Speaking your mind does create issues - many people just take offense to anything you say. If you are conservative, and you talk to a liberal, we are in a stage in which Democrats will control the Senate, House and Presidency, so they are more emboldened into telling you what you can and cannot say.
But, debate and opinion, is key for discussion, and when you try to cut that out, Socialism will move up. stating something as fact isnt good either, and you should always be respectful when debating or discussing any ideas, which neither side tends to do, as they get so angry and call you names.
Your opinion is your opinion, but when you start thinking your opinions are facts, or factual statements based on polls, 'news' from Tik Tok and Facebook, and so on, without checking the sources or who put them up, it gets ugly.
Even more amazing is people thinking you are an ultra liberal, or a Trump conservative (I have been called both) when you debate a subject because in their view, you should think like them, and how dare you think differently.
In history, and so many people forget, the censorship of speech, of thinking, of telling you what to think or say or do, takes the country into a darker area in which some people will be so sucked up into thinking that it is ok to half Free Speech and just forget about the reason why the first amendment is there.
First take away your political speech, then take away your artistic speech, then take away the type of books and music you can listen to, then the movies and books and music got to go because they are 'racist', 'offensive', etc. Instead of learning from the past, and debating, trying to block people and taking away their platforms does not work. It only makes people more angry and divides our nation.
Put 20 people in a room, you will have lots of different opinions. You may not like them, but leave the room with respect. That itself is not easy these days.
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However, there are topics that I will not tolerate - child porn, inciting violence or trying to hurt someone or threatening someone violetly, baseless pointed attacks at a person that doesnt deserve it, glorifying mass murderers, or pictures like beheading or others that make you feel sick. Don't like it, don't want it. After all, this is still a bodybuilding related board, once this election and craziness slows down, and we can start having more contest, etc
