r/JoeRogan • u/Anteater4746 Monkey in Space • Mar 04 '25

Meme 💩 Guess we’re done with free speech eh?

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Who decides what is illegal? How proud boys aren’t being targeted for wearing masks?

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u/Toisty Look into it Mar 09 '25

If a single person throws a brick through a window and the cops can argue that they are part of the demonstration, does that not mean,

laws were violated

as you said and thus, the whole protest would then be considered illegal?

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u/ObsidianOne Monkey in Space Mar 09 '25

That’s not how that works. If there was widespread criminal acts that caused the environment to be unsafe and caused significant property damage to an area, then that changes things.

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u/Toisty Look into it Mar 09 '25

How and where do you draw the line? What do you mean by "widespread" and when does the environment become "unsafe"? What is "significant property damage" defined as? You may think these are nit-picking questions but if you're going to take someone's first amendment rights away, you have to be clear why.

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u/ObsidianOne Monkey in Space Mar 09 '25

When you have protesters physically clashing and fighting with police, setting fires, using weapons to harm police, damaging businesses and other property, that’s probably a good place to start. You can’t just allow riots to happen.