YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

Post by haha_lul » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

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If I can play devil's advocate for a moment: 1) "Pro-life" conservatives believe that fetuses are human lives (persons) worthy of protection and prioritize that over the right of the mother to control her own body. That might sound bad, but there is a logic to it. "Pro-choice" advocates would argue that the fetus is not a person and that ultimately the mother should have full rights to her own body. Leaving aside the…

Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose and was resisting arrest as he was having a panic attack. Watching the full uncut video, the officers showed remarkable constraint in dealing with him. It's a sad story, but its not a murder.

Post by baq » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

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I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left. Are there many, if any, equivalent people to Bannon on the left? My theory is that the core of Bannon is neoconfederacy: under all the nonsense he talks is the desire to see the North burn. In fact I am skeptical of most “career politicians”. Bannon is not a 'career politician' dunk on the other tribe Yes, the Democrats are corrupt, but to focus on that, at…

I wonder how accurate is your statement and does it contributes to an informed conversation? Anecdotal. There are tens of millions of GOP voters, I have many friends that support GOP, non of them is a fasict.

Post by karlshea » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

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> How would Democrats react if they had to deal with 4 years of fraud investigations, #Resistance, #NotMyPresident? I'm sorry, did you not live through the entire Obama presidency?

I don't support either of those presidents, but the things you each describe are not comparable in scale or character, IMO. The asymmetry that GP describes is real, and everyone should be wary about the way politics are carried out now.

Post by sudosysgen » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

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An important distinction I've also noticed is that the burning down and looting done in riots this summer was an act of spontaneoud anger and rage, not a planned event in order to create fear. No one was planning the looting of a store three weeks in advance, and this is a really large difference being a riot representing the (unproductive) language of the unheard, and an insurrectionist plot.

> No one was planning the looting of a store three weeks in advance The nightly riots in Portland and other cities were planned and organized in advance through messaging and social apps as well as with physical posters. You can find the screen caps and photos online if you look. There were also several instances where groups of people were arrested after crossing state lines to attend riots. Both sides have bad acto…

Post by lovecg » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

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The argument has been beaten to death so I’m probably not saying anything new to most people here, but two parties is the only stable configuration. In a first-past-the-post system, the smaller parties after the first two will be very quickly eliminated or consolidated (this includes the limiting case of no parties, where everyone is a party of one). On the other hand, if you have one large party it will eventually s…

> but two parties is the only stable configuration Do you mean this in the US context specifically or in general? There are plenty of countries with more than two parties and very stable governments.