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by judge2020 1895 days ago
And what sort of incitement is coming from the left? is it "socialize healthcare" or "we should throw molotovs at protests", because the latter isn't allowed on Twitch either.
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Because the Summer of Love 2020 was so peaceful and innocent from either side of politics... seriously, get over it. Both the left and the right are cut from same cloth. They'll torch whoever doesn't agree with giving them the power. Both sides are just different flavors of control.

Let's not forget how it was Trump's DHS that was mistreating folks on the border back in the day. Is it still Trump calling the shots on the border? Is it still Trump wanting to bring manufacturing to the US instead of China? No, Biden is now implementing the same policies as Trump, except in blue flavor instead of red.

Get over yourself thinking your political party salute has meaning. They're all the same assholes. Twitter and Facebook are not against violence or hate, they're against whoever doesn't agree with them.

Regardless of which flavor of capitalism is currently being pushed[0], this thread is about private platforms being able to exercise their first amendment right to choose who they associate with, which is why Twitch is allowed to ban people for their political views and Parler is also allowed to ban people for 'left-wing trolling'[1].

0: https://redd.it/jpuxrv (warning: politicalcompassmemes humor)

1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...

The Maxine Walters quote (she's a goldmine of things a professional politician is irresponsible to say) was the one I was thinking of but here's a link with a bunch of other stuff too.

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1117508460407447552

All of the "fight like hell" statements and similar that have been common-place in American politician's vocabularies for decades.