They can stay where they are

China

Terrible attempt at a straw man at the end there, 2/10.

She murdered a baby. She needs rehabilitation, help, sure, but it doesn't get much worse than baby killing, imo.

Yes, unfortunately Lemmy has gone like Voat - only the "extreme" (generalising) have stuck around. Hopefully something new will arise to displace Reddit and capture its mainstream users.

The IDF was. Now do Hamas. The answer is that they were, too.

Moron. Hamas commit war crimes as a matter of course. How can you be so intellectually dishonest in your arguments?!

I think this fucking religious loon is taking pointers from Islamic loons that behead people for "disrespecting" their pedo prophet.

I wondered who it was, but then I saw I have FS blocked and just see the word "filtered" instead of amy comment. Think I made the right choice at some point then.

Surely just pirate it so you can read it on your timetable, and take the book from the library when it's your turn to give that author the lending stats?

an inalienable concept as free speech

Free speech is not an "inalienable" concept. To be honest, the adjective "inalienable" doesn't well describe a "concept", more "right" or a "privilege". Nobody can take away a concept from you, only the exercise or realisation of that concept.

That said, the Lemmy dev's code of conduct is not a binding document, and given their political views, I wouldn't even bother opening it if I was adminning my own instance. And nobody owes you your freedom of speech - if an instance decides to enforce the rule "no talking about politics on Wednesdays", nobody has any right to anything else. Preference, sure, but right? No.

Absolutely not, but when you insist on putting words in my mouth and then arguing with that straw man, there is little use in arguing. You are here to hold forth, not discuss.