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    My trip to Australia, and being in a bus with people from various countries in Europe really made it clear for me, in that:
    -Americans don't have the reputation that we thought we had (although everyone wanted to visit America... after Trump was gone... and mostly coastal cities and Vegas)
    -Europeans in college have it WAY easier. They're in college AND traveling the world???!!! This amazed me.
    -Europeans lumped in the Canadians right with people from USA, strangely enough. "There's always two Americans on these trips." "I'm from Canada." "Same thing."

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    Ugh. Let's stop this.

    I'm sorry, I'm not directing at you or the people of the country. But the political representatives are making a mockery of America and are, by extension, giving the country's people a bad name around the world.

    Again, apologies.
    Not trying to unearth something that was put to bed, and thank you for apologizing. But I just wanted to back Duke up a little here because I feel like he's often out on his own on things like this.

    I'm perfectly fine if people want to dunk on America. It's the same impulse I have to dunk on the Patriots when they lose (sorry Duke). But it's never cool to stand on the outside looking in and tell someone "Wow...how embarrassed are you to be you right now? It must really suck. Is this the worst you've ever felt? If not, it should be." Well, maybe, I dunno. It's complicated. But nevertheless that ain't up to you to decide!

    I get the criticisms, but I'm not letting anybody tell me how I should feel to be an American right now. On the same day that shit happened at the Capitol, my state (Georgia), just followed up a November blue flip after decades of being red by beating the odds and electing two Democrats to the Senate to give Biden the majority. I voted in those elections and I volunteered at the polls and it was awesome! Trump has monumentally fucked up COVID, but every day I work with dozens and dozens of people who are still trying to save lives - both in the U.S. and abroad.

    It's been a mostly demoralizing year. But the best way to convince me to feel good about being an American is to suggest I should feel bad about it.

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    I stopped believing in America after Bush stole the election in 2000. The Iraq War killed the last bit of legitimacy this country had.
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    I dont feel anything about being an American, good or bad. I was just born here. And no politician has represented me or my morals in my lifetime, so I'm not embarrassed by them because I have nothing to do with them. I understand how both meg and duke feel but I dont really feel either way.

    I view it as "ugh, that show on CBS really sucks you guys must be really embarrased" and "hey not every show on CBS sucks fuck off I just build sets" and me over here watching NBC not even watching what show you're talking about.

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    As much as I laugh that Trump is deplatformed I feel that Big Tech has way too much power in this country and should be trust busted. Still he couldn't even go one more day without violating terms of service.
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    Also a good article covering the Wednesday shit show: https://www.theroot.com/for-black-pe...mpression=true
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    I think social media websites are private companies and have nothing to do with freedom of speech.

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I think social media websites are private companies and have nothing to do with freedom of speech.
    That's true. I remember many of us trying to tell those who cheered the Supreme Court cake baking decision that it would be used against them. The same principle seems to apply here.
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    Exactly. Cant have it both ways.

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I think social media websites are private companies and have nothing to do with freedom of speech.
    Correct.

    People often (wrongly) think that freedom of speech means they can say whatever they want without social consequences.

    The government cannot kill you or put you in jail for saying things. That's all freedom of speech means.
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    I think social media websites are private companies and have nothing to do with freedom of speech.
    This is kind of bullshit and has been criticized since several of them have been labeled monopolies by countless state and federal district attorneys. Monopolies are illegal. There also tends to be a creepy monothink in Silicon Valley. The same day Trump was kicked off of Twitter, Apple and Google kicked off Parler on their app stores. It should concern anyone that this level of "dude, just use another platform" or "dude, just create your own twitter" when companies will actively work to snuff them out should alarm anyone that believes in free speech on the internet (or free speech in general). Apparently Parler uses Amazon servers and if they get kicked off of them, they are effectively ruined as a platform. Along with banks and paypal freezing your accounts, we have a handful of massively, massively rich and huge companies (Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Facebook, and Apple) that wield enough power to cut off smaller companies at the knees. I did contract work for Google setting up lights and video for a Masters of the Universe conference in San Francisco, and the amount of money they have to throw around for shindigs like that is unreal. They are richer than dozens of actual countries in the world.


