Dave Smith
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You're actively trying to ruin my life.
Like, that is the goal of this, to destroy someone's livelihood with the most vicious smears.
You know, if you are an organization that's dedicated to fighting the Ku Klux Klan, fighting like, fighting...
violence based on racial hatred.
Like, okay, look, if we're talking about violence,
against innocent people of any kind, whether based on racial hatred or not, then that is a noble thing to oppose.
And if you want to say that we specialize in fighting the violence that is based on racial hatred, we're like, okay, I'm right there with you on that.
But that's a kind of sacred responsibility you hold now.
If you're going to say that this thing is so evil that it warrants us creating a hundred million dollar, you know, like a nine figure organization
to attack it like okay fine but if that force is that evil that it that it warrants that then that comes with a responsibility to not smear good americans as being something when they're not that at all and i'm sorry but like there is just no way you can get around the fact that the essence of my political worldview is that you should not ever bring violence toward peaceful people and if you want to try and spin that as a message of hate like
then then anything could be spun as a message of hate gandhi was an anti-british racist or something like that right like i mean i i don't know this is uh uh it's too crazy and they take there was one point later in the article this could have been four years of trump dismantling the left censorship apparatus and getting all these evil forces out of our government
Seeing stuff like this is actually important.
That's why I'll give the Trump administration credit, even though they're fucking up on every other single thing.
But this is important to disarm this whole apparatus because it's just like literally, as we used to say back in all those years, although I don't think we ever actually had an indictment that they were funding hate groups, but like they're the hate group.
They're terrorizing American citizens and trying to create a culture of intimidation and censorship that runs completely counter to the spirit of a free society and the First Amendment.
That people ought to be allowed to say what they want in an unguarded way amongst consenting adults.