• Coach@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The First Amendment is already gone. Have you seen what happens to people who criticize the regime? The US is cooked, fam.

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      2 days ago

      First Amendment was always a polite fiction of the regime. Americans get to pretend they have it until they upset someone with actual power.

      But you’re always free to run scams, to slander the weak and vulnerable, and to rally bigots into a lynch mob. So the idea of Free Speech remains valuable to demagogues and unscrupulous marketing goons alike.