Do you think we still have our First Amendment rights in America 🇺🇸?

[sage2021]

I guess we still have them until we happen to say something that is your right, but you can get fired from your job for commenting that someone is too old to run for president. Hummm...

[Anonymous]

As long as you understand your rights come from nature's God not any constitution or law of man.

Then the question of our "first amendment rights" is a question of whether or not the federal goverment is respecting the limits imposed by the 1st amendment. I would have to say no on all accounts, for it does indeed restrict our right to speech, just as it inhibits our right to establish religious laws among the States.

Turning the amendment ratified by states (nearly all of whom had established State laws on religion) on its head to impose official atheism from washington.

[exitseven]

I still have mine. I imagine it will get me fired someday but I am good with that.

[Alessa13]

Sadly it only means freedom from prosecution by the government, it still allows people to get you fired from your job for saying something they disagree with.

Legally we still have it, realistically we do not as it silences a lot of people who are now afraid to say anything for fear they could get fired.

Why people think it is good to silence those they disagree with, I will never understand. That does not change their opinions, it drives them underground which seems more dangerous.

[Sixgunsound]

If you can publicly humiliate or destroy someone for having an opinion you don't like, it discourages other people from speaking up and makes your life easier. That is why oppressors do that. The woke mob can't win argumentatively or logically so the best they can do is clear the field.

[Sixgunsound]

People who grew up in the fifties sixties 7 days to a lesser extent the eightwere exposed to different opinions and learned coping mechanisms and strategies for dealing with them and the people who have them. Nineties kids and later? Not so much unless parents deliberately broke with their peers and the kids schools and the orevailing prevailing social mindset.

[Alessa13]

@Sixgunsound It might appear to make thier life easier but in reality would those that disagree not secretly be doing things that they are unaware of then?

Before long they get surprised when suddenly the majority they thought they had silenced come and get them.

[Sixgunsound]

The silent majority in America is a lot less silent the harder they get poked lately.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Yes, but the left wing wingnuts are trying to get rid of it. The moron AOC squealed like a stuck pig when Elon bought Twitter. He just wanted free speech, but the left can't deal with that. But she got even with him, she sold her Tesla. lol.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Thanks for the MHO.

[TrueConfection]

Nope. Not when parents who voice their concern over the "curriculum" being fed to their children in public schools are shut down and investigated by state and federal agencies.

[Gummy_Cluster]

And labeled terrorists.

[TrueConfection]

@Gummy_Cluster exactly. Just wait until we are on the CCP points system.

[Gummy_Cluster]

A girl on this site asked if it would be a waste of time to learn to speak Russian. I told her that if she lives in America, she should learn Spanish or Chinese.

If you really want to ruffle some liberal feathers on this site, mention abolishing government schools and only having private schools. The first thing they will do is ask you who's going to pay for it. Duh. The same people who pay for the crappy government schools. And private schools cost less than government schools. In my state government schools cost around $19,000 per kid per year. Imagine if you had the teaching credentials, and had a big house. If you had ten students, you would make a good chunk of change. And if you were able to rent out a bigger space, you could hire some teachers. A guy on this site told me his kid knows more about pronouns, than math, science and reading all put together. CRT and all the other communist bullshit would be gone.

[TrueConfection]

@Gummy_Cluster During the (public) school closures, parents were co-homeschooling. 1 would teach the math, another would teach science, etc.

I say public school closures because 2 of my own kids were in private schools that didn't close.

[Gummy_Cluster]

I just read on the news that Seattle is closing some public schools, because kids don't want to go back. They can't afford to stay open, because they get paid per student. I always said that wokeness was going to come back to haunt the woke.

[TrueConfection]

@Gummy_Cluster The schools have abandoned academics for the most part.

[Gummy_Cluster]

I wouldn't even call them schools at this point. A girl today asked if she could get a job without a high school diploma. I just had to smile at that. I read a few years ago that companies like Microsoft don't even give a crap what your school background is. Either you can hack code or you can't.

[TrueConfection]

@Gummy_Cluster True. A lot of employers don't care what your degree is in as long as you have a degree.

[Gummy_Cluster]

And I can't even imagine checking to see if you have a high school diploma.

