I Believe in Free Speech, So Long as I Get to Change What Free Speech Means

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9 pointsjasonhansel4 comments

McSweeney's is sometimes very, very good.

This isn't it. It's just too on-the-nose. It's not much better than the Babylon Bee.

It's hard to be properly satirical when the reality is so absurd. The Onion didn't really do all that much better: "Elon Musk Hides In Dark Twitter Office As Landlord Bangs On Door Demanding Rent"

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-hides-in-dark-twitter-off...

Here's McSweeney's doing a bit better, if a bit niche:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/eight-nights-of-asmr-tri...

‘Free speech is the backbone of our country and its democracy. Without it, we plunge into autocracy.’

I assume Eli had a similar set of posts for all the conservative voices silenced by Twitter bans over the years?

The post is mocking "free speech" absolutism, not defending it.

Good point, that. Funny how free speech is said to matter so much now because that some liberals have been treated like they treated masses of conservatives.

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