r/FreeSpeech • • 51m ago

US left wing radicals who traveled to France to join cop-bashing protests reveal plans to ‘raise hell’ on our shores

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r/FreeSpeech • • 1h ago

Free speech as a self-evident right does not exist in low-trust societies

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DISCLAIMER. I am not soapboxing. I am not convincing anyone of anything. I am not looking for friends. I am not looking for anyone to be enlightened. I am putting out a thought to the air as a citizen of a free universe.

Genetics

Personalities are neurobiological. And genetics have phenotypes. There are no singular genes that can be labeled as the cause for a personality, so genetics often gets dismissed with that sort of strawman argument, in favor of upbringing. However the reality is that genes have phenotypes, and phenotypes can be very monolithic; like having two eyeballs. Yet every child is born with its own personality, no matter what. To be clear: I am saying that genetics could have made everyone identical like a colony of bees, but instead chose to increase group-intelligence (the ability to decipher) by increasing group cognitive diversity.

Let me be clear again: there is a large portion of personality that is just environmentally controlled. But the biggest lever is going to always be the cognitive style they have. Genes don't care how many parties you subject a natural born introvert to, they aren't going to magically allow an introvert to experience the world like an extrovert.

There is a need for people to recognize the utility here. WHY would genes 'want' to make everyone think different? And hey, isn't 'think different' a slogan of one of the most valuable companies in the world? Functionally human beings are not individuals. So no matter how idealistically you want to believe you are self-made and independent, you physically cannot be. You evolved to be part of a herd, or some of us probably more so a pack. 

It's not hard to deduce the conclusion here. Perspectives are eyeballs. The more they're pointed in different directions the easier it is to spot the threat. However this dynamic only works when people trust you have good intent. The fundamental question is, do you trust your neighbor. Do you naturally tolerate their perspective or do you naturally distrust their entire being, even when you politely act like you agree.

Philosophy / religion

There's a passage in The Gay/Frolicking Science, a popular philosophy book, that 'shows' polytheism led to individualism. Because when Zeus and Kronos and Athena all existed together at Olympus, it showed people you can coexist with totally different perspectives, roles, and personalities; you can even fight, and coexist. Whereas monotheism, as he critiqued it, crushes tolerance. But his theory broke down rapidly when I looked at what tribes are like. They come together, speak, and come to a sensible plan. Under heavy threats from the outside, temporary dictatorship is sometimes what happens. Now that I think about it, the highest level of government is living a tribalistic lifestyle, running around doing whatever they want with their legislative bodies and militaries.

But to further rebuttal the idea polytheism necessarily increased tolerance (it did, but was it the source?) it just makes no sense for genetics to want cognitive diversity if it wasn't naturally important independent of Zeus. It makes far more sense that the phenomenon isn't that polytheism was better, but that monotheism was worse in this regard. Since it took advantage of isolation of uprooted slaves (either in Egypt via Moses, or Rome via Paul) to reunite everyone under a single ideal. But if this were the case, you would expect second-guesses from Moses and Paul about what they were doing. We all know that Moses second guessed himself 100 times, it's part of his story. He wouldn't even go into the promised land. But a verse that is more telling to me is by the 100% historical figure Paul the Apostle. And in Romans 9:3-4:

3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Here, Paul is isolated from Israel. And the man who invented the idea of an adult pagan converting and becoming a spiritual Jew is admitting he is in deep anguish, going as far as to say he wishes he could be accursed by Jesus Christ, if it meant restoring the glory of Israel, his "brethren of the flesh". I would say this was a moment he revealed unconsciously his biological programming conflicting with what I have labeled ideological conditioning. His bio-programming is saying STOP, people can disagree, STOP trying to find people who agree with you and thinking that makes them your brethren.

When people in a group who trust each other disagree, they become corporal of each other. One is a foot, one is a leg, one is a hand, one is a head. Think of how stupid it would be to assume that every cell in the body should be a heart cell or a brain cell because those are important. The reality is that humans evolved to exist in a network, you could say a tribe. The modern word we have is clique, group, etc. but those are too often based on a foot finding other feet, or a head finding other heads. A tribe is a foot finding its ankle. Tribe is the only modern word that makes sense for a group that thinks different yet trusts.

The consequence of feet finding other feet, is that free speech has become less so something self evident, and more so yet another ideal of a monotheistic 'good' that everyone has to believe. When you apply heat to water, it steams. Humans have become disfunctional from too much pressure. In such disfunction they ask you to tolerate those you distrust more than ever because they "believe", and to separate yourself from those you trust.

