(04-01-2024, 08:15 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(04-01-2024, 06:52 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I think that free speech can be costly. I think it is going to cost so much in the future that most folk will choose to budget their words.
That seems to be the plan - make free speech too expensive to engage in. That's what is called "a chilling effect on free speech". Why bother following constitutional principles when you can just bypass them and go strait for the totalitarian authority they so crave?
Why bother engaging dissenting opinions when you can just shut them down and control the narrative all by yourself, unopposed?
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But it such a small part of the plan. We are so damn gullible and so damn programed, that we don't even see what is right in front of our eyes. We need to take responsibility for why we are where we are.
Even with my family, I have given up. Everyone has made their choice. Even if they they don't want to admit it.
All neighbors are not the same. Some neighbor are grafted in family. Some are those that you smile and wave at. I had a smile ans wave neighbor that sent his grandson over with with a bag of produce.
He could not have been more than 5 years old, and he was so mature and respectful that I was in awe.
I think we have a good chance of making it here out in the woods.
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