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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by majormajor on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:35PM (#25662872)
Your whole post here could be applied to the folks storming the capitol with equal ease as it could be applied to the stereotypical "triggered" university student.

So it doesn't seem to have much explanatory power as to how we got to the point where the President is inciting those rioters... the President is literally telling them to be offended, and to be angry. Speech promoting violence. How is that speech not itself a threat to democracy?

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dschuler on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:45PM (#25663017)
The supreme court has ruled that speech presenting "imminent public danger" is not protected (i.e. free) speech.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Enginerrrd on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:30PM (#25663550)
Aren't you inadvertently proving their point here?

The fact that it applies to both perhaps suggests validity, no?

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by majormajor on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:44PM (#25663710)
But we don't see an anti-Trump politician encouraging a set of counter-insurrectionists... so we're looking for what's DIFFERENT about the Trump side here, not something that applies everywhere.
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