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A comment on Gab.com’s Response to Congress. Parent comment

Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress by UncleMeat on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:53PM (#28397226)
Watch how swiftly the alt right retreats on their support for free speech should they ever dominate politics.
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Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress by Veen on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:30AM (#28403258)
About as quickly as progressives retreated from it once they had the power to get people they disagree with fired.
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Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress by UncleMeat on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:27AM (#28404647)
Progressives aren't the ones using free speech as the core argument for their policies.
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Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress by Veen on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:36AM (#28404750)
Free speech was a core component of progressive ideology until fairly recently, which is the point I was making. Of course they aren't so insistent on it now it's become inconvenient.
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