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[–] Warmoose76 3 points 34 points (+37|-3) ago 

I'm sick and tired of the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative'. Can't you just see they are used to divide us? 'Liberal' mostly stands for freedom but now a days is used against freedom. The term 'liberal' gun laws is a paradox. Liberal really means hardly too no government regulation, but these days people are getting it confused with authoritarianism. I avoid these terms because I have come to realize they change every decade. Back in the day the 'conservatives' where the ones trying to censor speech and expression, the whole thing has flipped upside down.

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[–] ToTheMoonAlice 0 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago 

Own the word, change the meaning, control the narrative.

Right out of the Orwellian how-to guide-book.

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[–] lemon11 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

We are naturally divided by things such as the desires to extinguish self-defense and the desire to defend ourselves. What these terms do is divide politics in a different way and provide a linguistic handle on the divide to control it.

Labels aren't the problem, but using over-worn labels which are just weapons for the enemy may be a big problem. It's useful to reason about our own ideas in abstractions.

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[–] Oh_Well_ian 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Communists vs. Patriots

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[–] Newbalance 2 points -1 points (+1|-2) ago 

If you call "porn" free speech

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[–] ShinyVoater 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You might be technically correct, in the sense that simple recordings aren't "speech", but there's no meaningful line anywhere. Thus, we must fail broad and allow even recordings of two-plus people fucking.

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[–] leaffur ago 

It is