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The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol. They don’t debate and they kn
by ves 6y ago
The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol.
They don’t debate and they know they’re right. What’s the point in keeping them?
- idanman 6y agoYeah you are right. Instead they burn down businesses and riot in the streets and go attack far right rallies. It seems both far left and far right are embolden these days. No science on either side. No one wants to listen to the other side. Not a good situation.
- jachee 6y agoI don't need to listen to the Qanon conspiracy theories, racist rants, gun worship, law enforcement deification, homophobia, transphobia and other dehumanizing speech of the far right. There is literally nothing of value to be gained.
- idanman 6y agoThis is a free country you can listen to whatever channel you want and let them listen to whatever they want.
- wpm 6y agoYup and if I owned a platform I wouldn’t be obligated to let them use it. So what’s the problem?
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoSeems like the whole “you have to bake my cake” argument went out the window. Do I have to feed the enemy?
- deathlight 6y agoNo food for "the enemy". No air travel. No payment processing for their businesses or political causes they support. You can earn your social credit points back by kowtowing to Xi the Great - wait wrong country.
- wpm 6y agoSexuality is a protected class like religion, gender, ethnicity, and so on. Politics isn't. This is a very simple concept, yet I find myself having to explain it to a lot of people.
- idanman 6y agoNone at all. When the democrats are in office you kick out far right. When the republicans are in you kick out far left. This way you avoid getting regulated. It’s a free country and your company it’s all good. It opens up opportunities for other companies to come in and take the business. Oh wait... are you a monopoly?
- drak0n1c 6y agoThe grassroots WalkAway group was removed from Facebook today. It was not about Q and had only encouraged rallies and protests, and did not condone breaking into government buildings. It was a repository of hundreds of thousands of video and text testimonials from ex-Democrats explaining why they felt alienated, often by seeing events/individuals they felt were covered unfairly by the media or by cancel culture in their private life, and their lived experiences of why they left the party. Is that not useful information?
- anigbrowl 6y agoI dispute your contention that it's a grassroots thing, that's one of the most astroturfed political campaigns I've ever seen. It's a formula: minor right-wing celebrity announces they're going to city X to 'clean it up' or highlight some deficiency, makes a bunch of posts about it on social media announcing their itinerary, inevitably attracting some opposition from annoyed locals. Then they livestream the local opposition and say 'look how unreasonable these people are, #walkaway.'
- tehbeard 6y agoA victim of the algorithm perhaps? Or too many links on the social graph to the more problematic elements. I don't mean to rationalize its removal. It sounds like a project that should exist, one that serves as a mirror for introspection. This isn't something new or that "the left" only does. In much the same way we see lgbtq groups closed because the algorithm or human moderator believes queerness == explicit sexual content rather than "a bunch of other humans"
- mckirk 6y agoIt's fairly unsurprising that the extreme parts of the spectrum aren't listening to each other, given how far removed they are from each other ideologically. What's way more worrying to me is that they aren't listening to the people that try to understand their perspectives, but keep them grounded in reality. It seems to have become an 'either you are with us, or against us'-situation for a huge number of people, sadly.
- mellosouls 6y agoThe American left own most of the major media platforms (and all the ones people are being censored on) and the far left spent half the year rioting.
- bufferout 6y agoFox News is the most popular cable news though?
- mellosouls 6y agoCaught me before edit. Yeah, there's plenty of bad on the right; but its extraordinary that some on the left don't see our own massive freedom of speech and behaviour issues, as in the comment I replied to.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIt's definitely news to me that Facebook is owned by "the American left".
- gitrog 6y agoLiberals, aka centrists, own most of the major media platforms. Actual leftists (especially radicals) tend to get silenced as much as far-right individuals do. Only "moderate" opinions are marketable on the mainstream media.
- eyeball 6y ago>The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests