I’m tellin’ ya, they’ll shut us all down before they’re through!
Wow. The self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe have gone too far for even Bernie Sanders to keep up with them.
A few months ago, Twitter banned President Donald Trump for as long as the stars shine and the grass grows–on the specious grounds that people interpreted his tweets as an incitement to riot (because only Democrats are allowed to incite riots, don’t you know).
Well, socialist Senator Bernie Sanders says he’s “not comfortable” with that (https://nypost.com/2021/03/23/bernie-sanders-not-comfortable-with-trump-twitter-ban/). After depositing the usual heap of epithets against President Trump, Sanders said, “Yesterday it was Donald Trump who was banned, and tomorrow it could be somebody else who has a very different point of view.” It’s unacceptably risky, he said, for “a handful of high tech people” to control speech in America.
Ya think?
In this, Sanders is echoing the view expressed by several European leaders–who’s to stop Big Tech from silencing anyone they please, for any reason? Trump today, Angela Merkel tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Capitol Hill is densely populated by Democrats who want to silence everybody who’s not them; and if Big Tech is a little slow on the draw, trust these Dems to pep them up.
Please–you don’t think for one minute that O’Crazy-O-Cortez, or Schumer, or Schiff, or Pelosi believe in free speech, do you?
Liberty and Democrats just don’t go together at all.
Ya ‘s’pose? I’m pleasantly surprised that he gets it.
Even Angela Merkel gets it.
I wondered if it would ever get scary enough for the socialists to get it.
When old-style commies and socialists think the American lefties have gone too far, you KNOW the lefties have gone too far. But then again, the old-style commies and socialists, like the Russian Trotskyites, had better watch out or they’ll find themselves being purged for casting doubt on the purges.
I wonder if Soviet communism would’ve been possible without several centuries of czarist government teaching the people to be slaves.
The end result of Leftism is always a circular firing squad.
Well stated.
Even Bernie sees the problem…but so many of his fans don’t see the problem
He’s worried Big Tech might get too big and stop taking orders from Far Left Crazy.
Interesting point, Lee. By getting in bed with some rather unruly elements of society, the Dems have proven that they did not truly thought this through. What happens when the unruly elements decide that the Dems aren’t doing enough? If they are willing to break the rules while the conservatives are in power, why would they limit themselves to abiding by the rules when the liberals are in power?
What we need is a giant chameleon that eats Democrats.
Yep
That’s what happens when a politician has “fans” rather than supporters — and Bernie has mostly fans. Fans operate on emotion and excitement. Any call to pull back, any appeal to reason, has to be ignored in order to keep the excitement going. If the “star” gets too reasonable, he’ll be dumped altogether, and the “fans” move on to another star. Fortunately for Bernie, he doesn’t appeal to reason very often.
Yes–for Bernie Sanders to come on as the voice of reason is a sure sign of trouble.
Those fans project what Bernie is like too, instead of acknowledging him as a rich politician with expensive homes