I'm not OP but myself, being a fan of liberalism and American values (unlike the conservatives today) know you couldn't or shouldn't criminalize viewpoints or political affiliation. However there is nothing stopping the rest of us from making being or associating with conservatives so socially repugnant that they should hide themselves in shame, disengage from having strong political opinions (because it's obvious they are incapable of understanding American institutions, law and values) so as to make conservatism politically irrelevant for the next 2 decades until they root out the rot they have allowed to take over their movement and come back to the table with sane people and sane policy.
Why do you believe that would or should happen? After the failure of the Soviet experiment, there are still communist parties a plenty around the world. Heck, look at the Democrat policies toward immigration in 2016 vs today. There's no sanity to be found. So shine on you crazy diamond.

Blame Hunter Biden's laptop.
I have a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials, that Hunter Biden's laptop isn't real, and therefore blameless. No doubt some of those signers would also claim that this story is also false and, we have nothing to fear from China.

the UK actually has decent laws and the legal system is still largely independent, which is something.
Tell that to Graham Linehan. I'm sure he'd have a different view.

It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...
The old wolves vs dogs trick, yeah I hope that is accounted for in the training data.
We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people. I like the Merry Christmas red herring, but open a history book and read all about the fools trying to make bandages fashionable b/c the King had anal fissures. We've always been a society of sheep, and there's always been a group ready to demand conformity for the greater good(see HOA's, Brussels etc). Also your STT broke down since that was supposed to be left to decide, not left to the side, at least it wasn't left to deicide

I really wanna get off the fucking bus. I've had enough. 56 years is enough abuse. I want out. I feel our lives are naught but money to be made from by others.
Network did it better in 1976. You are late to the party.

You exemplify typical leftist views, where you believe the only reason someone could disagree with your views is due to character fault of some kind.
One minor quibble, that is more of an authoritarian view, which currently the left has embraced(esp post COVID), but both left and right wing authoritarians use the people who disagree w/ my policies are: defective, deficient of (intellect, character, moral fiber, empathy, take your pick) and therefore require re-education, imprisonment, etc until they see the error of their ways.

Biden was caretaker and the U.S reeled under Covid, a disease ignored by la Presidenta until if couldn't be, mainly due to the stiffs piling up. The Republicans thought this was just potty because they were not Their stiffs, those were little people stiffs. la Presidenta funded the vaccines only because he wanted to be re-elected, other than that he didn't give a flying fuck. It was so bad that when Biden got in and asked for the NiH plan to combat the pandemic, they handed him a binder of crap that was no plan at all. The Biden Administration had to start at square one.
Wow, holy revisionist history Batman. You'd make the Soviets proud. Here on earth, Pepperidge farm remembers that Biden ran a campaign that was largely aided by elites that helped to "fortify" the election and then wrote a Time magazine article praising themselves after they won. Biden was no caretaker, since he handed off so many things to the diversity hire and then watched as she proceeded to screw up, of course Biden wasn't likely to do much better since he was famously 'on the wrong side of every foreign policy".

removing books [cbsnews.com] by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, or Ernest Hemingway.
Not sure the context, but I don't think "cocaine" Stephen King's child sex scene in IT should be taught to younger children. Vonnegut has some good books, but again age appropriate, and Hemingway is mostly overrated, enjoy "the Old man and the Sea" and thank your lucky stars if that's all the Hemingway you'll have to endure. Not quite the moral panic as when people were silenced for asking questions about COVID.

keep workers in liworkershey
Tovarisch, I haven't a clue what word you were trying to use there but your STT seems to be busted. You neglected to mention that the unions like all collections of people became subject to corruption and scope creep and lost their way and utility such that people were not sad when they were busted. Sort of like how one goes from symbiosis to a parasite, and then the host rejects you. Btw if the workforce is getting smaller, but HR keeps getting bigger, perhaps there is more than simply "rightsizing" at play.

Apes with machine guns are frightening. Apes with refineries are terrifying.
*borat voice* It's like when you give a woman power */borat voice*

You forgot the most ridiculous part of the E. Jean Carroll story, which was the extending of the statute of limitations to allow her to file her complaint, and then promptly shutting the window right back down. That totally created the appearance of above board behavior by the NY legislature.

For once we have a Pope who is aware of tech related concerns. Christian or not, "We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings" is pretty relevant.
Correction, for once we have a Pope who shares your views on technology. I am pretty sure when previous Pope's were discussing Geocentric vs Heliocentric views of the universe or the evils of the crossbow or rifling of gun barrels, those were "tech related" concerns.

The funny thing is China couldn't be further from communism if they tried. I mean they literally have a private fucking healthcare system. And they have a fully capitalist economy. Just because the state intervenes does not make it communist.
Ah, here it is, the "No true Scotsman" fallacy of Communism. So close to almost accepting that Communism doesn't work. Oh well, if the state owns 99% of the means of production is that communist? What if it owns 66%, or 51%? How little does the state's share of the means of production have to be and still called communist?

We should have let consumers choose. Because consumers were atmosphere chemist experts. We should also let consumers choose at the hospital what they need because they're doctors. Ad nauseam....
Using this logic, we shouldn't let people decide their leaders b/c they aren't policy experts. We should not let poor people have money, b/c they make bad decisions, this leads to a pretty horrific future real quick, tovarish.

Hello, I am going to need you to square the circle of "Wokeness" or what was referred to as "politically correct" is not why comedies die.
With Like the reason why a lot of comedies of the 80's get "couldn't be made today" is directly related to a culture of the time that didn't see racism and sexism as a problem. Now it is,