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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
nvm
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To answer your question before you pulled the chute, though I think you did so because you knew the answer:
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Originally Posted by Matata
Twitter is a wasteland filled with dummies spewing crazy ####, and pretty much all of it goes untouched. They seem to only role up their sleeves and get involved when it comes to fighting the scourge of the right. I dont recall big tech pushing back against all the calls for rioting and violence by the left over the summer.
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Originally Posted by pepper24
Don't worry, this power will only ever be used against bad people.
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And to the other half, thinking "whenever you cheer on an institution's power to suppress your enemies, stop and consider if those powers could be used against you" counts as an original, critical thought is evidence of a deeply enclosed bubble. You'd have to be in one to not realise that this is a reality most people live. They don't just have to consider it, they see it, all the time, for inciting violence that many degrees lighter than insurrection.
The rules apply to all of us. The hand is quick to slap. Trump and his white supremacist or otherwise violent supporters have been given more rope than anyone could possibly deserve, and it gets taken away, and suddenly it's an issue.
I'll say it again. We're talking about inciting violence here. We're talking about people whose ideology includes nazism and whose intentions include a violent overtaking of democracy. Aren't you supposed to be a liberal? And you can't see the unique qualities of this issue? I mean sure Cliff, if Bernie Sanders says go topple the government and overthrow democracy, please let them come for him to. If you want us to consider whether we as individuals would be ok if someone came after us for being nazis or threatening to kill people? Yes, please, come after us. Do it quickly!
"The right" by the largest degree, remains unphased and untouched by these actions. The right is not wholly guilty and thus are not wholly punished. Justifiably so, why would they be? This is not a restriction of political ideology, it's a restriction of violence and the incitement of violence. How can you possibly sit there and not understand this issue? Figure it out, man. Stop with the philosophical platitudes and ruminations about culture wars and think about an issue critically for once.