President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I'm not a fan of slippery-slope arguments, but this is a slippery slope. Who draws the line?

 

Weren't the torches employed Friday night, which was relatively peaceful?

I don't think the organizers of this event --AS REPUGNANT AS THEY ARE -- were looking to propagate violence. If anything, they were hoping to provoke violence, so they could portray themselves as victims.

And, until one asshole plowed his car into the crowd, they were mostly achieving their goal.

 

The same people who said you couldn't share classified information if there was an imminent danger to national interests, or that you can't yell fire in a crowded building, or that you can't threaten to kill someone in an attempt to scare them.

We've managed to restrict free speech plenty of times before without falling down the slippery slope.

 

I'm going to have fun today going back to read your posts after the Dallas police massacre.

 

Looking for a fight is not peaceably assembling.

They brought weapons. They brought the kinds of things The Walking Dead uses to brain zombies. That is not a peaceable assembly.

I think it's time to punt on Trump and update the "I changed my mind" thread. You're too good a person to stand behind this.

 

That asshole in the car most certainly was not the first example of their violence this week.

 

Antifa? It's Anti-Fascism and it's what the Allies were in WWII. Yes, the US and Britain used violence to quash fascism.

 

Hate speech is political speech, particularly in the case of Nazis.

We are having a collective overreaction to recent events. The right reacted the same way post-9/11.

 

Feel just terrible that violence was used against such hateful, small dicked paranoid assholes. Just terrible.

 

Hate speech is also assault. It is intentionally designed to provoke fear in those they deem inferior. It is a threat. It is saying "we intend to obtain political power and use it to declare you subhuman and commit gross violence against you."

 

It's not just this. It's the ridiculousness of the "safe space" crowd. Not allowing Nazi marches would be an extension of that.

Can't have any speech that challenges liberal beliefs.

I'm liberal on 90% of topics. Free speech is a liberal tenet. How it's evolved into only speech liberals like, I don't get.

 

Being able to not get it is what they call "privilege"