• Compass Inspector@invariant-marxism.red
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    1 year ago

    All states will use whatever means necessary to suppress the class struggle regardless of abstract metaphysical presuppositions like “rights”, which they easily throw in the trash whenever convenient.

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    Rightly so. While the state has a right to prohibit individual actions that cause harm, such as hate speech or incitements to violence, it would be a massive human rights violation to ban access to platforms generally, as it would silence a space where constructive dissent is organized.

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      Liberal free speech logic, then you just need to tighten up or loosen up some screws and find the most convenient definition of “cause harm”.

      I’d say anything communism related qualifies as “cause harm”

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    Felony authoritarianism carries with it a minimum sentence of 10 years. If convicted, Macron is likely to experience extraordinary rendition to freedom sites where he will be subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques about which Russian, Slavic, or Generic Asian, put him up to committing these heinous crimes against huge manatees.