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Does this post represent the view of Leftists?

Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:28 pm
Posted by SidewalkDawg
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:28 pm
Any resident leftists here want to deny anything in this post? I hope you do, because if not, this is terrifying.

Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29450 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:31 pm to
I don't think any of that is accurate. There may be some backwards arse former Soviet nations that have restricted speech like that but not the big ones like France, Spain, Germany, etc.

I've been to France, have friends in Paris and Avignon and never heard of anything like that.
Posted by Ham Malone
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:33 pm to
How do you read a post like that and not realize it's a troll?
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
29650 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:33 pm to
What a fricking loon

Unfortunately, many agree, even here

THIS highlights why it was so important to vote Trump and get a decent replacement for Scalia

We are still heading down that road, but the brakes have put on for a minute...
Posted by AUbused
Member since Dec 2013
7770 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:34 pm to
Because they want to believe it characterizes "the left".
Posted by Balloon Huffer
Member since Sep 2010
3421 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:34 pm to
wake up.

They just had a "sting" of 40 something internet facebook users arrested for saying..... unpleasant things

it is happening, your personal experience is 100% irrelevant.
Posted by DuncanIdaho
Ouray, CO
Member since Feb 2013
14970 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:34 pm to
Sounds like that was written by somebody who has never been to Europe.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
29650 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:34 pm to
Wrong

People are charged by the thought police all the time , some for what they say on Facebook

This post was edited on 7/18/17 at 2:35 pm
Posted by ChewyDante
Member since Jan 2007
16916 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:34 pm to
Apparently that dolt doesn't realize that America has never given a frick what Europeans think about our liberties. That's sort of the the whole point behind our foundation.
Posted by DonChowder
Sonoma County
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:35 pm to
That reads like a troll post.
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:35 pm to
None of my liberal/left friends believe anything like that
This post was edited on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29450 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

Unfortunately, many agree, even here

no they don't
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

How do you read a post like that and not realize it's a troll?


Yeah, that was almost subtle enough.
Posted by AUbused
Member since Dec 2013
7770 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

Wrong

People are charged by the thought police all the time , some for what they say on Facebook


I think we found the OP Facebooker.
Posted by SidewalkDawg
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

How do you read a post like that and not realize it's a troll?


It probably is. I'm not arguing the veracity or truthfulness of the actual post. I'm asking if any of this represents the Leftist view.

Do leftists think any of this is alright? "Hate speech is violence" is something I've been seeing more and more of lately.
Posted by DuncanIdaho
Ouray, CO
Member since Feb 2013
14970 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:36 pm to
quote:

People are charged by the thought police all the time , some for what they say on Facebook

Charged? Like in a court of law? Do you have any examples?
Posted by burdhead
WOMP WOMP!!
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:37 pm to
that shite is scary....i am wanting to think about the possibility of dropping nukes on europe and wiping that shite right off the face of the earth....or, why not just round up the social marxists, load them on cattle cars and send them to an internment camp so they can be processed and sent to europe, since europe likes refugees so much....we don't like leftists, so instead of having to liquidate them, just take the cleanest and easiest solution and place them where they fit...
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29450 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:38 pm to
quote:

the thought police all the time , some for what they say on Facebook

Are the culprits updating their status using only their mind?
Posted by DuncanIdaho
Ouray, CO
Member since Feb 2013
14970 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:38 pm to
quote:

I'm asking if any of this represents the Leftist view.

Some "leftists"? I'm sure some feel that way. I think it's ridiculous and so would all the other leftists I know. There are loons and extremists on both sides.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112417 posts
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:39 pm to
Mark Steyn and Milo Y have both consistently stated that the biggest difference between the US and Europe is the existence of our 1st Amendment. The don't have it.
Speech in the US can get you in trouble. Speech in Europe can get you in jail.
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