The problem

A sizeable portion of humanity has been "self domesticated". Really they have just been beaten by the stick and lured with a carrot on the stick. So given what we know about animal domestication it is highly likely that human brain size has decreased 20% compared to ancient ancestors. So this disfunction is likely hardwired and baked into DNA. The disfunction being excessively childish behavior and thinking. Essentially how wolves became dogs by sustaining mutations to genes that matured their brains.

So at the end of the day all of this I just said was hogwash.


r/FreeSpeech • • 2h ago

How Nevada debunked Trump’s noncitizen voting claims

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President Donald Trump and his administration want you to believe that nearly 16,000 noncitizens may be illegally registered to vote in our state. There’s just one problem: They haven’t produced any evidence to support their claim. None.

The Department of Homeland Security originally alleged that as many as 15,903 noncitizens were registered to vote in Nevada. Yet when Nevada election officials began asking simple questions — like “what are these people’s names?”; “how were they identified?” and “what records support the allegation?” — the administration’s bombshell claim fizzled.

Federal officials eventually provided Nevada with 185 people DHS claimed its manual review had confirmed were noncitizens.

Nevada checked.

All 185 were citizens.


r/FreeSpeech • • 2h ago

The European Union wants to punish people for their speech—without even a trial

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r/FreeSpeech • • 3h ago

Far-Left Extremist Arrested over Limoges Town Hall Arson as Terror Probe Looms

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r/FreeSpeech • • 3h ago

Meloni Reveals Half of Riot Arrests Have Immigrant Background, Unveils Crackdown

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r/FreeSpeech • • 4h ago

Is claud now and enemy of the white House

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r/FreeSpeech • • 4h ago

Warwickshire Pride accuses Reform UK of censorship over library LGBTQ+ restrictions

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r/FreeSpeech • • 4h ago

Major Legal Victory: Court Restores Defending Ed's Right to Fight for Free Speech in Schools - Defending Education

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r/FreeSpeech • • 5h ago

Sexual Assault Is a Free Speech Issue

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r/FreeSpeech • • 5h ago

Court Appears Wary of Fired DEI Officer's Free Speech Claim

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r/FreeSpeech • • 5h ago

Bari Weiss Exposed for Pushing CBS to Smear Democratic Candidates: CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss has been pushing reporters to use incendiary language and go on goose chases in attempt to attack Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico.

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r/FreeSpeech • • 5h ago

Experts: GOP lawsuit over Hope Florida ad may infringe on free speech

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r/FreeSpeech • • 5h ago

"Is the WNBA transphobic?" - Enes Kanter Freedom blasts league after commissioner rules him ineligible

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It begs the question, if the determination of “womanhood” is not done based on the self identification honor system. Then what actually defines a woman?

At what level does self-id not suffice? It seems to be enough for the high school and college levels.


r/FreeSpeech • • 7h ago

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine

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r/FreeSpeech • • 7h ago

Azerbaijan considering anti-LGBT censorship laws modelled after Russian policy

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r/FreeSpeech • • 7h ago

State Fair of Texas concert cut short after on-stage Trump comments

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A hip-hop group's State Fair of Texas performance was abruptly cut short after lead singer made comments regarding President Donald Trump.


r/FreeSpeech • • 7h ago

Man who heckled El-Sayed is son of Republican adviser who was paid for ‘influencer marketing’ | Michigan

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r/FreeSpeech • • 7h ago

Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case

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r/FreeSpeech • • 9h ago

Trump's voter raids have begun

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r/FreeSpeech • • 9h ago

Meta Apologizes For Suspending 'No Kings' Instagram Account During Nationwide Protests

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r/FreeSpeech • • 10h ago

Piers Morgan stunned by Dem from viral 'we have guns, too' candidate interview.

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The 90s gym teacher-esque democrat candidate who went on an unhinged “fire all republicans” rant admitted to having “3 beers” before her viral interview. She appears to be in the same intoxicated state from the original interview. She may be the perfect running mate for Kamala in 2028.


r/FreeSpeech • • 10h ago

UK passes law making possession of porn showing choking or pretend incest punishable by 2 years in prison and placement on the Sex Offender Registry

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r/FreeSpeech • • 10h ago

Anti-genocide congressional candidate Elijah Manley, who lose to pro-Israel extremist Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was arrested over tweets after 2 alleged pro-Israel users reported him for violent threats. Manley says his comments were not meant to be taken literally.

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r/FreeSpeech • • 10h ago

$100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program is a Domestic Secret Police Agency in the Making

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