And so as a voter, I see the contrast between a Republican party that's just tightening and tightening and tightening up around a loyalty test to a guy that depends on a fiction.

Contrasted with a Democratic party that includes everyone from Joe Manchin to representatives Omar to leave Ocasio-Cortez,

there seems to be a clear place where ideas can be open and debated and a place where they cannot and as a voter, it's really obvious to me which one of those places I belong in.

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Hello everyone, thank you for joining us for a new episode of Pantsy Politics. Today we're going to cover the decision by Base Camp and others to ban political speech on their workplace platforms.

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So this conversation surrounding particularly big tech companies in Silicon Valley and their banning of political speech on their company profiles really took over the Internet Zeitgeist last week when founder and CEO of Basecamp Jason Freed put out a public statement entitled changes at Basecamp about this new policy.

I chuckled under my breath there a little bit because the language in this letter is something even before we get to the policy, but can I read you a little section?

I would love for you too.

So first he quotes Alice Huxley, but only refers to him as Huxley, which I like.

He puts his really intense quote in there and he goes, this is the next quote, heavy yes, but insightful, absolutely, a relevant reminder.

We make individual choices. We all want different somethings, some slightly different, some substantially companies, however, must settle the collective difference, pick a point and navigate towards somewhere.

Lest they get stuck circling.

Nowhere.

May that way, thank Beth.

Can you, first of all, can you interpret that for me because I have no idea what it means?

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