Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Glenn Greenwald: The war on free speech" video.

  1. GG talks the talk AND, far more importantly, continues to walk the walk. Bravo, Glen.
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  2. The right to free speech is ultimately there to protect those with whom you disagree NOT those with whom you agree.
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  3. Shapiro obviously never believed in FoS rights in the first place. It was simply the darkly cynical hook he used to hang his highly lucrative pitch on for years. We now know that FoS means nothing to him and he's always been FoS, quite frankly.
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  4. Once someone starts cherry picking freedom of speech rights like Ben Shapiro has over Gaza then you know their game's up.
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  5. I thoroughly recommend people listen to GG's excellent explanation of the First Amendment on his System Update channel.
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  6. NOTHING should serve as a greater warning about the natural tendency of some human beings to lean towards and even embrace authoritarianism and censorship than the covid debacle.
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  7. Capitalism, or least what we choose to call 'capitalism', demonstrably creates monopolies and destroys competition. These monopolies then have the accrued power and wealth to completely capture our body politics and nominally democratic systems. To paraphrase Mussolini, fascism is defined as when the interests of the state and its government can barely be separated from the interests of the corporations by a cigarette paper. Are we on a slippery slope or are we already far too far down it I wonder?
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  8. Talking of 'crisis actors', the, I think, MSNBC or CNN interview of the girl who claimed to have been poked in the eye by protesters is hilarious.
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  9. It's also been proven that some of these anti-genocide protesters on US campuses are actually pro-zionist infiltrators sent in to discredit these protests with anti-Semitic chants. Given that a fair few of these anti-Zionist protestors are, in fact, Jewish it makes claims of anti-Semitism even more bizarre.
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