There is no right or wrong here, only how things work.

The first amendment protects your beliefs. This is not about speech, speech is protected separately. This is about the things you can do that are protected by law. If you want Sundays off because God said so, the courts will enforce your right to Sundays off. If you want Sundays off because you rolled a die and it came up Sundays then either you’re working Sundays or you quit your job for one that gives you Sundays off.

The first amendment also silences you. You are not allowed to teach or share your beliefs in settings that could be considered governmental.

This weakness is not shared with people who hitch their beliefs to a protected class under civil rights and hate speech laws. Not only can you participate in violence and anarchy and sue your boss for firing you by calling them racist/sexist/etc, you can also teach your beliefs in governmental settings and have your teaching protected by court order.

I do not think the socialists picked racism to mask their objectives because of this benefit, but I do think race socialists survived where other socialists couldn’t because they lucked into this legal shelter.

If we want the same legal shelter for ourselves, we need two islands of thought and a bridge between them.

If none of our actions are rooted in religion, we have no protection under freedom of religion, and no legal shelter.

If all our actions are rooted in religion, we have no way to teach in the same environments as race socialism, and our legal shelter becomes our casket.

You may now return to right and wrong.

And that is why he is afraid.

This has always been its purpose from the beginning. Claims of humanitarian concern are for the proles.

I realize reaching out to trade unions seems abhorrent from a conservative POV, but the unions endorsed Trump so maybe we should remember them when the platform goes up. Focus on the things Trump has already done for them, because he did those things for us.

Also, get Fifty Cent off the fence and there will be fireworks.

Socialism: We are divided by class. The bourgeoisie oppress us and will never share their power, our only choice is revolution and eradication. (Communism will come after the revolution)

National Socialism (Nazis): We are divided by nation. The Jews oppress us and will never share their power, our only choice is revolution and eradication. (Add in Brits, French, Czech, Poles...)

Race Socialism: We are divided by race. The Whites oppress us and will never share their power, our only choice is revolution and eradication.

Sex Socialism: Surely you get the point by now.

I realize this is off topic, where do I put it?

I'm in Austin but hey teachers needing jobs feel free to post where you are.

It's fun to talk about martial law and insurrection act and revolution but the GEOTUS is committed to this Jan 6th thing and we should support him. That means pushing our representatives in the House and Senate.

We have all the evidence we need to convince anyone who's going to be convinced by evidence. Waiting for more is just that: Waiting.

We can threaten to vote out RINOs, but they're not impressed because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that their election is guaranteed by China, not the people.

Unions and minorities came out for Trump in this election, even as they supported their own democratic candidates for House and Senate. If we remind the constituencies of these split ticket Dems why they voted for Trump, can we get them to put pressure on their representatives? Just one (D) who puts election integrity ahead of partisan victory could change the game.

I realize the prospect of even one (D) who's not in bed with China and cares about his constituency seems slim, but what else are we going to do? Wait and see?

Sorry for thinking out loud.

That is all.

I don't mean every state here, just the ones whose legislatures support fair voting despite what some of their counties might believe.

Or, you know, anything. The Supreme Court's told us they're not going to interfere if someone outside the new union objects.

You like to knit. You joined a knitting forum online. You signed their terms of service, which says only posts about knitting are accepted and all other posts will be unknit.

You knit yourself a scarf. It curls up on the ends and is unwearable. You make a post on your knitting forum asking how to knit a scarf that doesn’t curl. It’s removed. You appeal. The moderators say it doesn’t have anything to do with knitting.

You sue.

Under section 230, the courts tell you that the forum moderators are the sole arbiter of what is knitting on their forum and find against you.

Without section 230, the judge and/or jury review your post and the terms of service and decide for themselves whether one fits under the other. Then they find in your favor or against it as appropriate. Then everyone pays huge legal bills.

It works in reverse. You see a post about how to change a tire on your knitting forum and ask that it be removed. It stays. You sue. Section 230: Forum decides what knitting is on their forum. Otherwise: Judge/jury decide whether the post meets TOS, more legal bills.

Replace “not knitting related” with “hate speech”. Replace your scarf post with “This election is kinda fishy”. Replace the tire changing post with “All cisgender white males need to be guillotined.” Welcome to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter.

Section 230 was not well defined when it passed. It did not have to be this strong, but multiple court cases expanded its power and ascended it into oppressive status, which is why “not knitting related” is protected as “otherwise objectionable” in the wording of the law. I mention this because otherwise it’s not obvious how the law as written has led to today.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:230%20edition:prelim)

The election campaign is not over. People on the ground do have a chance to change their vote: they can accept Trump's victory as salvation from having voted Biden. Talk to these people, reach out to what they wanted in their president, and show them the things Biden is doing that fails their expectations.