> I also checked your account and it's nothing but right wing propaganda. Damn, dude
That’s odd, as I generally vote Democrat and the only post here I’ve submitted is to a math blog post I enjoy.
At any rate, let’s try to avoid having this website turn into yet another Reddit or Twitter in terms of quality of comments and obsession about anything seen as not left leaning enough.
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree about the merits of Saddam Hussein, here. Have a good weekend.
> This is just harrassment against a right-wing media site
It's... really mind blowing that they're not even pretending to be objective about this stuff any more. Even if you think it's justified, you ought to be able to see that normalizing this sort of behavior can and will backfire.
>just wonder if I fit the profile of some sort of Leftist-Straightedge punk
You called the entire new cabinet of the incoming President "racist" in your first comment. Minor, yes, but would you be surprised to be painted with such a "liberal" brush? That's the scary thing about your Internet activity being monitored.
Calling an Israeli war veteran a "genocidal Zionist" and "cyber version of the Gestapo" is just disgusting.
>I feel like you're arguing a point that nobody tried to make.
Oh how the tables have turned. You're inadvertently right: the left isn't arguing this point now because they lost control of the platform. When the left was in control, they were banning anything and everything that went against their narrative.
> You keep using the terms "alt-right" and "far right" and all that tells me is that you're far left and more interested in playing identity politics than having a worthwhile conversation.
Simple: only the far-right has so far staged a coup attempt in the US, one that by many credible estimates only due to courage [1] and sheer luck didn't end in a hostage crisis or even more deaths than it did.
While you are correct that I do identify on the far-left side of politics (which a simple look on my profile would have shown you), my primary interest is not turning Germany or the US into a Communist utopia - it is, at this point, purely to sound the foghorn about the insane danger the far right poses. The worst that the far-left is doing these days, in contrast, is holding (admittely vile) pro-Hamas marches - and while I do detest these, they are not comparable at all to the sizable list of domestic terrorism acts by the far right.
> As for the bots and scams, those have been a problem since long before Musk took the reins. I hope you have just as much hate against Dorsey and whoever the last Twitter CEO was as you do against Musk, to at least be fair.
I can agree on the bots and scams being a problem before Musk - the problem is that the frequency of this crap measurably increased as legitimate advertisers left Twitter in droves and the value of ads tanked so hard that it had gotten a no-brainer for any willing scammer to buy them. Additionally, and here is where Musk personally comes into play, is ruining the "blue checkmark" by turning it not just from "someone at Twitter HQ actually verified this person is legitimate" to "the person had a credit card with 8$ on it" but prioritizing these accounts in replies.
In what way? You stated something generic without really explaining it. For example, maybe at the end of all your articles you have an advertisement for Trump? That's effectively what this pink slime does.
>Can you point me out to left leaning content that gets demonetized
This is a false equivalence. For all the flaws of Antifa and woke culture, they aren't the ones advocating violent insurrection against democratic government in the United States and the murder of Republican law makers for being traitors to the cause. Not as satire or comment, but literally.
I would contend that it is not surprising that one of these sides is encountering more problems with posting guidelines than the other.
>> But please talk more about that evil right wing news outlet
What on earth are you on about? "people like me" "evil right wing news" ?!
I have not referenced anything as either right or left wing. Nor did I mention anything of mine or anyone else's political leanings.
I cited my theory including several sources that show it to be factual that this television personality's employers gained several millions by causing the bank's share price to drop.
Yet you seem to be deploying personal attacks rather than finding fault with my core assumptions.
> Articles like this do not make them neutral. They are only designed to make them look neutral.
Are you asserting, then, that the stories about left-wing idiots are true, but the ones about right-wing idiots are false? I'm honestly curious. Are all of the linked Twitter accounts secret false-flag trolls?
> he's just regurgitating conspiracy theories that float around in right-wing circles as
Firstly, I am not "right wing". I am libertarian and socially liberal.
> as a way to explain their often public embarrassments.
This is exactly the idiocy that I was talking about. Note that you put everyone in an "us" and "them" basket.
I do not care what the content of the program is, as long as it is objective.
Unfortunately many people on the internet (such as yourself) just flock to news sources that agree with your point of view (such as Huffington Post, reddit.com, Alternet, TDS, etc...) and the right flock to their websites and programs (Glen Beck, Redstate, whatever).
In the end those programs just end up engaging in character assassination instead of having a constructive and rational debate. But I guess that is too much too ask.
First line: 'Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right'
Parler is/was essentially a free speech libertarian site with strict rules and guidelines for posts.
I find it disturbing that the overwhelmingly US neo conservative liberal media companies slap the label 'far right' on just abut anything that doesn't fit their world view and agenda. Any sort of recognition there are center right or moderate conservatives appears to have been cancelled.
Regarding extremists, It's the old story - ban it and it will go underground. Free speech is always better and is also a cornerstone of western democracy. The irony of Parler having to be hosted in fascist Russia is extreme and embarrassing for the western world.
This has to be a difficult way to operate on a daily basis. Even if your charge were true (it's not) why are you so quick to draw this card?
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