Laffy
Joyce Vance: “This is a five-alarm fire. We know what the reaction would be if Joe #Biden tweeted a photo of a bound and gagged Donald #Trump in the trunk of an electric car. Why does Donald Trump get more leeway, especially with his past history? He only continues to get it because our institutions—the courts, the Republican party—let him take it.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?r=br61&utm_medium=ios
enoch_exe_inc
@GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Spoken like a true liberal. What’s the phrase, “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”? Well, fascism is extremely effective against liberalism for precisely this reason, and fascists have used this fact to undermine liberalism from within.
enoch_exe_inc
@GottaLaff But, we CAN make him stop. Just arrest him and throw him in jail. There doesn’t need to be a legitimate reason; loads and loads of people are regularly tossed into jail for no good reason all the time, and America is arguably the world capital of mass incarceration.
Laffy
@enoch_exe_inc Really? So you're okay with throwing people in jail "for no legit reason" just because fascists do it?
That's how fascism persists. We are a nation of laws, not imprisoning "for no legit reason" no matter how unfair it is that he's still free.
Laffy
@enoch_exe_inc That misses the point entirely.
Whether or not our legal system can be improved is not the point at all.
You’re calling for “no legit reason” to throw people in jail.
Then that applies to everyone. So you’re condoning the very thing you say you hate.
enoch_exe_inc
@GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Also, “nation of laws” is almost objectively untrue. I don’t know how 340 million+ people can believe it, but your society is organised into strict socioeconomic classes in which those at the top can blatantly break the law whereas those at the bottom are disproportionate punished for even minor infractions, all because the law assumes every person is totally identical and treated equally when this is obviously not the case.
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