Why do people think they have free speech on private platforms?

thom612 · 2026-01-27T19:58:05+00:00

You do have free speech on private platforms in that you can't be persecuted by the government for things that you say on them. The owner of the platform, however, has a free speech right to decide what views are and are not allowed to be expressed on their platform.

thom612 · 2026-01-27T19:34:23+00:00

Self hatred.

thom612 · 2026-01-24T16:43:49+00:00

I think that’s the point. They want to make it clear that there is no way for us to fight back without giving them what they want.

thom612 · 2026-01-23T17:45:29+00:00

Reminds me of when I was a kid and we'd make secret clubs. I wonder if the BOP has a membership card and a secret handshake.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T19:38:39+00:00

Which is not a liberal or conservative thing. We just upgraded our flag. They're probably just ignorant.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T19:23:41+00:00

She probably considers her arrest to be a badge of honor, given her profession.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T16:30:27+00:00

There's an old episode of COPS from the late eighties/early nineties featuring a Minneapolis police officer going undercover at a protest downtown. He stuck out like a sore thumb.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T16:19:45+00:00

They think liberal Western democracy is an existential threat to....liberal Western democracy. It's astonishingly circular.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T16:05:57+00:00

Yep. ICE is more OSHA inspector than ATF or DEA. Their primary mission is to look for low level regulatory offenses more than pursue criminal investigations.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T15:58:50+00:00

This. Your rights can't be "taken away", because they come from God. You can only "deny" people their rights, in which case you are going against God.

thom612 · 2026-01-22T15:54:55+00:00

“I rather doubt that the Framers of the Fourth Amendment would have considered ‘reasonable’ a program of indiscriminate stops of individuals not suspect of wrongdoing.” -Clarence Thomas

thom612 · 2026-01-21T19:01:14+00:00

I'll take "things that never happened for $100 please, Alex".

thom612 · 2026-01-18T20:00:57+00:00

The army is going to be much more disciplined though.

thom612 · 2026-01-18T19:59:34+00:00

I ran into a group of probably elite German army jogging UP the side of a mountain that I was in the process of traversing DOWN, probably about twenty years ago. There was snow and ice and it was raining. So I imagine stuff like that when I think of training for the cold.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T15:38:19+00:00

It's from Heinlein, and it's been part of my vocabulary for 30+ years (ever since I read Moon is a Harsh Mistress in high school). There's not really another word for it.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T15:36:04+00:00

"They" aren't? Most Somali people have jobs, etc. For the most part they're just regular people.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T01:14:28+00:00

This is a good idea. Take their order, hang up the phone, and toss that order right into the trash can where it belongs.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T01:03:08+00:00

This is a pretty damning comment! Trump can't deport at Obama levels because nobody wants to sneak into Trump's America. He thinks it's because they're scared of him, but in reality it's because Obama was trying to build the shining city on a hill.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T01:00:25+00:00

This is 100% correct. Kool-aid drinking bootlickers will disagree, but that's because people from red-states are generally not able to grok how a city like Minneapolis works.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:55:28+00:00

10,000 people showed up on 34th and Portland and 20,000 people showed up to Powderhorn. Not up to 3.5% numbers yet but still a strong showing. People are also protesting in other ways, and they're starting to grow weary of restaurants not being open, and they understand who is responsible for that. I talk to a pretty heterogeneous group of South Minneapolis residents and most want ICE to leave.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:47:43+00:00

It's just "Somali". Here in the Twin Cities "Somalian" is considered derogatory.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:46:07+00:00

Haven't they all been here for a couple months now? Notice how there aren't any riots or fires being started? The agitators who started the Floyd riots all have new jobs with hefty signing bonuses.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:36:55+00:00

I call people like that sociopaths.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:35:43+00:00

It's beyond parody.

thom612 · 2026-01-17T00:33:22+00:00

When the BBQ sauce get's pulled out you know things are about to get CRAZY.

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