Just another in a long list, from civil rights leaders to beloved actors.

That’s exactly what came to mind when Trump was whining about not getting NATO minesweepers.

It must be a trip having the joint chiefs reverse engineering his Windows 95 understanding of war.

I’ll preface by repeating what you said: we don’t know what the OP is talking about.

But, yeah, very often when somebody is complaining about free speech…they don’t mean free speech. What they mean is that their opinion should be accepted without criticism or consequence.

What this outlook has resulted in, in many places in the contemporary western world (the world I’m familiar with), is that hate speech, aggressive speech and threatening speech are protected - even encouraged - while the speech of those functionally suppressed or intimidated is ignored or attacked.

My opinion is that conservative speech has become a huge problem. It’s ironically social media bubbles that make so-called conservatives believe that their once marginalized opinions are more popular or legitimate than they are. I believe that conservatives want everybody to be forced to listen to their opinions until they agree with them or face consequences if they don’t.

This might seem like a troll to some…but it’s a legit ask.

Contemporary western conservatism, especially on the internet, is very often using liberal coded language to present or give cover to inflexible ideology.

Give us an example what you’re referring to…your comment doesn’t mean a lot of without any context.

“Freedom of speech” is a fraught concept. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean one must accept the views of another, for example. Freedom of speech is also accepting reaction to your speech. Each speaker is “owed” whatever freedom you’re proposing.

Eh? “Interest” isn’t what the mainstream media is pushing on us.

I can’t find it either…but I found this in The Village Voice from 2017: “the president of the United States is a complete fucking moron,” he seethes. “That’s what gets me the most — that he’s this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people.”

I think you’re getting downvoted into oblivion because people are reading your headline and not your post?

There’s nothing to argue with in your message. I don’t know the particulars of your income/tax situation…but, yeah, if the people with all the money paid appropriate taxes…then many actual working people wouldn’t need to, and society would be more healthy. You’d still be paying a ton of excise taxes.