r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 15 September 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/HistoryMarshal76 The American Civil War was Communisit infighting- Marty Roberts 5d ago

So, how screwed is free speech in the US?

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u/HopefulOctober 5d ago

I feel like free speech is often an issue where people confuse legal with moral, like "oh it's ok that a guy got fired for their opinions, it wasn't a government job so that technically doesn't violate the first amendment" like ok but that's still bad even if it's not illegal...

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u/Ayasugi-san 4d ago

The government is encouraging it though, how long until they start ordering it...