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I think your point is legit. I don't have an account because I didn't want to find a burner phone. One of the things I do is pay a lot of attention to the rhe
by scarecrowbob 6y ago
I think your point is legit. I don't have an account because I didn't want to find a burner phone.
One of the things I do is pay a lot of attention to the rhetoric of people on the US right... I've been trying to understand what all is being said and why, and my general understanding is that there are a lot of folks with legit grievances filtering them through highly, uh, metaphorical understandings of reality.
A lot of what I see in other media taken from Parler is out-and-out falsehoods about the world. And I have seen quite a lot of content in the various right-wing FB groups I have been in... enough that I don't feel like I have no gauge for what the discourse there looks like.
You're correct that they aren't directly "planning political violence".
However, it is a system where there are unchallenged and wholly fictitious views of the world being spread as if they were the patent truth. That's legal, but it's the epistemic equivalent of smoking meth and if I were a tech company interested in the continued function of the US I'd do everything in my power to stop that process.