Largely agree with that and - as in most things - consistency is the key. Both Twatter and Facearse seem selective about who they will allow and who they won't, without consistency if it suits their particular agenda.
And we all thought that Huawei was the problem...
To be honest the rampant hypocrisy pisses me off. During the BLM/Antifa riots when cities including Washington were burning media, big tech and the democrats went out of their way to offer their support, I'm sure we all remember these gems:
There needs to be unrest in the streets.
Protesters should not let up.
I just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.
If you see anybody from the cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere
Kamala Harris even used her Twitter account to ask people to donate to a fund to pay for bail and legal representation for the rioters...oh I'm sorry peaceful protestors. More than 30 people killed, billions of dollars in property damage and looting including historic monuments such as St John's Church not to mention the autonomous zones which as they all declared they are no longer part of the US are the text book definition of sedition. Not even a slap on the wrist from big tech even though Antifa are STILL trying to break into the federal building in Portland and one member even physically assaulted Ted Wheeler recently and only now has the riot been deemed unlawful.
Steve said that he bet I had a view on this and he's right. My view is that the split and the consequences are going to get much much worse and the left wants the conflict. Let's look at the whole picture from the point of view of Trump's supporters. Leaving the actions of the Democrats over the last 4 years and their insane impeachment crusade, wherever you stand on the validity of the election concerns a substantial part of the American population believes that there were significant issues if not outright fraud. Yes many of the cases were thrown out but a large portion of them were done so on procedural grounds, supposed lack of standing or in the case of the supreme court refusing to even look at it and not on the strength of the evidence. The congressment/women and senators challenging the electoral college vote count was going to be their chance for those concerns to be addressed, whatever the end result would be at least they would have been aired. But on that night a group that has had peaceful protests that respected police officers for things like lifting the lockdown not to mention them protesting against defunding the police throughout 2020 suddenly decides to act like a stoned Genghis Khan? Then you have the ease at which this small group of protestors got inside the capitol building, there is a lot I could say here but someone already summed it up perfectly for me "We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the Duck Dynasty and the guy in the Chewbacca bikini." Nothing suspect there...........no not at all it was perfectly normal for Muriel Bowser to stop the National Guard and Capitol Police from being able to secure the Capitol building in advance or properly monitor and respond to the situation. Then we see the reaction from Lindsay Graham saying that the protestors are domestic terrorists and that they could have burned the building down or killed them all (drama queen much?) and after that firebrands in the Democrats shrieking that the congressmen/women and senators who were not only entitled to but had a duty under the constitution to argue against the electoral college counts when they have that many of their constituents voicing their concerns should be expelled from the congress and senate. What was that famous line that led the way towards the war of independence......oh yes no taxation without representation. And hot on the heels of that you have Biden, who previously said he wanted to heal and reunite the country, calling Ted Cruz a nazi and comparing him to Goebbels.
What you have at this point is a powderkeg, now made much worse by big tech. While Amazon going for Parler made the big news the mass purge by Twitter, Facebook and Youtube went under the radar. The only reason that Minds and Gab haven't been hit yet is because the way they are set up makes them much harder to attack. But people are rightly concerned if not outright scared wondering what comes next. Fox media is already in the crosshairs and what about Paypal, Square and Mastercard? Those three have already shown they are willing to ban people on the right of the spectrum on questionable grounds so what happens when people who are already struggling financially if they haven't already been pushed into bankruptcy because of the lockdown and the paltry crumbs that congress has allowed them to subsist on (any member of congress who having made millions while elected is perfectly happy to waste billions of dollars in the stimulus bill on overseas vanity projects like $10million on Pakistani gender studies while handing the electorate a paltry $600, now finally raised up to $2000 do not deserve to be in office) have no voice and suddenly find they cant use banking services.
No voice, no money, no hope, a new Patriot Act+. What do you think comes next?
