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Countries have the right to develop weaponry to defend themselves. But we have used international law and open war to prevent countries from developing nuclear weapons, in violation of that right. Heck, even with the current NK crisis, nobody wants NK to have them. It's just a debate of whether or not we can stop them at this point.

Nazis are the rogue state, and political power is their nuclear weapon. We have every right to prevent them from attempting to use free speech, just like we can stop rogue nations from conducting nuclear research (and hopefully more effectively).

 

But shutting off the speech before it even starts doesn't defeat it. You defeat it by addressing it head-on, not by hiding it from view.

 

Back when I was a blue-collar guy, one of my older co-workers was always bitching about MLK, how he was a "troublemaker" who should have been stopped because there was always violence around him. Who'd have imagined this guy would be reincarnated in a 21st Century woke version?

 

It's preemption.

They have the right to use speech to gain political power. They have the right to use that power to achieve their ends. Their ends are mass genocide.

Our choices are violate their rights somewhere along the line or hope they don't succeed.

 

I don't know, because it's not like that will eradicate the ideology but send it into hiding. It might deter the garden variety idiots from joining, but I think it would only strengthen the attraction for the dangerous radicals. In this day and age they can commiserate and plot together on the Internet. I think the tragedy of yesterday is, at the risk of sounding flippant, the cost of doing business in a free society. I'm heartened by the voices across the political spectrum that denounced both the incident and the ideology (while the response from the White House served as yet more confirmation that the president is a morally bankrupt stooge). Let them put themselves on the display to be the world's laughing stock and crack down when they do something illegal.

 

Did you just call MLK a Nazi?

 

The guy's photo with Trump was a photoshop:

 

We can do both. Why count on individuals to fight it when that is literally what the government is for. To collectively protect our interests.

 

"woke" isn't quite up to Lena Dunham in terms of "I only hear it from conservatives complaining," but it's close.

 

How can you address something head-on, if you don't allow it to be said in the first place?

 

Nothing the JDL can't handle.

 

A very poor photoshop, to boot.