I feel the same way about social security. We keep kicking the can down the street and no one wants to accept that tough changes have to happen to prevent a much worse fallout.

I think the way this bill was passed is sketchy as hell. BUT—

Yeah, also when she says,

Everyone writes campaign books. Not everyone turns their campaign book into a year plus egotistical pity party that regularly makes news when they relitigate the election at promo stops. Not everyone goes on the 24 hour news networks to talk about how mean and unfair everyone was to them. Gore for instance didn’t…

While that’s true, other failed candidates were also doorstepped and subjected to similar treatment. No one made her ‘write’, heavily promote and publish What Happened that quickly, and no one made her promote it with comments like the ones that keep making the news.

She’d be getting nowhere near the same degree of flack if she’d done what other failed presidential candidates have done over the past couple decades and shut up/gone away for a year or two before resurfacing. There’s a reason she’s getting a lot of flack from even establishment/third way Dems and it’s that her…

No, that’s your fantasy and not reality. The reality is they would have won in court and been allowed to speak and the school would not have even been able to negotiate the off campus location. That’s what would have happened in the real world.

Where do you draw the line, given that you think they were in the right to consent to Richard fucking Spencer holding a rally at one of their venues?

No. It’s a definite fact you’re never going to repeal the First Amendment.

How is fighting a battle you know you will lose (and also thereby make the situation worse because you have to host him at the main campus and not a mile away) the better move here? To what practical end are they spending all that money?

If you truly understood it, you’d understand being critical of Constitutionally-guaranteed protections amounts to nothing. You can criticize the First Amendment all day long, every day of your life.

Ultimately, we have a responsibility to fight this wherever it may be with whatever force we can muster. Lest we allow history to repeat itself without challenge.

I think your fundamental failure to understand the American legal system is at the root of your problem. You’re arguing about something you do not understand and, obviously, that hinders your ability to talk intelligently about the issue.

No, blocking free speech is bad. If you violate your own principles in order to fight someone, have you really won? Or are you just the bad state you were trying to prevent?

As far as I can tell he responded to

I mean, even the Blues Brothers understood it.

Aside from the fact that there’s no way MSU could win that case

No I didn’t admit that. I said MSU could take that very argument into court and win, thus preventing him from speaking

Not really. All the other companies have no problem releasing new models.