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by monero-xmr 521 days ago
> First of all, fuck anyone who is for what Zuck is up to, and may god give you blood to drink.

My least favorite style of polemic writing. Very common with progressives. Immediately assumes no one can have reasonable disagreements about anything in this topic, or they are some sort of blood-drinking satanic sociopath

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It is time to stop using the term 'progressive' for these individuals as they are not aiming for progress, their intent is for everyone to dogmatically follow wherever their ideological winds happen to blow on any given moment. If they tell you to jump they expect you to ask 'how high', not 'why'.

Having said this it is fairly clear to me that Zuckerberg would have been doubling down on the 'fact/narrative checking' department if the 'democrats' had won the election and that the only reason he's now suddenly trying to portray himself as a paragon of free speech is that he realised early that the 'progressive' wave was faltering. Once the wind turns again he'll bend with it so as to make sure his bread is buttered on both sides.