Journalist writes an open letter to the world about our Elon Musk problem

So, in response to my point about the left's lack of concern about his efforts to advance electric cars,

you call him "nuts".


Emori. Do you realize how completely and utterly you failed there? Do you have even the slightest hint of self awareness?

"There are many examples."

What are they? I'm not familiar of Elon Musk. I heard he's a bad guy though.

Yes, what are they?

I can imagine that totally illegal subjects are out and maybe personal attacks on him?

There are crazy people I've seen on forum who spam the same content over and over for years. That's not free speech but rather a kind of vandalism.

I'm not sure what you are talking about though.

I'm what's called an "Old School Leftist" and that's about helping poor people, economic equality, etc.

The people you are talking about aren't Leftists, they are a type of conservative.

The definition of "conservative" is a person who believes in traditional ideas as being solutions for all issues. Censorship has always been a traditional solution for problems via ruling and comfortable classes.

Marx talked about the "Bourgeois" which is a middle to upper middle class group. They are marked by living in a bubble where they ignore realities of life. That serves a main function of soothing them into doing nothing about life's problems. Also, the Bourgeois lives on the edge of potential poverty, so they must ignore the existence of related troubles. In addition, they believe that one day they could be rich so they ignore the reality Epstein types who would never want anything to do with them.

So, Bourgeois don't see obese people are being crazy beings with self-destructive eating disorders, but rather big and beautiful or they pretend they don't even see a fat person. The same thing goes for black crime, the Bourgeois pretend that's not real....what black crime....or justify it as okay because of history, etc.

All of the PC and woke stuff is all conservative Bourgeois behavior going back hundreds of years.

Irrational environmentalism, pretending there's no racial issues, and so on is what English royalty used to do. They would remain rich and comfortable while advocating for issues and people they knew nothing about.

It's like modern celebs talking about pollution after getting off their private jet.

Meanwhile, real Leftists are for truth, free speech, truthful solutions, uncomfortable truths, and so on.

All of these terms are so screwed up that they are massively confusing for most people.

You probably don't know what you're talking about.

I look at Reddit Politics once in awhile and probably most posters on there could be sued for libel. All they post are lies about politics like it's some kind of sport.

Free speech is great but you can't publish things to destroy the character of others without proof.

You are committing a crime with your post by the way. You can say "I THINK Musk is doing ABC" but you can't legally say he "IS" doing those things.

It's noteworthy, that I never liked Musk.

You need to learn about the world around you before talking about it.

Did you even read what I wrote?

Your car works NOW because they are a minority in vehicles. However, if everyone owned you they would be impossible to charge.

They do not work for that reason.

Yes, it is. It absolutely is.

LOL. (I wish there were a sarcasm emoji suitable for use in mocking you here -- ending a post with LOL doesn't make you look clever, it makes you look like a stupid, smugly arrogant child.)

If you are not free to say anything (short of incitement to violence) then you don't have free speech. Some people are going to use free speech to state awful things, hateful things, and false things. They have to be free to do it, or no one has free speech.

No one has to protect statements that are innocuous or positive or uncontroversial. It's only the hurtful, the controversial, the problematic, that gets challenged and needs protection. So you have to protect everything and live with the statements of bad actors who will abuse free speech. Because the only alternative is empowering some person or group to approve what people get to say, and it's not a question of if, but of when that person or group will begin abusing that power for its own agenda, and suppressing speech which merely threatens their power or position.

So yes, lying absolutely is free speech.