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"I'm a free speech absolutist who can't read and believes that people shouldn't be held responsible for what they say".
You're not a critic, you just sound awfully like a maga snowflake yelling "but muh freedom!".
Nah, shit argument: mere falsehoods do not incite imminent, unlawful harm. The time to discuss & criticize that speech before acting is unbounded. Any harm is the own doing & responsibility of someone failing to exercise reasonable sense of challenging unsound information & sources.
You keep sounding like a maga snowflake that doesn't like when their words bring them consequences. It's fine tho, I understand that you are not equipped to understand the nuances of freedom of speech and its limitations.
Calling anyone who doesn't oppose free speech MAGA (a straw man or ad hominem fallacy) isn't serving you. Mere falsehoods do not constitute violations of free speech limitations (eg, true threats, defamation, imminent lawless action). Try respecting logic.
You are trying to debate something you haven't read in the first place. And you ask me to "respect logic". I mean... try respecting logic?
You just seem offended by something you simply refuse to read, which is very much in line with what MAGAs do. As I said, you are not ready to discuss the limits to free speech and the concept of "consequences to what you say".
I refer you back to
Everything else you wrote was addressed.
Right: criticism, condemnation.
Those taking ill-advised actions causing actual (not imaginary) harm must bear the consequences of their actions, not anyone else who didn't make them do it.
See? But you didn't address anything because, by your own admission, you didn't read my comment. So you don't even know what you are criticizing. You are just butthurt because someone dared to defy "your freedom".
Just admit that you don't want responsibilities for your words. That's it, that's all you are saying. And that is a very MAGA thing.