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Reject the Marxist Mind-Games

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Reject the Marxist Mind-Games

Save your time and energy: rather than discussing why their crazy and lazy bad-faith arguments are bad, just call them out for the liars that they are and move on with your life.

Daniel D
Apr 19, 2023
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The pro-censorship crew is gunning for Substack now, and you’ll never guess which historical figure they’re using as their inflatable bogeyman to try to scare everyone into going along with their latest censorship campaign . . .

What’s that? You said, “Hitler?” Must’ve been a lucky guess! Because I swear, I had never heard that one before. Who knew the Nazis were such fans of free speech!1

Oh, you oppose censorship? What are you, some kind of Nazi? girl in white crew neck t-shirt and blue denim shorts
Oh, you oppose censorship? What are you, some kind of Nazi? (Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash)

Last night, I ran into a Marxcissist2 moron in the comment section of

John Carter
’s excellent essay in defense of free speech on Substack. This young commie, whom I’ll call Don Quixote de la Marxcissism, was so stunning and brave in his efforts to fight authoritarians by demanding that we give the authorities more power to censor views they don’t like.

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