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It seems like our freedoms are being eroded more every day. I would like to see a discussion about the best actionable steps we can take to stop. Is donating

• cbd1984 12y ago
  If you think this, your perspective must be limited to a pre-1970s worldview, or you must not know much about how much freedoms were stomped on before things like Roe v Wade and the current notion of a strong freedom of speech protection.
  • verbin217 12y ago
    You've just expanded the time horizon until something was apparently worse than the present. That doesn't refute a local decline.
• PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  A few decades ago, this guy could have been convicted for "obscenity" and no one would have said a word. The question of whether he intended anyone actual harm might never have come up. It's a sign of progress that we now frown on imprisoning people explicitly for being icky and weird, and thoughtcrime prosecutors are forced to gin up more serious charges.
• zo1 12y ago
  It's democracy, right? So then I would suggest rallying people to your cause, and trying to force some sort of adhoc vote/referendum from your leaders. If you get some sort of majority with you to participate in a concerted effort, and still your leaders deny you your voice. Well, then, you're not in a democracy, my friend. Not even a representative one.