m2f2 4 months ago

Goodbye first amendment. What's next? Revoking citizenship?

  • swiftcoder 4 months ago

    The Brits already started doing that one a while back. It'll arrive here eventually

  • zombot 4 months ago

    Don't give them any more bad ideas.

  • easyThrowaway 4 months ago

    It depends. Are you a 30-something Indian American who recently got elected as the Mayor of New York? /s

    • jmclnx 4 months ago

      That has already been discussed early this summer.

      • easyThrowaway 4 months ago

        Indeed that was the point of my joke, it isn’t just an hypothetical situation but a quite real scenario that will probably tried in court against Mamdani in the following months.

fleahunter 4 months ago

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  • anal_reactor 4 months ago

    Americans thought that Russians would eventually adopt American culture, but instead Americans adopted Russian culture. Hehe.

    • CamperBob2 4 months ago

      Absolutely true, but I don't see what's funny about it.

swiftcoder 4 months ago

We literally just did this with a different talkshow host, and he was back at work after, what, a week? Now that the networks have learned how their audiences respond to politically-motivated talkshow host firings... I don't see this going anywhere

  • netsharc 4 months ago

    I guess it's mostly for the chilling effect... Kimmel and Seth are big enough names, but what about less known people, would they feel free about joking about the sexual-assaulter-in-chief in public, or would they censor themselves?

  • FrustratedMonky 4 months ago

    It's the grind.

    Each successive cancellation wears down the public.

    Eventually people start being cancelled and there is no fight back.

    It's in the authoritarian playbook. Forgot the page to provide citation.

saubeidl 4 months ago

And there we go again, the Republican party - self-proclaimed paragon of the first Amendment - showing its true colors once again.

Free speech for me, not for thee.

  • zombot 4 months ago

    For a bunch of weenies who love playing at being tough they sure whine a lot.

  • Suzuran 4 months ago

    That's the old and broke GOP. The new GOP understands that the Constitution has been fatally corrupted by woke and liberalism, and our only hope is to crown a King who speaks the Truth of all things for all of time. When nobody can say we are losing, we must be winning.

    • josefritzishere 4 months ago

      Sarcasm?

      • wffurr 4 months ago

        I wish. Until the Republican Congress stands up and asserts their constitutional authority instead of taking marching orders, this is not that far off from what we have now.

      • Suzuran 4 months ago

        Actually better idea - I'll call it Schrödinger's Sarcasm. Whether or not it's sarcasm depends on whether or not my political reliability is being investigated by the secret police.

        • IAmBroom 4 months ago

          Let's call it Catch-23.

      • Suzuran 4 months ago

        God I hope.

        (Edit: I thought of a better answer.)

evolve2k 4 months ago

To misquote animal farm:

All speach is equal but some speech is more equal than other speech.

josefritzishere 4 months ago

What in the Heinrich Luitpold Himmler is this nonsense?