The Goat Pen

eCat wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:52 pm anyone that doesn't think the FBI is out of control isn't in touch with the reality they see

or they are happily complicit with it.

aTm wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:57 pm It is clear to me that in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Twitter (and likely all other social media services as well) essentially became moderated by the United States government, the Democratic Party, and (yes) the Republican Party through all of their affiliated allies, NGOs, lobbying groups, etc. They fabricated a mandate by engineering a crisis (Russian election interference) and used that mandate to insert federal government into all forms of social media and communication with the goal of “never letting it happen again.” “It” being the election of of an outsider and rogue like Donald Trump. They decided they needed to control voter perception, in the guise of fighting “misinformation” and the chaos of the last roughly 5 years or so has allowed the expansion of that mandate into something else entirely.

Social media became a psyop. The new “moderator” then had to start using its powers against the elected Presidential administration eventually leading to the banning of media accounts of the sitting President of the United States. It began to try to turn every domestic issue (race, guns, immigration, abortion, etc) into crises in which the position of the President was portrayed as extreme while the opposite view must be right and rational. It had to start censoring information on health and the economy once those became flashpoints with COVID-19, and it made the position of the CDC, HHS and FDA the only allowable online viewpoint allowed, culminating with instigating government and public purges of those it decided needed to be ostracized as “anti-vaxxers” and conspiracy theorists. And in the end, the new moderator even intervened by censoring news media that it felt would be detrimental to the insider candidate running for President.

The fact that the left wing wholeheartedly supports this new Goebbelian approach to media control is frankly frightening. It points a couple things.

Number one is the fact that this WORKS. The government and its useful allies are able to successfully whip up the frenzy and loose the rabid dogs of the populace on someone like Trump. Sure Trump is a crazy motherfucker and does a lot of PR harm to himself, but the fact is that his reputation is absolutely almost 180 degrees from how he would have been perceived in like 2008. Trump used to be perceived favorably by those with center left viewpoints. And if thats too much to swallow just look at what happened to the Space-X, Tesla darling of 4-5 years ago. In about a year theyve been making hime the new “literally Hitler” just because he threatened the whole thing by buying Twitter.

The second thing it shows is just how far around the twist the left wing has gone from Liberalism. They dont even bat an eye. They are going to impose their dystopian paradise upon us if they have to drag us all kicking and screaming into it with lies, dirty tricks, and violence for our own greater good.

hedge wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:44 pm "The new “moderator” then had to start using its powers against the elected Presidential administration eventually leading to the banning of media accounts of the sitting President of the United States."

LOL. When "the sitting President of the United States" got banned from Twitter, he had 12 days left in office. That's like banning Hitler from the radio on in April 1945. Ooooo, what an injustice. That really showed him who was boss, huh? Up to that time, he had carte blanche to tweet dozens of times a day (oh, and he did) whatever he wanted. And that's fine. But if this deep state conspiracy to control who and what got to be posted on Twitter was real, why wasn't he banned years earlier? Maybe b/c there wasn't one? Certainly not an effective one...

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:20 am

aTm wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:31 am Trump got himself elected as a “Republican” and many “Republicans” have adopted policies similar to his own, but the Trump Administration was not Republican, and many “Republicans” were against him including people who he was technically their boss. Trump is a populist leading the legions of unsophisticated rubes. The neocon elites that make up the bulk of the bureaucrats aligned with the party didnt want Trump’s populism any more than Democrats do. As Ive said before this is global elites vs nationalists and the vast majority of government officials of both parties are in the “global eites” type faction. They don’t want someone like Trump to be able to win, but simultaneously they are creating dangerous precedents and state apparatuses that will be tools of oppression in the hands of someone truly nefarious AND competent. Trump is Gaius Marius not Julius Caesar, the idea that a rube and conman like him is going overthrow the country is the ravings of lunacy. But the way the tactics used to fight him are the beginnings of future Sulla’s or Caesar’s, IMO

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:50 am So I guess I'm a global elite? Or at least their supporter and/or minion? Cool. Can't wait to tell Hubcap tomorrow...

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:20 am