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Re:Bootstrapping 10er, a Patreon-similar service for Danish ... by raarts on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:26AM (#18824219)
Bold hypothesis: fascism has never won in a free-speech environment. Only in an environment where everybody was a-ok with opposing opinions being suppressed, which allowed fascists to suppress different opinions.

Following this reasoning, GP's stance enables fascism.

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Re:Bootstrapping 10er, a Patreon-similar service for Danish ... by pjc50 on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:36AM (#18824269)
> Bold hypothesis: fascism has never won in a free-speech environment

Ah, why look at history when we can have hypothesis! I mean, you could have chosen some wrong or out of context examples of fascism to cite, but instead it's much easier to just pretend, right?

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