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By what metric?

IG_Semmelweiss 6mo ago
The freedom index is a good start. https://freedomindex.us/us/ https://freedomindex.us/us/ Massie has 99% And Paul was at 96 % in the 117th congress https://freedomindex.us/us/legislators/session/11/sort/sd/ https://freedomindex.us/us/legislators/session/11/sort/sd/
- cwal37 6mo ago
  Maybe a good start if you're a specific flavor of person, but it would be pretty amazing to claim it's an objective observer of "freedom" when the Freedom Index is a John Birch Society project, which is an ultraconservative advocacy group. Just because it's called the freedom index, doesn't mean it's concerned with the freedom of all man, look to the civil rights movement for easy examples of how JBS' "freedom" is only for certain people. Hell, click over to the JBS website and you'll see Alex Jones and Steve Bannon front and center on their home page. It's crazy to refer to one of their projects as some neutral arbiter.
- bjoli 6mo ago
  Whoa! > We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Congress has every duty to forbid grossly illicit acts of sexual perversion in the armed forces. It is full of things that are not what I would consider freedoms. Freedoms of companies to exploit oil reserves is one. Voting no to taxpayer funded healthcare is a good thing,apparently. Edit: and I didnt look further than 3 clicks away. They are not hiding their political bias very well.
- fzeroracer 6mo ago
  You cannot be serious. Looking at the 'Freedom Index', I can see them approving of things like restricting abortion, giving the executive even more power and more.
- jcranmer 6mo ago
  Looking very quickly at some of the votes being tracked, I don't see any vote that remotely qualifies as supporting or opposing free speech. Instead, they're focusing on things like "do you oppose the Federal Reserve making interest payments?" "do you oppose cryptocurrency regulations?" "do you oppose energy efficiency regulations for appliances?" So no, it's not a good start.

By what metric?

The freedom index is a good start. https://freedomindex.us/us/ https://freedomindex.us/us/ Massie has 99% And Paul was at 96 % in the 117th congress https://freedomindex.us/us/legislators/session/11/sort/sd/ https://freedomindex.us/us/legislators/session/11/sort/sd/

cwal37 6mo ago
Maybe a good start if you're a specific flavor of person, but it would be pretty amazing to claim it's an objective observer of "freedom" when the Freedom Index is a John Birch Society project, which is an ultraconservative advocacy group. Just because it's called the freedom index, doesn't mean it's concerned with the freedom of all man, look to the civil rights movement for easy examples of how JBS' "freedom" is only for certain people. Hell, click over to the JBS website and you'll see Alex Jones and Steve Bannon front and center on their home page. It's crazy to refer to one of their projects as some neutral arbiter.
bjoli 6mo ago
Whoa! > We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Congress has every duty to forbid grossly illicit acts of sexual perversion in the armed forces. It is full of things that are not what I would consider freedoms. Freedoms of companies to exploit oil reserves is one. Voting no to taxpayer funded healthcare is a good thing,apparently. Edit: and I didnt look further than 3 clicks away. They are not hiding their political bias very well.
fzeroracer 6mo ago
You cannot be serious. Looking at the 'Freedom Index', I can see them approving of things like restricting abortion, giving the executive even more power and more.
jcranmer 6mo ago
Looking very quickly at some of the votes being tracked, I don't see any vote that remotely qualifies as supporting or opposing free speech. Instead, they're focusing on things like "do you oppose the Federal Reserve making interest payments?" "do you oppose cryptocurrency regulations?" "do you oppose energy efficiency regulations for appliances?" So no, it's not a good start.