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I don’t follow your logic. 70m Americans are represented by the RNC. Your metaphor breaks immediately.

locopati 6y ago
are you sure that those 70m are who the RNC represents?
DaniloDias 6y ago
Downvotes here sadden me. If you insist on dehumanizing people you disagree with, violence is the only destination. We have got to stop demonizing people who don’t share our perspective. The outcome is predictable, avoidable and undesirable. Maintain the current course and you will pull everyone over the cliff with you.
- confidantlake 6y ago
  I get downvoted all the time, I never threaten violence over it. It may sting the ego a bit but come on man, it is just internet points.
  - DaniloDias 6y ago
    That is not what I was expressing. I am observing that this censorious behavior will predictably lead to others using violence. 70 million Americans voted for trump. How do you expect them to respond to this censorship? We have got to find a way to get along. Those who leverage their power this way will create the outcome they claim they want to prevent.
    - heyoni 6y ago
      There’s a time for getting along, and now is absolutely not that time. The fact that 74 million voted for Trump, who is inciting violence against our democratic process means that this is the time to choose a side. It’s been forced upon us and the dust is far from settling. This is NOT a slippery slope or censorship, jfc...to do nothing at this point is unfathomable.
      - DaniloDias 6y ago
        Are you calling for violence against them???
        heyoni 6y ago
        No. Is that what you’re getting from my comment?
        DaniloDias 6y ago
        Yes? What possible solution is there for 74m people who you disagree with that have to have something done to them? You said “to do nothing is unfathomable.” If the solution is to rob them of representation, what the hell are they going to resort to????
        heyoni 6y ago
        And violence is the only thing you can think of in a thread about a cms revoking services to said opposition? That’s all I meant. If you’re American, you have to pick a side. Do you condemn or condone? No one is sitting around going like “I feel like they had some good points but I donnu”. This is bigger than covid, and at some point, at this point in my opinion, we have to make a decision. We either nip this in the bud now or watch it get worse. And if you work at Twitter, that might mean pushing to ban Trump for the last four years. Some tech savvy individual went and reverse engineered Parler’s API and archived 96% of public content. All this in the hopes that it’ll dissuade any further escalation. And if that isn’t a good enough explanation, then maybe people are just fucking tired of enabling or doing business with people they consider to be deranged and dangerous. I realize you want everyone to come together and find some compromise or common ground but like, where do we even begin? There was no election fraud. Not even Trump’s lawyers could utter those words in court, because they understood that repeating their clients’ overt lies could get them disbarred. I genuinely think that the stop the steal is run by opportunistic leeches who prey on the mentally ill. And that taking away their platforms on private social media might actually give us the pause we need for a peaceful transfer of power. No one should be forced to bake a cake at gunpoint and no one should be forced to go to work on making an online platform work for people we (and the law) view as terrorists. That’s my rant. You can disagree with all of if you want, but you can’t argue with individuals not wanting to go to work for other individuals. Whether it be Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook...they chose to do something and frankly, those who are worried about this potentially happening to them need to realize how bad what happened at the capitol was, and how rare it is. There’s no slippery slope here.
    - confidantlake 6y ago
      I expect them to not resort to violence because the guy they supported was banned from twitter.

are you sure that those 70m are who the RNC represents?

Downvotes here sadden me. If you insist on dehumanizing people you disagree with, violence is the only destination. We have got to stop demonizing people who don’t share our perspective. The outcome is predictable, avoidable and undesirable. Maintain the current course and you will pull everyone over the cliff with you.

confidantlake 6y ago
I get downvoted all the time, I never threaten violence over it. It may sting the ego a bit but come on man, it is just internet points.
- DaniloDias 6y ago
  That is not what I was expressing. I am observing that this censorious behavior will predictably lead to others using violence. 70 million Americans voted for trump. How do you expect them to respond to this censorship? We have got to find a way to get along. Those who leverage their power this way will create the outcome they claim they want to prevent.
  - heyoni 6y ago
    There’s a time for getting along, and now is absolutely not that time. The fact that 74 million voted for Trump, who is inciting violence against our democratic process means that this is the time to choose a side. It’s been forced upon us and the dust is far from settling. This is NOT a slippery slope or censorship, jfc...to do nothing at this point is unfathomable.
    - DaniloDias 6y ago
      Are you calling for violence against them???
      - heyoni 6y ago
        No. Is that what you’re getting from my comment?
        DaniloDias 6y ago
        Yes? What possible solution is there for 74m people who you disagree with that have to have something done to them? You said “to do nothing is unfathomable.” If the solution is to rob them of representation, what the hell are they going to resort to????
        heyoni 6y ago
        And violence is the only thing you can think of in a thread about a cms revoking services to said opposition? That’s all I meant. If you’re American, you have to pick a side. Do you condemn or condone? No one is sitting around going like “I feel like they had some good points but I donnu”. This is bigger than covid, and at some point, at this point in my opinion, we have to make a decision. We either nip this in the bud now or watch it get worse. And if you work at Twitter, that might mean pushing to ban Trump for the last four years. Some tech savvy individual went and reverse engineered Parler’s API and archived 96% of public content. All this in the hopes that it’ll dissuade any further escalation. And if that isn’t a good enough explanation, then maybe people are just fucking tired of enabling or doing business with people they consider to be deranged and dangerous. I realize you want everyone to come together and find some compromise or common ground but like, where do we even begin? There was no election fraud. Not even Trump’s lawyers could utter those words in court, because they understood that repeating their clients’ overt lies could get them disbarred. I genuinely think that the stop the steal is run by opportunistic leeches who prey on the mentally ill. And that taking away their platforms on private social media might actually give us the pause we need for a peaceful transfer of power. No one should be forced to bake a cake at gunpoint and no one should be forced to go to work on making an online platform work for people we (and the law) view as terrorists. That’s my rant. You can disagree with all of if you want, but you can’t argue with individuals not wanting to go to work for other individuals. Whether it be Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook...they chose to do something and frankly, those who are worried about this potentially happening to them need to realize how bad what happened at the capitol was, and how rare it is. There’s no slippery slope here.
  - confidantlake 6y ago
    I expect them to not resort to violence because the guy they supported was banned from twitter.