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HiddenHand 146 points ago +149 / -3

That's why they are shutting us down folks. So we don't realize that!! Trump has the strongest support he's ever had. It's also why we've seen the doomed/it's over/get over it bot attack since the 6th (which seems less aggressive right now, probably waiting for new talking points).

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SecurityExpert 14 points ago +14 / -0

They don’t care about how many people support Trump, or conservatism, or liberalism, or socialism today... Their goal is simply to have a generation of people grow up with this level of control of speech and ideas being normal.

The default goal of any person or group who has power is to increase their power. You can see it in your office, when the wrong type of person gets promoted to be a manager, and they just start micromanaging everybody. You can see it in the government when every single year they regulate our lives more and more. You can see it in these media companies, where every strategic decisions they make is designed to give them more control over the flow of information, and the ability of people to express themselves.

They’ve already gotten away with it. It doesn’t matter how much we despise it. The only thing that matters is whether they can get away with it long enough for enough people to grow up with this being completely normal. Because every day we will just become an ever shrinking, ever aging group of people that the youth doesn’t understand.

America was the last hurdle for this, because Americans are the only people who distrust authority enough to still have some skepticism left.