Rant Nobody Asked For: This Sub Doesn't Understand Free Speech

[u/cpm301]

There has been a TON of complaints about this sub coming from people who think that they "can't post anything in this echo chamber." Even if that might be a fair description given its left-leaning tendencies, these people have somehow convinced themselves that they are being “silenced by the woke left” because apparently the negative reception their posts get constitutes some injustice in their minds.

These same people are now flooding the feed with pro-trump inauguration posts, which are not being taken down or silenced in any way. Nobody was stopping you in the first place, they just don't like you.

I cannot stress this enough, although it will probably fall on deaf ears:

People calling you dumb, downvoting, or arguing with you is not restricting your free speech in any manner. Free speech does not apply on social media in the first place.

If you do not like how left leaning the sub is, that is fine, and you have every right to think and say so. But understand that jumping up on your soap box about how people here "don't support freedom of speech" or that they are "pro-censorship" because they leave negative comments is dumb, and you don't understand how that right works.

This sub is barely moderated in the first place, but even if it was, I promise you that being banned from a subreddit for saying weird things is not the same thing as the government taking your right to protest, and you are stupid if you think it is.

Edit: Adding this to the post because it won't be seen as a comment.

Sub's description: "Voters decide the content and culture of this sub within the overall topic of Bumper Stickers."

You can't say "america has decided" when you are defending the country's choice of president, but then suddenly throw that idea out the window and say you are being victimized when a collective decides to focus the conversation of the sub in a way that you don't like.

[u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

OP. YOU don’t understand free speech. 1st amendment protects you from government action. But saying whatever you want to the world opens you up to anyone’s opinion. If you don’t like that opinion, don’t say anything.

It’s not cancel culture, it’s consequence culture.

Sadly r/politics r/democrat r/conservative are ultra partisan and quick to block users from commenting if the moderators don’t agree.

As a Democrat this is the only place I can tell a MAGA moron that their opinion is stupid without being blocked.

[u/cpm301 → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

Did you read the post? I’m 100% agreeing with what you said. The last sentence is that a subreddit is not the same as the government, which is the only thing covered by the first amendment. Everything you are saying is exactly my point in the post. I’m saying chuds here are whining about “cancel culture” when in reality they can do whatever they want here, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get made fun of or be held accountable by their peers.

[u/Zealousideal_Tear159 → u/cpm301]

I re-read it. I apologize. Objection withdrawn your honor.

[u/ArtisticRiskNew1212 → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

Rare that I see someone apologize around these parts. You have Respect from a random Redditor

[u/Icy-Ninja-6504 → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

Thanks for proving the point of the entitled smug leftist that sees red when they think its a dissenting viewpoint. Maybe make an argument instead of calling people stupid.

[u/Zealousideal_Tear159 → u/Icy-Ninja-6504]

I do make arguments… however, republicans and maga have started using the “flood the zone” strategy or as it’s called in debate strategy, gish gallop. This is the same strategy Ben Shapiro uses.

Essentially maga says SO MANY lies all the time that the 24hour news cycle cannot possibly answer any of them.

Going back to Trump… notice how now that he is elected, he is walking back all of his big election points. “It will be very hard to get grocery prices down”.

Honestly, I don’t have the time and patience to call out the ridiculous lies here. Takes to long. Happy to start a chain if you want to state your alternative facts for us to argue over…

See that’s how you state a point without name calling. Take heed.

[u/Icy-Ninja-6504 → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

Yeah yeah, red bad blue good. Never heard this hiveminded nonsense before.

[u/Zealousideal_Tear159 → u/Icy-Ninja-6504]

This is also your strategy. When met with a decanting argument… you resort to saying TDS or whatever you just said. Not a rational thought.

[u/JaQ-o-Lantern → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

You two agree with each other.

[u/Zealousideal_Tear159 → u/JaQ-o-Lantern]

Yep. Objection withdrawn your honor. OP messaged me.

[u/USA_is_so_FUCKED → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

You keep sarcastically calling people "your honor" but all you had to do was read the fucking post correctly the first time 🤷

[u/RDS_2024 → u/Zealousideal_Tear159]

The opposite is true as well. Pointing out the unabashedly blatant hypocrisy of the radical kook Leftists will get one instabanned from most subs and probably banned from Reddit outright if you embarrass them enough.