• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    It is perfectly legal to advocate for illegal activity. The first amendment has broad protections for this. SCOTUS has ruled on this even recently. You need to be able to advocate for illegal activity if you want people to have any chance to change the law.

    It is perfectly legal to come right out on national television and say, “Luigi did nothing wrong. The president and governor should pardon him, and the mayor of NYC should throw him a parade.”

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      lol… those who remember the 2000s know that’s all out the window if the government says anything is terrorism.

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        The right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble hasn’t been respected at any point during US history.

        Not immediately after the country was formed when they signed the sedition act into law.

        Not while people were protesting for abolitionism.

        Not while people were protesting for women’s suffrage.

        Not while people held demonstrations while on strike.

        Not during the cold war and red scare.

        Not during the civil rights movement.

        Not during the George Floyd protests.

        They’re not going to start now.

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      Like the incoming Christo Gestapo crew will give a shit about that when they start rounding up potential “wrong thinkers”