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Have you checked the news the last few days? Plenty of people out there are stupid enough to fall for this and much worse.
by jowsie 6y ago
Have you checked the news the last few days? Plenty of people out there are stupid enough to fall for this and much worse.
- eznzt 6y agoWhich is exactly the point. Why keep being a democracy when we don't trust the voters to do the right thing?
- BHSPitMonkey 6y agoThe posts in question are there to organize an armed assault next week, before the inauguration. The literal planning of an illegal act is where the "free exchange of ideas" argument falls flat. Your rhetorical question reads to me no differently than "Why bother giving people freedom in the first place if we're just going to punish them whenever they murder someone? We might as well just drop the pretense and imprison everybody by default"
- thatguy0900 6y agoSome of the richest companies in the world are actively dedicated to pushing people to the fringes because they make more money that way. Blaming voters seems a little unfair to me.
- mkolodny 6y agoThe voters voted out the current president. "Stop the steal" is an attempt to override the voters' decision.
- jrs235 6y agoWe use to call representatives, particularly Senators, Statesmen. They were elected to represent the interests of their State [government] and not that of the people or themselves.