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    I’d say the ‘50s and ‘60s were a lot worse.
    I think there are two differences between the Civil Rights Era in the US and the present that are related to one another: Rising inequality due to the neoliberal economic policies of the past forty years and the increasing use of military hardware by local police forces. As inequality has gone up, state violence has become proportionately more spectacular in nature in order to subdue to the populace and protect the economic interests of the ruling class. In other words, the violence that the US government has exported globally to sustain its empire is increasingly being directed at its own citizens, although we're not yet at the point where the police start dropping napalm on American cities--presumably because they don't want to damage private property. This is one reason why many Americans seem to have a more realistic view of their own country now than they did just a few years ago: as US state violence has become more visible to the domestic population (most of whom are probably unaware of American war crimes like the dropping of white phosphorus on Fallujah during the Iraq War)--and as the difference between how the police treat peaceful black and indigenous protesters and how they treat armed white supremacist mobs has become even starker--the gap between perception and reality has become proportionately narrower in the population at large.
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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    This is kind of bullshit and has been criticized since several of them have been labeled monopolies by countless state and federal district attorneys. Monopolies are illegal. There also tends to be a creepy monothink in Silicon Valley. The same day Trump was kicked off of Twitter, Apple and Google kicked off Parler on their app stores. It should concern anyone that this level of "dude, just use another platform" or "dude, just create your own twitter" when companies will actively work to snuff them out should alarm anyone that believes in free speech on the internet (or free speech in general). Apparently Parler uses Amazon servers and if they get kicked off of them, they are effectively ruined as a platform. Along with banks and paypal freezing your accounts, we have a handful of massively, massively rich and huge companies (Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Facebook, and Apple) that wield enough power to cut off smaller companies at the knees. I did contract work for Google setting up lights and video for a Masters of the Universe conference in San Francisco, and the amount of money they have to throw around for shindigs like that is unreal. They are richer than dozens of actual countries in the world.


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    But isn't that the endgame goal of America's entire economical strategy? For corporations to be able to grow and thrive to a point where they are so huge and have so much money they are almost indistinguishable from government?

    Seems to me that is capitalism 101.

    And the law may state that monopolies are illegal, but come on...they're clearly 100% OK if the money is going to the right people.

    If anything, modern America encourages monopolies.
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    But isn't that the endgame goal of America's entire economical strategy? For corporations to be able to grow and thrive to a paint where they are so huge and have so much money they are almost indistinguishable from government?

    Seems to me that is capitalism 101.
    Absolutely, but that shouldn't be encouraged. I'm fascinated by the split in the GOP about this since I think for the first time in my life there are conservatives arguing against abject power and wealth in a few companies. There's never, ever been a bigger split between Wall Street (record high today of over 31K on the Dow Jones) and Main Street (locally owned small biz closing at a record rate, esp. bars and restaurants). Any working class conservative or progressive would have to be willfully obtuse to not see this. It makes the disconnect of 2008 / 2009 seem like peanuts.
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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    Absolutely, but that shouldn't be encouraged. I'm fascinated by the split in the GOP about this since I think for the first time in my life there are conservatives arguing against abject power and wealth in a few companies. There's never, ever been a bigger split between Wall Street (record high today of over 31K on the Dow Jones) and Main Street (locally owned small biz closing at a record rate, esp. bars and restaurants). Any working class conservative or progressive would have to be willfully obtuse to not see this. It makes the disconnect of 2008 / 2009 seem like peanuts.
    COVID has shown that any anti-monopoly sentiment that remained on western government is gone.

    The idea that Walmarts and Targets can stay open and are "essential" while small business (who would honestly have a much easier time than big box stores in managing their customer capacities and implementing protective measures) were forced to close, many of them for good, is appalling.

    Governments don't want small business. They don't generate enough income for them. They want our streets to be lined with Walmarts' and McDonalds'.
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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    This is kind of bullshit and has been criticized since several of them have been labeled monopolies by countless state and federal district attorneys. Monopolies are illegal. There also tends to be a creepy monothink in Silicon Valley. The same day Trump was kicked off of Twitter, Apple and Google kicked off Parler on their app stores. It should concern anyone that this level of "dude, just use another platform" or "dude, just create your own twitter" when companies will actively work to snuff them out should alarm anyone that believes in free speech on the internet (or free speech in general). Apparently Parler uses Amazon servers and if they get kicked off of them, they are effectively ruined as a platform. Along with banks and paypal freezing your accounts, we have a handful of massively, massively rich and huge companies (Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Facebook, and Apple) that wield enough power to cut off smaller companies at the knees. I did contract work for Google setting up lights and video for a Masters of the Universe conference in San Francisco, and the amount of money they have to throw around for shindigs like that is unreal. They are richer than dozens of actual countries in the world.


