Post #1858607

2022-12-13 15:53 UTC

Notorious lickspittle Lindsey Graham doesn&#39;t seem to understand that we don&#39;t license expression in this country, and the reason for that is made plain by his suggestion: it would be used to punish expression that upsets the government.

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@AriCohn@masto.ai 2022-12-13 16:00

Absolutely loling at the fact that Lindsey Graham doesn't realize how many people would love to shut down the expressive enterprises that give him a platform and that licensure would make it easier to do just that.

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@That_AC@masto.ai 2022-12-13 15:55

@AriCohn@masto.ai Not the government, just Lindseybelle. Did he need to take a rest on the fainting couch after he clutched these pearls?? Also can we sue Lindseybelle for lying to us??

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@dirkhh@hachyderm.io 2022-12-13 16:02

@AriCohn@masto.ai YIKES... that's... insane... countries with laws like that (e.g., China) are the new role models of our "conservatives"?

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@Popehat@mastodon.social 2022-12-13 16:17

@AriCohn@masto.ai The very annoying part is that there’s a bipartisan support for this sort of thoughtless dipshittery.

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@Kryten@toot.community 2022-12-13 16:18

@AriCohn@masto.ai He's a big fan of big government all of a sudden isn't he.

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@anneursu@zirk.us 2022-12-13 16:20

@AriCohn@masto.ai always appreciate the usage of "lickspittle"

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@buermann@mastodon.social 2022-12-13 16:24

@AriCohn@masto.ai Why does he think he can sue Twitter if somebody on Twitter lies about him?

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@Pizzathehutt_@mastodon.world 2022-12-13 16:32

@AriCohn@masto.ai he’s a public figure so it doesn’t count.

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@jpanzer@mastodon.social 2022-12-13 17:34

@AriCohn@masto.ai Hey @USConst_Amend_I@mastodon.social where ya at?

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@MWilson@masthead.social 2022-12-13 18:24

@AriCohn@masto.ai But we do allow people to sue liars. The irony, of course, is that Lindsey Graham’s preferred outlets are the biggest liars.

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@ministerofimpediments@mastodon.social 2022-12-13 19:09

@AriCohn@masto.ai bringing back ‘lickspittle’…could have rested on your laurels with bootlicker, but nope.

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@jobsboils@mstdn.social 2022-12-14 03:04

@AriCohn@masto.ai Calling Graham a "lickspittle" is deeply insulting both to spit and to people who lick it.

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@landley@mstdn.jp 2022-12-14 08:44

@AriCohn@masto.ai Real estate and broadcast spectrum are finite public resources exclusively allocated. That's always been the basis for regulating them: letting you broadcast on this frequency or build a house there prevents anyone else from doing it. Cable TV escaped the broadcast regulations because it wasn't a finite resource. Faux News leveraged that regulatory escape to create a propaganda network with the illusion of federal scrutiny forcing them to speak only truth. https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#04-10-2017

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