Would I love to have absolute freedom of speech? Yes.
Can we trust leftists with it? No.
So we don't have it, and we have to wield our power to remove leftists from power at every opportunity, and fuck them over, just like they've done to us.
We play the game by the rules we have, not the rules we wish we had.
I don't care.
Principles mean nothing unless you WIN.
When you lose with dignity, you LOSE.
Guess who taught us that?
YOU.
So fuck off.
Would I love to have absolute freedom of speech? Yes.
Can we trust leftists with it? No.
So we don't have it, and we have to wield our power to remove leftists from power at every opportunity, and fuck them over, just like they've done to us.
We play the game by the rules we have, not the rules we wish we had.
I hadn't really considered the argument from that angle. You make remarkably good points.