Free speech does not mean freedom from facts. Also, it is not free from consequences. Many on social media consider opinions to be same as facts: “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”
Liberals hate free speech so much that they decided to create the Office of Ministry of Truth to control “disinformation”. I recall a certain Hitler guy that did the same thing.
I do like how everyone automatically assumes that Musk buying Twitter will automatically allow every insane conspiracy free reign. Last I noticed, nobody’s done any serious research into what Musk’s definition of “freedom of speech” consists of.
Gag orders prohibiting physicians from discussing firearms, abortion, and other topics with patients. Laws restricting the free speech of teachers and professors. Prohibitions on scientists and agencies from mentioning climate change. Damn… liberals?
Of course the elephant is laughing. He’ll also laugh at an old lady tripping on the carpet and breaking a hip. Or thugs beating the hell out of a gay kid. Or insurrectionists breaking down the doors of the Capitol and killing a Capitol cop. Real funny.
What a made up issue. There are 37 million active Twitter users in the USA which is about 10% of all Twitter users and a little more that 10% of the US population. Like cable news, hardly anyone uses it. Few of my liberal friends Tweet.
My prediction is that Elon Musk is going to find Twitter to be a pain in his ass and will make no one happy.
Almost no one I know liberal is even on twitter or ever mentions it. While most conservatives I know have been apoplectic about twitter since Trump was kicked off. I wasn’t even aware that liberals were upset about twitter until conservative new outlets told me they were.
Varvel…pointless and inane, today. Neither clever nor accurate. Apparently you consider blatant propaganda & lying as responsible free speech. Got a place for you to move to. Russia…. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. Varvel, do you have ANY integrity? I’d like and answer…
The Libs are so dramatically opposed to even expressed commitment to Free Speech! Goodness, Left World must be fearful that their tribe lacks the information or smarts to discern truth from fiction.
I you want to see a genuine example of free speech violation look at Florida’s “don’t say gay” laws. That is the government making laws about what you can say, and punishing you if you don’t comply. THAT is what free speech is, not some corporation banning people from a platform.
It takes a total lack of brains to draw this cartoon, while at the same time, Republicans under DeSantis are attacking Disney for expressing an opinion about some discriminatory, repressive legislation that they passed.
Who is censoring whom?
Used to be, people looked down on hypocrites. Now, Republicans worship them.
Elon Musk tweets unleash racist abuse on female Twitter employee
Studies have refuted that Twitter has a left-wing bias, while research from last year even suggested that it’s algorithm amplified more content from right-wing politicians and sources than left-wing accounts.
The latest target of Musk’s critical tweets is Twitter’s head of policy, legal and trust, Vijaya Gadde, who is facing harassment from Musk’s followers as a result.
Elon Musk’s Fame is Going to His Head, FAST: Tweets ABSURD Chart Claiming Conservatives Haven’t Changed in Over 20 Years
When that is your entire platform, cut cut cut from programs that help the poor and lower-middle class, you need wedge issues, or you won’t win elections. Thus, they’ve adopted the liberal term “woke” as something of which to be terrified. To most of us, being “woke” doesn’t mean much more than realizing that racism is a huge problem infecting every aspect of American society and that we should be treating LGBTQ family with the same respect we treat straight families. The MAGAs believe this is bad because they’ve always believed this is bad.
Meanwhile, the Republican party has stolen at least two SCOTUS seats, done all they can do to get rid of the ACA, and, of course, embraced Trumpism, all the racism that goes with it, ending many women’s rights, and suppressing the vote. This tweet from Elon probably tells us all we need to know about Musk:
Musk tweets a chart of him right of center because the left has become so extreme.
And while many on the left see capitalism and consumerism as the root causes of climate change, Musk is an Ayn Randian industrialist who makes cars that foreground their features, not their eco-friendliness. The Model S selling points are its 200 mph top speed and ability to fit golf clubs or a bike in the back — not the unused fossil fuels.
“He’s made very consumerist products in a way that offends the sensibility of a lot of climate activists who think we need to be tightening our belts,” Trembath said. “He wants everyone to have a high-consumerist lifestyle and a low-carbon one, and it just creates so much friction.”
Some even wonder if Musk’s trolling of liberals will make electric vehicles more culturally acceptable to conservatives, intentionally or not.
“I still have the theory that he leans into the anti-wokeness to sell EVs to conservatives,” said Iowa state Sen. Zach Wahls, an extremely online Democrat and LGBTQ activist. “Buy an electric car to trigger the libs!”
This cartoon doesn’t make any sense. If Elon Musk says that he wants to eliminate what he calls censorship on Twitter, then LIES are as acceptable as anything else, including insults, threats, and any form of prejudice and hatred.
