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Facebook is a straight-up fake news booster that has decided it is interests to spread Covid misinformation and videos casting doubt on the occurrence of actual

by ss108 4y ago

Facebook is a straight-up fake news booster that has decided it is interests to spread Covid misinformation and videos casting doubt on the occurrence of actual war crimes and genocides. Doesn't seem to engage in much censorship at all, unfortunately. But my point is that contemporary "conservatives" (I prefer not to call this bullshit conservatism) rail against "cancel culture" and pretend like they're defenders of free speech, but it's yet another context and instance in which they are hypocrites. https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/email/1eff62d6-d95e-49f2-8e85-5a8ac4333206/ https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/email/1ef... ^ Actual conservative David French weighing in.

joemazerino 4y ago
"Actual conservative" is a highly subjective term. Peak clown world is Leftists defending a company that outright engages in union busting and antagonizing blue-collar workers since its inception. This is not a free speech issue. Disney is not a person.
- ddingus 4y ago
  They are not leftists in the economic sense. They are Neoliberals, and defending corporations in this fashion makes perfect sense in that context. Neoliberals are socially left, but economically corporatist. There are few elected leftists. They are generally left on social issues and left economically, and have been called populist. (A term I agree with that is a bit better because it does leave room for other party and indie voters to have common ground economically. Populism opens the door to class politics to a greater degree than either party and or leftist does and does so because it does not yet have tribalism making it hard to talk with others and understand them well enough for further conversation, solidarity and action. The indie voting group contains the most actual leftists by percentage, and it is currently the largest group of voters, weighing in about 45 ish percent. The two parties share most of the rest. All that said, I agree! Disney is not a person. Sadly, the law does tend to treat it as one more than it should.
- ss108 4y ago
  I'm not a "leftist", and Disney is a person (my friend).

by ss108 4y ago

joemazerino 4y ago

"Actual conservative" is a highly subjective term. Peak clown world is Leftists defending a company that outright engages in union busting and antagonizing blue-collar workers since its inception. This is not a free speech issue. Disney is not a person.

ddingus 4y ago
They are not leftists in the economic sense. They are Neoliberals, and defending corporations in this fashion makes perfect sense in that context. Neoliberals are socially left, but economically corporatist. There are few elected leftists. They are generally left on social issues and left economically, and have been called populist. (A term I agree with that is a bit better because it does leave room for other party and indie voters to have common ground economically. Populism opens the door to class politics to a greater degree than either party and or leftist does and does so because it does not yet have tribalism making it hard to talk with others and understand them well enough for further conversation, solidarity and action. The indie voting group contains the most actual leftists by percentage, and it is currently the largest group of voters, weighing in about 45 ish percent. The two parties share most of the rest. All that said, I agree! Disney is not a person. Sadly, the law does tend to treat it as one more than it should.
ss108 4y ago
I'm not a "leftist", and Disney is a person (my friend).