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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: one4all
You refer to homogenization of the political landscape because you do not wish to follow protocals in place to voice your discontent...so you choose to instead rile up your country because you want attention or because you have a greater agenda.....
As a foreigner I don't expect you to understand how the Constitution of the United States functions so allow me to explain. The 'protocols in place to voice your discontent', i.e. the First Amendment, permits me to do so in very broad manner including voicing my distrust of government and our elected leaders. If you don't like that, tough, you don't live here anyway.
originally posted by: one4all
This is not about the First Amendment...
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: one4all
This is not about the First Amendment...
Sure it is non-American, you'd understand that if you lived here. We get to say pretty much whatever we want about our crap government and the crap government or it's elected leaders cannot do a damn thing about it.
Must drive you bonkers that people have that level of freedom.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: one4all
We are all being played like a harp, no matter which country you hail from. Take a look at the bigger picture.
originally posted by: one4all
...as soon as you choose to interpret the 1st Amendment in your own way and then add organisation and funding ...
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: one4all
...as soon as you choose to interpret the 1st Amendment in your own way and then add organisation and funding ...
I'm sorry to break it to you non-American but you can indeed fundraise, organize and then protest under the protection the First Amendment. Sounds like you still need to learn much about how our rights function here but we all know you're happiest if you could have a totalitarian group-think society that espouses solely what you think it should.
originally posted by: one4all
Organised opposition is the way your 1st Amendment rights are projected for you....within designated parameters...
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: one4all
Organised opposition is the way your 1st Amendment rights are projected for you....within designated parameters...
None of which you know. There are minimal rules curtailing First Amendment rights and organizing, fundraising and then protesting are not part of them.
You're just sad that we don't live in your fantasy police state you keep masturbating over.
Like I said Sunshine.....you just keep painting the picture how you want to see it.....its your dime pal...
You keep trying to misrepresent dynamics because you are a slippery one arent you.....lol....I said gross fundraising and I said non-domestic and I said weaponising MSM/ social media.....you are trying to play powderpuff like you are throwing ten bucks in a hat and paying to make a few placards you can march around the town square....nice try.....
I am talking about a war using fake news and about a domestic attempt to slag and unseat your own properly elected President while you wave a 1st Amendment flag around....you are one of the underinformed people who are easily recruited unknowingly into this dynamic....you cant see past your bellybutton man...one of those blustering fools who spout off 1st Amendment every 5th sentence and simply muddying the waters for everyone else.....
You will not find one single post where I suggest 1st Amendment rights are to be ignored....quite the opposite slappy....I am saying that people like you simply exist to push boundries and rules as devils advocates and this is in no way positive or progressive it is in fact straining to both the system and other people......you dont make change this way you slow change down......
In todays world olde rules no longer cover the bets.......social media and globalisation have changed the playing field....there needs to be a re-boot of checks and balances....and this means full disclosure of who provides money to what small special interest groups and HOW MUCH money and media power they can generate before they become so impactfull they overun the intentions and impetus driving the 1st Amendment.
You know there are no checks and balances in place...this is the window of oppportunity I earlier said you identified and are trying to manipulate....yes sure you can do it....but lets identify you for how and why you would do such a thing.....you wish to be framed as a good solid patriotic American innocently living your life and having your 1st Amendment rights threatened....while in reality you are indoctrinated enough to identify and dial into this window of opportunity and then fight to keep it open or even expand it and further bastardise and misrepresent the 1st Amendment you claim to defend ...and this is the most anti-American thing possible in todays world.
The politicing ended when the votes were tallied up.....excercising your 1st Amendment rights was never intended to mean politicing after the vote is tallied in an ongoing long running attempt to cause enough social and political unrest in your own country to domesticlly depose your own President....there are words for people like that and they are not patriot or loyal.
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: one4all
Pathetic boot licker. You surrendered your free will to a politician. Submit yourself for recycling immediately.