So...my reddit feed is blowing up with every sub now proposing some ban on X (twitter) content on their subreddits. And I'm going to be honest, let's not act like it's coincidence that this is being proposed literally a day after Trump's inauguration, and Elon decided to give a certain salute that....looks like a certain salute that....was used in the 1930s and 1940s in a certain central European country. And before anyone says it wasn't that, yes, it was literally that. I won't post it, but I've seen a gif with it along side actual nazis giving the salute and it's the same fricking salute. Elon just outed himself as a nazi basically. It's not surprising. And this is who is in the trump administration.
So...let's talk about this proposed twitter/X ban. You know where this came from. It's probably some brilliant idea of some SJW types to wanna do one of their stupid socially performative boycotts that do nothing in the real world. These guys are weirdo moral authoritarians and the opposite coin of the alt right's growing nazi problem and while I cant say these guys wanna genocide anyone like nazis did, they do believe in doing these stupid boycotts and punishing people for not toeing their line in politics. And now they're pushing some line about how we gotta ban X because hateful content and blah blah blah.
I'm gonna be honest. If you looked at the inauguration, all the tech billionaires were there. Zuckerberg was there, the google guy was there, the apple guy was there. They were all there. ANd they're all in with the swamp, and they're all cucking themselves to Trump. Let's be real. The only one who wasnt there was the reddit guys, and we already discussed how deeply astroturfed by the democrats they are. And then there's tiktok, can we not forget that the whole point of banning that was because american politicians couldnt control it? That's what that was really about.
So to me, this whole thing is just more of that. More brainrot from weirdo moral authoritarians who think everyone needs to be protected from content they don't like. And me, being pro free speech, my stance is this. If you dont like someone else's content. YOU block them. YOU refuse to listen to them. But you dont just blanket ban it because YOU wanna make a point and do this socially performative thing that no one in the real world cares about.
And I'll say it. Stupid crap like this is why Trump won anyway. because these liberal/leftie authoritarians are so smug and so self righteous, that a lot of people move the other way to "own the libs" and end up joining forces with the actual fascists. Seriously, this stupid crap is why leftists suck at politics, and this is one thing that I wanna correct out of them. We win by taking the moral high ground and respecting free speech. Take shots at people when called for it. And you know what? Elon deserves all the crap he gets for his salute. F that guy from the bottom of my heart.
But...you know what? I'll say it. I'm GLAD, in a sense, that Elon did the salute. It's like the end of Inglorious Bastards when Aldo Raine is like, yeah, wars over, you're gonna take off the uniform and no one is gonna know you're a nazi any more. So then he carves a swastika into the guy's forehead so everyone knows he was a nazi during WWII.
I dont support carving anything in anyones forehead. BUT....let's face it, if the guy actually thinks like that, I'm glad he has the balls to show it. Because now everyone KNOWS he is one. And that's how I feel about extremist content on X. Let it all hang out. I'd rather know how morally decayed our society is than have it masked. Because when it's masked, we end up electing morons like trump because we think "oh he aint that bad." Uh, yeah he is. And so is elon. We just elected a fascist government. And while we should go full "resistance mode" in 2025 against it, opposing it as vigorously as we did in the first term, well....again, I'm not really pro censorship.
And before some tribalistic idiot pulls some with us or against us ultimatum on me, I'll say this. 1) this is how you cost us the election to trump in the first place, 2) i can be pro free speech but also think elon is a nazi POS.
So yeah that's my stance there.
beyond that, there are some legit arguments. Like elon paywalling content and making the site unusable unless youre logged into an account. That is a pain and if it really is about useability, yeah, okay. But let's face it, I dont think it is about that. I think it's just some terminally online leftist thing where SJW reddit moderators are trying to use and abuse that tiny bit of power that they have to be socially performative bullies online because they get a power trip off of banning content that they don't like. And I refuse to enable those idiots either.
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