The conservatives: The 2nd amendment protects the first amendment!!
Me: You realize that you already don't have free speech. If you say something conservative on an account corporations see and they don't like it, then you get fired (or you don't get hired). That's capitalism. What are you going to do; take up arms against Home Depot because they fired you because of something you said on the internet?
If the government took away your right to free speech, then you are just as likely to take up arms against that government as you would take up arms against Home Depot for firing you. You don't have the guts to kill others over the right to free speech (which to be fair, neither do I. It violates my morals and I hope it does to you as well), so don't be all bark and no bite.
When Elon Musk banned people for calling Nazis white trash, you didn't care.
Capitalism is more important than the right to speak about issues that you will never be able to change. I learned that the hard way; now I don't think I'm ever going to get hired. I've deleted all of my social media posts; the ones on DART I would like to see get deleted, but I don't think they will because the mods (aka Barney) have more faith in the privacy of DART posts from corporations than I do, but I want him to delete every post I made on both of my accounts.
I don't make the same mistake I did. The right to post about certain opinions whose policies you will never get to change is less valuable than your income. I don't plan on posting anymore, and I hope Barney fufills my request to delete all of my social media posts (including this one). If he has more faith in DART's privacy from employers than I do, fine; he can take that chance and post on DART and have his posts stay up. I want all of mine taken down. We have different opinions and should be able to live by those opinions.
