Stop presses! Democrat gropes!

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Re: Stop presses! Democrat gropes!

Post by Seabass » Thu Dec 07, 2017 7:54 pm

Forty Two wrote:
Seabass wrote:Army veteran says Franken groped her during USO tour in 2003
Kemplin, who now works as a federal contractor investigating Medicare fraud, is a registered Republican and said she voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Another fuckin' Trumpling. I trust Trumplings about as far as I can kick them.
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Re: Stop presses! Democrat gropes!

Post by Seabass » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:23 pm

Well, well, well...

Newsweek: HOW AN ALT-RIGHT BOT NETWORK TOOK DOWN AL FRANKEN
White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows.

While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to support Donald Trump, the Franken takedown originated in—and was propelled by—a strategic online campaign with digital tentacles reaching to, of all places, Japan. Analysts have now mapped out how Hooters pinup girl and lad-mag model Leeann Tweeden's initial accusation against Franken became effective propaganda after right-wing black ops master Roger Stone first hinted at the allegation.
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Re: Stop presses! Democrat gropes!

Post by Forty Two » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:42 pm

Tyrannical wrote:
Tero wrote:Franken stood in the way of flipping the House using women voters.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/ ... nse-285959
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Tyrannical,

The comment that appeared here was an example of racist hate speech that would be against the law in some jurisdictions. As this is the latest in a series of similar interventions we are making good on our standing promise and awarding you a 1 week holiday.

Brian & Jim.
Aww man. You took it down? Based on it being unlawful in some jurisdictions?
My own opinion is a very simple one. The right of others to free expression is part of my own. If someone’s voice is silenced, then I am deprived of the right to hear. Moreover, I have never met nor heard of anybody I would trust with the job of deciding in advance what it might be permissible for me or anyone else to say or read. That freedom of expression consists of being able to tell people what they may not wish to hear, and that it must extend, above all, to those who think differently is, to me, self-evident......

The same objection applies to what is called hate speech. Here, again, there is no known way of gauging the influence of rhetoric on action. Try a thought experiment. Go back in time and force Sarah Palin, by law, to remove the “target” or “crosshair” symbols from certain electoral districts. Now are you confident that you will have soothed the churning mind of a youthful schizophrenic in Tucson, Arizona? I didn’t think so. Sane people can take a lot of militant rhetoric about politics. Insane people can be motivated by believing themselves to be characters in The Catcher in the Rye, a book I am glad is not banned.

In my career, I have visited dozens of countries undergoing crises of war or hardship or sectarian strife. I can say with as much certainty as is possible that, wherever the light of free debate and expression is extinguished, the darkness is very much deeper, more palpable, and more protracted. But the urge to shut out bad news or unwelcome opinions will always be a very strong one, which is why the battle to reaffirm freedom of speech needs to be refought in every generation.
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Note - LOL, I did not realize how old that post was when I read it.
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Re: Stop presses! Democrat gropes!

Post by pErvinalia » Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:08 am

Tyrannical, the J.D Salinger of Rationalia...
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