A Political Thread pt. 2

[AlRums]

How many Palestinians have been arrested in the US just for exercising their right to free speech and peacefully protesting? I don't know of any

For someone who claims to be up-to-date with current affairs you are woefully lacking.

Who is Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist facing US deportation?

The Columbia University graduate had a key role in student protests over Gaza. Trump said his arrest was the first of "many to come".

www.bbc.co.uk

And since you think anything other than the FT is beneath you

Arrest of Columbia Palestine activist is ‘first of many’, Donald Trump says

Detention of former graduate student and US green card holder Mahmoud Khalil sparks outrage

www.ft.com

 

[AlRums]

How many Palestinians have been arrested in the US just for exercising their right to free speech and peacefully protesting? I don't know of any

You ignored the linked story, so I'll link it again

Report: Jewish Tesla owner 'speechless' after Jewish Musk-hater finger-traces swastika on his Cybertruck

A Jewish man was "speechless" after reportedly seeing an Elon Musk protester draw a swastika on his Cybertruck in NYC. The incident comes amid a wave of anti-DOGE protests in the U.S.

www.foxnews.com

He exercised his right of free speech and got arrested, so your own citizens don't have the right if free speech do they?

 

[AlRums]

Trump revokes Hunter Biden's Secret Service detail, "effective immediately"

In a post to Truth Social on Monday, the president said he was revoking Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden.

www.newsweek.com

Do as I say, not do as I do.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

And since you think anything other than the FT is beneath you

Arrest of Columbia Palestine activist is ‘first of many’, Donald Trump says

Detention of former graduate student and US green card holder Mahmoud Khalil sparks outrage

www.ft.com

It was Chicago Kid who deflected that anything other than the FT was trash. Although I also have my suspicions that they are the same person. Funny how one disappears and the other one appears to take over. Apparently not using the same IP but that's quite easy to get around.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

It was Chicago Kid who deflected that anything other than the FT was trash. Although I also have my suspicions that they are the same person. Funny how one disappears and the other one appears to take over. Apparently not using the same IP but that's quite easy to get around.

I highly doubt they are the same person

 

[General Melchett]

Free speech at all costs even if it results in violence, threats and physical harm to citizens is wild. When the right to free speech is abused and infringes on other citizens' rights we basically have a situation where citizens' rights are competing with each other. It's therefore understandable that a Government has to step in and decide which right trumps the other. I would expect any reasonable and responsible Government to eradicate such abuses in order to safeguard it's citizens' and keep them secure which should be a Government's number one priority.

We've seen countless examples of other liberties afforded to a country's citizens only for them to be abused by a minority which resulted in restrictions having to be applied in order to safeguard citizens.

At one point it was legal to buy and fly drones. Great! However, some idiots decided it would be fun to fly them near airports with the intention of disrupting flights or even worse causing a catastrophic accident. The Government then has to step in and respond with new legislation to address the minority of idiots in order to keep citizens' safe.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

I highly doubt they are the same person

Just my suspicions. If they are not they share the same brain cell of supporting Trump.

 

[McTallshort]

I think the current American approach to free speech comes as a reaction to the cancel culture of recent years where there was a perception that comics/TV presenters etc would be cancelled due to something they said or posted sometimes years in the past. As Jonathan Pie recently said in one of his parody rants "the left dropped free speech and the right picked it up"


Now you could argue cancel culture was a myth etc but I'm going to say it wasn't and it's effects were not productive for discourse or society in general with people just becoming more entrenched in their own dogma.

Now we have an American government full on hate speech/say what you want/screw the libs etc etc and to me it's one of those left hand issues. "Yes in the UK they get free healthcare but you can go the freaking PRISON for offending a transgender lesbian Christian!" And that very much comes out in the conversations here. I don't ever feel my freedom to say or think what I want is affected here in the UK but then I'm not a racist, conspiracy theorist who goes online threatening to rxxx people so I guess it's not going to be.