A quotation from Black, Hugo

Since the earliest days, philosophers have dreamed of a country where the mind and spirit of man would be free; where there would be no limits to inquiry; where men would be free to explore the unknown and to challenge the most deeply rooted beliefs and principles. Our First Amendment was a bold effort to adopt this principle — to establish a country with no legal restrictions of any kind upon the subjects people could investigate, discuss, and deny.

Hugo Black (1886-1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937-71)
James Madison lecture, NYU School of Law (17 Feb 1960)

#quote #quotes #quotation #firstamendment #freespeech #freedom #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #inquiry #freethinking
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/black-hugo/59552/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKP6DU6Vjt0

#bias #behaviouralscience #psychology #groupthink #interesting #introspectioncueing

#confirmationbias #cognitiveillusions

#insuficientinformation #engagelogicalslowthinking #withholdprematureconclusion #tapthebreaks
#biastoeasyanswers #biastonarratives #narratives #inconsiderate #bullying #usvsthem #redvsblue
#cherrypicking #evidencecherrypicking #cherrypickingevidence
#seeingwhatyouwanttosee #usingreasoningtofitprejudice #illusions

#massformationpsychosis #howithappens
"We make many of our most important decisions based on what can only be called cognitive illusions. This is embarrassing for us to realise, but the evidence for it is undeniable."
so to that, i say:
"there is no shame in the truth." -- Minbari Religious Cast Elder to Student, Babylon5.
"head into the wave." -- me / old saying / unattributed
as in find your way to where you no longer defeat yourself with your subborn clinging to your self image as one who makes no such errors.
embrace the errors.
then you are on the path. then you are learning.
our confirmation bias, our cognitive illusions, are due eternal vigilance, to not succumb to their blinding arogance and mental/investigative/scrutinative sloth.

this is true whether stupid, or oh so much more clever.
especially if you are oh so much more clever.
because if you really are oh so much more clever, you will suffer more fuel on that fire.
and also, thinking you're oh so much more clever, is improbably true. not that i'm saying truth's always derivable, or even aproachable, through simple statistical analysis, but... since we're always going on a little information, and the dangerousness of how little that information is, can be worsened by how much littler we make it by our confirmation-biasing, cognitive illusions, our slothful lazy hastey grasp on shortcuts, we dont even realise, we're doing it, we dont even realise how little we have, and we tell ourselves we have a lot, we tell ourselves as much as we have, is a lot of what there is, even to the extreme, that it's all there is. unwittingly, we become know it alls, with next to nothing. and we think we're the smarty-est.

there's no shame in the truth.

we're not that smart.

we're not as smart as we think we are. no shame in the truth, that we think we're smart, and that we think that's smarter than we are.

knowing this,

helps us get smarter.

wiser.

wise enough to continue learning.

wise enough to catch ourselves from short-handed thinking.

wise enough to see when we have, and wise enough eagerly accept that, and even point it out to others. wise enough to accept we'll likely never absolutely be beyond this, and even more likely are not beyond it right now, and so reapplies the humility introspective vigilance, not to identify as one who has risen above it, but to persist in plucking away and batting away all the times it has happened already, and all the times more oncoming.

"all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Me, often, but not often enough without vanity, not often enough really heeding what i (and socrates) mean by it.

#alliknowisiknownothing
#alliknowisiknownothingandsometimesiforgeteventhatmuch

still vulnerable to us-vs-them'ing. like you.

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(ps, i forget where i got that link from, but thanks again to whoever shared it. ^ all that from merely first 20 minutes. .... lets see where it goes.)

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The price for the dumbest politician of 2023 goes to Swedish foreign minister!

I had a lot of respect for many Swedish politicians, even those conservatives I didn't agree with, because they were not stupid. They knew what they were doing and stood for it (or did it in hiding and lied about it like most politicians).

But Trumpian stupidity has spread to Sweden as well and the current government is so full of incompetent idiots with severe case of brain diarrhea.

As many of you may know, Sweden and Finland are begging to be NATO members, and if the price is to lick the bloody boots of Erdogan and send some Kurdish refugees to be tortured by his NATO backed Islamist fascist police.

