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The USA free speech is not extreme at all. It's the natural state of people.

Repression is the deviance.

> sensible hate speech laws

are an oxymoron. You cannot stop people from thinking things, or saying their mind. They'll just do it out of sight of you.

> Trump-stacked Supreme Court

Free speech is in the Constitution. It's not a creation of Trump, though if it were, Trump would be a great man.



Yah, downvote me all you like. I remain proud to be an advocate of free speech, even for those who want to end free speech.


There's a great segment in The Dawn of Everything[1] that discusses how speech we a check on the rise of authoritarian power in many pre-modern societies.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/...




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