• mindbleach
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    5 months ago

    Here in the US it’s perfectly legal to describe what you think a public figure deserves, but it gets censored on any website people bother to use. Sick to death of “civility” meaning assholes can endorse pogroms but “spit on that guy” is over the line!

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      5 months ago

      It’s Def not perfectly legal to vocalize death threats that are even just fantasies or ‘in Minecraft’.

      I’ll hold my tongue

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        5 months ago

        My guy, people assembled a mock gallows for Mike Pence in front of the US Capitol.

        A lot of them are in prison now - but none of them for that reason.

        You can mutter “shoot the fucker” at any bar in the country. You can be specific. But not here. Here, it’s kum-buh-yah, or else.