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WlmWilberforce t1_ivrhfrx wrote

Reply to comment by thatnameagain in He jokingly compared covid to a zombie apocalypse. An arrest followed. by maxxspeed

>If your takeaway from this is "Big government doesn't let us have no freedom of speech" instead of "The police have way too much power to do what they want and that undermines the legitimacy of law and hurts our rights" then you missed the point.

These two things are definitely not in conflict.

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thatnameagain t1_ivsaknk wrote

They're not in conflict in abstract principle, but they are in the sense of the article.

State-level laws ands state's rights are often cited by conservatives as the proper alternative to "big-government" (i.e. federal government). This was a state law that brought the police down on him even though the main issue is that the police chose to handle it like thugs instead of rational people.

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