I'm having trouble getting past "for once it's for a pretty good reason." People on both the left and the right have been making comparisons to 1984 for quite a while now, and they've had good reasons for doing so before now. Any society that restricts speech, either directly or by twisting the arms of private companies to do so for them, is fair game for such criticisms. And even if you don't like Donald Trump, remember that if they can kick a former president off of a platform that's become as necessary as the telephone, they can do it to anybody. Any "rightist" objecting to that is somebody I have more in common with ideologically than I do with shitlibs who cheer on censorship and are somehow still considered "leftists".
I also got hung up on that. The rightists are blind to their own deficiencies, and want us all to forget their atrocious anti-civil liberties and pro-war positions throughout the Bush and Obama eras. But they're generally dead on target when criticizing the left.
I'm having trouble getting past "for once it's for a pretty good reason." People on both the left and the right have been making comparisons to 1984 for quite a while now, and they've had good reasons for doing so before now. Any society that restricts speech, either directly or by twisting the arms of private companies to do so for them, is fair game for such criticisms. And even if you don't like Donald Trump, remember that if they can kick a former president off of a platform that's become as necessary as the telephone, they can do it to anybody. Any "rightist" objecting to that is somebody I have more in common with ideologically than I do with shitlibs who cheer on censorship and are somehow still considered "leftists".
Exactly. There really is no political right or left at the point. There are only people who believe in the founding documents and those who do not.
I also got hung up on that. The rightists are blind to their own deficiencies, and want us all to forget their atrocious anti-civil liberties and pro-war positions throughout the Bush and Obama eras. But they're generally dead on target when criticizing the left.
Twitter is as necessary as a telephone? I’ve never used Twitter and don’t feel the need to.