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    1 day ago

    At the moment, our fiercest Democrat just voted for the new law to allow The government to censor anything on the internet they don’t like. I think it’s fair to say it’s not going well.

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        15 minutes ago

        You have to admit, we wouldn’t be in a useless trade war threatening to tank the economy right now. Or threatening to anex Canada or Greenland. And they wouldn’t have just voted to make it legal to deport US citizens.

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      10 hours ago

      Funny, why don’t you name the law and let people look it up and read what it actually says? Are you talking about S.146, a bill to prohibit the nonconsensual online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals, and requiring platforms to remove it upon request?

      So in other words, if someone posts nudes of you online and you object to it, this law would require the site to take it down upon your requesting it… is THAT the censorship you are crying about??

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        6 hours ago

        You mean the one that’s so vaguely worded that it can be used by the government to silence anything and remove free speech?

        Why didn’t you publish the entire full text of the bill here and all the possible outcomes along with a bunch of news articles listing pros and cons of such thing?

        Christ, if you think that’s crying please don’t ever have kids.

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      1 day ago

      I think now is a good time for third party too get going. I’m sure a bunch of left leaning Democrats could take a good chunk of the vote and tea party the Democrats.

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        10 hours ago

        Political IQ Exam: Do you think voting for a third party candidate is a viable option in a First Past the Post system"

        The answer to that question is the simplest way possible to identify a complete lack of political intellect.

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        1 day ago

        We’ve passed a line, sans drastic things happening, there won’t be any meaningful votes anymore.