Doomsider

I have seen plenty of fat meth addicts in my day.

The leader of the KKK said he would vote for a black man over a white woman. Sexism has always trumped racism.

That is the smell of desperation.

If I am an American and I say that the US is the best country ever I would sound stupid. So yes, you sound stupid.

In Soviet Russia the pet eats you!

Most powerful most free! Surely you can see how stupid you sound.

This is the way. If every company knew firing a whistleblower would result in a successful lawsuit against them, they would not do it anymore.

I agree with your point about freedom of speech but would like to elaborate a little more. Free speech is the domain of government and most speech in the US falls outside that area.

I don't particularly want the government to regulate speech if it is not absolutely necessary. Instead we should have a very strong culture that prevents and shames things like othering people. Basically a woke culture that the right loves to complain about but much stronger than it is today.

I don't see eye to eye with with you over sweeping away lying, manipulation, and the fraudulent behavior we see in our countries leaders both private and public sector.

Simply put a doctor cannot lie to you or they would lose their license. Politicians and other leaders should be no different. This is not rocket science, if someone manipulates and lies they have no business in government.

There is a reason they renamed propaganda as public relations. They knew the public didn't like it, so they obscured it to hide what it really is. Using social science to manipulate people through fear and disgust should be straight up illegal.

When the government looks to regulate speech it should be about protecting the populace from harm. Just like the state would press charges on your abusive partner, even against your will, the government has an obligation to do the same for leadership roles.

This is because of the power in relation to everyone else leaders have. It is not okay for your pastor or teacher to deceive you. Why are we giving a politician, who arguably can cause far more harm, the right to do so? It is a rather bizarre aspect of our society at the moment.

Right now the best of psychological science is being used against our populace as a weapon and that is unacceptable.

There is a reason Texas is rated only one lone star!

In regards to Stop the Steal, it just shows us that propaganda works. Allowing liars and deceivers a mouthpiece means they can spread their message far and wide. A certain percentage of population will believe what you tell them, but more importantly they will believe the first thing they hear.

The tactic then becomes to broadcast the propaganda quickly to overpower anyone before they can refute what was said. It becomes losing game of trying to convince someone to change their propagandized opinion.

Needless to say using psychology to manipulate people should be illegal. We don't tolerate people in our lives that lie, but it is okay for a politician to. Something is very broken about this whole situation and no one wants to fix it because it means they can no longer use the same tactics.

Ahh yes, the old stop scalpers by becoming scalpers trick!

Sure, you don't actually own it. The words you strung together are not actually yours nor is the grammar you strung it together with. The knowledge you used to create it is also not yours.

The only way to ensure no one reads, borrows, or "steals" your work is to never share it with anyone and certainly never put it on the Internet.

The only way to ensure it is truly yours is to never have participated in society, invent your own language, and of course hide it from ever being discovered.

This is the only real way. You need to create in a vacuum and lock it up so no one will ever find it. Then and only then can it truly be yours.