ITT Europeans tell us shit we already know about changes most of us want because they don't understand gerrymandering and the electoral college
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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What they don't understand is why you don't rise up and set fire to a broken system as is tradition.
And don't start with that oppression shit, go read the history of every revolution ever. You just don't wanna.
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Ok, so I'm going to do one that's actually likely to be downvoted by the Americans here.
Sometimes censorship is necessary for a safer society.
Censorship of what exactly? Certain things I’d understand, but there are alot of things that could be censored that wouldn’t be so great
Hate speech is a good start. Go about the place saying "Muslims rape children" or "F-slurs make us lose wars" and you are actively making life more dangerous for people.
Problem is that well-intentioned rules with discretionary boundaries end up with unethical enforcement. See: the bill a few months ago that federally defines "anti-semitism" as including "criticism of the state of Israel". Actually that's not even a discretionary boundary, that's statutory. The reasoning behind the First Amendment in the first place was to avoid authoritarian censorship, including these kinds of games where "reasonable regulation" of speech is used to shoehorn in authoritarian censorship.
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