In constant need of insulation and protection. This has become the mode of being of modern society: an insecure lie.