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> I can cherry-pick several thousand twitter messages I've heard this claim asserted before. I am unconvinced. Can you show me some examples?
https://terfisaslur.com/
Please do not support transphobia.
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Alternative viewpoint: platforms without censorship tend to be right wing because that is what succeeds in a free marketplace of ideas. Left wing ideas require censorship to thrive.
How many left wing dictators have there been?
Vast majority of them, especially if you compare by the body count.
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This only works if you put cold war blinders on and equate the word communism to being left wing. Their policy and actions were decidedly not left wing.
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It's a bit rich to claim you're neither right nor left, when you're constantly repeating right wing talking points. Maybe you don't prescribe to a label, but all your arguments thus far all hinge on labels and not policy.
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#224Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?
Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter's basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter's tweet/like/retweet. Gab's current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don't participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn't have. Gab has been along for longer and…
> "you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation".
That's not right at all. They both ban adult content and Gab will ban blasphemy. They also frequently remove drug content.
They're stricter on banning speech than Twitter and the sites they fled from.
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Alternative viewpoint: platforms without censorship tend to be right wing because that is what succeeds in a free marketplace of ideas. Left wing ideas require censorship to thrive.
Conservativism largely fails over time in the free marketplace of ideas as evidence by human progress and societal change. Conservativism is fundamentally about suppressing change in favour of familiarity and established norms, which could certainly be seen as censorship. An obvious example of this is the conservative/Puritan influence in American culture, which has lead to excessive censorship of sexual content and…
> Conservativism largely fails over time in the free marketplace of ideas as evidence by human progress and societal change.
This is obviously just selection bias. Everything that changes is a loss for "conservatism"; ignore everything that stays the same, which is the majority of everything.
Here are some "conservative" (i.e. longstanding existing) policies: Due process, separation of powers, warrant requirements, freedom of speech. They are currently under attack. But the attackers are the ones on the wrong side of history -- even if they succeed, they lose, because then the monsters these policies were established to vanquish return and the polices get reinstated once the current generation has had a taste of what happens without them. But that route is a lot harder and bloodier than learning from history.
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It's a bit rich to claim you're neither right nor left, when you're constantly repeating right wing talking points. Maybe you don't prescribe to a label, but all your arguments thus far all hinge on labels and not policy.
Ok - here's my criticism of the 'right'. They talk about less government, but never do anything about it! Never. They will say whatever it is that sounds good to conservatives, but do the opposite.
Left and right are all on board with the same system. And this is increasing a fascist system, run by corporations.
But whatever the case - if people purport to have a constitution that allows for free speech - but that a lot of people do not have meaningful ability to exercise it, well its not surprising that places like Gab spring up. And that all those de-platformed views make their way there. People need to be able to have their say.
It used to be that it was a left position to say 'I don't like what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it'. Those days are long gone - de-platform the hate speaker!
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#228Look at this very secure code written by their CTO: https://archive.vn/oxbck
Earlier when I was looking for what backend stack they used (I had forgotten they forked from Mastodon) I found an article from last November about their new CTO, and had a lol moment: "its newest CTO…former software engineer who spent more than seven years at Facebook…Gab is happy to introduce our new CTO…With 23 years of industry experience, he brings extensive backend infrastructure knowledge and insights from across the stack…worked as a “production engineer and developer advocate” at Facebook"
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conservativism largely fails over time in the free marketplace of ideas as evidence by human progress and societal change. Conservativism is fundamentally about suppressing change in favour of familiarity and established norms, which could certainly be seen as censorship. An obvious example of this is the conservative/Puritan influence in American culture, which has lead to excessive censorship of sexual content and…
> Conservativism largely fails over time in the free marketplace of ideas as evidence by human progress and societal change. This is obviously just selection bias. Everything that changes is a loss for "conservatism"; ignore everything that stays the same, which is the majority of everything. Here are some "conservative" (i.e. longstanding existing) policies: Due process, separation of powers, warrant requirements, f…
All the "conservative" policies you listed are currently being championed for by the left however.
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For those unaware, the premise of They Live is that the elites and one-percenters are actually inter-dimensionally traveling space aliens. It's a great movie, but a metaphor not a "time-shifted documentary", unless I missed the latest Qdrop.
If you saw the metaphor for time shifted documentary, then you clearly saw the metaphor for inter dimensionally traveling space aliens. The Q nonsense is clearly government psyop. Read up on coin operations is Iraq, Afghanistan, SE Asia. And see the similarities and patterns. Always look to see who gains and who loses when something happens. It was a conspiracy theory for long time that US government did human experi…
Take a deep breath.