• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    nah, they were not empowered to put their hate in practice so much not so long ago, precisely because they couldnt be out in the fucking open without major backlash.

    the free speech thing is beautiful in theory but in practice its just being used as an excuse to enable fascists. let me see socialists have the same openness in the media and we can start to talk about the minutiae of it properly.

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      3 hours ago

      Alright so expand on this:

      nah, they were not empowered to put their hate in practice so much not so long ago, precisely because they couldnt be out in the fucking open without major backlash.

      We’re half way there. Why couldn’t they do what they were doing before?