• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Two things:

    1. If you get fired for standing up for what you believe in, then it is probably a blessing in disguise.

    2. Don’t use your real information when making controversial comments online if you’re not comfortable risking your job.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is just a taste of what we have to look forward to with four+ more years of Trump. When you let snowflakes run things, they will inevitably do whatever they can to shut down any sort of ridicule about themselves. “Cancel culture” is just them projecting again, they will do the exact same thing they accuse the other side of and amp it up to 11 over seemingly innocent comments. Saying things like “Trump is a jackass” or “Trump is a big fat orange turd” will eventually become offenses. It’ll start with late night TV, various shows will get shut down, the things that Trump himself will see. The guard rails are off, so Trump can just order companies to shut down shows he doesn’t like.

    Remember, Trump spends half his “workdays” JUST watching TV, so him going after programming could be construed as an “official act”. After some of the big ones are taken out, Colbert and others, this zero tolerance for ridicule will filter into the rest of the culture. This is how dictators operate, they can’t stand being attacked or ridiculed, everyone else has to take them as seriously as they take themselves. Unfortunately, I likely won’t be able to say, “Told you so” because internet speech will likely become filtered as it is in China. That’s what we’ll get if Trump is elected and that some people are ok with that is absolutely mind-boggling, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or whatever, that kind of American society should not be acceptable, but that’s what we’re moving towards.

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      They’re okay with it because they can’t imagine this actually happening. Free speech is so baked in, many can’t imagine not having it.

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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    What, sensitive little snowflakes can’t stand some jokes? He didn’t die so it’s fair game. I guess they have a hard time hearing things like that because of those solidarity patches over their ears.

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    How does libs of tik Tok make money? Assuming it’s not just Republican donors funding her, we should make sure her source of income knows how she spreads hate.

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    4 months ago

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander I suppose. I wish we didn’t ruin people’s livelihoods for bad/unpopular opinions in the first place, but we seem have agreed as a culture that that’s what we do now, so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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      4 months ago

      Well, the punchline is that the Republicans hurt themselves in their own confusion. They knew this would happen. They just didn’t think it would happen to them first.

    • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Fuck civility politics.

      Those fuckers want you dead, and they laugh about it when it happens to everyone else. They stoke violence on a near-daily basis. They can eat shit if they think they deserve special treatment, and if you give it to them, you’re a moron.