When you run out of arguments, just start with “Holy Hyperbole Batman” and accuse your opponent of propaganda while pretending that smugness = substance. Let’s take your mess apart, one delusion at a time.
1. “No one was blacklisted for stating biological truths or questioning lockdowns.”
You must have slept through 2020–2022. Here’s a short list:
- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford professor and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, was shadowbanned on Twitter for opposing lockdowns—later confirmed in the Twitter Files.
- Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Harvard epidemiologist, was censored and restricted on social media for saying children didn’t need COVID vaccines.
- Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, evolutionary biologists, were demonetized and suppressed on YouTube for discussing lab-leak theory and ivermectin—both of which were eventually considered plausible by mainstream outlets.
- Regular Americans, including teachers, nurses, and police officers, lost jobs for refusing vaccine mandates... even if they had natural immunity or religious objections.
So yes, people were blacklisted. Not for violence, not for hate speech... for dissenting from narrative-approved science. But I get it—you missed that because it wasn’t on CNN’s chyron that day.
2. “The intelligence agents didn’t say the laptop wasn’t real.”
Spare me. The purpose of the letter signed by
51 former intel officials was to plant doubt, to create the illusion that the laptop was Russian disinfo
without actually making a claim they could be held accountable for. That’s what we call a
deliberate lie by omission. And guess what? It
worked. The story was actively suppressed by Facebook and Twitter
within days, the New York Post was locked out of its account, and
polls show a significant number of voters had
no idea about the laptop’s contents before the election.
That’s called election interference by proxy. You don’t have to believe it came from Moscow... you just have to follow the impact. But hey, when a lie serves your political tribe, I guess it’s not really a lie, right?
3. “Parents weren’t labeled domestic terrorists.”
Garland’s DOJ directed the FBI to
use counterterrorism resources to investigate “threats” against school board members... based on a letter from the NSBA that literally compared concerned parents to
domestic terrorists. The memo was vague enough to
chill speech, and internal emails showed DOJ officials
coordinated with the White House before the letter was even sent.
And don’t pretend there wasn’t abuse. FBI whistleblowers later revealed that agents were instructed to
flag cases related to school board incidents, no matter how minor, and
track them using terrorism tags. But hey, as long as Merrick Garland said “we’re not targeting speech,” that makes it all fine, right?
4. “Free speech is only under assault now.”
You’re out of your depth here. Under the previous administration (read: Biden’s), we had:
- The DHS’s “Disinformation Governance Board” (yes, that was real).
- White House officials directly coordinating with Twitter and Facebook to suppress dissenting views on vaccines, masks, and the Hunter Biden laptop—also confirmed in the Twitter Files.
- Bank accounts frozen in Canada (Trudeau’s bestie move) for political donations.
- Demonetization and deplatforming of creators who expressed the “wrong” opinions... not hate speech, not violence, just wrongthink.
That’s not “dealing with misinformation.” That’s state-corporate censorship, and it absolutely harmed people... financially, socially, and professionally.
5. “Elon supports your wishes, so it’s moot.”
Ah yes... when a private company
stops colluding with government actors, suddenly free speech isn’t under threat anymore? That’s rich. You didn’t care when people were silenced...
you cared when you lost the mute button.
6. “Now Donnie wants to name ombudsmen, pull licenses, and threaten funding.”
You mean… demanding media accountability? Wow. Welcome to politics. Biden tried to create a Ministry of Truth and pressure tech companies to delete posts. Obama
spied on journalists. The
Pentagon flagged Twitter users for COVID opinions. But now Trump criticizes media bias and you act like it’s 1984.
No one’s shutting anyone down. If publicly funded platforms and broadcast stations are lying, yes... there’s going to be pressure to clean house. You may call it extortion. The rest of us call it
accountability.
7. “Thoughts and Prayers” for that thing that never happened to you.
Oh it happened... to
millions of Americans. They were censored, silenced, demonetized, fired, and slandered. But because it didn’t happen
to you, you think it’s fake. That says everything.
So here’s your reality check:
You didn’t rebut my points... you just
rationalized your side’s abuses by calling them “rational responses.” You think your censorship is safety and their speech is extremism. That’s not logic. That’s authoritarian cosplay wrapped in a smug tone.
You’re not defending free speech. You’re defending power... and now you’re mad you don’t control the narrative anymore.
Tough break.