My bad. In my humble opinion, you are actually posting w/o an “agenda” in PWI. Imagine that.
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In regards to what? I consider myself center-left and actually agree with some things Republicans used to like. I’ve voted for Republicans in the state of Kansas numerous times. Although I lean left a moderate Republican doesn’t scare me in the least bit just like a moderate Dem doesn’t. That’s the common view I have.
What I absolutely can’t understand is the appeal of Trump. I’ll be honest with that I don’t get it. Not because he’s a Republican and I lean left, but because I think he’s an awful President. I’ve said on here that he has done some good things I have agreed with. All Presidents have. But my positions on policy and what I want someone to do matter less at this point. And it isn’t just me who feels this way. Aragorn probably describes himself as center right and he’s said it’s the way he acts that I can’t possibly vote for. My biggest head scratcher is more people on the right not feeling that way. He’s essentially the complete opposite of what they have said they wanted.
I actually live in a town with predominantly Trump supporters and I have friends that support him. I just choose not to talk about it. I only talk politics on here for the most part and actually never watch cable news or anything. I believe I can find common ground with people on a lot of things or consider their viewpoint even if we don’t agree. I will fully admit I can’t wrap my head around people seeing his tweets and speeches and having no problem with it.
Maybe that’s a flaw of mine that I can’t find that appeal. I will say I don’t think Mike Pence has anything typically that I would want in a candidate. I would fully support Mike Pence over Trump. Mike Pence acts like an adult most of the time from what I’ve seen. Right now I don’t care if it’s a Democrat or a Republican. I just don’t want people to think this is the way adults in general should act, but especially not our President.
What’s even scarier is not just that a President treats everyone with shit on almost a daily basis is that he has an entire administration of people who don’t want him to do that and they can’t succeed. They just have to sigh and then go out and defend it. Like I said if he’s just a human adult he’s 20 points higher pre coronavirus in approval and it’s the easiest election ever.
I can’t wrap my head around how Republicans could be ok with many things, but how do you defend that tweet? Those are the type of things that blow my mind. And this might not even make his top 10 list of did you ever think a modern President would act like this in public.
I don’t think everyone who supports Trump is bad. He’ll probably 80% of the people I know in my life support him. I just can’t wrap my head around why. And I didn’t feel that way with Obama or GWB or Bill Clinton or Reagan. I could see some of their appeal. It made sense to me. I don’t see the appeal of the President plain and simple.
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Then my cover is working as intended. I actually get most of my info from Barlow.
Regardless of political differences, that’s your problem, not mine.
I did. The question is this: why not solve the problem of Twitter’s “unfair” behavior to customers with marketplace competition instead of regulation? Twitter is a private entity operating in a marketplace. Why isn’t the answer a social media company that promises to do what Twitter won’t?
That’s what you took out of the entire post of mine? A sentence that you didn’t even finish?
Good faith? You’re right it is my problem and I admitted it. And I’ve laid out why I feel that way. I suppose typing that long answer to you was indeed a waste of time then. I don’t believe it was a viewpoint you considered. Maybe I’m not the only one who should broaden.
Make of it what you will. It’s all optional, after all.
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You are incorrect. I have read and understood what you have written. And to add one more thing, I used to have the same problem you did.
Just like lifting, I can only tell you how I moved past it and what worked for me. It’s all optional, just like lifting.
Too late, decades too late.
I read it. I generally disregard articles that only quote sources that conform to the biased opinion of the author. Perhaps it will all depend on what the meaning of the word is is.
Because apparently the free market is only good when it’s doing things Republicans like. And regulation is really good then if it’s not doing that.
What’s odd is none of these people seem to want the President to actually just tweet some facts. They don’t actually want the President to be less of a dumbass.
No, it isn’t - the existing statute doesnt prevent rivals from entering the marketplace. What are you talking about?
A group of investors could build a platform right now and say we won’t do a damn thing to anyone’s posts. Trump can switch and get exactly what he wants. The law is not stopping that.
And isn’t that the “conservative” answer? The marekt fixes it, not more government?
Forgiven, and everyone has an agenda. Mine is probably mental jumping jacks and a compulsion to sort out my thoughts in writing, hopefully with someone coming along to make me think about it more.
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How do you know what the opinion of the author is?
In any event, you’re welcome to supply a link to some legal authority that supports the opposite view. I’ll wait.
I am curious as to why other competitors have not risen to siphon off social platform dollars. I have a pretty educated view of business and competition, but seemily moat like barrier to clone competitors is baffling
That’s a boilerplate conservative/libertarian argument, yes.
If you pretend that there’s no room for any nuance on that argument you are quickly reduced to only anarchists existing as principled conservatives.
How many of those do you know?
Is it acceptable to hold the notion that government is kind of like a fire that must be tended over time, and still be a principled conservative? You can’t let it go out, nobody wants the cold and dark again. You can’t let it get too hot either, or tens of millions end up cooking.
Is that possible, or must we hold on to this idea of markets over government for dear life, or lose all sense of principle and credibility?
Its cool, he/she must also disregard SCOTUS opinions and rulings because they conform to the biased opinions of the authors. Probably disregards all historical texts and teachings as well because they were written by the biased victors, and certainly must disregard the bible and all religous texts because the folks who wrote them were biased as all get-out in their opinions.
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By the way, I’ll set aside the madness of the same people that say we have no right to tell a private business that they have to bake a cake for a gay wedding now telling us Trump has a right to have his speech published by a private business.
Ok.
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Do you mean like myspace, foursquare, google hangout, etc? Not sure if thats what you mean though?
The fact that these companies had decades of “protection” had no effect on their success? And now that they’re dominant giants in the arena, just “enter the market” and provide “competition” -sure, ok.
I’m with you on the whole post, I really am, but we’re not in that emergency where “dear life” is at stake. The problem isn’t life or death - it’s dissemination of viewpoints, which markets can handle just fine. Ask the NYT, WaPo, FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, The Atlantic, National Review, and on ans on. Social media is like print media or network news - the “problem” can be solved by market entrants giving voice to whomever they damn well please.