jonnyredshorts

jonnyredshorts t1_iue3u2r wrote

Reply to comment by ArkeryStarkery in Deploy Malloy signs make good kindling. by Quirfg

It’s a fascist move. You can spoilt hairs and move goalposts all you want, that won’t change the fact that trying to silence any or all political speech is fascist. The degree to how extensive those attempts to silence are determine the level of fascism.

Silencing ONE candidate is fascist, and silencing ALL candidates is fascist. It’s only a matter of degrees, but the action of silencing a candidate, any candidate or all candidates is fascist.

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jonnyredshorts t1_iudqsv2 wrote

Reply to comment by ArkeryStarkery in Deploy Malloy signs make good kindling. by Quirfg

My point is, stealing the political sign of a candidate that you oppose, silencing that candidates voice is in fact “not allowing ANY opposition”. Hence my use of the term fascism. It’s right in your own frikken definition. JFC

Edit: added “ANY” to satisfy a pedantic and bad faith argument attempt.

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jonnyredshorts t1_iud5vyz wrote

Reply to comment by ScrodLeader in Deploy Malloy signs make good kindling. by Quirfg

For real…stealing political signs is just step 1 in the fascist handbook. Let the votes be the final judgement, and let people use their (limited) political voice as they see fit and then let your vote do the talking. Stealing political signage is complete bulls**t.

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jonnyredshorts t1_iud5fx1 wrote

Reply to Deploy Malloy signs make good kindling. by Quirfg

That’s bush league stuff…just let people have their signs. Don’t like them, don’t vote for them, but don’t be a fascist. Let the votes tell the story. Taking down political signs is pure fascism and is completely undemocratic. Also illegal.

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