From a lifelong Alabamian, I have never seen any of these t-shirts, signs, in my State. But we are not the back woods bumpkins you make us out to be. We have all types of People of different religions, races, and sexes, along with trans and gay. We welcome you to come to our State, find a job, get a house, marry our people, but do not tell us how great California and New York are…..we don’t give a damn!
billopfer Premium Member about 2 years ago
Completely stupid toon. By a completely stupid cartoonist.
brit-ed about 2 years ago
It’s not liberals that are afraid of free speech; haul yourself to Alabama and walk around with a sign saying “God does not exist” and see how it goes
Odon Premium Member about 2 years ago
Somehow I don’t see Elon, Twitter and free speech as a given.
NobodyAwesome Premium Member about 2 years ago
Free speech does not mean freedom from facts. Also, it is not free from consequences. Many on social media consider opinions to be same as facts: “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”
2AndFour about 2 years ago
Liberals hate free speech so much that they decided to create the Office of Ministry of Truth to control “disinformation”. I recall a certain Hitler guy that did the same thing.
gopher gofer about 2 years ago
⇧ cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo…
sykerocker about 2 years ago
I do like how everyone automatically assumes that Musk buying Twitter will automatically allow every insane conspiracy free reign. Last I noticed, nobody’s done any serious research into what Musk’s definition of “freedom of speech” consists of.
walfishj about 2 years ago
H. L. Mencken: “Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.”
The Nodding Head about 2 years ago
Gag orders prohibiting physicians from discussing firearms, abortion, and other topics with patients. Laws restricting the free speech of teachers and professors. Prohibitions on scientists and agencies from mentioning climate change. Damn… liberals?
marco156 about 2 years ago
Why is the left so afraid? Twitter is a noise generator. Simply don’t use it if it doesn’t fit your agenda. Low IQ left in action yet again.
fusilier about 2 years ago
https://images.app.goo.gl/DkQaae31LCxz2ViM9
fusilier
James 2:24
SpicyNacho Premium Member about 2 years ago
Free speech shouldn’t be a political issue except that Democrats desperately want the US to be like China.
Ontman about 2 years ago
Varvel, as usual brings out his trollsters.
FassEddie about 2 years ago
Of course the elephant is laughing. He’ll also laugh at an old lady tripping on the carpet and breaking a hip. Or thugs beating the hell out of a gay kid. Or insurrectionists breaking down the doors of the Capitol and killing a Capitol cop. Real funny.
ChristopherBurns about 2 years ago
What a made up issue. There are 37 million active Twitter users in the USA which is about 10% of all Twitter users and a little more that 10% of the US population. Like cable news, hardly anyone uses it. Few of my liberal friends Tweet.
My prediction is that Elon Musk is going to find Twitter to be a pain in his ass and will make no one happy.
StackableContainers about 2 years ago
Almost no one I know liberal is even on twitter or ever mentions it. While most conservatives I know have been apoplectic about twitter since Trump was kicked off. I wasn’t even aware that liberals were upset about twitter until conservative new outlets told me they were.
BigMac about 2 years ago
Another good one!. The hysteria of the left has them in the biggest meltdown since Chernobyl.
hoot1 about 2 years ago
Varvel…pointless and inane, today. Neither clever nor accurate. Apparently you consider blatant propaganda & lying as responsible free speech. Got a place for you to move to. Russia…. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. Varvel, do you have ANY integrity? I’d like and answer…
ChristopherBurns about 2 years ago
BTW. If Elon threw that bucket of “Free Speech” on the Elephant, it would burst into flames.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Free speech is a liberal art.
Musk banned Roger Stone from Twitter, odds are he will ban traitor Trump.
Trump is afraid to even try to get on Twitter and be embarrassed by Musk.
Holden Awn about 2 years ago
The Libs are so dramatically opposed to even expressed commitment to Free Speech! Goodness, Left World must be fearful that their tribe lacks the information or smarts to discern truth from fiction.
Aliquid about 2 years ago
I you want to see a genuine example of free speech violation look at Florida’s “don’t say gay” laws. That is the government making laws about what you can say, and punishing you if you don’t comply. THAT is what free speech is, not some corporation banning people from a platform.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon is afraid of the ‘left’ because they will make him pay taxes.
rs0204 Premium Member about 2 years ago
It takes a total lack of brains to draw this cartoon, while at the same time, Republicans under DeSantis are attacking Disney for expressing an opinion about some discriminatory, repressive legislation that they passed.
Who is censoring whom?
Used to be, people looked down on hypocrites. Now, Republicans worship them.
walkingmancomics about 2 years ago
NOT hardly! Faarr more likely and faaaar more often, positions reversed
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon Musk defends Tesla’s current inability to recognize horses at a Texas burger drive-thru
‘The car knows that something is there, just doesn’t know that they’re horses yet, but it will’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-tesla-horses-drivethru-texas-b2068487.html
Tesla Issues New Model 3 Recalls in Both the U.S. and China
62,868 cars are being recalled in total over software safety issues affecting the speed display.
