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There will be a series of trials, social media is already cracking down, persecution complex always easy for fringe groups, the added stress from the pandemic. Sad but safe to say there will be more occasions for grandstanding and outrage ending in more violence. No offence but Trump is done for.Kurt wrote:Just out of curiousity, those who say this is a civil war, as in that they are fighting it right now..are they serious or kidding?
ROB wrote:They will rest pretty lightly this afternoon when I go to the pub with some friends. Even the old ones. Unencumbered by a epic fuck up of a response to Covid. Because we actually shut down derpy cunts like you.
el3so wrote:There will be a series of trials, social media is already cracking down, persecution complex always easy for fringe groups, the added stress from the pandemic. Sad but safe to say there will be more occasions for grandstanding and outrage ending in more violence. No offence but Trump is done for.Kurt wrote:Just out of curiousity, those who say this is a civil war, as in that they are fighting it right now..are they serious or kidding?
Add in the BLM protests and it has like a watershed feel to it. Those are never pretty.
Kurt wrote:Usually when people say "this is a civil war" I think it is fair to take them at their word.
It wont be like the civil war or even the American Revolution. It will be opportunistic and druggie like Colombia.
When I was in Bogata years ago people I met assured me Colombia had a bad rap and pointed out that Bogota was safer to walk around that Quito and Panama City so I said "Can I rent a car and drive to Cartegena?"
"No! You will be killed"
Thats what the US Civil War will be like.
Seems strategic that big tech cut off comms and other places cut off finances.
If it is war.
ROB wrote:No Trump fan, but tech cutting off coms is a seriously large can of worms.
Kurt wrote:ROB wrote:No Trump fan, but tech cutting off coms is a seriously large can of worms.
Comms are about Terms of Service.
They just cannot violate US law about who they serve.
Freedom of speech means the government cannot restrict or arrest people for wjat is said.
There are alternate ways of getting speech out. Gab.ai uses Mastodon, the US Postal Service even offeres subsidized rates for printed media.
The thing is we are trying to let all views be aired, cuz that is what we have always done. Thats what makes us comfortable but a large portion of places like Parler were calling on killing elected officials, burning liberals alive and saying "this is war".
Is it war when someone declares war on you? The last time the US capitol was breeched by political partisans what did we do?
Can't disagree with this.Tarkan wrote:Kurt wrote:ROB wrote:No Trump fan, but tech cutting off coms is a seriously large can of worms.
Comms are about Terms of Service.
If it were really about ToS, then Twitter would have been shut down a long time ago.
Tarkan wrote:Kurt wrote:ROB wrote:No Trump fan, but tech cutting off coms is a seriously large can of worms.
Comms are about Terms of Service.
They just cannot violate US law about who they serve.
Freedom of speech means the government cannot restrict or arrest people for wjat is said.
There are alternate ways of getting speech out. Gab.ai uses Mastodon, the US Postal Service even offeres subsidized rates for printed media.
The thing is we are trying to let all views be aired, cuz that is what we have always done. Thats what makes us comfortable but a large portion of places like Parler were calling on killing elected officials, burning liberals alive and saying "this is war".
Is it war when someone declares war on you? The last time the US capitol was breeched by political partisans what did we do?
If it were really about ToS, then Twitter would have been shut down a long time ago.
Oh man, you tell me I am wrong in distinguishing between Arabs and Africans because they live on the same continent (Africa) but if it comes to your own country's history you want to get away with claiming 7 (later 11) vs 20 (plus 5) states is just 2 states and 36 states are actually just 1?Tarkan wrote:The US Civil War wasn't really a "civil war". It was a war between two opposing states that had formerly been one state.
Doubt they had to worry about possible legal issues with a bevvy of US government agencies or backlash from advertisers in either of those situations. It sucks but it is true.Tarkan wrote:Twitter and Facebook had no problem when their platforms were used to overthrow the governments in the Ukraine and the Middle East.
[/quote]el3so wrote:Oh man, you tell me I am wrong in distinguishing between Arabs and Africans because they live on the same continent (Africa) but if it comes to your own country's history you want to get away with claiming 7 (later 11) vs 20 (plus 5) states is just 2 states and 36 states are actually just 1?Tarkan wrote:The US Civil War wasn't really a "civil war". It was a war between two opposing states that had formerly been one state.
The Africa thing I specifically mentioned in my post? ;-)Tarkan wrote:Are you still bitter about the Africa thing?
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