From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: It's escalating...
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 22:36:36 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-05-18 17:37, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-05-18, Ken <Ken@invalid.com> wrote:
>> Alan wrote:
>>> ...and none of you will care until it impacts you directly:
>>>
>>> 'Border goons detain US citizen for having an opinion
>>>
>>> As reported in UserMag, CBP agents detained Hasan Piker â a popular
>>> progressive streamer and a New Jersey-born US citizen â when he flew
>>> back from France this weekend. The authorities in Chicago questioned him
>>> for two hours about his political views, Twitch bans, and his interviews
>>> while abroad.'
>>>
>>> <https://boingboing.net/2025/05/12/border-goons-detain-us-citizen-for-having-an-opinion.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> 'The agent asked about his purpose in Chicago (a speaking engagement at
>>> the University of Chicago journalism school) and his occupation (Twitch
>>> streamer). The questions then shifted to his streams, asking if he
>>> discussed current events, drama, the internet, and specifically "the
>>> news." The agent then inquired about "the war" and "Trump." Piker found
>>> these questions unusual, stating, "I literally straight up told him,
>>> 'Why are you asking me this? What does this have to do with anything?'"'
>>>
>>> So apparently, "free speech" is only free if Trump's junta likes what
>>> you say!
>>
>> Free speech?? You mean like when the Biden government told social media
>> to not publish news items they did not like and said they were
>> "Disinformation?" Or like now, when people are coming out and
>> confirming how mentally unwell Biden was during his four years as
>> president?? They are now wanting to "Look forward" and not talk about it.
>
> And then there was Biden's short lived, thank God, "Disinformation Board" which
> sounds just like Orwell's "ministry Of Truth"
>
> Whenever I hear a libtard claiming Trump is a threat to democracy, free speech,
> the rule of law and that he is a fascist I laugh and gently explain to the libtard
> that it's actually the democrats who fit that criteria.
> They tend to project a lot.
>
>
>> You really should take your meds for TDS.
>
> His is an extreme case.
> Up the dosage.
>
And you think talking to businesses about what they're promoting is the
same thing as detaining people for their opinions.
And you don't thin that's deranged?