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Something to think about...

That's been floating around awhile. Still not the greatest... we've fallen even further.

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Originally Posted by barbara (Post 362363)

https://youtu.be/ML3qYHWRIZk

The video speaks for itself. I thought it was great. IMO:)

We are the greatest in one essential sense... a country where the ordinary Joe can sue the government and win big bucks.

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Originally Posted by Dondilion (Post 362398)

We are the greatest in one essential sense... a country where the ordinary Joe can sue the government and win big bucks.

You mean that if the government does some horrendous hurt to you, they will pay you off with the taxpayer's money?

Don't forget the horrendous hurt part. You make it sound like winning the lottery.

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Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 362399)

You mean that if the government does some horrendous hurt to you, they will pay you off with the taxpayer's money?

Don't forget the horrendous hurt part. You make it sound like winning the lottery.

Well compare to other countries...If you dare, you get the horrendous plus more -- like possible disappearance.

Some will acknowledge after a long time but refuse to pay any substantial sum.

Of course in the case of US taxpayers' money facilitate the process.

Live and let live civility in a red state
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...8970cea6ac?4ln

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The most important change in the expressive environment can be boiled down to one idea: it is no longer speech itself that is scarce, but the attention of listeners. Emerging threats to public discourse take advantage of this change. As Zeynep Tufekci puts it, “censorship during the Internet era does not operate under the same logic [as] it did under the heyday of print or even broadcast television.”1 Instead of targeting speakers directly, it targets listeners or it undermines speakers indirectly. More precisely, emerging techniques of speech control depend on (1) a range of new punishments, like unleashing “troll armies” to abuse the press and other critics, and (2) “flooding” tactics (sometimes called “reverse censorship”) that distort or drown out disfavored speech through the creation and dissemination of fake news, the payment of fake commentators, and the deployment of propaganda robots.2 As journalist Peter Pomerantsev writes, these techniques employ “information . . . in weaponized terms, as a tool to confuse, blackmail, demoralize, subvert and paralyze.”3

Is the First Amendment Obsolete?
By Tim Wu, 9/2017

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/t...dment-obsolete

This has also been published in NYT but I picked a free site.