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“The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.” -Chappelle
by guscost 6y ago
“The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.” -Chappelle
- dane-pgp 6y ago> in case the First one doesn’t work out. That's a nice idea, until someone thinks "doesn't work out" includes "I don't get the electoral result that I wanted".
- guscost 6y agoIf only the world were as simple as your tidy little vignette.
- h0l0cube 6y agoAt a minimum, I'd wager that those that stormed Capitol Hill, wouldn't have done if the election had the opposite result. I'd further wager that any protest in the counterfactual would have been a much smaller scale, and much less violent. 2016 being an example of Democrat supporters accepting an election result they didn't like - with officials taking a legal approach into their plaint with the election campaign (i.e., Russian interference) based on trying to build a case on evidence... not making indefensible claims about a conspiring deep state.
- v64 6y agoFortunately this is a discussion about a business curating their own platform as opposed to censorship by the government