dacomeup
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Yea, this is getting more and more insane.
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Yea, this is getting more and more insane.
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Apple about to shut down parler too? wow 
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Yup there's really no question that they're finally doing the right thing. That doesn't excuse them waiting four years to do this though. It's allowed people to normalize things like birtherism as politics-as-usual. I'm glad an attempted violent overthrow of the government isn't being normalized in the same way.
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I'm glad the party that believes in capital punishment will be ok with it when we hang the traitors.
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In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment
In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment
The time has come for the First Amendment to be extended to cover powerful private social media entities such as Facebook and Twitter that can limit, control, and censor speech.
This is a good article that outlines the argument. Only for very large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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imaging had people been responsible from the beginning? from tech to media to politicians who are now absolving themselves of the stench they're aided in
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This is going to be a long *** 12 days 
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They’ed never be a Donald Trump. Believe that
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dacomeup
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Has DWalk mentioned his Parler handle yet? I’ve had him on ignore for months.
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I am certainly not on parler.
It's truly sad/pathetic that so many have been brainwashed into believing the outrageousness that I hear is spread on there.
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Did this idiot shave the beard thinking he could avoid being arrested?
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I thought I was pretty clear that Trump’s most ardent supporters aren’t primarily motivated by material concerns as they are already fairly well off. Instead, they are largely motivated by a loss of prestige associated with being white and/or cishet men.
I suppose, I wasn’t being clear when I referred to the Capitol rioters as “far right.” Technically, everyone who voted for Trump, especially in 2020, is far right. Trump’s electoral coalition was, indeed, pretty diverse geographically and economically and in much more limited sense, racially. The people at the Capitol were not a random sample of that coalition. It costs money to not work for a few days, fly to DC, stay in a hotel and it requires leisure time to engage with QAnon et al to the point that you believe that rioting in the Capitol building will truly change the election results. As they get arrested and charged, some might be from the very rich and some might be low wage workers who drove there but most will be professionals and small businesses owners, the historical base of fascism.
To be clear, I’m not arguing for any particular electoral strategy or that one form of activism be prioritized over another. I’m just pushing back on the hegemonic troupe in the MSM and much of popular cultural that reactionary racial and gender politics is the domain of poor whites.
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this is exactly the type of enduring incursion on public peace that the death penalty is aimed at.
if this works the same way as a corner store robbery, everybody who invaded the Capitol should be sweating about that dead cop.
...as well as those who put the battery in their backs.
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Who knew a shave could turn you from Brett Favre into Terry Bradshaw.
