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Now might be a good time to revisit the twitter files and really try to understand what was in them and why it was horrifying. Seems many people wanted to prete
by harry8 2y ago
Now might be a good time to revisit the twitter files and really try to understand what was in them and why it was horrifying. Seems many people wanted to pretend they were nothing because it didn't suit their partisan narrative. We're seeing the same kinds of justification now just with different partisans.
If we don't call out abuses by our own tribe (whichever that is), maybe we're part of the attack.
- Aurornis 2y ago> Now might be a good time to revisit the twitter files Or we could skip the whataboutism that tries to go back to a prior administration, and instead focus on the current administration’s actions which are demonstrably far worse.
- harry8 2y agoWhat about we stand on _principle_. What about we criticise and oppose /all/ transgressions of that principle. What about we all do it more loudly for whatever tribe we have some loose membership of and don't excuse it because it is politically expedient. That's whataboutism nowadays.
- danavar 2y agoExactly. Let's not forget the real attempts at the government's internet censorship of previous administrations. Nobody seemed to care about that then. Like give me a break. The previous admin took steps towards censoring real information that would be politically harmful to them, and now we're supposed to feel bad about the current admin who is taking productive steps against antagonist agents within our country? I get that the law in this country is pliable and a nuanced subject but I'd rather deal with the latter issue - where our government is challenging the boundaries of the 1st amendment against our own enemies rather than their own people lol
- croes 2y agoLet me get this straight what the previous government did was wrong but what they now do is right because it’s against antagonist agents? Sorry but that sounds like out of the fascist playbook. They all just fought against „enemies“, but they decided who was declared an enemy. In the end everybody who said anything against them was declared an enemy.
- TOMDM 2y agoThe Twitter files that document the FBI requesting takedown of posts and accounts, Twitter internally debating the request, refusing the FBI and then suffering no consequences? Those Twitter files? Meanwhile Trump is suing pollsters for publications he doesn't like; extorting law firms for representation as reparation for them representing clients that sued him, who is deporting lawful permenant residents without due process for speech that is protected. How can you possibly look at these and think they are in any way equivelant?
- tstrimple 2y agoThe Twitter files are basically the same as the Mueller report at this point. Folks completely ignorant to the topic and who have never read them hold them up as proof that they were right all along. Never mind that if they could actually read and understand the documents, they would realize they show the opposite of what they claim.
- TOMDM 2y agoIt's maddening. I'm glad I left the US.
- harry8 2y ago> refusing the FBI and then suffering no consequences The whole thing was clearly just a partisan smear job in your eyes. Precisely the same reaction as the views of current maga types about the current first am disasters. It's worth revisiting /precisely/ in relation to fighting the current assault. It's worth noting who publicly opposed /both/.