I take it from your attempt at derailing the thread that you think this is okay.
One, he's not my guy, and two, that's irrelevant. This is not okay to do. I'm not crazy over Trump myself, but it's desperate control-grabs like this that gave him any popularity with the young crowd in the first place. If the left continues down this path, they will lose the next election as well.
I'm not a Trump supporter. I just don't approve of people being smothered out like this. It's childish, and frankly it's also disturbing. It reflects very poorly on the left and lends more credence to the belief that leftism is authoritarianism.
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i see....that is most unfortunate, i thought a pokeman forum would be at least somewhat safe from all this madness :c
Trump wasn't too popular with millennials, Clinton actually did significantly better than Trump among younger voters despite the fact tat she's Hillary Clinton.
An international multimedia corporation is not and should not be representative of "the left", thinking that a company like Twitter has anything to do with leftism is terribly ignorant and anyone who holds "the left" accountable for the fact that Trump supporters might get "censored" on Twitter probably never had the intention to vote for leftists to begin with.
People don't like not being in control, it's literally just basic human psychology. That means it applies for both sides. The far left and the far right are both doing whatever they can to push their own narrative, because that's what people do. They don't like having their beliefs questions. Even if the left is censoring social media as you're claiming, Trump is attempting to control the media by labeling anything that disagrees with him fake news, and people are buying it. Both sides are in the wrong here, so spouting stuff like 'the regressive left is dragging the country down' is misleading at best.
You say that as if I've ever advocated for such a thing. I haven't.
37 percent is still a sizeable chunk, hence popular.Trump wasn't too popular with millennials, Clinton actually did significantly better than Trump among younger voters despite the fact tat she's Hillary Clinton.
Anyway, if Trump's not your guy, maybe don't make threads like this one where you blow something way out of proportions (tweets being removed from a thread connected to a Trump tweet, if such a thing even happens all that much, is not very significant and hardly even counts as censorship), making Trump supporters look like the underdog in the process. You'd do best to stop acting as the motherfucker's advocate with this faux-bipartisan bullshit while meanwhile adopting language invented by the so-called alt-right* ("regressive left" is a perfect example of such a term).
An international multimedia corporation is not and should not be representative of "the left", thinking that a company like Twitter has anything to do with leftism is terribly ignorant and anyone who holds "the left" accountable for the fact that Trump supporters might get "censored" on Twitter probably never had the intention to vote for leftists to begin with.
*"alt-right" itself is a euphemism for neo-fascists, I urge anyone who opposes this group to refrain from using the term if possible
You conveniently ignored the other link I posted which has the source material. How pleasant. I already know how this discussion will turn out, lol
They're actually not, nor are they all supremacists. People like Richard Spencer simply don't want his people to be bullied in their own country any more and for them to have a place they can feel at home in, like Mexicans have Mexico and the Japanese have Japan. Simple stuff really
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The Democrats aren't my party, and Sanders was trying to reform the party but the DNC didn't want that to happen.
You're a useful idiot. First of all, what you're calling fascism is simply suppression of the opposition. Although there is no unifying definition of fascism (authoritarianism being the only consistent core element), it can be argued that nationalism, (possibly racist) hierarchy, adoration for or even worship of a "strong leader", and indeed the suppression of opposition are all elements that can be identified as being part of fascism. Second of all, in order to even suppress the opposition, you need to be in a position of power. Liberals (be careful not to equate them to "the left") may be in charge of some social media websites, which gives those particular liberals (that is, the people in charge of those companies, not liberals at large) some power to censor certain people. Nevertheless, Trump supporters overall are free to say whatever the fuck they want and cannot be punished by the government for it, in other words, their freedom of expression as described by the law is completely fine.
I see....My apologies for the slip-up, then
I didn't say it was full-blown fascism, I said the regressives show those characteristics more than the alt-right, perhaps the biggest one being authoritarianism in its constant attempts to distort reality and demonize dissenters to such extremes. Most of the people who were at some point considered alt-right have also at this point pretty much morphed into a far more mainstream-friendly "alt-lite" due to many people being reluctant to pick up the added baggage of white identity among other things.
Yea, that's totally it, huh. Meanwhile, #killallmen is still a somewhat fairly popular hashtag on that same site and didn't receive much attention from the owners when it was at its peak
When there are essentially 2 choices, 37% is not popular (especially since not everyone voting for a candidate likes them).
When are you and Spency moving back to Europe? Or were you too busy celebrating an oil pipeline violating a US treaty with the Native Americans to remember you are also the descendent of immigrants? The idea that America somehow belongs to white people is both objectively racist and inherently white supremacist.
Follow your own advice and do your homework, Milo never mobilized his "army" to harass anyone.
Trump was popular before the choices were narrowed down, as well, but obviously you've decided to completely forget that detail because it makes you look like a moron.