[exitseven]

If my kids were still in the system I would be one of those parents you see on the news being led out of the school committee meeting in handcuffs.

[Gummy_Cluster]

@exitseven
LOL supposed the new Republican Congress is going to investigate that. The Attorney General needs to be impeached.

[TrueConfection]

@Gummy_Cluster The Republicans aren't going to do anything. They've been doing nothing for 14 years.

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection That probably be true. McCarthjy is talking tough but it remains to be seen if anything will really happen.

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven Exactly. They either blow smoke or work against conservatives like Paul Ryan.

[TrueConfection]

I meant for example, Paul Ryan (RHINO). He worked as hard as he could for the democRats.

[exitseven]

JIm Jordan and James Comer are threatening to subpoena Hunter Biden if they don;t get the documents that they requested. The deadline is midnight tonite. They need to get up early tomorrow and get the subpoenas out and then get ready with the warrants.

[Gummy_Cluster]

@TruecConfection I guess the speaker yanked some of the "squad" off of committees. One thing I'll say about the Dems, is that they're brutal street fighters. And the Republicans use kids gloves. My favorite radio show talk show host calls the Republicans the "Low T GOP. " (low testosterone)
He said the Republicans always want to play nice. Why don't Republicans fight dirty and ballot harvest? Biden's impeachment should have already started by now.

[Gummy_Cluster]

@exitseven
What documents are they wanting?

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven I remember when Congress supenaed HRC's 350 documents and hard drives. Nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

Well you do until they start jailing or fining people for things determined as politically incorrect.

A lot of people I know choose not to comment anything political on twitter, Instagram or Facebook or just in the workplace.

A lot of people on social media will not even use their actual name full real name, usually a nickname or a foreign spelling of their name and that's to throw off employers and potential employers. A lot of jobs have conduct clauses in their contracts that say if you were a teacher and there's a picture of you drinking a beer or endorsing marajuanua use you may get fired.

A guy at work got a written warning for a picture of him and his brother being at a Trump rally on Facebook. Of course his lawyer got involved and the the woman who issued it was moved to another department

[Anonymous]

More than we used to, honestly. You used to be lynched for saying you think black people are human beings. The thing people misunderstand about the First Amendment is that it's the right to free speech. Not the right to be an insufferable ass. The first amendment also only protects you from the government and in public. Not from a private business. They have the full right to control what you can and can't do on their property while under their employ, just as someone in your house doesn't have a right to talk shit to your face without getting kicked out.

[Tyrael]

Your first amendment right doesn't give you freedom from consequences. It also doesn't apply in a work environment if you signed a contract stating as such. Just like it doesn't apply on many social media platforms because they dictate what content goes on their website, not the customers.

[Sixgunsound]

You have the right to parrot the official woke narrative. Anything else you say or do can and WILL be weaponized against you.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

First amendment only applies to federal, state, and local government. This includes lawmakers, elected officials, public schools, universities, courts, and police officers. It does not include private citizens, businesses, and organizations. If you make a political statement and your job decides to fire you over it, then obviously they don't agree with your statement and how it may represent them.

[Anonymous]

You have free speech. But that doesn't mean you have free speech when you're working for someone. They're perfectly within thier right to fire you if they feel it's affecting thier business. It's kind of a no brainer to keep your politics out of your workplace.

Yes, I still think we very much have free speech.

[worldscolide]

Legally yes.. But with rampant leftism we are very quickly approaching 1984

[FunkyMonkee]

Doesn't look like we still have it!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8N4CSA6GiG0

[Surely]

You can say whatever you want, but the people that you say it to. Don’t have to agree with whatever you said and are free to be offended! Then you are in socialist jail!

[Juxtapose]

Our first amendment rights are not being respected and if anything the rights should be expanded.

[Fuentes]

The liberals are work real hard to take it away and become commies

[SmokinAces2000]

No one is being put in jail for speaking out against the government so yes we do

[Guardian45]

Can someone please explain:
What is the first amendment?
What is the meaning of this Q?

[Pterodon]

Nope. Try saying anything anti gay on this site and they remove your opinion

[NaultD]

You're not getting sent to the gulag.

[eagle1951]

barely

[BarryLiverstone]

For sure

[In_Trance]

No I don't