Re: OT: John Kerry wants free speech "hammered out of existence"

On 17/10/2024 8:10 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

 Speaking at a WEF meeting (Globalism Central) among like-minded cronies,
Kerry says he wants independent media and dissent "hammered out of
existence" and that means the First Amendment has to go. This is blatant,
out-and-out totalitarianism reminiscent of the darkest Soviet times.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwP4Krvreo

It's not independent media and dissent that he's objecting to but the kind of lying propaganda that you make a habit of posting here.
Free speech doesn't extend to shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre, and the kind of climate change denial propaganda that you tout is no less dangerous, though it will take longer to create a lethal disaster.
American right-wing politics has weaponised lying propaganda.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/
Trump's non-stop lying is more a personality defect, but he does fit well with the deceitful right-wing tradition.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" to quote Dr. Johnson.
There is another right-wing tradition of disinterested probity, but it doesn't seem to win elections today.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney