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simbha  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives At Risk

    I'm divided on this. Free speech is amazing, but the newspaper wasn't Private Eye or the onion. It published cartoons that I recoil when seeing, even with my minimal french.

I plain out disagree

Every one is born with the indeniable right of saying what they want to say without being killed for it. These people just made some humorous comics which may be offensive, but hey

-- So is 99% of other things

It doesn't matter whether or not it hurts someone, you should be able to say it





swedishbadgergirl  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly, and as such I find all the celebration a bit creepy because people will yell FREE SPEECH to get me to shut up about the problem of this celebration.

thenewgreen  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bad taste isn't something I celebrate, but your ability to freely and openly have bad taste is.

veen  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, your comment is the first Hubski comment over 200k!

thenewgreen  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome! Thanks for pointing that out. I went to see what the 200kth comment/post was and it turns out it was a PM between myself and StJohn. StJohn, I think that means you win something. Hmmm...

I'll send you one of the new stickers when they arrive, how is that? Same goes for you veen!

Complexity  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Happy 200001.

veen  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fittingly, your comment is #200101.

thenewgreen  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome! I can almost see the apes dancing around my comment, banging the ground and eventually each other because one of the apes told an offensive joke.

StJohn  ·  3663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Seriously? You're joking! So it was fate that I didn't receive any Hubski emails for so long. Now we've been immortalized in numbers and stickers.

If you want to do a mail swap, I'll send you something cool for stickers. Just remind me to give you my current address — I think it's changed since the last time we exchanged stuff.