“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,” Hill said.
Notably absent from Hill’s explanation was any description of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Mayorkas. Hill all but admitted that, with the impeachment, Republicans are aiming to make Mayorkas the face of their anti-Biden, anti-immigrant campaign, despite his having not committed impeachable offenses.”
Yes, I’m aware of what incitement is; I know about the Brandenberg decision. I’ve also had a number of liberal friends–not leftists–that think that a confederate flag stick on a truck counts as incitement, and that it should be banned.
I’d also like to point out that Dems have advanced a bill that would prevent Facebook, et al., from using algorithmic feeds, due to nebulous “won’t someone think of the children!” claims (I’d have to pull up the TechDirt and EFF articles about that to give you a citation). The flip side of that is Republicans keep passing “Don’t Say Gay” bills, which are also blatant 1A violations.
Absolutely. I agree with you 100%. But it’s not about preventing violence (in this case; in many cases where cities and states are keeping competing protest groups apart, it is about stopping violence), it’s about keeping people who may be protesting loudly away from people that need reproductive care, because they feel intimidated, even if people aren’t touching/directing intimidating them or physically preventing them from accessing clinics.
This one is fuzzy, because what if you’re ‘consenting’ (and I use the term loosely here, since I think that all religion is deeply coercive) to harm being done to your person? Take, for instance, conversion therapy, which has been completely banned in some states. What if your religion has taught you that all of your sexual desires are sinful, and you believe that conversion therapy will help you lead a reduced-sin life? And how exactly do you separate religious liberty out from these things, and allow religions to have their own doctrine, while also saying they can’t do harm? Like, for instance, the Westboro Baptist Church? They certainly have hateful doctrine and dogma, and I’ve definitely seen people saying that their religious freedoms should be clamped down on.
I don’t disagree at all. I’m generally anti-authoritarian, and generally quite far left. When I look at current Republicans, I see a group that is very highly authoritarian, and extremely economically and socially conservative. When I look at most current Democrats, I see moderate authoritarians, moderately economically conservative, and largely socially liberal. What I take issue with is people that say that Republicans are authoritarians, and Democrats are not, when that’s simply not accurate.