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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by kingkawn on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:56PM (#21827405)
That seeming difference in methodologies of disenfranchisement is where empires are made and broken
Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by chillwaves on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:07PM (#21831171)
Do I have a right to go on CNN primetime and rant?

Does CNN have a right to choose who can use their broadcast platform?

Is freedom of association allowed?

Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by kingkawn on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:13AM (#21836176)
You’ve transformed my comment into your favorite straw man.

CNN will not invite you to rant unless you serve a demographic purpose for reaching its audience.

If you associate with the wrong political groups you will be spied on, and your organization will be disrupted intentionally by informants. Yes, in America.

So, as long as you are within the bounds of what the conversation is defined to be you enjoy freedoms, but then what has freedom become if so?

When I said that these distinctions are the determining factors of empires I am saying that these systems function quite similarly, but the distinctions in how they justify themselves are the breathing room where they are successful or fail to convince the population to go along.