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Right-wingers only seem to care about free speech when it applies to themselves. Anyone else and they'll get talking of "defeating the woke mind virus" or whatever ridiculous way they decide to demonize others.

Reminds me of that Sartre quote

The_donald was the only lesson I needed to learn what conservatives thought of free speech.

It would be interesting to know what conservatives actually believe. By this point we've broken down each and everyone of their professed beliefs and found nothing of substance.

Here is a list of things I remember conservatives use to say their ideology was based on:

*Christian morals - You can even look back at their warped version of Christian morality from 1970s forward and still say today that Trump has fully exposed them to be baseless

*Small government - Trump and Co are actively trying to expand government authority and have successfully taken away the rights of woman all over the US

*Democracy - Trump told democracy to go fuck itself Jan. 6 2021

*Capitalism - Capitilism for the serfs socialism for the capitilists

*American Exceptionalism - At some point America was great but I'm not going to say when.

*No Child Left Behind - jk jk we knew that was bullshit from the get go

*Free speech - ahem I mean free 'hate' speech. all other speech is negotiable.

The list goes on my dudes. Would love to know what these people really believe. My guess is nothing. They are just mad and acting out. We've all seen it growing up. The people who just refuse to help themselves no matter what you do and you're constantly picking up the pieces for them.

Free speech absolutist means "I am absolutely free from the consequences of my speech"

He’s not carrying water for the facists, he IS a fascist and they’re trying to spill that water on everyone in an attempt to undermine people’s freedoms. Fuck him and fuck his kind

The Saudis helped him buy it to try to stop future Color Revolutions

I can see several motives for him buying twitter.

Get trump elected, Because:

a) less taxes for the musky chodelet

b) less pesky safety and labour regulation for tesla/spacex/neuralink

c) drop support for Ukraine so he gets a shot at the rare minerals underneath it when russia has full control.

He's a useful idiot for trump and putin. Still not sure what the saudi angle is, though.

Free speech absolutist,okay?

It means absolutely no free speech to anyone criticizing him

Because for the previous 15ish years before Musky got a hold of it it was actually decently regarded. Many people turned to it for up to date news and trusted it. It was a place where brands could interact with customers, celebrities with fans, etc. It had built up trust. People are having a hard time letting that go.

Even today there are top posts on Lemmy that are screen caps of Twitter. Not even Lemmy users can stop reading Twitter and upvoting. I down vote them on principle but it's 100 to 1.

i keep wondering this myself, so many places are still prominently presenting the xitter button to follow them on,like it's a totally normal thing to do. it's fucking bizzare imo.

Musk's "free speech" is a lot like the Lost Cause's "states rights": a fig leaf that intentionally tries to distract from the fact that the only speech/right of concern was that of the most repugnant behavior.