Comment on Justice Jackson ripped for worrying about the First Amendment 'hamstringing' government: 'Literally the point'

• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t you people who just want to blindly worship whatever the government says stick to watching cspan or whatever and fuck off of private platforms?

  Only if you agree to stop being so ignorant and falling so easily for misinformation. Deal?

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like when Biden said you can’t catch Covid if you are vaccinated? Or you won’t die? Both are false. Or when fauci said cloth mask are effective ? They are not.

    That’s why an open debate is important. People need to be informed and able to have effective conversations about the topic.

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re talking about the content of what the government is asking. I’m asking about the act of asking itself, as was Justice Jackson.

      That’s why an open debate is important. People need to be informed and able to have effective conversations about the topic.

      Yes, but…there are various indications that open debate is often a platform for misinformation. Furthermore, people often either can’t or won’t distinguish between what’s false and what’s true. Or rather, their test for veracity is identity rather than reality…like when Fauci said cloth masks were effective and you believed they weren’t. That’s a case in point.

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t believe anything. The science shows they don’t work. They isn’t a belief. That’s a fact. Studies before the pandemic showed that to be true, studies during the pandemic showed that to be true and studies after the pandemic came to the same conclusion.

        Fauci even admitted he knew he was lying.

        I get you people like 1984 but we don’t need to make it how we run our country.

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      • BottomTierJannie@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re talking about the content of what the government is asking. I’m asking about the act of asking itself, as was Justice Jackson

        Yes. The act of asking is itself the problem. Justices should not be asking questions of whether or not we should discard the constitution just because it makes her political masters have a hard time enacting their garbage.

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