Angry about Twitter censoring outright disinformation from President Trump and others alleging election fraud that isn’t happening and mathematically couldn’t swing the election to help fundraise dollars that actually are going to pay off Trump’s debts, conservatives are flocking to Parler, a social media site that
Your conservation with a “smart, educated, and caring” Trump supporter is mind boggling, but not particularly surprising. I think you’re right. We are about to see the war on porn and sex being amped up to a national crusade. (It’s already been going on at a lower level practically forever.)
Your Trump supporter also convinced me of two things.
One, we really are living in a post truth, pick your own facts, if I say it it must be true world. And, just because someone has a college degree and once held a responsible job doesn’t mean she won’t embrace and campaign for lies and self serving authoritarian fantasies.
Having an IQ sufficient to get a degree in math doesn’t make one smart or honest. “Smart” well educated people are clearly susceptible to illogic, conspiracy theories and fanaticism.
And then there’s that “caring” thing. What does she care about? Certainly not facts. And certainly not about the actual people who are in sex work and porn. She, like so many other fanatics, doesn’t have any problem doing harm to them in the pursuit of essentially authoritarian goals. She is much like a Christian missionary determined to save the soul of a native even if he kills them in the process.
"...improving our law enforcement techniques to crack down on the black markets"? Jesus CHRIST that's stupid. The only way law enforcement techniques can be "improved" to crack down on black markets is by violating the Fourth and Fifth Amendments even more egregiously. More "no reasonable expectation of privacy" exceptions, more civil forfeiture, more surveillance, more plea blackmail, more coerced testimony, more warrants based on perjured testimony, more planted evidence, more sting operations and entrapment, more cops abusing sex workers or committing rape under cover of "enforcing the law"... If this is a "smart and educated" Trump voter I'd hate to see the regular dumbasses who support him.
Another great article and an important reminder that authoritarians will always be on the hunt for ways to use force to implement their view of a perfect society and damn the consequences. They will almost always wrap it in some "save the children" type façade, too.
This is so deeply troubling. Yet we've won these battles before. We just can't get complacent, and those of us who are on the more traditional leftside of the spectrum have to be especially vigilant to the point of repetitive about standing up for speech.
Your conservation with a “smart, educated, and caring” Trump supporter is mind boggling, but not particularly surprising. I think you’re right. We are about to see the war on porn and sex being amped up to a national crusade. (It’s already been going on at a lower level practically forever.)
Your Trump supporter also convinced me of two things.
One, we really are living in a post truth, pick your own facts, if I say it it must be true world. And, just because someone has a college degree and once held a responsible job doesn’t mean she won’t embrace and campaign for lies and self serving authoritarian fantasies.
Having an IQ sufficient to get a degree in math doesn’t make one smart or honest. “Smart” well educated people are clearly susceptible to illogic, conspiracy theories and fanaticism.
And then there’s that “caring” thing. What does she care about? Certainly not facts. And certainly not about the actual people who are in sex work and porn. She, like so many other fanatics, doesn’t have any problem doing harm to them in the pursuit of essentially authoritarian goals. She is much like a Christian missionary determined to save the soul of a native even if he kills them in the process.
"...improving our law enforcement techniques to crack down on the black markets"? Jesus CHRIST that's stupid. The only way law enforcement techniques can be "improved" to crack down on black markets is by violating the Fourth and Fifth Amendments even more egregiously. More "no reasonable expectation of privacy" exceptions, more civil forfeiture, more surveillance, more plea blackmail, more coerced testimony, more warrants based on perjured testimony, more planted evidence, more sting operations and entrapment, more cops abusing sex workers or committing rape under cover of "enforcing the law"... If this is a "smart and educated" Trump voter I'd hate to see the regular dumbasses who support him.
That first paragraph is a mouthful 😁
Another great article and an important reminder that authoritarians will always be on the hunt for ways to use force to implement their view of a perfect society and damn the consequences. They will almost always wrap it in some "save the children" type façade, too.
This is so deeply troubling. Yet we've won these battles before. We just can't get complacent, and those of us who are on the more traditional leftside of the spectrum have to be especially vigilant to the point of repetitive about standing up for speech.
She does not appear to be open to a new perspective no matter what is presented. And that's the root problem, it would seem.