A recent protest by a Kurdish groups sympathizing with PKK against Turkey who hanged an epiphany of Erdogan, has engaged the King Tayyip the first and the Swedish government has condemned it with strongest words calling it "deplorable" and working hard to distance themselves from swedish citizens freedom of speech to get the OK by Turkey for their membership in NATO.

But then comes the shit-for-brain Swedish foreign minister who is going even further and condemn the act by saying :

No country would have accepted that one perform a mock execution!

Well, sadly for Sweden, it's foreign minister either doesn't understand the meaning of "mock execution" or he is just having a bad case of brain-diarrhea.

Whatever the case is, he makes the tip list of the most stupid politician of 2023 (so far).

Let's see what beloved neo Nazi backed liberal-conservative-christian_taliban coalition government of Sweden will come up with after this

Here's the info for those who are not familiar with the current shit show.

Protesters in Stockholm who hung an effigy of Turkey's president from a lamppost were trying to sabotage Sweden's application to Nato, the Swedish prime minister has said.

Turkey still needs to approve Sweden's application - and has made that conditional on Stockholm cracking down on groups that Turkey describes as terrorists, including those it blamed for the effigy.

A Swedish minister branded the stunt as "deplorable", but Turkey said the condemnation was not enough.

Images of the hanged effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan near Stockholm City Hall were published on Wednesday by a pro-Kurdish group called the Swedish Solidarity Committee for Rojava.

The group implied it wanted to evoke the hanging of Italy's wartime fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. It urged Mr Erdogan to "take the chance to step down now, so you don't end up upside-down in Taksim Square".

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu blamed the stunt on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia - both of which Ankara calls terror groups.

Sweden has vowed to distance itself from both groups in order to gain Turkish support for its Nato bid, which has faced months of delays.

Turkey has said Sweden's new centre-right coalition government, which is backed by a far-right party, has been "more determined" and easier to work with than the previous one, but the protest has triggered fury.
#Sweden #Turkey #PKK #Erdogan #TobiasBillström #NATO #FreedomOfSpeech #ShitForBrain #WTF
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64265911

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

--- Noam Chomsky

#FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #freedom #NoamChomsky #Chomsky

Banks and other megalomaniacal groups are trying to censor and destroy Bitchute because they provide a politically neutral platform for people with unpopular or outlier views to express themselves.

Speech is the safety value that helps prevent violence; free speech is the best way to understand and resolve our problems through open discussion and debate.

Free speech exists to protect the expression of all people, but its most important purpose and most critical test is protecting the expression of people with unpopular and/or outlier views. Platforms like Bitchute need our support.

Other than having an insignificant account I am not affiliated with Bitchute.

#bitchute #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freeexpression #freedomofexpression #givesendgo

https://givesendgo.com/bitchute?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=bitchute

The ADL are a tool of oppressive coercion, rank hypocrisy, repression of free speech, bullying and blackmail.

#kanyewest #yewest #ye #adl #usa #antisemitism #antisemitic #jews #jewish #jew #antidefamationleague #jonathangreenblatt #freespeech #freedomofspeech #blackmail #uk #extortion #defamation #witchhunt #grift #conspiracyofsilence #semites #africanamerican #coercion #bullying #oppression #repression #hypocrisy

I support the foolish and unwelcome free speech of Kathy Griffin. I don't support the deplatforming of an individual I strongly disagree with.

#kathygriffin #twitter #elonmusk #usa #freespeech #freedomofspeech #uk #freeexpression #deplatforming #eu #freespeechmatters #inalienableright #1stamendment #firstamendment

#freespeech #freedomofspeech #usa #kanyewest #yewest #freeexpression #critique #criticism #jews #jewish #1stamendment #firstamendment #godgivenrights #naturalrights #uk #humanrights #freeinquiry #opinion #economiccoercion #punitiveaction #punitivemeasures #protectedclass #noprotectedclasses #kanye2024 #kanyewest2024 #meme #memes

I support Rupa Huq's free speech to express her views. I support the expression of so-called "racist" views as an integral part of free speech.

Without free speech & open debate we will never solve our problems. Control of the Overton Window is a form of informational & societal control through social engineering.

