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But I'm not claiming to be silenced. I'm lampooning how the US has been to live in basically for all of living memory. We talk a lot of shit about freedom, but we're pretty embarrassing when it comes to walking the walk. We'll shrug helplessly as private equity owned hospitals put everyone in two trillion dollars of debt, but God forbid some people protest police overreach, or we're going to police overreach the shit out of them.
I’m sorry there’s no one here by that name.
I've been watching self righteous self proclaimed radicals since I was in middle school. I'll happily trade a million Abbie Hoffmans for one Thurgood Marshall.
Whoever needs it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
You're welcome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
the tl, dr is that, lacking a factual basis to attack someone's position, you attack their personality.
It would be easy for me to turn this around and ask if you are saying that Bernie Sanders should shut up because he's too old?
But I like dealing with facts, like Thurgood did.