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Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by iinnPP »

preseinger wrote: post #771
Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

I'm a moderate Democrat ... authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas both sides suck This is a great expression of what is commonly described as a South Park republican. That is, someone who believes they live in a political space between republicans and democrats which does not actually exist. The fundamental emotion is cynicism, which manifests as active hostility towards any notion of empathy for any other di…

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Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by nonethewiser »

mdasen wrote: post #446
Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

I find these kinds of comments hard to respond to. I want to respond in a way that's constructive, but it's hard. It's hard because many Republicans are pushing the US in a direction that will harm millions of Americans in very significant ways. Tucker Carlson and Libs of TikTok all but encourage violence against LGBT people. Republicans are trying to prevent Black people from voting. Many Republicans tried to overtu…

> I find these kinds of comments hard to respond to. I want to respond in a way that's constructive, but it's hard. It's hard because many Republicans are pushing the US in a direction that will harm ...

Just realize you bee-lined straight into partisan politics. Speech policies need to be above that.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by headsoup »

I find it most amusing that it seems no one is actually even slightly interested in seeing the nude pics. Just avoiding political inconvenience.

Poor Hunter, that's gotta hit the ego.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by iinnPP »

preseinger wrote: post #778
boppo1 wrote: post #538

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> constructive ways the Democrats could be better Reorient the gun control efforts around the statistical realities of how guns are actually killing the most people. Throwing away all their political capital on banning semiautomatic rifles, in a ‘maximum success’ outcome, would prevent something like 2% of all firearm related deaths. I did some napkin math a couple months ago and children are more likely to die of le…

Every human being in the world understands that guns are a clear threat to civil society, except for this bizarre hyperminority of americans who seem to stuck in some anachronistic fantasy universe. Move on.

Every human in the world agrees on precisely nothing.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by nonethewiser »

warning26 wrote: post #62

It's kind of interesting in the sense that reading internal emails is always kind of interesting...but otherwise, nothing here seems particularly shocking or groundbreaking. The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious? I'd be more surprised if there wasn't internal debate.

Yeah it's not surprising. We already knew Twitter favors progressivism.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by iinnPP »

1270018080 wrote: post #359
jmyeet wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm a moderate The Overton window in the US stems from center-right (Democrats) to extreme-right (Republicans) so if you're in the middle of that you're firmly a conservative. Don't believe me? Example: we've got the ongoing threat of a strike tby rail workers who want paid sick leave . They currently have no paid sick leave. Calling in sick will come off their vacation days. It may even get them disciplined and fi…

You're comment is a little greyed out which means people are downvoting it. The core aspect being that democrats are center right and republicans are extreme right. The both-sides enlightened centrists can't accept this. The do-nothingness tenant of being in the middle regardless of ideology simply shatters.

Doing nothing is doing something.

You don't have to agree with it.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by Manjuuu »

preseinger wrote: post #771
Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

I'm a moderate Democrat ... authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas both sides suck This is a great expression of what is commonly described as a South Park republican. That is, someone who believes they live in a political space between republicans and democrats which does not actually exist. The fundamental emotion is cynicism, which manifests as active hostility towards any notion of empathy for any other di…

Perfectly explained, there is no such thing as moderates, considering what the factions stand for in the US.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by Manjuuu »

imran0 wrote: post #800
preseinger wrote: post #771

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a moderate Democrat ... authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas both sides suck This is a great expression of what is commonly described as a South Park republican. That is, someone who believes they live in a political space between republicans and democrats which does not actually exist. The fundamental emotion is cynicism, which manifests as active hostility towards any notion of empathy for any other di…

> Anyone claiming to exist in this middle space is in practice a republican, just without the conviction that's typical to that party's base. So it's basically, "If you're not with us, you're against us?"

Maybe you missed this part in the parent message: "I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely."

It's so absurd as a statement, no one does a 180 "because free speech".

Both parties are so clearly distinct that if you claim to be something in the middle you'd better explain what you mean. But I'm not an american, I could be wrong, I just watch the show from the outside and sometimes it's sad.

Re: The Twitter Files

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Post by bjornsing »

boc wrote: post #576
unnamed76ri wrote: post #24

Just a couple weeks ago I had a comment downvoted and flagged for saying what this confirms. The political bias in tech circles is unreal sometimes.

Nobody on the left cares about protecting Hunter Biden. IF he broke any laws, then he should be in jail. AFAIK, there's no current legal case against him. What you're seeing here is the "left" learning to not take everything the right screams about at face value. They watched Hillary get dragged through the mud with Benghazi over absolutely nothing of substance, including months of Congressional hearings. Thus this n…

> Complaining that Twitter didn't amplify an unproven story isn't bias. It's successful pattern recognition.

This line of thinking is so weird to me. When I tweet that’s me speaking. If the story turns out to be false I should feel guilty about that, and apologize to my followers. Twitter has little to do with it.

To me Twitter e.g. censoring direct messages feels like the postal service reading letters and filtering those that they deem untrue. Absolutely dystopian. Who would want this…?

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