Did Alex Jones tell you that?
“and then we told them, everyone getting to vote isn’t a fair election”
“And then we told them, we only hate trans people, not gays and blacks”
“And then we told them, deregulation frees billionaires to take care of the planet more efficiently”
“And then we told them, school shootings are caused by not enough guns in schools”
I’m confused by the group of people chosen. What’s the specific meme above referencing?
Edit: I feel like the upvotes are assuming this is the base picture and just blindly upvoting it. The faces are replaced, which means it’s intentionally choosing those individuals. I’d like to see the OP actually defend the argument behind choosing those individuals. The closest could maybe be the Biden administration asking Facebook to prevent false narratives and fake information, which I’ll admit is gray area at best, but even then, it’s only tangental to the post in topic. I’ve never seen anyone attack free speech in the name of free speech except for the right. They’re literally banning books in public libraries and claiming private entities need to carry speech they don’t like (unless you’re a baker or hypothetical web designer, in which case, no you’re cool with not publishing speech you don’t like)
This is classic right wing “humor”. They get butt hurt because we make fun of them so they think that humor just means hurting the other guys. They try, and fail, and we laugh at them which makes them even more butt hurt.
Yeah it’s just some right wing gaslighting. The picture should have Musk, Trump, Desantis…
The group is made up of the right wings favorite enemies.
Bill gates supposedly is for population control lookup Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conspiracy theories.
Fauci likely does not need explanation.
George Soros has replaced Rothschild has the figurehead of “elders of Zion” style antisemitic conspiracy theories.
It’s referencing the lack of actual brain wave activity of the OP
It’s an older meme, so it’s possible OP just googled a quick template and didn’t realize it wasn’t the original.
Hold up. There’s a bit of nuance here because we literally had some guy hawking poison during the whole pandemic.
Like I get the sentiment here but the height of the pandemic was wild. There were some folk “just talking” trying to make a quick dime hawking things and thoughts that were getting folks killed.
Locally to me, we had Phil Valentine who was big in the “I’m just saying this whole thing is a big hoax” all the way up till he drowned in his own fluid filling up his lungs. How embarrassing. And you know if you call the local talk radio now and mention his name, they just hang up on you, because they want to act like Mr. Valentine didn’t happen.
So yeah, there were a few social networks a little too eager to please the government. But at the same time, we had some folks “just talking” about something that went from nothing to the third leading cause of death in less than a year.
So I think it’s worthwhile to mention those “free speech” folks like Herman Cain and Phil Valentine that some like to conveniently skip over.
*Hocking
It’s hawking. But I’m totally glad you said something because I’ve never thought about the difference so I’m glad you made me check myself.
EDIT: Also I can sort of see an argument for hocking. Since that’s trying to pawn off something. Why is our language so confusing?
*hawking
OP is a MAGA cuck 🤡
I got a dollar that says this was originally made as a chud meme. Too many right-wing fear mongering conspiratorial bogeymen in one spot
This must be the shittiest version of this meme that I’ve ever seen…
Why the fuck is Bill Gates there btw?
Reee vaccines REEEEEEE
Same reason they put George Soros and Dr Fauci on it. Reeks of anti-vax fascist bullshit.
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Nah, OP doesn’t have a point. Most of these comments are calling out the lack of a point, but you are looking for “objectivity”…?
I don’t think anyone cares about your “apolitical” point of view that is clearly political. I would post something to r/EnlightenedCentrism, but I don’t know a magazine for that.
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Every single conservative bastion:
Reddit /r/conservative
Truth social
Parlor
They all are the single most obvious and egregious censors of anyone short of an authoritarian state.
You will be literally instantly permabanned on any of them for saying things like “the evidence seems to be saying the election wasn’t stolen” or “Trump should have handled the vaccine better” or “if trump is actually guilty, he should be prosecuted”.
Your comment will very quickly be deleted and you will be permanently banned. There is no “liberal” place that censors and bans people like conservative forums. If you post a news source from a “wrong” (even a politically neutral and objective news outlet like AP or Reuters reporting on anything political) your post will get removed and you will get banned.
