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> Gab is aimed at people interested in “Western values, individual liberty, and the free exchange of ideas” looking to avoid the “special interests pushing a ve

> Gab is aimed at people interested in “Western values, individual liberty, and the free exchange of ideas” looking to avoid the “special interests pushing a very specific agenda” in tech. If that dog whistle isn’t loud enough... Not sure that's a dog whistle. With even the article admiting they can't find a valid reason for it to have been kicked from the Play Store, it's almost a self fulfilling prophecy.

cookiecaper 9y ago
Once you start believing that all your political enemies are utilizing "dog whistles" and "code language", it's basically a lost cause. There's no arguing with someone who will literally assign a negative meaning to otherwise innocuous words and statements if they can't find anything real to nitpick.
- rdtsc 9y ago
  > Once you start believing that all your political enemies are utilizing "dog whistles" and "code language" Heh, just a month ago someone told me that Trump was using secret hand gestures towards Putin during dinner at some summit there were at. I thought ok sure, how do you disprove that. "He scratched his nose, it seems". "Nah, that's code for body was buried in concrete successfully". "Alrighty then..."