• Paragone
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    17 days ago

    False-framing: Trump’s abusing ALL law, in order to finish his highjacking of the US of A.

    Pretending that censorship-of-corrosive-expression is THE problem, is ignoring the rude fact that within your own body, your immune-system censors ALL pathogens’ expression, that it can.

    Censorship’s a fundamental part of biological-health.

    The problem isn’t censorship-of-corrosive-expression, it is when censorship is applied to non-harmful expression, & especially to beneficial-expression ( immune-disorder diseases, like multiple-sclerosis, lupus, arthritis, etc, are these ), & then you have what is correctly called disease.

    False-framing is 1 of many kinds of disinformation.

    False-framing of censorship is done by the WHOLE political-spectrum.

    False-framing can go eat rocks.

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      17 days ago

      When the government can decide what speech is harmful you have to be really careful about who you elect.

      The US elected Trump. Twice. Just think about that for a moment

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    17 days ago

    Guess I’m gonna break some fucking laws then.

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    17 days ago

    Very true. Democracy is a polite dictatorship. Now the left is feeling it.

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      17 days ago

      If democracy is a “polite dictatorship”, what is your preferred form of government?

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        17 days ago

        Something like Singapore sounds amazing. A government that creates a system that works, instead of the circus politics of Western democracy. The fact you think democracy is the only system shows you don’t know anything else, not because you know everything, but because you are ignorant of the possibilities. You tell an American it is possible to have good healthcare without Obamacare, or a market that is not dominated by insurance, they can’t fathom it. You are what you only know.

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          16 days ago

          I looked it up, and, of course, you’re spouting some bullshit. Why the fuck are we talking about health insurance right now?

          Singapore is a Parliamentary Representative Democratic Republic.

          The United States is a Constitutional Federal Republic.

          Both countries’ citizens (on paper) democratically elect their own representatives to their legislature, their executive branch officers, and depending on the level of court, their judiciary, as well.

          They’re “democratic” because the citizenry exercises their power through suffrage (voting) for their government representatives who are vested with a mandate of their political will.

          Etymologically: democracy = demos (people) + kratos (power).

          So, again, clown-shoes, what other system would you want other than a “democratic” system (i.e., one where political power is arbitrated through voting for laws directly or electing citizens to draft and vote for them)?

          Monarchy? Oligarchy? Plutocracy? Syndicate? Anarchy? Dictatorship?

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              16 days ago

              Not surprised.

              “Lol.”

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                15 days ago

                Singapore is considered a flawed democracy. An unelected commission decides who can be a presidential candidate. For this reason, it is why Singapore does not have clowns for presidents because it restricts the candidates the people can vote for. There are other reasons why it is considered a flawed democracy, that is one hard example. Singapore is much more technocratic. Democracy is how you have fascist and socialist get a foothold in the government, which can lead to a complete takeover, all based on the belief, that it is the right of idiots to vote on their beliefs. Have a nice Trump day.

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                  An unelected commission decides who can be a presidential candidate.

                  Who appoints this commission?

                  Democracy is how you have fascist and socialist get a foothold in the government, which can lead to a complete takeover, all based on the belief, that it is the right of idiots to vote on their beliefs.

                  Just so I understand you, you think it’s better to have a commission, that’s accountable to no external power, to choose executive leadership?

                  That is arbitrary oligarchical authoritarianism, unless they’re accountable to some democratically elected body, that can imprison them if the commission is found to be acting criminally.

                  Have a nice Trump day.

                  … You too, I guess?