Russia is extremely right wing and they have one of the most aggressive censorships going on right now.
The right is by far the most egregiously censorious in America, and the hard right and hard left censor just as much as each other.
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There is a HUGE, and I can’t overstate how massive it is, difference between being downvoted for posting something others deem stupid, and having your comment forcefully removed by the forum “party in power” and being banned from the entire forum.
I am completely unaware of any “liberal” forum that does the latter unless there is a threat of violence, where every. single. conservative forum does the latter constantly, without remorse, and for even the slightest of “infractions” such as questioning the judgement of their idols or god-emperor. Yes, liberal forums will downvote the shit out of people. That is not censorship. Conservatives remove any trace of the comment not by the people, but by the authoritarian “moderators”. That is censorship.
(The exception being lemmygrad which is openly tankies, but they argue hard that they aren’t liberal)
The point is that Bill Gates, George Soros, Biden, Fauci et.al. use the paradox of tolerance to suppress free speech.
Those people are chosen deliberately and grouped together as if they’re all colluding. The point is a conspiracy theory very popular in altright circles. If you think that OP actually has an agreeable point then you’re not an apolitical spectator above it all, you agree with an altright conspiracy theory which has antisemitic overtones.
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You think antisemitism is agreeable?
If someone shows you how they really feel, you believe the fucker, and that fucker is a bigot.
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I wonder how these “free speech absolutists” feel about the recent CSAM attack on Lemmy. That’s a prime example of how you get them to realize unfiltered free speech doesn’t work, or you have them openly support cp, one of the two lol.
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Yes it does. Free speech is also freedom of expression, and that includes art and imagery. I don’t know what you mean by “actually spoke to someone” or what that supposedly changes.
The first amendment literally includes freedom of expression.
Yes, every libertarian.
It’s just some guy going “rich ppl bad upvotes to the left”
I want memes not political commentary!
Right or left it’s all the same to me.
That’s a serious indictment of your critical thinking skills
Sounds about white.
his username is indian and he most probably dont know about american poltical right and left. he maybe posted this right wing meme on left community unknowingly
How brave of you to proudly tell everybody how much of a dumbass you are.
americans are very serious about thier right and left.
There ate genuine leftist writers who explain this concept. I haven’t read them, though.
Right and left are like head or tail of the same con (not coin). All of you have been conned and it is sad to see how much you believe in it. None of them are here for anything but their own financial interests and they don’t fine a damn if you live or die.
This meme brought to you by the Heritage Foundation: don’t forget to vote red because you can trust us. /s
Not sure what the meme is referring to, but this is actually true in some aspects.
If there are 100 people in a room and 1 person is just super loudly talking the entire time, it silences out 99 people. The ability to talk of the 99 is silenced by the 1. If you limit the amount the loudest can talk, you give the other 99 more freedom of speech. From a utilitarian view, you gained more freedom of speech as a whole by reducing the freedom of speech for one.
People who say things like these generally conflate the concepts of “I want to remove others’ right to freedom of speech” with “my freedom of speech was taken away” when they often want to do the former.
Its referring to a conspiracy theory that gates, soros, fauci and whoever else is famous amongst altrighters for (supposedly) trying to go against their white nationalist ideas, are in collusion.
It’s referencing the “Paradox of Tolerance”.
Google some of the George Soros conspiracies to see what corner of the internet this comes from.
Google some of the George Soros conspiracies to see what corner of the internet this comes from.
I’d rather not tbh…
Probably best for your mental health. I just commented it because you said you dont know what its referring to.
If you know about the Rothschild conspiracy theories or really any other “Elders of Zion” type conspiracy theory then you can probably already guesstimate where this goes.
Freedom of speech is actually freedom from government persecution
Doesn’t give me a free pass to be an asshole in a conversation
Posting this wherever it’s needed for years now: https://xkcd.com/1357/
ah yes my favorite kind of recursion
