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The COVID19 SCAMdemic... California Nears $8 Gallon Gas - Biden Sends Zelenskyyy $61 Billion

Unreal1

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I strongly disagree. While the 'right' may have high follow and engagement, it's because they are pushing for sanity while the 'left' is embracing insanity. The left are allowed to get away with murder on social media, they never get banned which why you don't hear about it. The right make a big deal because it's a double-standard, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.

That's not relevant because if the algorithm was designed to subvert their ideas then they wouldn't have such high engagement rates. The left does get banned, I've introduced studies and facts to support this but of course, it gets ignored. If you want a high-profile example - the account that posted the video of the Covington kid was banned for manipulating that video and spreading fake news. So yes, it goes both ways.

It's the same thing with the BLM crowd though. It's never headline news when a cop wrongfully shoots a white suspect. It only becomes news when it happens to someone black, effectively warping public perception. And once you convince someone they're marginalized there's no turning them back. Facts and statistics that clearly refute their argument are irrelevant to them.

Again and again, we see the same mentality between the left and right, the only thing that changes is what they're triggered by.
 

Unreal1

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Politicians or real people? I don't know anyone that went against those values under Trump. The free market is an illusion, 99% of our stuff comes from China. The illusion of choice.

Real people. If you support Trump you've gone against those values, period. Trump dictating where companies can operate, where they can source their materials, inflating the cost of imports, etc are all the antithesis of a free market. You cannot be in favor of a free market, gun rights, and fiscal conservatism while at the same time supporting Trump. It's like being anti-socialist while saying you support Bernie Sanders. There are values you hold that must be sacrificed, if they truly existed in the first place, in order to support him.
 

zrickety

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VoodooDoll

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I'm a libertarian? That's new.
Still celebrating 420, aren't you?
I know, you're not a Democrat (clearly), not a Republican, and not a Libertarian. You don't admit to watching any US news channels. You hate the US govt and "politicians," yet you only really complain about Democrats. You seem to defend Putin, Russia, and China, as well.

Lemme guess, President Xi, is that you!?!?
 

zrickety

The Fixer
Real people. If you support Trump you've gone against those values, period. Trump dictating where companies can operate, where they can source their materials, inflating the cost of imports, etc are all the antithesis of a free market. You cannot be in favor of a free market, gun rights, and fiscal conservatism while at the same time supporting Trump. It's like being anti-socialist while saying you support Bernie Sanders. There are values you hold that must be sacrificed, if they truly existed in the first place, in order to support him.
Like all politicians, Trump was a compromise. I did not support his every move, and in truth I support him less now than I did when he was in office. I think most would agree with me. He did more than good than harm, that's all anyone could hope for. Can't say the same for the current resident.
 

VoodooDoll

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You think that making the taxpayer buy toxic assets and eat the mistakes of the rich was the right move? And then when they did, flooding the economy with dollars to prevent deflation? (AKA quantitative easing). Sorry, but there’s a lot of problems there. Many economists disagreed with the Bernake approach and believe it prolonged the recession.
Anybody that opposes TARP (in practice, not morally) doesn't understand economics, or does understand economics and believes in self-destruction.

If you truly understood economics, you would understand that TARP was absolutely necessary, and the Fed Chairman (Bernanke) was brilliant when the US economy (and by extension the world economy) was collapsing around him.

TARP saved the US economy.
 

Unreal1

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Because it rarely ever does. You’d have to be living under a rock for the past 5 years to not see how the corporate mainstream hasn’t chosen the progressive left as their ideological platform, with all speech immunities afforded along with it. I used to revel in it before I woke up and realized there was no coincidences that banks, corporate media and billionaires shared my beliefs.

Except they never actually shared your beliefs to begin with. Take Amazon for example, they publicly supported BLM, yet behind the scenes, their execs wanted to hire black people just to prevent unionization. They didn't support your beliefs they just co-opted them to gain your favor. These arguments about conservatives being marginalized online are never made with any sort of context and that's not a coincidence.
 

uberdot

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I know, you're not a Democrat (clearly), not a Republican, and not a Libertarian. You don't admit to watching any US news channels. You hate the US govt and "politicians," yet you only really complain about Democrats. You seem to defend Putin, Russia, and China, as well.