Social engineering Overton Window control only serves the unelected, directing, plutocratic elite scions.

#rupahuq #racism #racistspeech #uk #freeexpression #freespeech #liberty #opendebate #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #overtonwindow #overton #racist #socialengineering #socialengineers #informationcontrol #propaganda #massmedia #society #informationera #westerncivilization #rupahuqmp #parliament #britain #superficiallyblack #kwasikwarteng

In my opinion Mark Zuckerberg is a government agency asset engaged in censorship of the American people in violation of the US 1st Amendment.

#zuckerberg #rogan #joerogan #cia #markzuckerberg #fbi #censorship #firstamendment #1stamendment #usconstitution #usbillofrights #nsa #governmentcensorship #collusion #billofrights #bigtech #bigdata #usa #governmentagencies #biggov #dhs #federalgovernment #abuseofpower #governmentoverreach #freedom #1a #freespeech #freedomofspeech #uk #freeexpression #joeroganexperience #rightsofman #whatsapp #facebook #instagram #lifelog #meme #memes

Vom Ende der Meinungsfreiheit in Europa / On the End of Freedom of Expression in Europe

Mit dem Digital Services Act und dem „Verhaltenskodex zur Bekämpfung von Desinformation“ schafft die EU eine ausgeklügelte Infrastruktur zur umfassenden Zensur von Informationen und Meinungen – ausgelagert an private Konzerne. Was Gastautor Johannes Mosmann durch Analyse dieser Dokumente kühl und sachlich an totalitärer Kontrollambition der Regierenden herausarbeitet, erinnert an dunkle, vordemokratische Zeiten.

With the Digital Services Act and the “Code of Practice on Disinformation”, the EU is creating a sophisticated infrastructure for the comprehensive censorship of information and opinions – outsourced to private corporations. The totalitarian control ambitions behind these plans that guest author Johannes Mosmann brings out in the analysis of these documents is reminiscent of dark, pre-democratic times.

Ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel, der sich mit den genannten Verordnungen und ihren Implikationen detailliert auseinandersetzt. Auf Deutsch und Englisch.

https://norberthaering.de/propaganda-zensur/mosmamm-meinungsfreiheit/
https://norberthaering.de/en/propaganda-censorship/mosmann-freedom-of-expression/

#eu #europa #europe #zensur #censorship #digital #disinformation #desinformation #fake-news #fakenews #freedom-of-expression #freedomofexpression #meinungsfreiheit #pressefrteiheit #freedom-of-press #freedomofpress #fereedom-of-speech #freedomofspeech #google #microsoft #economy #wirtschaft #demokratie #democracy #globalisierung #globalisation #globalization #faktenchecker #correctiv #fact-checking

Japan Times: Jail time and tougher penalties for online insults come into effect in Japan.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/07/national/crime-legal/online-insults/

#japantimes #japan #freespeech #onlinespeech #insult #wordcrime #speechcrime #censorship #usa #uk #freedomofspeech #freeexpression #authoritarianism #speechcontrol #informationera #informationcontrol

#FreedomOfSpeech for me but not for thee

Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings, According to Reports

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-truth-social-is-banning-users-who-post-about-jan-6-hearings-according-to-reports/ar-AAYjvBN

Rose/Icke VI ~ The Vindication

https://freedomplatform.tv/rose-icke-6-the-vindication

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."- #Plato
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than what most people think." - #Aristotle.
"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." - #Voltaire
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - #MarkTwain

#rose-icke #brianrose #davidicke #thevindication #londonreal #freedomplatform #fear #biology #money #control #awakening #freedomofspeech #freespeech #truth #quotes

Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in meeting other parents who are making the move to go #off-the-grid far away from the tentacles of the dystopian China 2.0 the evil WEF is rolling out. Furthermore in #protest, #parenthood, #freedomofspeech and protecting kids against the medical mafia that's swooping down on us these days.

Be blessed! Learn to draw Muhammad the proper way.

