They’re being removed from a private service because they’re using their platform to blatantly misinform the American people to the detriment of our society.
You know what also doesn’t turn out well? Allowing autocratic politicians to try and overthrow the government as well as the will of the majority of the people with paramilitary thugs.
You know that it goes both ways right? The government or its emissaries shouldn’t be allowed to force any private company to publish or narrate certain desired speech o the behalf of government officials. That’s what they do/did in China, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, etc...
Just for fun, I challenge you to join Parler and start posting some benign but tepidly positive things about Obama. See how long it takes them to kick you off. This isn’t a one-sided thing, and it’s bogus to pretend it is. And I don’t think either one is in the wrong either. If I have a website, I don’t have to tolerate users I don’t like to listen to.
. This isn’t about tweets. It’s about what has become the predominant platform to share and search for speech censoring the same. They lost me when they censored a news story widely published by the likes of the WSJ as did posters who supported such actions. Silencing tweets is fairly benign. Unfortunately, the censorship runs much deeper. I don’t really care if it’s being done by private media platforms or public colleges. It’s wrong and downright dangerous and both sides should show restraint from such actions. Free speech has seldom been in the wrong historically.
The problem isn’t with 16-35 year olds. I’m at the top of that age range and most of the people out at these maga rallies are older than I am. I would generally attribute it to the 35-55 genX age range that were brought up on the Reagan era fantasies and have had decades of exposure to Fox News and conservative talk radio. Sure there are a good number of youngseters in the crowds as well, but I tend to see them around seas of middle aged men and women who had a bunch of rough times during their prime earning years (9/11, 2008 crash, etc....)
I appreciate your willingness to exempt yourself. But there aren’t any 50 year old guys with pot bellies dressed in black with lasers and ieds and axes attacking the Portland courthouse at night. And nobody in their sixties pushed those barriers down. And few if any are wearing Boogaloo shirts and toting ARs. The movement may be older but the violence starts and ends with the testosterone.
35-70 I know lots of guys in their late 60's and have uncles and cousins in their late 60"s, that aren't in the crowds, but they admire and cheer on those who are. They share their political beliefs. It's people who are disillusioned because things didn't go as they planned financially, but it's also people disillusioned because they attribute those failings to the fact that they are becoming a minority.
Id say that guy that is in Pelosi's office is in his sixties, or at the minimum in his late fifties. I'm more inclined to guess him in his sixties. Maybe the liberal side(Antifa) skews younger, but the right skews older.
Yeah. But I’m talking about the guys going hand to hand with the cops. Not the dudes calling the plays or wandering in later. You don’t get the latter without the former.
I somewhat agree with what you are saying, but you don't want to get into it with guys similar to the guy in the office. I know lots of bikers in their late sixties that can scrap with the best of them. They might get tired quicker, but they can do some damage up front. I bet that guy didn't get in that office, without having to push and shove a little bit on the way in.
Very true. You don’t get to be a playcaller like him unless you’ve scraped and have credibility amongst the bulk of your young violent unstable types.
He was exactly right. If de-escalation was the only goal. The trouble is there was a larger game going on and he knew it. He just needed to buy time by advocating for aid to go in and to cover his political left by suggesting that first before fighting. Until Rhodes got in there, Obama was very very well advised and many steps ahead.
There were quite a few older gentlemen in that crowd fighting with the cops.... evidence two men dying of circulatory system emergencies during the event.
I have no desire to join or even visit Parlor
by private media platforms or public colleges. It’s wrong and downright dangerous and both sides should show restraint from such actions. Free speech has seldom been in the wrong historically.
