GOP Poll: 180,000 Covid Deaths Acceptable

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  1. peacelate

    peacelate Banned

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    Can you provide a link to this?
     
  2. PatriotNews

    PatriotNews Well-Known Member

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    No I'm busy and free speech is not limited to speech against government. I don't know where you get that impression.
     
  3. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Not so, just because a contagion exists somewhere doesn't mean we all have to get it. We don't all have Ebola, or plague
     
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    DaveBN Well-Known Member

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    Okay, well I’ve been using deaths per million pop.
     
  5. DaveBN

    DaveBN Well-Known Member

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    You misunderstood. Freedom of speech is freedom from censorship from government.
    Has nothing to do with who the speech is against.
     
  6. DaveBN

    DaveBN Well-Known Member

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    Statements of medical fact are apolitical in nature.
    Speech being deplatformed does not amount to censorship from the government.
    Disagree all you want. You’ve presented nothing but anecdotal evidence. Facts aren’t on your side.
     
  7. PatriotNews

    PatriotNews Well-Known Member

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    If the government allows these platforms to restrict free speech then the government is restricting free speech.
     
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    gnoib Well-Known Member

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    Rough.............................................
     
  9. PatriotNews

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    Dupe
     
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    So you want the government to restrict the free speech of these platforms? No first amendment for them?
     
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    Golem Well-Known Member Past Donor

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  12. PatriotNews

    PatriotNews Well-Known Member

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    Pfft.
     
  13. DaveBN

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    LOL, what kind of response is that?
    Got nothin?
     
  14. PatriotNews

    PatriotNews Well-Known Member

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    STRAWMAN! CHECK YOUR FALLACIES!
     
  15. DaveBN

    DaveBN Well-Known Member

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    No need to shout.
    What’s all this about strawmen and fallacies?
    Care to provide some quotes?
     
  16. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    No, the government is only restricting free speech if it is actually telling people what they can say or not.

    People have a right to control the access and use of their own private property. I am absolutely baffled when I hear so-called conservatives come on here complaining that their "right" to say something on another person's platform has been curtailed. It is NOT YOUR PROPERTY, you don't pay for the Internet access, the electricity the server. You're not paying for ANYTHING and you are DEMANDING the free use of their property to promulgate viewpoints they have usually already SAID they disagree with strongly. Would you go on Vatican Radio and demand they broadcast your essay promoting abortion on demand? Would you let it on your OWN website? This is about as clear and egregious a violation of another's property rights as I can even conceive of. It is totally immoral and blatantly unfair yet I see it demanded by CONSERVATIVES here all the time. What the **** is WRONG with you people?
     
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    Maybe...just maybe...we ought to finally deal with it?
     
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    Maybe just maybe we have been dealing with it all along.
     
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    Poorly.
    Our deaths per 1mil pop is way above average.
     
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    Unfortunately, 'platforms' can censor what they deem inappropriate.

    When you sign up for an account, you accept their user agreement. It is the platform, not the government who sets the rules..
     
  22. Chrizton

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    We are like 8th on the list in deaths per million. Sure it would be better to be 9th or 10 or 205th, but it isn't like we are leading the pack.
     
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    Uh, wasn't one of the "doctors" present also holding of the belief that the government is using alien DNA to make medicine?
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/stella-immanuel-trump-doctor/index.html

    I think Trump was one of the most irresponsible, if not the most irresponsible, world leaders for COVID 19.
     
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    Tenth actually, but being tenth worst isn’t much to brag about. We’re still 5 times higher than the would average. Kind of shame, considering we’re the greatest nation on earth.
     
  25. PatriotNews

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    Look at the post and figure it out.
     

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