You cannot love freedom, peace, culture, civilization, tolerance and the arts when you choose for a role model someone known as Muhammad, who was:
- A false prophet, a madman who once said he had gone to Jerusalem on a winged horse;
- A common caravan robber and a camel rapist;
- A pedofhile who had sex with 9-years-old girls;
- A misogynist who amused himself raping slaves and who considered women to be below the category of dogs and treated them as such;
- A corpse defiler, having even had sex with the corpse of his foster mother;
- A serial torturer, a looter, a cowardly murderer, a liar and a genocidaire;
- Someone who wrote the Quran (a hymn to barbarism and imbecility) in order to satisfy his vicious and psychopathic appetites.

#Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Islam #Muhammad #Drawing #Cartoons #Humour

Erdogan and the lovely arse of the slayer prophet.

Islam: A 7th-century, totalitarian, authocratic, total-world-domination, tyrannical, barbaric, oppressive, retrogade, proselytising, supremacist, misogynistic, paedophiliac, homophobic, criminal, intolerant and satanic ideology, full of hate and violence.

#Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Islam #Turkey #Muhammad #Erdoğan #Drawing #Cartoons #Humour

The truth about Muhammad 000002

You cannot love freedom, peace, culture, civilization, tolerance and the arts when you choose for a role model someone known as Muhammad, who was:
- A false prophet, a madman who once said he had gone to Jerusalem on a winged horse;
- A common caravan robber and a camel rapist;
- A pedofhile who had sex with 9-years-old girls;
- A misogynist who amused himself raping slaves and who considered women to be below the category of dogs and treated them as such;
- A corpse defiler, having even had sex with the corpse of his foster mother;
- A serial torturer, a looter, a cowardly murderer, a liar and a genocidaire;
- Someone who wrote the Quran (a hymn to barbarism and imbecility) in order to satisfy his vicious and psychopathic appetites.

#Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Islam #Muhammad #Drawing #Cartoons #Humour

Ban Islam! 000004 | Time to fight against the enemies of freedom, without complacency or mercy!

We shall not forget…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana

Europe needs to be liberated once again from the genocidal islamosupremacist colonizers!
Muslims don’t belong to a democratic, humanist, free and civilized world.
This situation calls for a strategy of reconquest. Islamism is a bellicose ideology whose means of conquest is terrorism.

In the meantime, some 51 “muslim aid” organizations will be targeted by the police this week, the french interior minister said, some of which would be dissolved at Mr. Macron’s request. Mr. Darmanin rightly called the most prominent of them, “Collective Against Islamophobia”, the C.C.I.F., which compiles a register of anti-muslim acts, “an enemy of the republic".

#Islam #Muhammad #Drawing #Cartoons #Refugees #Terrorism #Totalitarianism #Politics #Society #EuropeanUnion #France #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Democracy #HumanRights

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201019-additional-police-operations-under-way-over-beheading-of-french-teacher

Ban Islam! 000003

We shall not forget…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana

Beheading in Paris: “The thug (teacher) got what he deserved”.

A French schoolteacher was beheaded on the street in Paris by a Muslim terrorist who shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack. The beheader, a Chechen muslim “refugee” from Russia, who was shot dead by police, is said to have been outraged that the teacher had shown a Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoon to his class, which included Muslims.

There is no more time to waste: all these “refugees” must be deported to their countries or territories of origin. Countries or territories that, curiously, are always muslim majority States, which, in addition to constituting totalitarian, misogynist, pedophile and intolerant regimes, do not have the slightest respect for freedom and human rights, nor have the least degree of culture and civilizational development.

At the same time, and once and for all, islam must be banned.

Islam is the most totalitarian, oppressive, misogynistic, pedophile, idiotic, criminal, satanic, backward, terrorist, violent and stupid doctrine that ever existed!
Islam is a doctrine responsible for the destruction of everything that has to do with civilization, culture, arts, science, freedom and human rights.

Denouncing and banning Islam is a categorical imperative.

#Islam #Muhammad #Drawing #Cartoons #Refugees #Terrorism #Totalitarianism #Politics #Society #EuropeanUnion #France #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Democracy #HumanRights

https://barenakedislam.com/2020/10/17/update-3-beheading-in-paris-the-thug-teacher-got-what-he-deserved/