Suddenly, you can say a lot more things in polite society than you used to be able to say. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
speaking about speech
as we approach the monday of trump’s return as “47” a great many things are changing, perhaps chiefest among them speech.
this change is not just the end of institutionalized federal censorship regimes and the shift of the zuckerbot 9000 onside to team “free speech” in all its saccharine glory (for could there be any doubt that had kamala won he’d be doubling down on fact checking?)
it is not just the dawning realization in the EU that their veil of censorship used to such great effect to suppress dissent against the green/left ruling alliances and to suppress populism and liberty (great article here) is about to be torn asunder because trump is having exactly none of their attempts to censor and fact check US social media companies.
it’s not just the unraveling of woke, DEI, and the calamitous cancel culture that has underpinned their ideological regimes.
it’s a change in what can be said and to whom, a change in permissible conversation, that which may be spoken in polite company, professional context, said out loud and proud.
I don’t respect their authoritah and what will they do ban me from Tech Bros land?
I’m so heartbroken. (sniffle)
The only good thing you can say for AOC is she doesn’t work for AIPAC.
That and please unburden clothes. (rimshot)