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Re:"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Muc... by bilbo0s on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:43PM (#44902610)
I've been saying since Clinton when it started to become clear, that liberals and conservatives will eventually kill the ideals of this Republic. (And not only the ideals expressed in the First.) They've been chipping away for long enough that they now believe it is safe for them to chop.

These people are all dangerous in the extreme. It's just that the conservatives have unmasked themselves and displayed the extreme danger they represent to our ideals in the US in a far more open fashion than liberals.

Re:"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Muc... by shlant on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:58PM (#44907820)
I might have given a shred of charitability to you if you said "far more open fashion than the left." but the fact that you said "liberals" tells me I shouldn't take your political perspective seriously
Re:"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Muc... by omnimus on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:27AM (#44909209)
So “I would take your politics seriously if it aligned with mine”? I am afraid that whole point of politics is finding compromise with people who you don't agree.
Re:"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Muc... by shlant on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:45AM (#44922861)
it has nothing to do with alignment of politics, it's that your description of reality is so wrong that it would be difficult to seriously engage
Re:"None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Muc... by acdha on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:48AM (#44922900)
It’s more about good versus bad faith: you can compromise with people who are willing to be honest, but that isn’t possible when someone is redefining terms or contradicting all available evidence to make their position work. That commenter was conflating two very different sets of activities to smear liberals, implying that they somehow know someone else’s true intention even though that contrasts with their actions and public statements.