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Originally Posted by Poindexter
You are right, much better to just take down anything from the right and let anything go with the left. You can rationalize anything if you want.
Very easy to say that taking down Parler is the right thing to do since it is a platform that makes it easy for the right wing extremist to plot out the type of activities like storming the capital building (not saying this is true or false-just saying that it is easy to rationalize). You block these extremists' voices and we live in a better world supposedly. Did you watch the video in "the purge" thread PA started today? Ben Shapiro articulated very well the course this country is on. Once you start stomping on freedom of speech it is a very downward slope from there. Initially it may be for a greater good (once again not saying it is or not) but down the road it likely will not be. These precedents are very dangerous. The fact that these same companies had no problems with violence being incited against communities and small businesses throughout the summer speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of it all. This is all about power for a political agenda. Even if you think the left is right in certain areas, you may think they are wrong in other areas. You give them as much power as they are being given, some time down the road you will regret it. There is a cost/benefit analysis to everything. To much power typically leads to evil and corruption. If you think yielding this much power to any group is going to lead a better country you are flat out delusional.
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This is true...but balancing out the power has its dire consequences too. When the power is balanced out...there is too much finger-pointing when blame has to be dished out to our "leaders". No matter if the POTUS is a Democrat or a Republican, his excuse always ends up being that the "divided" Congress kept him from fully utilizing his brilliant plan. Put one party fully in charge without any interference at all, I say...and give them enough rope to hang themselves...without any of their petty excuses. And when BOTH our political parties invariably prove themselves utterly worthless...then the citizenry can finally stop lying to themselves.
