ie. actual primary sources and not just some left-wing rag taking some fact that looks remotely somewhat similar to that if you squint at it right and twisting it into a Gordian knot to fit an agenda
As if it weren't already obvious this AC troll was a marinated-in-right-wing-kool-aid moron.
One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and cross promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, and of course, Fox News. Whatever conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted. (How do you know they're liberal? Well, they disagree with the conservative media!) This epistemic closure can be a source of solidarity and energy, but it also renders the conservative media ecosystem fragile."
But anyway, here's the incontrovertible inconvenient-to-your-narrative facts and unassailable primary sources:
Fact: Texas's Fascist party ran (and eventually passed) a bill (HB 20) that would censor Constitutional free spreech Republicans don't like.
Fact: The Republicans defeated all three measures.
Primary source: Official minutes recording the amendments being voted down: 87th legislature, second session
Vaccine disinformation endorsed on notes page 231, holocaust denial approved of on page 232, terrorism supported page 233.
Vote tallies for approving of vaccine disinformation (other votes essentially the same):
-Yea (Pro-free-speech) votes:
42 votes
39 Democrat
2 Republican
1 I couldn't find party affiliation
-Nay (Pro-Censorship) votes:
74 votes
0 Democrat
74 Republican
No twisting needed here. Anyone who, unlike you, possesses capacity for rational independent thought can see the direct connection between explicitly (and now officially) defending hate and ignorance and the "Conservative Values" umbrella.
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"True facts are defamatory!"
Jhon Smith, is that you?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
[Projects facts not in evidence]
(Remember, the echo chamber model is exclusively followed by only right-wing media)
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Note: In the real world, Malone is being criticized for his being an Ayyadurai-style fraud, not for anything "political."
And, of course, there's zero censorship of or around him, as always in Koby's false examples.
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How about the algorithmically-generated images of NFTs?
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Graph: How $1 Flows from Spotify to Recording Artists
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This Rose stinks
[Asserts facts not in evidence]
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Re:
Richard Bennett
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Re: Re:
We get it, you hate free speech you disagree with.
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Re: Science
As always, restless's post is 100% the complete opppsite of reality in every possible way.
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Hard to have less "censorship" than zero.
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An more vile-looking mug it'd be hard to find.
And the coffee cup's design isn't the greatest, either.
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Re:
Rehab can help you with those hallucinations.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: conservative value
As if it weren't already obvious this AC troll was a marinated-in-right-wing-kool-aid moron.
But anyway, here's the incontrovertible inconvenient-to-your-narrative facts and unassailable primary sources:
Fact: Texas's Fascist party ran (and eventually passed) a bill (HB 20) that would censor Constitutional free spreech Republicans don't like.
Fact: They claim they were protecting "Conservative values" by doing so.
Primary source: Gov. Abbott's goobernatorial website, where he uses the phrase "Conservative viewpoints" in a false claim of "silencing" in his support of HB 20.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-signs-law-protecting-texans-from-wrongful-social -media-censorship
Fact: Texas Democrats proposed amendments to exempt anti-Holocaust-denial, anti-terrorism, and anti-antivax-disinformation speech from being censored.
Primary sources: The Texas state government website with the text of these amendments:
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/amendments/html/HB00020H24.HTM
https://capitol.tex as.gov/tlodocs/872/amendments/html/HB00020H25.HTM
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/amendments/h tml/HB00020H23.HTM
Primary source: Official minutes recording the amendments being voted down:
87th legislature, second session
Vaccine disinformation endorsed on notes page 231, holocaust denial approved of on page 232, terrorism supported page 233.
Vote tallies for approving of vaccine disinformation (other votes essentially the same):
-Yea (Pro-free-speech) votes:
42 votes
39 Democrat
2 Republican
1 I couldn't find party affiliation
-Nay (Pro-Censorship) votes:
74 votes
0 Democrat
74 Republican
No twisting needed here. Anyone who, unlike you, possesses capacity for rational independent thought can see the direct connection between explicitly (and now officially) defending hate and ignorance and the "Conservative Values" umbrella.
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Re: Re: Ftw
Lostcause has spent a lot of effort to prove that yes, he really is that stupid.
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Re: Re: Nothing unbelievable at all there...
This spambot scraped a year-old comment by That One Guy to regurgitate.
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Remember, the motivation why Maus is being banned, is because Holocause denial is specifically and officially a "Conservative value."
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Re: Re: Maus
It seems unlikely anyone supporting the book ban would be a fan of reading.
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Re: How long will it take...?
Make him a suspect.
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Your literacy troubles are nobody else's fault.
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doozy*
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