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-issues-new-model-3-recalls-in-both-the-u-s-and-c-1848858716
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon Musk tweets unleash racist abuse on female Twitter employee
Studies have refuted that Twitter has a left-wing bias, while research from last year even suggested that it’s algorithm amplified more content from right-wing politicians and sources than left-wing accounts.
The latest target of Musk’s critical tweets is Twitter’s head of policy, legal and trust, Vijaya Gadde, who is facing harassment from Musk’s followers as a result.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-tweets-unleash-racist-abuse-on-female-twitter-employee/ar-AAWHNRf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=08045bef237f4c6ea396fab8f0288008
Oh look, the right wing is abusing people, what a surprise, not.
gopher gofer about 2 years ago
once again, our right-wing brethren make up an issue and get all hot and bothered about it…
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon Musk’s Fame is Going to His Head, FAST: Tweets ABSURD Chart Claiming Conservatives Haven’t Changed in Over 20 Years
When that is your entire platform, cut cut cut from programs that help the poor and lower-middle class, you need wedge issues, or you won’t win elections. Thus, they’ve adopted the liberal term “woke” as something of which to be terrified. To most of us, being “woke” doesn’t mean much more than realizing that racism is a huge problem infecting every aspect of American society and that we should be treating LGBTQ family with the same respect we treat straight families. The MAGAs believe this is bad because they’ve always believed this is bad.
Meanwhile, the Republican party has stolen at least two SCOTUS seats, done all they can do to get rid of the ACA, and, of course, embraced Trumpism, all the racism that goes with it, ending many women’s rights, and suppressing the vote. This tweet from Elon probably tells us all we need to know about Musk:
Musk tweets a chart of him right of center because the left has become so extreme.
https://www.politicalflare.com/2022/04/elon-musks-fame-is-going-to-his-head-fast-tweets-absurd-chart-claiming-conservatives-havent-changed-in-over-20-years/
Elon has it backward, The right wing extremists keep moving their fascist goal posts and the left has nothing.
Elon appeared to not know that the middle class pays taxes.
He is the richest man in the world, he can afford to pay his fair share.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon Musk reportedly wants to start charging for tweets
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-reportedly-wants-to-start-charging-for-tweets/ar-AAWJ98E?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e98a9babd03640ae845bbbba45daf1cc
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
And while many on the left see capitalism and consumerism as the root causes of climate change, Musk is an Ayn Randian industrialist who makes cars that foreground their features, not their eco-friendliness. The Model S selling points are its 200 mph top speed and ability to fit golf clubs or a bike in the back — not the unused fossil fuels.
“He’s made very consumerist products in a way that offends the sensibility of a lot of climate activists who think we need to be tightening our belts,” Trembath said. “He wants everyone to have a high-consumerist lifestyle and a low-carbon one, and it just creates so much friction.”
Some even wonder if Musk’s trolling of liberals will make electric vehicles more culturally acceptable to conservatives, intentionally or not.
“I still have the theory that he leans into the anti-wokeness to sell EVs to conservatives,” said Iowa state Sen. Zach Wahls, an extremely online Democrat and LGBTQ activist. “Buy an electric car to trigger the libs!”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/elon-musk-s-uneasy-relationship-with-the-left-explodes-over-twitter-takeover/ar-AAWJ1jn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=97f9ad2d4bdc4d4b942ac2b9ca679f68
Patjade about 2 years ago
It’s not “Free Speech”, it’s turning the platform into the next 8-Chan.
Nantucket Premium Member about 2 years ago
This cartoon doesn’t make any sense. If Elon Musk says that he wants to eliminate what he calls censorship on Twitter, then LIES are as acceptable as anything else, including insults, threats, and any form of prejudice and hatred.
GeorgeInAZ about 2 years ago
But they won’t go away and they won’t reform. They’ll get rid of freedom for others.
ksu71 about 2 years ago
The people who think
men can get pregnant
are suddenly worried about
misinformation on Twitter
jpkestler about 2 years ago
Here is an idea. Everyone leave Twitter and change a 44 Billion dollar media platform into a $.44 media platform and bankrupt him.
dpatrickryan Premium Member about 2 years ago
Right, it’s Libs opposed to free speech. cough dontsaygay cough
Searcy9320 about 2 years ago
From a lifelong Alabamian, I have never seen any of these t-shirts, signs, in my State. But we are not the back woods bumpkins you make us out to be. We have all types of People of different religions, races, and sexes, along with trans and gay. We welcome you to come to our State, find a job, get a house, marry our people, but do not tell us how great California and New York are…..we don’t give a damn!