ᴀᴍʙɪᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ@lemm.ee to Pics@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 days agoAsheville, North Carolina: A veteran being escorted out of a town hall for using his free speech.preview.redd.itimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down16
arrow-up1186arrow-down1imageAsheville, North Carolina: A veteran being escorted out of a town hall for using his free speech.preview.redd.itᴀᴍʙɪᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ@lemm.ee to Pics@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squarealykanas@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down48·2 days agoToo many people think free speech is the right to walk into any room and yell anything you want.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39·2 days agoToo many people think decorum and tradition will stop proto-fascist hacks who abandoned both decades ago.
minus-squarealykanas@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down39·1 day agoHave a day off mate, ffs
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 day agoA day off from trying to stop fascism? No, no I don’t think I will. Thanks though, I appreciate the concern! I just got back from vacation anyway.
minus-squarealykanas@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down14·23 hours agolol grow up. This is a photograph of a man shouting . We are in /c/pics . And you are yelling on the internet
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·22 hours agoI’ll have you know I’m past fully grown and well into already dying. Old enough to know that caps = yelling, sorry you must be too young to know that. But I’m glad you know where you are right now, I know dementia is often worse at night.
minus-squarejust2look@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 days agoIf law enforcement can legally remove you from a public forum for confronting your elected officials, how free is your speech really?
minus-squareouRKaoSlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·1 day agoNot defending the police, but there’s a difference between being removed for being a disruption and being arrested for what you say.
minus-squarejust2look@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoProtest by its nature is disruptive. So you support police being free to end protest? To detain people because they’re an inconvenience to fascists?
Too many people think free speech is the right to walk into any room and yell anything you want.
Too many people think decorum and tradition will stop proto-fascist hacks who abandoned both decades ago.
Have a day off mate, ffs
What a clownish thing to say
A day off from trying to stop fascism? No, no I don’t think I will. Thanks though, I appreciate the concern! I just got back from vacation anyway.
lol grow up.
This is a photograph of a man shouting . We are in /c/pics . And you are yelling on the internet
I’ll have you know I’m past fully grown and well into already dying. Old enough to know that caps = yelling, sorry you must be too young to know that. But I’m glad you know where you are right now, I know dementia is often worse at night.
If law enforcement can legally remove you from a public forum for confronting your elected officials, how free is your speech really?
Not defending the police, but there’s a difference between being removed for being a disruption and being arrested for what you say.
Protest by its nature is disruptive. So you support police being free to end protest? To detain people because they’re an inconvenience to fascists?