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NBC Opinion: Michigan coronavirus protesters shout 'liberty!' -- as right-wing rhetoric weaponizes freedom
NBC "News" / Comcast ^
| May 14, 2020
| By Marcie Bianco
Posted on 05/14/2020 3:05:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Bullish
Yep, NBC, CONcast, enough is enough.
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posted on
05/14/2020 7:36:05 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Liberty is a type of freedom defined and limited by civil society. It is not an unrestrained, unchecked license to do whatever one desires. Rather, liberty is a right constituted by the society - or, here, nation - one lives in. This woman obviously confuses Liberty with being “at liberty”
Liberty means being free of government restraint.
Being “at liberty” means being given permission to do things that require the permission of an authority.
Example “The captain has turned off the seat belt sign and you are “at liberty” to move about the cabin.
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posted on
05/14/2020 8:25:08 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: bray
Shouldn’t she go catch Corona for the cause? Shouldn't she infect 10 people for the cause?
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posted on
05/14/2020 1:45:33 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/14/2020 3:36:17 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Faith Presses On
Does she work for buzzfeed too?
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posted on
05/14/2020 3:37:11 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: KarlInOhio
Every time I hear leftist prattle like that I'm reminded of Robert Downey Jr.'s character in Back to School: “Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.” Except he was joking.
These nitwits actually believe it.
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posted on
05/14/2020 3:42:16 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If people don’t understand the difference between Liberty and Freedom shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
To: ClearCase_guy
Liberty is a physical state. A freedom is a concept.
Pretty easy.
To: Vermont Lt
“Liberty is a physical state. A freedom is a concept.”
So for the front of a face mask, which would be better?
Give me liberty or give me a mask.
Give me freedom or give me a mask.
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posted on
05/14/2020 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
To: MayflowerMadam
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posted on
05/14/2020 3:51:33 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...as right-wing rhetoric weaponizes freedom... Earnest and laughably ignorant word salad from someone who enjoys both liberty and freedom she hasn't earned. To such a totalitarian fool these are inherently abhorrent, things a state she intends to control allows or disallows at its pleasure. They are, in truth, things that the people who have them intend to defend, if necessary with the guns she doesn't intend them to have.
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