Doing what feels good instead of what is good is just what the left wants you to do. While you may satisfy a desire, you further legitimate the idea that people should lose their livelihoods over bad ideas. Bad ideas should be engaged with and corrected instead of censured. That's the potential of a platform like twitter. But instead more and more we seek to punish people for bad views, which does not actually stop people from having bad views, it simply stops them from actually expressing them.
This is the importance of the first amendment, and getting people fired for expressing said views will only further divide us
Not at all. You're taking my statement "it feels good" and are ignoring the second half of it. It feels good because I'm actually doing something to fight back instead of sitting back and letting them get away with the b.s. they crucify the right for. You can disagree with me but don't call me one of them or say what I'm doing is evil. That's exactly what the left's playbook entails.
Using ad hominem and vitriol only lowers you, not the object of your attack. I simply suggest standing our ground instead of allowing the left to erode the position any further. I am not saying mind our own business, just the opposite in fact. Which is why I pointed out the potential of a platform like twitter, but perhaps you didn't read between the lines.
But if one can get fired for tweeting dumb things, would anyone ever tweet anything too far outside the mainstream? Which is exactly what Twitter is turning into: a corporate sponsored mainstream kiddie pool. All the real radicals are on gab but there's not enough normal people to dilute them so it's too hardcore for normies.
This is exactly what the first amendment is for. If you cannot come together and engage with your civic opponents, the clashes are going to turn worse than civic. I know what the guy is saying, and further I believe that the left chose this path, but falling to it practically guarantees our conflicts are going to escalate.
Further just because we don't stoop to their level does not mean we can't fight back, but our ideas are simply better than theirs, which is why the left requires these censorious measures to begin with. What we need are honest news organizations and fair online platforms, because if we had those it would become clear that reality aligns with conservative values very quickly. Going into war mode and shutting down conversation is only playing into the left's hands. You think we can beat them at their own game but they'll just change the rules without telling us, it's what they always do.
A handful of conservative websites and TV news orgs aren't going to turn this country around. You can't reason with unreasonable people. Things are going to get very ugly before they better.
I'm with you on this. To fight the left we can't stoop to the same insane rhetoric of cancel culture. This is America where everyone is free to believe and say whatever they like, even if we don't agree. Her comments disgust me however, we must be the leading example of civil discourse and reason.
Doing what feels good instead of what is good is just what the left wants you to do. While you may satisfy a desire, you further legitimate the idea that people should lose their livelihoods over bad ideas. Bad ideas should be engaged with and corrected instead of censured. That's the potential of a platform like twitter. But instead more and more we seek to punish people for bad views, which does not actually stop people from having bad views, it simply stops them from actually expressing them.
This is the importance of the first amendment, and getting people fired for expressing said views will only further divide us
The lessor of two evils is still by definition "evil".
What you are effectively stating is you have become one of them because of "muh feels".
Look in the mirror.
Not at all. You're taking my statement "it feels good" and are ignoring the second half of it. It feels good because I'm actually doing something to fight back instead of sitting back and letting them get away with the b.s. they crucify the right for. You can disagree with me but don't call me one of them or say what I'm doing is evil. That's exactly what the left's playbook entails.
Using ad hominem and vitriol only lowers you, not the object of your attack. I simply suggest standing our ground instead of allowing the left to erode the position any further. I am not saying mind our own business, just the opposite in fact. Which is why I pointed out the potential of a platform like twitter, but perhaps you didn't read between the lines.
But if one can get fired for tweeting dumb things, would anyone ever tweet anything too far outside the mainstream? Which is exactly what Twitter is turning into: a corporate sponsored mainstream kiddie pool. All the real radicals are on gab but there's not enough normal people to dilute them so it's too hardcore for normies.
nah it doesnt thats some made up bullshit by pussies like you so you always have a foot in the fight by not actually doing anything
This is exactly what the first amendment is for. If you cannot come together and engage with your civic opponents, the clashes are going to turn worse than civic. I know what the guy is saying, and further I believe that the left chose this path, but falling to it practically guarantees our conflicts are going to escalate.
Further just because we don't stoop to their level does not mean we can't fight back, but our ideas are simply better than theirs, which is why the left requires these censorious measures to begin with. What we need are honest news organizations and fair online platforms, because if we had those it would become clear that reality aligns with conservative values very quickly. Going into war mode and shutting down conversation is only playing into the left's hands. You think we can beat them at their own game but they'll just change the rules without telling us, it's what they always do.
A handful of conservative websites and TV news orgs aren't going to turn this country around. You can't reason with unreasonable people. Things are going to get very ugly before they better.
I'm with you on this. To fight the left we can't stoop to the same insane rhetoric of cancel culture. This is America where everyone is free to believe and say whatever they like, even if we don't agree. Her comments disgust me however, we must be the leading example of civil discourse and reason.