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Meteorologist Sam Kuffel, who criticized Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute on social media, has left CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. Her departure has sparked criticism from users who argue it infringes on her freedom of expression.

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They should know that you can only infringe the “conservative” freedom of expression by moderating hate speech/ideas/beliefs, or by calling a Nazi a Nazi. Anyone Left of Nazi in the US has a narrowing window of “freedom of expression”.

Because as we all know, the founders were granting Freedom of Speech to Fascist, NOT ANTIFA, just like Jesus wanted. /s

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Freedom of expression means that you are free from interference from the state. Never mind that we live in a de facto corporatocracy, freedom of expression does not prevent you from being silenced by private enterprise.

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You’re confusing freedom of speech with the first amendment.

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Cool = CBS blocked, I don’t support Nazi’s

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CBS affiliate, which means its a local station. Milwaukee, specifically.

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I don’t split hairs, CBS is CBS.

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I mean, you’re not wrong.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/

It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS

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Wisconsin is a piece of shit so that doesn’t surprise me

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Probably owned by Sinclair

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Speaking of Nazis, we don’t pluralize with apostrophe.

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And many, many more are going to follow, as Americans learn that they’re no longer free to criticize those in power.

And the day will actually come when the notion of someone just being fired for criticizing those in power will seem quaint, since it will then be far more likely that they’ll disappear - sucked up into the ever-hungry maw of the corporate police state slave system.

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Currently playing through Cyberpunk just to have some kind of preparation of what is eventually to come.

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Same! Though, I really wish monowires existed in real life.

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Monofilament wire is a real thing, it just doesn’t have the tensile strength to act like it does in fiction.

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Cyberpunk future will look good compared to where we’re probably headed if history is any indication.

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Yeah, we’ll get all of the surveillance, climate disaster and police state without any of the cool implants…

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Well, the Swedes already invented nerve splicing IRL, so you can go chop chop on your limbs and get a prothesis that’s directly connected to your bones and nerves.

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If we can’t criticize them openly then we’ll have to use the other avenues made available via the Constitution. That will just eliminate the warning that negative public sentiment would normally give.

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This is the way.

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Are you referring to solutions that lie somewhere between the first and third amendment?

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All whole numbers in the solution set would suffice…

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This is how you become a firefighter without going through vigorous training.

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Or an assembly line worker.

Or, quite possibly, it just struck me - a fruit picker or meat packer or motel maid or any of the other jobs that have traditionally been filled by undocumented immigrants.

Wow…

Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that before, but that could well be why Trump is seemingly unconcerned about the economic impact of deporting the millions of people who have traditionally held the shitty, underpaid jobs nobody else will take - because the plan is to replace them with the new generation of private prison slaves…

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The economic impact of the economy collapsing is that normal people will lose everything and the 0.1% will be able to buy it all up on the cheap.

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I have been thinking I need to buy a gun, now that you mention it.

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I’m not a gun owner. Never had even an ounce of desire to be one.

It’s time.

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The Nazi police state is here.

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Who could have guessed that?!?!?

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