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You're not supposed to forget it happened, you're supposed to have principles and oppose it all the time instead of going "well now it's OUR turn!", which just invites more escalation and retaliation and helps nobody.
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
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Did people get deported for that? The article has plenty of examples that go well beyond calling things “disinformation”
Reference the formerly Great Britain. Where you get deported to jail.
Any references to the United States.. which is where the First Amendment applies?
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If the screeching were actually oppressive you wouldn't have heard the disinformation.
Disappearing people from the streets in broad daylight, on the other hand, will probably have a chilling effect on discussion of the topics they got disappeared over.
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He can't run again.
On paper he can't do a lot of things but the amount of gutting and cutting that's happened in the last two(!) months makes one realize the laws aren't worth the paper they're written on without a proactive congress interested in keeping the executive in check. Suspending birthright citizenship as established in the 14th amendment is a big one that "he can't do." Challenges to E.O. 14160 are going through the courts r…
The scotus would need to strike down the 22nd amendment. Even with as horribly morally bankrupt of a scotus as we have now, I don’t think they’d sink to the low of striking down the 22nd.
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Government censors and preferential treatment are no match for a social network deciding what to allow on their platforms. Not even close.
One is a free market and free association (you know there are many alternative platforms these days?). The other is serfdom.
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#97I can’t remember anyone respecting mainstream US news for the last 30+ years. Aren’t most news agencies, directly or indirectly, owned by BlackRock, State Street, or the Vanguard Group? That’s a real question.
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#98Trump had allegedly fired people responsible for FOIA but at the same time we are finally seeing documents that the DOJ and FBI have been slow walking for almost 8 years or longer. Some examples, file metadata for Seth Rich's laptop, and obviously files related to the JFK assassination.
On top of that, violating public records laws by using signal chat for official communications with disappearing messages turned on.
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We are already long past the point of no return. He is the manifestation of a popular will. Even if he vanished tomorrow, those voters will remain. They will not be daunted by an electoral setback. They control the Supreme Court, and will for decades. They control a majority of state legislatures -- which control how voting and districting work. We've been past the point of no return since 2016. If you still had hope…
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It's an issue we're seeing all around the West - previously centre-left parties unfortunately were cowed into supporting 'soft-neoliberalism' over the last 30-40 years, and now that's shown to not improve the living standards of the many (but works amazingly for the wealthy), voters are looking for anything that looks different than the status-quo. Unfortunately that plus a bit of culture war drives them into the populist right.
Obviously that's a worse choice (at best it's just corrupt crony-capitalism under a veneer of caring about the little guy, at worst outright fascism) but we all have to admit that parties like the Democrats (and Labor in the UK and Australia, etc.) haven't had policy platforms to make changes that really and substantially help the struggling working-class for decades.
It's hard for us to see, because most people commenting on hacker news are in the professional class and the status-quo works quite well for us.
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#100As a person who lived in the States for a bit, and listened to a lot of news, I remember always this almost fawning over the Founding Fathers, checks and balances and great American constitution. It is remarkable, how easy it all goes, and most people don't do anything (i.e. out of 100 top law firms, only a handful joined the lawsuit against the government, etc.)
The people fawning and the people rejecting the Founders' intentions are two separate groups of people.
Media is the practice of including and excluding voices, and there are distinct trends over time of representing one or another set of voices.