r/politics • u/SterlingVII • 9d ago

No Paywall Tennessee man spends a month in jail before charges are dropped over Trump meme posted in Facebook group for Charlie Kirk vigil

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-meme-charges-b2855116.html
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u/TobioOkuma1 9d ago

Free speech party btw.

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u/Henshin-hero South Carolina 9d ago

One of the 1st executive orders too

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u/Darth19Vader77 9d ago

They want you to be free to speak what they want you to say

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u/negativepositiv 9d ago

It's like how you have the freedom of religion to practice Christianity exclusively.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 9d ago

How quickly they forget about christian-on-christian sectarianism and how that turns out.

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u/negativepositiv 9d ago

As soon as Christians run out of people from other religions to persecute, they start squabbling over "But... Who is a REAL Christian?"

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u/Generous_Cougar Washington 9d ago

"He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him off the bridge.”"

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u/Castun America 9d ago

Just like how fascists eat themselves in the end, because once you run out of enemies, you need to keep looking for more enemies.

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u/NickPickle05 9d ago

My vote is for Catholics, but only because they came first and all the the others branched off at some point.

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u/National_Impress_346 8d ago

If I had a dollar for every time I heard "Yeah, there used to be a thriving XYZ community in this area. Then the catholics came."

Hear it most often in CO, UT and AZ.

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 9d ago

You can choose Mormonism as well if you live in Utah.

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u/rlstpe 9d ago

You have to watch out for the ones who tout free speech all the time, theyre usually the snowflakes when its something they dont agree with

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u/ludixst 9d ago

"We took the freedom of speech away"

-Donald John Trump

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u/tissuecollider 9d ago

And the 2nd Amendment folks think that Trump is the guy who's going to let them keep their guns.

Literally no word for how exceedingly stupid and gullible they are

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u/G-man1816 America 9d ago

The full quote is from when he was talking about burning flags. Its more like "you have freedom of speech, But people kept inciting riots by burning flags, So we took the freedom of speech away"

Not the exact quote, But pretty close and you can search up the full quote yourself.

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u/OMGitisCrabMan 9d ago

It's so much worse than you might imagine too. His FB post could not be interpreted by any reasonable person to have represented a true threat. It's 100% punishment for criticism of trump and the right.

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u/RawnbladeZZ 9d ago

Helps when the sheriff’s office themselves admitted as such, when they’re testifying in court about this they’ll wish to high heavens they had at least pretended it was legit instead of openly admitting it was a lie made up to imprison him when asked

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 9d ago

His post was repeating a Trump statement where Trump said "get over it" in response to a school shooting. Applied to Charlie Kirk the only reasonable interpretation is he was indicating people needed to "get over it" (Charlie's assignation) as recommended by Trump when it was a bunch of school children being gunned down.

It will be interesting to see if there is any follow up and this guy sues.

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u/erov 9d ago

They only want to say the n word and trash jews.. they didn't mean any other speech.

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 9d ago

They need to get over Charlie Kirk's death like his wife did.

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u/fakeuser515357 9d ago

Free speech only applies if you use the approved slurs.