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To put it another way, people can't deny you the ability to say what you believe, but you can't force them to listen to what you have to say.

Love that guy

Wow

Their opinion is not my fact.

Spot on

The bigger problem is not their opinions. It is that they think their opinions should be forced upon others by the government.

Also, opinions are only valid so far as they don't harm other people. You are free to hate the color orange. You don't get to fire someone because they are wearing an orange shirt.

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Free speech has consequences

I remember when I was told about it as well. Yeah, it do be like that

You’re entitled to your own opinions, you’re not entitled to your own facts.

Fuck you. I have over one thousand followers and I bet at least ten of them are DTF.

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Tell ‘em like it is Brian…

For example the EARTH is not flat, end of that opinion!! The earth is round just like every other planet or celestial body, as the example of FACT.

I don't often see people complain about being ignored or ridiculed, but I see people complain being banned from social media, losing their job, being defamed, doxxed, threatened, or physically attacked.

Having the right to an opinion doesn't give that opinion any value any more than having the right to own a firearm makes someone a good shot.

Hey, it's that guy Prof. Hawking ran over that one time.

Always worth listening to a weak sister who sells out his mate when his wife tells him to

...and they're all full of shit

👍 My husband's favorite saying. I've been tempted to say it at a city council meeting a couple of times.

In the United States, we have the right of free speech, also the responsibility for the consequences of our actions, unless you’re a Maga on January 6Th

I've been saying basically the same for years: Everyone is entitled to an opinion, nobody is entitled to an audience.

No one did that to drumpf. And it should have been done by everyone in the 80s. If I could see that back then in my 20s (and I'm really not all that smart or educated) why couldn't more? To shut that asshat douche canoe down? Also, felon, rapist, racist.

I agree that there is a loud component to society that feel that their magic opinions aren’t receiving sufficient attention, despite their protests and campaigns because, if their opinions had proper support, then the rest of us would have adopted their ways and then they could go on their way.

Agreed, I’ve spewed plenty of nonsense and get called out for it, get pissed and feel embarrassment but that is something that should remain as it is part of the equation in a free society. Without shame we see how hateful the world becomes, without humility arrogance reigns and humanity diminishes.

Not made fun of, but absolutely ridiculed, and roasted for the idiocy.

Or: You have a right to an opinion. You don’t have a right to an audience.

Exactly. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences or criticism.

Coming from a man who helped silence a friend, as his wife is a rabid TERF. He was my guilty geek crush, and have seen his and Robin's show live several times. Now he is morally bankrupt, I'd rather wait in eternity for the heat death of the universe, then watch anything with his involvement.

Amen, even mine!

Quote from Isaac Asimov

You get to feel however you feel, and those feelings are real and valid (though sometimes it would be good to examine why you feel that way). What you do not get to do is use those feelings to justify harming other people, or to represent those feelings as facts.

In other words, if you don't want your speech criticized, best keep it to yourself.

I always loved Patton Oswalt's response to the idea that "you have to respect people's beliefs": "No, you have to ACKNOWLEDGE people's beliefs. And you have every right to say, 'I know you believe that. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.'"

Serial scofflaw & adjudicated rapist, Trump, with sycophants, petty tyrants & thugs in support have assaulted, raped & tortured Lady Liberty with impunity, blatantly thumbing their noses at the rule of law. Judicial justice denied is unacceptable.

when white privileged conservative rich males have an opinion they think it's just a few votes way from becoming law, or deserves some big lucrative gov't contract to make it a reality.

Thats a complex sentence. For many.

People don't have the right to free expression. Politicians, professors, students, media personalities who speak up have been and will be eliminated. I love when we send our ex-IDF boys in the USA to college campuses to beat-up Palestinian protestors and then the govt convicts the protestors. 🙃

A colleague of mine once said; Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one, and most of them stink.

I believe the 1st Amendment gives you the right to say whatever you please. But it also gives me the right to answer.