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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by blisterpeanuts on Sunday October 16, 2016 @09:39AM (#12718536)
When I've posted criticism of Hillary on Facebook, I've gotten savaged in the comments by my liberal friends. It's a sobering and depressing experience and I'm sad to realize that my respect for most of them has declined, as no doubt theirs has for me. Periodically I will post a defense of freedom of speech, and I'll remind people that I'm willing to fight and die for their right to disagree with me, with which they tend to agree. But they also believe that anyone who doesn't toe the party line is practically an enemy of the state.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by daveFNbuck on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:19AM (#12718972)
You posted something your friends disagreed with, they posted something you disagreed with in response. That's what freedom of speech is about, unless they're posting about how you should be jailed for criticizing Hillary.

Freedom of speech isn't freedom from people changing their opinion about you based on what you say.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by hilop on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:00PM (#12720317)
Unfortunately, in the modern Alt-right view, "freedom of speech" means "freedom of everyone agreeing with me and not talking back"
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by rayiner on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:44AM (#12718796)
In a way, because this election has come down to a dichotomy between Hilary and an actual cartoon villain, it'll be bad for the democratic party. It'll ensure the entrenchment of the conservative "think of the children" "just say no" wing of the party for another decade or more.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by ting_bu_dung on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:25AM (#12719000)
you mean the decline of the republican party and the entrenchment of angry white uneducated men for the next 10 years? It's already in the cards.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by rayiner on Sunday October 16, 2016 @11:49AM (#12719129)
Trump is not going to win, so complaining about angry white men is pretty pointless.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by ZoF on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:11PM (#12720375)
Stupid racist white males!
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by batbomb on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:01PM (#12719207)
Obviously you don't know enough people who support Trump (or McMullin, or Johnson) in your facebook feed, because the charicatures they post about Clinton are of a cartoonish evil villain as well, often with their favorite picture: https://goo.gl/images/LvYxB1

Clinton isn't my first pick, but I realized long ago that quite a bit of the hate about her goes back to her feminism and activism in her early days in the white house, when many families felt she had led a full-on attack on their traditional family values simply by not practicing them.

Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by hilop on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:01PM (#12720325)
Well, the right wing stopped hating her for not baking cookies when she baked cookies. Then they started hating her for baking cookies.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by rayiner on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:05PM (#12719226)
I mean Trump is an actual cartoon villain.
Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by batbomb on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:13PM (#12719277)
Ahh; I should have read more carefully. I agree.