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No shit Sherlock. I was referring to them spending the time and energy to attempt and smear me or whatever they were hoping to achieve with that comment lol.

You aren’t the brightest sandwich in the toolshed are ya?

No? I’m not ashamed and I don’t hate women. I’m rather fond of them actually. Big fan.

No … Just you and that other clown that just showed up. Everyone else has been mostly respectful and normal.

I don’t delete my comments because I stand by the things I say. But uh… Sick threat I guess.

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I’m used to it. I don’t really take any of it personally. I appreciate your conversation.

Unfortunately that is one of the downsides. People will abuse the rules and dance all along the line for nefarious reasons. Can’t plug that hole without potentially stripping others of their ability to speak up in certain ways and situations.

I actually had a long conversation with friends about that yesterday. We were talking about how someone wasn’t outright saying to kill anyone but they were playing propaganda videos of someone else that was saying those things. Do we hold them responsible for the words of the video they were playing on stream for everyone or is that a clear separation?

So we have the classic conundrum. Do we want a system where innocent people might accidentally go to prison or do we want a system where people who should go to prison sometimes don’t because we would rather never put innocent people behind bars.

I don’t disagree.

Oh but I so really do. Literally read all the specific exceptions to Americans freedom of speech with my friends last night because all of us knew some of the exceptions but none of us knew all of them. There are quite a few more limitations than most are aware.

You make fair points. Nah private spaces can do whatever they want. You would kick someone out of your house if they were saying things you vehemently disagreed with or found offensive.

Places like Lemmy, reddit, twitter and so on are ostensibly the modern “public square”. So curtailing certain speech becomes a bit more complicated in my opinion. It’s not quite like the cake shop situation as that is a private place of business.

Whether or not you believe places like Lemmy and reddit should be treated as basically “public spaces” is up to you. Honestly I could go both ways on it. It’s complicated.

As for the free speechers and the different specifics at the tiny detail level I don’t really have a good answer for you honestly. I personally operate under the same levels of freedom of speech that the US government has. And they do have exceptions for various things and you could absolutely make the argument that a true freedom of speech believer wouldn’t allow any limitations to be placed on it in any way. That’s a conversation I have had with friends many times. Unfortunately we never really come to any concrete conclusions on it.

Shit you’re right my bad. You didn’t tell me to kill myself. You just told me I should die. That is technically different. My b.

Agree to disagree I guess. I don’t think anyone else should be able to tell you or me what we are allowed to say at any point.

I think your viewpoint is incredibly dangerous and short sighted but I am glad you are able to express that opinion.

And I didn’t tell you to kill yourself like you did to me multiple times. Shit happens.

That’s not what I was saying. Good lord you are dense.

Pass

My brother used to call me glow worm when were growing up because I was so pale that I would “light up the room” when I got out of bed at night to piss when we still shared a room as kids.

We have different dads and his father was Mexican while mine was white as could possibly be.

So I’m used to being called a worm. But not a pathetic one. Usually just a glow worm.