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The thing about freedom, pan, is it means we have the same right to make fun of stupid people as they have to be stupid. No one is saying that the 'no taxation without representation' guy didn't have the right to speak. We're just saying he's ignorant. If you're going to speak in public, we get to criticize you. You, like so many right-wingers, forget that criticism is the essence of democracy, not it's opposite.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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