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by dragonwriter 1973 days ago
> Doesn’t exactly look worthy of losing our collective freedom of speech and right to assemble over.

No one has suggested it is, so I’m not sure why you are beating that strawman.

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Unfortunately it's not exactly spelled out for you like that. Can you imagine though?

As seen on a hypothetical NBC Nightly News broadcast: "The government is using its influence over corporate media to shape public opinion in an effort to remove constitutionally protected rights like free speech and the right to assemble.. Now is the time to protest if you want to have any chance at keeping them"

That would never happen. Efforts like this much more hidden and shrouded in secrecy. Out of necessity... They don't want protesting.

The theft of your most sacred rights will not be broadcasted to you before it happens. All of a sudden you'll wake up one day, and they'll be gone. Unless you resist of course.

> The theft of your most sacred rights will not be broadcasted to you before it happens.

I’ve seen plenty of people actively working to suppress voting rights, free speech and other free expression rights, due process rights, the right to keep and bear arms, and other rights I and/or many others view as “sacred” who openly broadcast the restrictions they want to impose on those rights and the claimed justifications for them.

Of course, if you want to argue against an occult conspiracy against rights, that’s fine, too, but its better if you provide some reason other than “If it did, you wouldn’t see it” to believe that occult conspiracy exists.