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ForgedCrank

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21. Ok I

Reply to I_UndergroundPanther (Reply #20)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 04:48 PM

Jul 8

think I'm understanding you now.
You want the ideals that you disagree with to be outlawed so the people who do it can be arrested.

Outlawing "shit that is conservative" is a method employed by others throughout history. Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, just to name a few.
I don't believe you are thinking this one through very well.

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After all the damage [View all] I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2 OP

How would that Greg_In_SF Jul 2 #1

Well I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2 #6

That would Greg_In_SF Jul 2 #7

"What if we lose" is the threshold that anyone faces. TommyT139 Jul 2 #9

Well, they are a Greg_In_SF Jul 3 #17

We don't need dictators or state run TV or concentration camps or ICE in the land of the free. Initech Jul 2 #2

Agree I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2 #5

How do we do that? CTyankee Jul 2 #3

I don't know I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2 #4

Who gets ForgedCrank Jul 3 #18

Easy Breezy - Repeal the First Amendment TheProle Jul 2 #8

OK TnDem Jul 2 #10

No. TheProle Jul 2 #12

OK, so... TnDem Jul 3 #13

Yeesh. No, the opposite. TheProle Jul 3 #14

If you better explained yourself TnDem Jul 3 #15

Great feedback. Thanks. TheProle Jul 3 #19

Trump already acts like it doesn't exist. TommyT139 Jul 2 #11

This sounds ForgedCrank Jul 3 #16

Not one party rule I_UndergroundPanther Jul 8 #20

Ok I ForgedCrank Jul 8 #21