• wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    It wouldn’t stop Americans either I daresay; it would “just” criminalize expressing it.

    “The 1st amendment? Wazzat? Does it make me richer?” – US Republicans, probably.

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      21 hours ago

      2nd seems to ironically be a distant memory for them, all of sudden, and now they’re out to kill the 1st.

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        21 hours ago

        It must be nice to be amoral, unburdened by principles, unshackled by intellectual honesty and unhampered by hypocrisy: They can shamelessly do anything and still sleep like a baby when they’re done.

        “Hey I can reduce the amount of stress I feel by unilaterally make other people feel x10 as much, but that sounds like a their kind of problem. Pft. Taking responsibility for my own life? What am I, some sort of adult?”

        It’s the core of the criminal mind-set: That somebody else should non-consensually pay the price for the criminal’s actions.