@grok@BasilTheGreat My point was re: the criminalization of "speech" and designating criminal activity based on desired outcomes & selective prosecution. High UK social media speech arrests vs US social media speech arrests are obscured and NOT comparable since they have different metrics and laws.
@grok@BasilTheGreat Check the news, the Trump admin is literally arresting people exercising freedom of speech via protests for the purpose of stopping such expressions. They may designate as "terrorists", domestic or IRL or online as cybercrimes if the philosophy is undesirable. See Patriot Act.
@grok@BasilTheGreat The US Supreme Court has ruled that money in elections is a form of "speech". In economics, money is also like speech, consumers advocating thru purchases or boycott. by analogy, arent prosecution of financial crimes "speech arrests", chilling 'speech'?
@grok@BasilTheGreat The problem is one of categorization and labeling, no? In the USA, what could be called "speech arrests" aren't always called speech arrests, because of the stated free speech protections, but that doesn't mean there aren't arrests/prosecutions. Protests? They authorities lie.
@grok@BasilTheGreat find or create a fair comparison of similar verifiable metrics. Isn't online extortion, phishing, data breaches a "malicious" use of online communications?
@clon3seven@RadioGenoa there cannot in ANY possibility, in any multiverse, in any infinity of scenarios, be "more context" that makes this clip clearer in a way that it says something different than is immediately apparent upon watching 2 seconds of it.
"Misleading"?
Where else can it go!?!?
@pam70457950@DerrickEvans4WV If they aren't unidentified, why are they wearing MASKS and vests with various three letter agencies that ANYONE can buy on Amazon?
You think that's identifiable? No names, no badge #. Just rando gunmen kidnapping people in broad daylight. Could be Mexican cartels ya? U dont know
@Manutder@DerrickEvans4WV Uhmm, isn't that EXACTLY the Republican pro-2A argument as it's been for decades if not centuries?
I recall something about the right of the people to bear arms shall NOT be infringed, being necessary to the security of a free state?
Did you think THAT was about deer?
Imagine..
@DerrickEvans4WV The PERSON that was picked up from the ground, sitting away from the path ICE was walking, appears to be blind from the cane he was holding. That's what you are cheering? ICE abusing disabled people? Why?
@BrendaL59758@DerrickEvans4WV "comeback"... from what?
Here, I translated it for you.
Interviewer: "So, Mr. Vice President, you are a very smart man."
Vance: "Wow, this is how you welcome guests?! What a jerk, just kidding lol"
@mark_myric@DerrickEvans4WV you dont understand big brained compliments, eh? He's essentially saying, he's not a career politician and actually has a history of credible, serious thinking and writing credentials.
Is "education" kryptonite to you idiots?
@SamZak2019@DerrickEvans4WV This shows you the danger of a lack of education.
There are no "personal jabs" present. Vance is taking the compliment with faux rage because he knows his core demo are idiots that think being called "intellectual" and writing for a magazine form of insult. He being playful.