Lemme guess, President Xi, is that you!?!?
I don’t know man, lots of people aren’t happy with the direction the country is headed and the democrats have the house, the president and the major banks, the media, big tech and corps overwhelmingly backing them. Complaining about republicans right now is like complaining about papercuts when you have AIDS. The republicans will have their turn to be lambasted again when they have enough influence and relevancy.
 

uberdot

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Except they never actually shared your beliefs to begin with. Take Amazon for example, they publicly supported BLM, yet behind the scenes, their execs wanted to hire black people just to prevent unionization. They didn't support your beliefs they just co-opted them to gain your favor. These arguments about conservatives being marginalized online are never made with any sort of context and that's not a coincidence.
They don’t share them genuinely but they need and want low information people to be progressive minded to take advantage of them. They know far left class war strategies when used in social applications create the necessary dismantling to make us weak and divided so they can fill the vacuum even more. If you want examples of conservatives and centrists, even classical liberals being ousted go on Substack sometime. Read Glenn Greenwald, read Bari Weiss. 5 minutes of any intellectual dark web podcast can verify any examples you need.
 

anotero

Autocross Champion
I know, you're not a Democrat (clearly), not a Republican, and not a Libertarian. You don't admit to watching any US news channels. You hate the US govt and "politicians," yet you only really complain about Democrats. You seem to defend Putin, Russia, and China, as well.

Lemme guess, President Xi, is that you!?!?
I love how it's all a b/w puzzle in your conformist mind. I guess the dem/rep dichotomy is the acme of political thought in your mind.

PS
I don't watch ANY news channels. I read, because tv news are for dumbasses. ;)
 

anotero

Autocross Champion
Real people. If you support Trump you've gone against those values, period. Trump dictating where companies can operate, where they can source their materials, inflating the cost of imports, etc are all the antithesis of a free market. You cannot be in favor of a free market, gun rights, and fiscal conservatism while at the same time supporting Trump. It's like being anti-socialist while saying you support Bernie Sanders. There are values you hold that must be sacrificed, if they truly existed in the first place, in order to support him.
Bernie Sanders is not a socialist even by a stretch.
 

anotero

Autocross Champion
Anybody that opposes TARP (in practice, not morally) doesn't understand economics, or does understand economics and believes in self-destruction.

If you truly understood economics, you would understand that TARP was absolutely necessary, and the Fed Chairman (Bernanke) was brilliant when the US economy (and by extension the world economy) was collapsing around him.

TARP saved the US economy.
A regular working class American doesn't give two shits about your pompous use of the term "US economy." What he does give a shit about is why the hell his standard of living went down, yet the government was bailing out banks and not the workers. For all the workers care, you can shove "ThE EcOnOmY" where the light don't shine.
 

anotero

Autocross Champion
I don’t know man, lots of people aren’t happy with the direction the country is headed and the democrats have the house, the president and the major banks, the media, big tech and corps overwhelmingly backing them. Complaining about republicans right now is like complaining about papercuts when you have AIDS. The republicans will have their turn to be lambasted again when they have enough influence and relevancy.
There's a good chance you are talking to a gen z'er that still has his mother's milk on his lips. They love to charge in like they know it all and will save the world from these damn publicans, chinks, heteros, etc.
 

VoodooDoll

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I love how it's all a b/w puzzle in your conformist mind. I guess the dem/rep dichotomy is the acme of political thought in your mind.

PS
I don't watch ANY news channels. I read, because tv news are for dumbasses. ;)
Spoken exactly like an autocratic dictator. Don't listen to independent journalists, listen to ME! Don't listen to western journalism, especially from the United States, listen to leader Xi. Xi loves you; he will tell you the truth.

I'll stick to independent journalists. Only dumbasses would think EVERYONE is lying to them. ;)
 
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anotero

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Spoken exactly like an autocratic dictator. Don't listen to independent journalists, listen to ME! Don't listen to western journalism, especially from the United States, listen to leader Xi. Xi loves you; he will tell you the truth.

I'll stick to independent journalists. Only dumbasses would think EVERYONE is lying to them. ;)
Lolwut? Kid, you must be delusional. 420 was yesterday. Today is the 21st.
 
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