Newsweek now claiming Trump may not have been shot
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I’m sure they’re being careful. They’re not saying there wasn’t a legitimate attempt on his life (which would mean the dead dad was a “crisis actor.”). They’re just saying he wasn’t actually hit by a bullet. Probably that broken teleprompter bullshit.
What flies in court tends to be determined more by which direction it's facing than it's aeronautical soundness these days.
you created these rules, we're just following them
Free speech is different from libel and slander.
Let me give you an example:
"A" has coercive control over another individual, "B," someone they've abused so much that B can't or won't resist A's authority or demands.
A puts B in a room with another person, "C," who's been captured by A. Speaking out loud, A orders B to kill C. B obliges.
This is not "freedom of speech." This example is the commission of several crimes that happen to use one's voice. Slander is similar in that someone "says" something that is demonstrably untrue for the purpose of falsely damaging another person. The use of speech here is just the arbitrary vehicle for the crime or tort, but the crime or tort could be committed in many different ways.
Freedom of speech does not encompass any and every literal use of the voice. There are many, many clear examples where using one's voice is incidental in hurting or damaging another person, whether figuratively or literally.
So we're clear, freedom of speech is about the uninhibited expression of truth or opinion.
Alex Jones got sued because he was reading someone else's opinion that Sandy Hook was staged. Our justice system will never actually be fair enough to equally go after the left when they do the same, but it is a fair comparison.
I get you have your contrarian troll schtick going, but arguing that getting "grazed" by a bullet doesn't count as being shot is just extraordinarily stupid.
I guess we need a “just don’t look” style song about not feeding trolls
We need a mod that does his job.