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Should there be government restrictions on satire?

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[b]Donald Trump tweets NBC, 'SNL' should be tested by courts after Christmas parody sketch[/b]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/donald-trump-tweets-nbc-snl-should-be-tested-by-courts-after-christmas-parody-sketch

Do you agree with Donald Trump that satire isn’t necessarily protected speech?
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I don't agree with any kind of censorship, especially when it comes to comedy. However in light of the disgusting left and their constant disgusting behavior, I totally understand his frustration. Trump has been getting treated ridiculously unfairly by the left and the leftist media in spite of being one of the hardest working and deliberate presidents in the last century. The world is sick of the left, and I'm afraid that because the left is so absolutely over the top 'evil' , that there might be a kind of over-correction as the people adopt a more sensible politics. People are going to want to string these clowns up, because they have been so bat shit crazy for so long.
SW-User
@puck61 Interesting response. Did you defend Obama or his wife, when people were posting hanging effigies, calling them monkeys, calling him a Nazi, sharing supposedly naked pics of Michelle Obama around the internet & in emails?

Extremism in any form isn't acceptable to me, whether it be leftist or right wing, or anything else in this world.
Trump needs to stop playing the victim, stop tweeting, and act like a President should. He is attacked because he created this entire circus. He chose an offensive tactic, with deliberacy. Now, he is simply reaping the seeds he himself has sowed.

I saw the skit. It wasn't any worse than any other skits they've done with every sitting President over the years IMO. He needs to develop a thicker skin and stop focusing on the inconsequential. I, for one, am tired of all the complaining from both sides of the aisle.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 as someone who is actually far left, I'm laughing my ass off that you think private corporations are in any way leftist.
@SW-User The behavior of the right towards Obama is not even comparable to the historically unprecedented temper tantrum of the disgusting left over Trump. The world is finished with the left, and the sooner they are forgotten, the better. They are a plague as insidious as any plague humanity has ever faced.

No need to hate the dire wolf.
Hunger is no sin.
If you must hate, then hate the fools
who let the bastard in.

puckism 77.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 as opposed to the far right that put 6 million people in gas chambers you mean?
@basilfawlty89 Nazis are leftist. NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY That is exactly what is fomenting on college campuses with your intolerance and war on free speech. The left is the most totalitarian intolerant bunch of filth that ever polluted society.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 Nazis are far right and privatized businessed. If you think because they called themselves socialists they were socialists, then you must think buffalo wings come from buffaloes.
SW-User
@puck61 Your response is typical of someone firmly implanted in your party. It appears worse to you now because you didn't pay attention, chose to ignore, or was one of the offenders yourself, at the time Obama was in office. I remember thinking no one would ever have done to Bush & his wife, what they were doing to Obama. It's now apparent to me with the advent of the internet as the primary tool for all, we are now witnessing a major shift in the sociopolitical scene. Stop blindly defending your party and please, open your eyes. We are being bombarded with lies from all sides.
@SW-User I haven't said a damn thing about what party I belong to. Leftist politics are unrealistic, unsustainable, very destructive, childish, and stupid. The western hemisphere is seeing the damage and hopefully it's not too late to repair it.
@basilfawlty89 The fascism is on the left. The intolerance is on the left. The Jew hating is on the left. Would you like an etch a sketch?
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 Oh bullshit, outside of the Zapatistas in Mexico (NOT the Mexican government) and Cuba, there's barely anything leftist in the Americas or the Western Hemisphere.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 Lolwut? Neo-Nazis are right wing and vote Republican. Fuck are you on about with your "Jew hating is on the left". Remind me which party David Duke is a fan of? White supremacists are nationalists. Remind me what your president called himself?

What would you like a class in PolSci 101. How about history, because you seem really uneducated.

Fascism is a far-right movement characterized by nationalism, militarism and traditionalism. Leftists are against all those things.
@basilfawlty89 Okay. What ever you want to call these clueless spoiled brats who are parading stupidity, bizarre gender confusion, and childish idealism while using violence to get their points across. They tend t0 favor democrats over republicans and they are the most hypocritical wastes of skin to ever darken this countries landscape. They are the very definition of everything they claim to be against. What would you like to call them?
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@puck61 Oh bullshit. Their "gender confusion" is their right to their own identity. You call people "fascists", yet you want to police how they identify, who they can sleep with and whether or not they can transition or get married. So much for you conservatives and your claim to love freedom and liberty.

The "freedom and liberty" party that wants to put more people behind bars for victimless crimes, ban a woman's right to her own body and police people's gender and sexuality.
@basilfawlty89 Bullshit. Just leftist filth. The left has been poisoning this country with lies for at least 60 years. I hate the left with every fiber of my being, but I am not really worried about any of you. You are your own undoing. It will be pleasant to watch the Rainbow Brites fade back into obscurity. All that comes out of your minds and mouths is poison and lies, and I don't need to get worked up over any of your nonsense because it's really over for all of you. Right now you have the media, academia, and silicone valley, but real people are sick and tired of the destruction and havoc that you sew. Just watch. Have a nice day, and I hope you come to your senses.
SW-User
@puck61 Really? Every time you go on about the left, the intensity of your hatred toward one party throughout your postings on this site, your blind support of a well known liar and cheat who has put so many small family owned contractors out of business, as well as your right wing conservative statements you've made off and on here, your party affiliation is pretty clear to me and anyone else who is reading all the Trump loyalist garbage spewing forth.

What separates you from, or makes you any less angry or radical than, someone on the extreme left, besides the obviously opposing viewpoint?