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Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 08/09/2024 at 15:19 UTC
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Democrats want to get rid of Twitter/X now, do you think its a coincidence that they were fine with it up until Elon Musk bought it, and stopped working with the FBI to censor certain things they didn't want spread?
no I get all of that but at the end of the day Trump should have brought Snowden home. If Trump cared about the bill of rights, he would have brought Snowden home. Snowden betrayed his government. I get it. So did W. If anybody understands W lied about weapons of mass destruction it is Tulsi Gabbard. next question
Comment by Illin_Spree at 08/09/2024 at 16:45 UTC
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Republicans have started to become the party which is against censorship
Where is the evidence of this exactly? For example, aren't Republicans all for censorship on college campuses when it comes to Palestine? Think about the absurd anti-BDS laws[1] DeSantis has signed. Are they really against censorship if the censorship is perceived to be in the best interest of their donors? I understand there is a small segment of the GOP that is against this sort of thing but it's probably even weaker than the small segment of Dems against this stuff.
1: https://www.aclufl.org/en/press-releases/aclu-florida-denounces-hb1-signed-law-governor-desantis
I worry that the current "right populist" sentiment against "liberalism" and "democracy" could lead to less respect for civil liberties and more openly oligarchic policies, rather than a reversal of these trends.
Comment by martini-meow at 08/09/2024 at 16:01 UTC
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Look into the proposed "seventh party system" and especially the sixth party system:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Party_System
Comment by [deleted] at 08/09/2024 at 15:17 UTC
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