| > Cool, ignore my point about technology changing the situation. I assume you’ll ignore Jefferson talking about how the constitution should be changed every 19-20 years because the world changed. The Constitution doesn't have a "except when technology gets advanced enough" clause either. I checked. You wanting the Constitution to change is something else entirely - and that's not what you're advocating for. > That’s the literal reality with mandated car insurance. If you don’t have car insurance you can be banned from driving. What was your point here? I fail to see what car insurance analogizes to here. >Yea, the freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. Freedom of speech to explicitly lie like Steve Bannon organized and many others using the “flood the zone” strategy seems to the be at the end of my nose. If you are actively lying to manipulate me or others knowledge of reality, that is not feee speech, that’s Machiavellian manipulation. Speech is not violence. Comparing it to violence diminishes the suffefing and harm faced by people who have been a victim of violence. You have the freedom to pay attention to whatever you want to - as do media outlets and political consultants. Why should the entire country suffer because the media frequented by political-news-saturated people is so easily disatractable? They have the option to just...not...cover irrelevant nonsense. It's not the option they choose to take though. See: The reflecting pool news cycle. |