Weren't you just in a fight last week with Null over how important it was not to regulate banks even if they shit on individual liberty? The worst part about you is you are intellectually lazy. You bitch and moan about the state of affairs but refuse to address any of it because you are reading from a script that reads "government bad, corporation good". Seeing the mental gymnastics you engage in to explain the current state of Affairs is hilarious and disheartening at the same time. You simply cannot articulate a scenario where a private corporation has the power to censor the President of the Unifed States. So all you are left with is punchy one liners like this.
Corporations are just as bad. I explained this to you. But anyone who things the GOP is conservative is just as misguided and low information who believes that the Democrats are "progressive". The GOP has not once actually conserved or upheld the values they campaign on. Not even fucking Reagan. If he believed in liberty as much as he claimed he wouldn't have consolidated as much power to the federal level as he did, and tax cuts would have been followed by spending cuts.
People complain about Reagan because "muh trickle down doesn't happen", but really, the issue was poor fiscal policy. You can't spend money you don't have and expect things to be better when you do nothing to pay that money back and reduce spending.
Corporations, as they exist today, are a problem because they stifle competition and excrete stagnancy.
Government is bad because power corrupts.
Neither of these things are good for people. The highest point in US history was 1955. Small businesses are the heart-beat of your economy, and free people are happy people. No one today stands up for those two simple truths.
And the issue truly being highlighted by Trump being banned from Twitter? It's the reliance on the internet for information. Everyone, even boomers and Xers are just consoomers, and that's the real problem. Everyone would sooner stay in their home watching the glowing box instead of meeting with the tribe and questioning the world around them.
Who's to blame? The corporations for making products and using advertising psy-ops to make people buy product? Or the government for exploiting public education to induce docility in the masses? Both have shaken hands and worked for each other to placate the sheep into accepting that their "betters" know what's best.
Look at the lumps in your family. Today, Grandpa Jed just watches News Corp. approved narratives when he's not at his desk working for Big Inc. while waiting for the next Marvel movie because he recognizes the characters but has forgotten the stories.
60 years ago, Grandpa Jed would hang out with his buddies at the hardware store for a few hours after work on Monday, hang out at the barbershop with his other buddies on Wednesday, Friday he'd go to the baitshop or the golf course, and on Sunday he'd go to church. In all of these places he'd share ideas with people who thought differently or similar about different matters and exchange ideas and grow. And, when people had community, people didn't turn to the state to save them from crisis, and Grandma Jill didn't miss him because during the day while he was at work she'd go spend a few hours at the salon, go visit the grocer and spend a few hours trading recipes, play bridge with her friends on Saturday, and talk to some of the same but also some different people at church.
Today? The local hardware store and the baitshop and the grocer have been replaced by Wal-Mart, the barbershop has gotten smaller and is no longer conducive to socializing, and the Pastor preaches progressivism. Women no longer trade recipes at the store, they get them from News Corp, approved internet sites. Bridge and Golf have been replaced with Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Everything has been destroyed and washed away, and the GOP was running the boat for half of the show.
In a perfect world, people would live their lives without initiating violence on each other or feeling it was necessary to dictate how others live their lives inside the confines of their own home. You would at least know the manager/owner of the businesses your shop at to see them, even if not to talk to them, and "the customer experience" would be concerned about more than just zipping into the store, easily finding what you want to buy, and getting back outside. Government would exist to ensure that neighbors did not initiate aggression towards each other, that outside actors would not initiate aggression towards the collective, and that no business would be able to co-opt industry or the market place.
However, all of those institutions drank from the spring of power to the point of drunkenness and worked for the exact opposite, ensuring that they remain on top and the human meat that they extract blood and treasure from remain only functional enough to be exploited while ensuring they are too weak and too ignorant to rise up or even notice what is going on.
Have you ever questioned why most food people eat today comes from a box? That's all part of the design, too. Keep the masses too busy to be healthy, and the destruction of their bodies will hasten the destruction of their minds. Even those switched on enough to see what's going on will be too incapable of doing anything. Interesting too that those same boxes come from the corporations who government changed laws to allow preservatives and edible plastic to make up the bulk of the mass of the food products you consume as a matter of convenience while making you unhealthy and decrepit to the point that you're a slave to your doctor where you are pumped full of more chemicals at the behest of the corporations with the cooperation of the government.
Corporations are bad, but their poor behavior is enabled by willing conspirators in Government.
So you want to be upset at Twitter for banning a sitting President? Then don't demand that government regulate how Twitter operates within the context of their business. Trump has the money and influence to either make his own media network or move somewhere else.
Instead, demand that your elected officials enforce existing anti-trust and tort laws to ensure that Amazon doesn't break their contracts with Parler to ensure that Twitter maintains their monopoly.
But no, smooth brain that you are, you'll put your hands in the air and get red in the face and demand that "government do something!", only to roll over and explain how great it is when the government just constructs another alphabet agency and raises taxes and bogs everything down in more bureaucracy while Twitter gets to keep reaping the benefit of their monopoly until something finally changes.
Maybe when President Cortez starts her second term something will finally get done about Twitter.
Twitter/Facebook/Other internet censorship isn't the problem, it's just the symptom. The problem is the people allowing the internet to monopolize so much of how ideas are shared in the first place, further eroding community for the sake of division.
Tell me again how I'm wrong about the GOP failing to live up to conservatism when they've happily sat on their hands and allowed all of the above to happen.
