'The real weapon against oppression is free speech' Actor, comedian and new book author You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, Americasaid Rob Schneider in an interview. Breitbart News Saturday.
“The idea is…that while free speech appears to be shrinking, and it is, even the government is violating Americans' First Amendment rights. “Thank God Elon Musk exposed what happened on Twitter,” he said, referring to collusion between tech companies and the US government.
They worked to “silence Americans who have different opinions and don't want to go along with the government's narrative,” he continued.
“You can imagine they did the same thing with Facebook, because… Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it. He said, 'Oh, we did it.' But for whatever reason, I think I admitted it a week ago. It was happening everywhere. And, you know, Google, of course…has ties to the CIA and won't admit anything, won't say anything, but through Dr. Robert Epstein, Google is suppressing conservative causes and colluding with the CIA and organizations as well. We now know that. The government suppresses what it doesn't want to hear. That's unique,” he said, explaining that it's extremely important to expose this and say, “We are committed to the most fundamental of our freedoms, the First Amendment, Do we want to continue to curtail our right to unfettered free speech?”
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“And that's…if the founding fathers ever told us anything more than guns to protect us from tyranny, you know, the First Amendment before guns. I think it's about that,” he said. “The real weapon against oppression is freedom of speech.”
Schneider also explained how comedy is an important social construct in the United States and how it can be used to fight oppression.
“Fundamentally, the only way to break a tyranny is… for it to collapse. And I think I agree with James Lindsay that the concept of tyranny is, if you look at the Soviet Union, It seems like it's going to last forever. It's so strong and then it just falls apart all at once. And part of that collapse, you know, is that people don't take it seriously anymore. “It's about not being afraid of anything,” he said.
“And the way to do that is to tear it apart, but when people start laughing at it and mocking it, and that's what's important. The same thing happened in the United States in the past,” he explained. , also spoke about another turning point in this country: the weaponization of government agencies during the Obama administration and the coronavirus.
Schneider also blamed Democrats, saying they were part of the problem.
“When you understand that 70 percent of all wealth in America is owned by the Democratic Party, you realize that the party of the people is now the Republican Party,” he said. Regarding the Democratic Party, he continued: “Whatever helps them come to power. They don't care what it is. They're not a democratic institution anymore. “I know they don't support it. They just make decisions for Democratic voters,” he added.
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