I used to be rather anti-Trump during my first few months on this forum. But that was because I used to read a lot of MSM news. I realized later all the lies they told about him.
1) Who said they thought that? The MSM news again? And even if they did, why put the blame on Trump for what a few lunatics, QAnons, and even some Antifa agitators might do?
2) Pretty obvious from the videos they were let in by the police. Now the most likely thing is that it was a false flag and a form of agent provocateurism from the police.
3) Yes but VC bans people for real "hate speech". I "got" KF banned (I presume) for example because I reported a few of his posts about Christians being baby killers and that all Jews were "evil and manipulative". He was too dumb to be subtle about it so he got the boot like a few others before him. But VC does not mass ban people for just disagreeing or having an "incorrect" political view like Twitter and FB do.
All we are doing is pointing out the obvious leftytardness of social media while you scream about right wing violence and Trump being the devil incarnate, while the reality is that it goes both sides. You seem to think like vancity that only the right wing is violent or evil or whatever. The reality is that being conservative will get harder and harder as time goes on and social media censorship is proof of it.
You’ve made statements recently - about how q is bogus, admitting those stats were cooked etc that lead me to believe you aren’t under his spell entirely. There is a difference between agreeing with someone or something and being blinded by those agreements to everything else.
1) they said they did. On the same forums where they made the plans for this “protest”. Go look at them yourself. I provided you an overview but nothing is stopping you from taking a look. And yes - words have power, people with power also have responsibility. We would and have blamed people for telling others to do something when those others then go do it - the example of the girl who goaded her ex into killing himself comes to mind. And that blame is rightfully deserved. No behavior occurs in an environmental vacuum and without context.
2) who told the police to do that and even if they decided to do that on their own... why? Your assuming it’s a false flag to make trump look bad but most law enforcement is aligned WITH trump. Not the other way around.
3) twitter and Facebook are corporate entities. They are also mainstream entities. My husband got a 24 hour ban for saying something like “women are crazy lol” and one of my posts got deleted for talking about aliens. Neither one of us are political posters or aligned with any extreme position. You sign the rules when you sign up. They are free to enforce them as they see fit. That’s what conservatives have asked for - for corporations to be treated as people and even given more special privileges then people. I’ve been against that forever and ever and ever. This is the end result of corporatism and unfettered capitalism and I find it ironic that the people most pissed about it are the ones who vote for the party most supportive of unfettered capitalism
4) I never once said only the right wing is violent. This is a thread about a recent example of right wing violence. I’m not as concerned with them rushing the building or messing with statues as I am with them having Molotov cocktails, handcuffs, gallows, guns, and pipe bombs. I do not support that. And I’m not a fucking Democrat or liberal for the millionth time - I lean left on economic policy. I’d appreciate it if people
Anyway clearly this is pointless but I will leave this here.
“In the Moonies, I was taught to suppress negative thoughts by using a technique called thought stopping. I repeated the phrase “Crush Satan” or “True Parents” (the term used to describe Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han) whenever any doubt arose in my mind. Another way to control thoughts is through the use of loaded language, which, as Lifton pointed out, is purposely designed to invoke an emotional response. When I look at the list of thought-controlling techniques—reducing complex thoughts into clichés and platitudinous buzz words; forbidding critical questions about the leader, doctrine, or policy; labeling alternative belief systems as illegitimate or evil—it is astounding how many Trump exploits. As I have mentioned, one of the most effective techniques in the thought control arsenal is hypnosis. Scott Adams, the creator of the cartoon Dilbert, described Trump, with his oversimplifications, repetitions, insinuating tone of voice, and use of vivid imagery, as a Master Wizard in the art of hypnosis and persuasion.”
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