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

On 19/10/2024 2:56 am, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:10:58 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
 

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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwP4Krvreo

 Basically by definition, the Left wants to control everything; it's a
power lust thing.

For John Larkin's definition of the left, which assumes that all left-wingers want an authoritarian socialist - Soviet Communist style - regime.
Most socialists know that this is bad idea - and Karl Marx got thrown out of the International Socialist organisation in 1871 for endorsing it.

Since they assume that they understand social and economic systems, no
matter how complex, and control everything, it makes sense that they
would define dissenting theories as "disinformation" and make such
illegal.

The "control everything" part is the problem. US big business has the same kind of ambition,and the US was the first country to introduce anti-trust legislation in an attempt to control. It clearly didn't go far enough.

That dynamic is one reason that centrally-controlled economies do so
badly, and tend to kill millions.

As Trump did when he tried to control the US response to the Covid-19 epidemic which probably a million more Americans than it would have done under a better-informed regime.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney