The cigarette people could go to prison under current law! For lying to Congress and covering up research that their products were harmful to the public health. Same thing with opiod executives. There is no need for a speech-stifling modification of the first amendment.
And nothing brings people together like laws that force people to conform to your viewpoint.
One thing that has come out of these testimonies to me is that these diplomats seem to legitimately care about the country theyâre serving in (not that I doubted it, just that itâs good to see in such a high-profile inquiry). Hopefully other countries see this as a bit of a silver liningâthere are still members of the US government that are trying to do the right thing.
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Ok bro youâve talked enough. STFU and let Dr. Hill go.
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Holmes opening statement seems damning as well, seems that he was pretty sure the aid was attached to investigations
I think itâs really a matter of finding a formal way to separate viewpoints from facts. As dystopian as it may seem to create a Ministry of Truth, the ease with which people can disseminate false information to their own ends has really undermined all of our social institutions. Devoting some money to prosecuting the use or facilitation of the use of false information may not be worse than the status quo.
Pretty sure this guy kept notes unlike Sondland lol. Dudeâs been talking 30 minutes.
Trump being a phone-shouter is the least surprising thing to come out of this.
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Lol Kanye West is gonna testify next week.
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Please throw Sen Johnson under the bus. Guy is a hack.
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Holmes is like a young lawyer who talks/writes too much. All the info is relevant, but sometimes you gotta focus on the good stuff and push it.
Yeah this is really it. I donât care what people say to other people one on one behind closed doors⌠but publicly disseminating blatant misinformation is just different. Itâs wildly unreasonable to expect normal people (who have a lot of stuff to keep track of and often barely care about the issue at hand) to be able to discern between facts and stuff that sounds like facts that are clever lies.
Itâs important to note that we really are in a new world wrt communications technology which allows broad spectrum propaganda to be disseminated on a scale never seen before.
I mean look at the anti vax stuff⌠that stuff is landing. Nevermind that vaccines are basically the single most important medical advance in the history of the world, people simply donât know that and you can convince them that vaccines are poison by telling them that one of the ingredients is mercury. They donât know anything about how mercury poisoning works, they just know that itâs poisonous.
Itâs not reasonable to expect someone of average intelligence with no scientific background who made a B- in Biology 10+ years ago to be able to validate which side is right on that.
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I want Dr. Hill to read me bedtime stories. Or be my professor at Hogwarts. That voice.
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Appear to believe 
That reporter behind Hill on the right side of the screen seems to be feeling better from earlier this week.
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A lot better 
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Holy crap. She is going to make Gym Devil and Clownsel look silly. She is 100x smarter than each of them.
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