    Glenn Greenwald's most recent article is worth a read:
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    Nah Pop. There was a simple request to Parler from these companies to moderate their users because of hateful or harmful speech. I have no problem censoring anyone or anything who posts shit like this-

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    Agreed 100% Duke.

    Inciting violence (especially when things are already so volatile) should be shut down.
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    Sorry. I'd rather have the 1st amendment not be infringed. As a true liberal (not a neo woke fake liberal) I'm a gun nut for the 1st amendment. The goal posts will continually be moved when we allow lawmakers to dump on our rights.
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    COVID has shown that any anti-monopoly sentiment that remained on western government is gone.

    The idea that Walmarts and Targets can stay open and are "essential" while small business (who would honestly have a much easier time than big box stores in managing their customer capacities and implementing protective measures) were forced to close, many of them for good, is appalling.

    Governments don't want small business. They don't generate enough income for them. They want our streets to be lined with Walmarts' and McDonalds'.
    100% agree. It's disgusting. Sadly we have neoliberal Democrats that are worse than Republicans on this front. Both of the Democratic governors of California and New Mexico (where I live) shut down small, niche, local businesses for months last spring (and to a certain extent in November and December) while corporate big box stores remained open simply because they have food (and of course Amazon raked in billions). Don't even get me started on the shit restaurants, bars, movie theaters, live theater, and live music have faced. I get that's a separate category of mass crowds in a small space, but it's ironic that these people in the creative arts are lefty progressives and are getting shit on the most by Democrat governors. A live theater company I've been attending for thirty years went under last year. As far as I know they were fiscally sound before covid.
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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    Sorry. I'd rather have the 1st amendment not be infringed. As a true liberal (not a neo woke fake liberal) I'm a gun nut for the 1st amendment. The goal posts will continually be moved when we allow lawmakers to dump on our rights.
    You can go ahead and take your first amendment in the street. It doesn't apply anywhere else. The first amendment says I have the right to use racial slurs if I want to. But if I say them while I'm at work at my co-workers, I will be fired by my employer. The same applies to social media. You signed the TOS. You obey their rules.
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    You can go ahead and take your first amendment in the street. It doesn't apply anywhere else. The first amendment says I have the right to use racial slurs if I want to. But if I say them while I'm at work at my co-workers, I will be fired by my employer. The same applies to social media. You signed the TOS. You obey their rules.
    If Big Tech cuts any platform off simply because they agree with 100% free speech, I have a huge problem with that. Parler has said they intervene and will kick people off if law enforcement gets involved. But if you create arbitrary rules about speech, that's not free speech. As people have noted, Twitter seems fine with having actual propaganda from the blue check official account of Saudi Arabia (that thinks "justice" is stoning a woman to death for adultery), but somehow Trump was a bridge too far. It's a completely bizarre and arbitrary system protected by Section 230 laws. Remove those laws and all social media would go under in a matter of days based on hundreds of lawsuits filed against them.
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    Anyone know if a president is impeached (like fully impeached with removal from office, not just the partial impeachment Trump has) is there a clause in impeachment that it's illegal for them to be president again? I would actually support a retroactive impeachment when Biden becomes president if it made it illegal for Trump to take office again if he ran in 2024. Sadly if that were the case, Donald Trump Jr. would probably run and win the nomination as a proxy for DJT Sr. GOP needs to get off the Trump cult of personality, but he remains wildly popular among the base.
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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    If Big Tech cuts any platform off simply because they agree with 100% free speech, I have a huge problem with that. Parler has said they intervene and will kick people off if law enforcement gets involved. But if you create arbitrary rules about speech, that's not free speech. As people have noted, Twitter seems fine with having actual propaganda from the blue check official account of Saudi Arabia (that thinks "justice" is stoning a woman to death for adultery), but somehow Trump was a bridge too far. It's a completely bizarre and arbitrary system protected by Section 230 laws. Remove those laws and all social media would go under in a matter of days based on hundreds of lawsuits filed against them.
    But Twitter isn't the US government, as much as Trump wants it to be.

    Twitter can do whatever the hell they want, as they are a private entity.

    I am a store manager. I can kick people out and trespass them at any time for any reason. It's not the government doing it, and they aren't being persecuted. But it's my right to protect my business.

    Twitter has that same right. They aren't the government. Banning someone is their right
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