It's always nice when someone Texsplains that it's only a small infringement on the First Amendment. Kind of like when a law is only a small infringement on the Second Amendment, that dog simply won't hunt.
If he could have found, within the text of the First Amendment, the part where it's okay for some politicians butthurt that their opponents were killing them with memes, to go ahead and abridge the free speech rights of people paid to make political ads, who used satire and technology to piss off their political opponents by criminalizing their expression, he would have done so. Alas, he could not, so he simply gaslit the whole question by pretending it wasn't the 800-pound gorilla in the room.
The point isn't that it's a bad law, it's that it's an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. Period. Full stop. There are no "small" infringements, and an unconstitutional infringement is an unconstitutional infringement. You don't get to criminalize speech that pisses you off, especially political speech.
Ian should know better. His response to it is quite simply a shamefully purely quisling one, in its entirety. It's almost as disappointing as the law itself, and exactly the reason Texas legislators felt like they could get away with such codified jackassery.
Interesting butchery of Solzhenitsyn's last name - Александр Исаевич Солженицын - ж is zh, not sch... Here's something else you should have a look at, especially relevant to the last five years or so - "And they put whomever they want on trial, and brand the healthy as mentally ill—and it is always “they,” while we are—helpless.
We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:
“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”
We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd ..." https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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5 comments:
new hampshire...still freer than texas every day of the week....
Y'all should check with Lawdog (Ian) over on Bugscuffle Gazette in ref Texas.
It's always nice when someone Texsplains that it's only a small infringement on the First Amendment.
Kind of like when a law is only a small infringement on the Second Amendment, that dog simply won't hunt.
If he could have found, within the text of the First Amendment, the part where it's okay for some politicians butthurt that their opponents were killing them with memes, to go ahead and abridge the free speech rights of people paid to make political ads, who used satire and technology to piss off their political opponents by criminalizing their expression, he would have done so. Alas, he could not, so he simply gaslit the whole question by pretending it wasn't the 800-pound gorilla in the room.
The point isn't that it's a bad law, it's that it's an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. Period. Full stop.
There are no "small" infringements, and an unconstitutional infringement is an unconstitutional infringement. You don't get to criminalize speech that pisses you off, especially political speech.
Ian should know better. His response to it is quite simply a shamefully purely quisling one, in its entirety.
It's almost as disappointing as the law itself, and exactly the reason Texas legislators felt like they could get away with such codified jackassery.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/so
Shameful is the correct answer.
Interesting butchery of Solzhenitsyn's last name - Александр Исаевич Солженицын - ж is zh, not sch... Here's something else you should have a look at, especially relevant to the last five years or so - "And they put whomever they want on trial, and brand the healthy as mentally ill—and it is always “they,” while we are—helpless.
We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:
“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”
We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! We hope only not to stray from the herd ..." https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
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