Yeah, but you're trying to be rational about it Cryrst.

Mainey to be fair to him represents the majority of the left. When you look the leadership of the left on either side of the pond they sound like him more than anyone else.....maybe not as over emotional perhaps but the beliefs are the same.

We are entering dark times....censorship and conflict in the US.

But hey, they voted for it...apparently.

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Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Jan 2021 8.11am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The Democrats need to keep pushing against Trump. That is the entire point of it. A message needs to be sent. Politicians who dissent from the accepted order of things in terms of globalisation will not be tolerated.

Trump scared the living daylights out of them because he made a mockery of the entire system. He played the game on his own rules and won. Twice. Never forget how many of these so-called experts told us that Trump would never win the nomination. Or how he would be slaughtered by Clinton. They only managed to beat him due to a global pandemic offering them the cover for the biggest single incident of electoral fraud in the world.

They will pursue and pursue Trump now because he represents, still, the biggest threat to the status quo. To the stitch up that modern politics is. They cannot allow him to snipe away from the sidelines. They need to try and shut him up and ideally lock him away or else use the threat of that to somehow make the man effectively put himself into exile.

And are being cheered to the rafters by people who would have, until 10 or so years ago, proclaimed themselves as the champions of free speech. Who would have laughed at Trump, considered themselves his intellectual superiors who could swat him away like an annoying mosquito.

Trump is a monstrosity. I get that. But the system still seems unable to understand that if millions of people thought of him as being the solution then what does that say about the people who are the problem?

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

It seems they think the right wing need to be 'educated'.

From my perspective it'll be 'education' into loving their coming sh1te-sandwich.

Most people aren't political and as such don't think too hard about how we got here....how, in social terms, the past was actually better and how generations of politicians have betrayed them for short term convenience and buzzwords.

A lot on the right are still in a kind of denial. They think that being reasonable and closing the door will suffice...I can understand that...because I don't know of a human that likes to think the future will worsen.

But a lot of the problems of today were created by that very behaviour. Everyone looks to someone else to solve the problem. It's like an accident where the onlookers watch thinking that someone else will be taking control of it.

Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Jan 2021 9.06am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

And a warrant for his arrest as been issued by Iraq. Blimey. Having said that I doubt he was planning a trip anyway.

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Here is some real rationality, rather than the pseudo type on offer elsewhere in this thread.

Google hasn't banned Parler! It has just removed it from it's app store. You can still download and use it, if that is your wish. I am sure the FBI are keeping a close eye on everything that gets posted there and would not want to see it restricted.

The idea now predictably being promulgated on here that all of this is some kind of attack on "free speech" and is a precursor of some kind of censorship totally misses the point.

What has happened has nothing to do with "free speech". Encouraging sedition is a crime and those who are involved cannot be supported by any law abiding business. Social media companies are fully entitled to make their own rules and take their own decisions. If they believe encouraging sedition has happened then they have little choice other than to act.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Deactivated my Twitter account.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)