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I'm a person with common sense.

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The CDC had to put out advisories to not ingest disinfectants because we had an increase of people poisoning themselves. Until people stop doing stupid things, we'll need organizations to stop the spread of ideas that can kill you.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 09:05pm)

Lol I guess. I can be a bit of a reactor sometimes. Apart from hitting on hot guys, I don't really take the initiative.

Quote (Handcuffs @ Aug 9 2022 09:23pm)

Same.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 09:21pm)

And what makes you think you can unilaterally decide that other people don't have common sense and need to be told what to think?



Sounds like an instance of nanny state.

If people want to do stupid things and get themselves killed, they should have that right. It is not the government's role to babysit the populace.

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 9 2022 09:28pm)

I'm not unilaterally deciding. The majority of this country, is deciding it.

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It's the government's responsibility to protect people.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 08:18pm)

I am sure we have all heard of cases where entities, usually social media platforms, remove or silence people for allegedly spreading "covid disinfo". To me this is just such bullshit. Why do the people behind these outlets feel that they are qualified to judge whether something is disinfo or not? Besides, that is the whole point of having a public discourse about it. So we can find out for ourselves what's truly disinfo and what isn't. But these platforms and the people behind them have already made up their minds. They are not interested in having a genuine debate. They also think they can unilaterally decide what's truth and what's falsehood.

And when a platform does not allow for true debates and instead promotes certain views and narratives to the exclusion of others, they can be rightfully considered propanganda mouthhpieces. They can no longer claim that they represent a forum where all views are given a chance to be considered.

Question to you: who gets to decide what's disinfo? Do you want twitter or facebook deciding that for you? Why do these establishments act like they have the monopoly on truth?

Quote (YeeHaw @ Aug 9 2022 09:01pm)

You are a couple years late to this conversation.

Was it may or June 2020 when that large panel of doctors came forward with their findings and got wiped clean off the internet within hours of releasing the video? It happened so quickly it almost seems like a dream that may or may not have happened because most people got to see it once before it disappeared. Bright sunny day, outdoor press conference with physicians. You know what I’m talking about.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 09:06pm)

I am actually not aware of this vid. Do you still have a link to it? You can post it on bitchute for others to see.

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 9 2022 09:12pm)

We need it because people are too stupid to understand what's disinfo and what's not. If we valued critical thinking in this country, we could have nice things.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 09:35pm)

Why should the majority of this country be able to decide that? How would you feel I could get a lot of people behind me and we started to decide that you can't think well enough for yourself and we need to start telling you what to think?



To protect them from outside threats and threats from other people. But not to protect them from themselves.

What do you think are the proper roles of the government?

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 9 2022 10:02pm)

I probably wouldn't like it but that's democracy. I'm often on the losing side when it comes to voting.

Quote (JessiWan @ Aug 9 2022 10:04pm)

Democracy doesn't mean the majority can do what it wants to the minority.

Quote (thundercock @ Aug 9 2022 10:10pm)

Within reason it does.

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Who exactly is being harmed by stopping the spread of disinformation?