posted January 09, 2021 04:29 AM            

Examine what you read and what you think. The "leftist" mainstream media is NOT getting it all wrong (no matter how you wish to believe). Run the news story you WANT to believe across Reuters and the Associated Press to see how well your story squares with reality. These entities still have journalistic standards. A huge segment of media on the Right does not adhere to any such standards.
Twitter and YouTube are not reliable sources of news. They are potentially tools of propaganda by anyone who wields them in that manner.

Be wary of the idea that a person's belief is enough to establish fundamental reality. I've seen people berate others for believing the news over believing their interpretation of events. One cannot self-inform. One can analyze for sure, but the data has to be good.

Realize that the government administers the law. They're tied together. You can't have one without the other, and the lack of either is anarchy. Dwell on this.

This means liberals, who love the government, also love the law.
This also means conservatives, who can hate the government, can also hate the law.

You are much more institutionally valued by the Left than you are by the Right. The Left wants you to have opportunities. The Right wants you to maintain your advantages. The Left wants you to have access to education. The Right regularly seeks to undermine education.

posted January 09, 2021 04:46 AM            

However, I would love a
Platform" exclusive for Fascists and Neo-Nazis which they think is impregnable so that FBI can have an easy time locating the Domestic Terrorists.

For now, I think Twitter should not have fully suspended Trump's Account until Jan 20th.

posted January 09, 2021 07:27 AM            

silencing voices is never a good thing on a larger scale, only the people it serves praise it but if sides were flipped they would see an issue

posted January 09, 2021 08:03 AM            

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Remember, it may seem righteous to rail against "censorship,"

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It's both righteous and quintessentially American to rail against the censorship of authoritarian regimes.

posted January 09, 2021 01:12 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I’d forgotten that Belage told me to stop getting my panties into a bunch, when Whitmer could have been kidnapped and executed.

Quit getting your panties into a bunch, trump supporters. Everything’s fine, right?

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posted January 09, 2021 01:36 PM            

Her newsletter from yesterday was taken down, and that usually happens because someone is offended, and reports it. You guys clutching your pearls over the truth.
http://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-8-2021

posted January 09, 2021 01:48 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
A slew of people in my FB group have been banned on Twitter as of yesterday. It's not just our President.

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yeah this kind of thing should be unacceptable, it's like how google hides certain results now and a lot of other sites and apps have really cracked down on people speaking

posted January 09, 2021 01:54 PM            

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The left wants only power.

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False. The Right wants only power. That's why the Left in Washington tends to represent millions more voters than the Right does. It's completely lopsided and often down to gerrymandering.

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Both parties love power, but the Dems have been taken over by the far left fringe.

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Demonstrably false. We just voted in the furthest Right guy in our packed field.

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It was the Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Acts.

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Maybe you need to read up on it: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1964.htm The way you're representing it is false.

But, moreover, what have you guys done since? What rights have you expanded?
Were you there for minority communities, or was it Democrats that shepherded in laws about hate crimes? Did you try to get a handle on medical costs, or was it Democrats who actually passed something insuring MILLIONS more people were insured? How about gay marriage? Did you guys do anything there? The Defense of Marriage Act was signed by George W. Bush. Immediately following, it was in Obama's administration that gay marriage became legal.

Tell me, in these last four years, is hate crime up by chance? Oh, it is? That's not liberals. That's Trump supporters.

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The Dems were too busy wearing their white hoods. Facts. The Republicans were founded in 1854 as the anti-slavery party. So, let's not wax philosophical about opportunities.

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Who does the KKK proudly support? Who do the white supremecists support?

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you shouldn't have to be the one who's silenced to see a problem with massive censorship

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True. Thank goodness I live on the side that's in actual reality and not some made-up conspiracy that requires silencing.

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It's both righteous and quintessentially American to rail against the censorship of authoritarian regimes.

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Which the far Right seems to be. Which is why all these Twitter accounts are being voided. Which is why Google and Apple are removing Parler. The war on disinformation may be under way because your side went too far.

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AG is pro censorship. But I bet he wouldn't be if he were the target of it. And there's that Hitler/Nazi narrative again that fake news networks indoctrinated him to say. I dub thee: The king of Hypocrites.

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posted January 09, 2021 02:03 PM            

Trump should have left Twitter back when he joined Parler last year. Instead of posting on Parler, he continued to give Twitter the juice and interest it didn't deserve, and the glee of censoring him whenever they wanted like a father disciplining an unruly child.

posted January 09, 2021 02:12 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I’d forgotten that Belage told me to stop getting my panties into a bunch, when Whitmer could have been kidnapped and executed.

Quit getting your panties into a bunch, trump supporters. Everything’s fine, right?

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Sorry for giving you that advice, teasel.

posted January 09, 2021 02:26 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
No one I know who comes from a dictatorship regime or has lived under dictature is equating Trump to a dictator. Ask the cubans and the Russians who fled to the US, the Chinese who have fled mainstream China and now CCP dominated Hong Kong.

All of them know what true dictatorship is like and they can tell that the media's assault on democracy and freedom of expression is odly reminiscent of the regime they left in their native lands.

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posted January 09, 2021 02:32 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
No one I know who comes from a dictatorship regime or has lived under dictature is equating Trump to a dictator. Ask the cubans and the Russians who fled to the US, the Chinese who have fled mainstream China and now CCP dominated Hong Kong.

All of them know what true dictatorship is like and they can tell that the media's assault on democracy and freedom of expression is odly reminiscent of the regime they left in their native lands.

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I have a Romanian immigrant friend who texts once a week pleading with me to buys guns and move away from the city because he has "seen this all before"

posted January 09, 2021 02:39 PM            

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Originally posted by shura:

I have a Romanian immigrant friend who texts once a week pleading with me to buys guns and move away from the city because he has "seen this all before"

Had HW and academia spent 1/10th the time churning out Communist takeover stories as they have Nazi, more of us might see what's happening.

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