“Most of our debates are esoteric/constitutional/hypothetical..”
Thought crimes are now a real thing and punishable by the new Banana laws.
As benign as they seem under the color of free speech, they are all a matter of record that can and will be used against you in a court of law if you are charged with other crimes. At the very least they will be used as character assassination to sway a jury into a decision they might have not otherwise not made without them.
I get it. I suppose you can’t rule anything out.
If it gets serious enough, with thought crimes, they will simply Epstein us, and not bother with trials at all.
When and if that happens, life will not be worth living. Living in fear with no way out, is no life at all.