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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao the fact they had to take it back and say hitler was bad 😭

I dont think most people have to make that clarification lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Akshully, we meant to say Hitler bad!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Everyone just chill. We don't want the gubernment to own our kids. We just want them to create laws to control their lives."

[–] EndOfLine 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fine

The world is fine

Nothing to see here

[–] Cybermass 4 points 1 year ago

I'm super excited for the dystopia idk what you're on about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Their apology sounds about as stupid as quoting and crediting Hitler. Are they saying they're not trying to gain the children as a means of controlling the future? Pretty sure we all know it was intentional. But hey, how great was that war for German youths?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

“We apologize, we never intended for you to notice.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Liberty" has always meant the freedom of the few to do what they will at the expense of the many. "Freedom" is the more general term. Just so you know what you're getting into when you see that word.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Liberty” has always meant the freedom of the few to do what they will at the expense of the many.

Absolutely not.

1: the quality or state of being free:

a: the power to do as one pleases

b: freedom from physical restraint

c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic (see despot sense 1) control

d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges

e: the power of choice

At no point is there a scope of "of the few" nor a qualifier of "at the expense of the many".

“Freedom” is the more general term. Just so you know what you’re getting into when you see that word.

Sure, but not in any way that matters here:

How is the word liberty different from other nouns like it?

The words freedom and license are common synonyms of liberty. While all three words mean "the power or condition of acting without compulsion," liberty suggests release from former restraint or compulsion.

the released prisoner had difficulty adjusting to his new liberty

When could freedom be used to replace liberty?

In some situations, the words freedom and liberty are roughly equivalent. However, freedom has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated.

freedom of the press

I'm not sure what issue you take with the word "liberty", but it seems to be chock full of some sort of baggage.

It would be fair to say this group is co-opting the phrase for cheap optics gains and using as something between misdirection and blatant falsehood, given their goals are more akin to "allowed to teach indoctrination of fiction/faith/belief over objective material such as math, science, physics and historical material", but... that's the nature of politics overall. It underscores the importance of critical thinking.

[–] PyroNeurosis 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe its the reporter, but the story didnt even hint at ignorance. Just a "maybe quoting history's greatest monster so soon wasn't such a hot idea."

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