Kazen Alaricus

The crowd is untruth. Audaces fortuna iuvat.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@avidseries Could you provide an example of a populist rightwinger who sows chaos once in office?

[ϟentinel @sentinl_grave]

That it seems reasonable to you for a naturalized immigrant to retain some bizarre loyalty to the greater “immigrant class” after he has become a citizen is yet another reason we should not give him, you or anyone like you citizenship.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@ryenmustard @KalshiSports "Most Valuable" implies a player who contributes to team success. It has been and should be a best contributor to a winning team award.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: "Honoring the British King might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence — but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea."

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@L0m3z I don't want a really nice paperback for $25. Anything over $14 and it should be a hardcover. Give me a flimsy paperback for $12 and we are talking.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Even today there are tombs to be opened, and often the stones sealing them are so heavy and so closely guarded that they seem to be immovable. Some weigh heavily on the human heart, such as mistrust, fear, selfishness and resentment; others, stemming from these inner struggles, sever the bonds between us through war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations. Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by them! #Easter

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@jay_dale @BSO Again. Free speech means the ability to express views without retaliation. It’s fine if you don’t like or want free speech, but if you want people to suffer consequences for expressing their opinions, you are against the principle of free speech.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@KathrynSecrist @BSO And you like censorship. You likely supported the effort to leverage social media to purge opinions you disfavor from the private sector because you like censorship and you dislike free speech.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@KathrynSecrist @BSO No, I want a healthy society that tolerates a wide spectrum of belief and expression. What I don't want is people who like censorship hiding behind legalistic technicalities that violate the spirit of free speech so they can avoid admitting they like censorship.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@KathrynSecrist @BSO You are confusing a legal reading of the First Amendment with the concept of free speech, which extends back to ancient Athens. But the principle of free speech is quite literally the right to articulate beliefs without retaliation.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@figgurit @EmmanuelAcho Right. Private companies have the right to engage in censorship and people who support private sector censorship do so because they do not value free speech.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@JamesPiercey11 @GoatRodeoSW @DiscussOrDivide You are misinterpreting Mill because you are misapplying the harm principle to justify the firing of a basketball player for expressing traditional religious beliefs about sexuality. There is no harm in the expression of personal conscience without incitement to violence.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@dawest76 @BSO You’re confusing a legal reading of the First Amendment with the idea of free speech. Yes, private companies can censor, but if you support firing people for their opinions, you don’t value free speech. You like censorship.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@BSO No. Everyone has long understood limiting principles like fighting words, defamation, slander etc. But the phrase in question is an explicit endorsement of censorship of conservative opinions by the private sector. Let’s not pretend.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@BSO Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences is a philosophically incoherent phrase that censorship loving liberals concocted at the height of their identity politics obsession.

[Kazen Alaricus @WrenKaz]

@DevaronPerry Secular liberals have to learn to tolerate disagreement. Firing people for expressing their closely held religious beliefs is reprehensible.