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    I’m still waiting for Fox news to be flipping the fuck out about a social media platform being completely biased in favor of a candidate and using their platform to promote them while hindering the other… I guess they can only do that one time

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    everyone who STILL has a fucking twitter account is contributing to this bullshit

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    Wait… Elon is a complete piece of shit and is doing piece of shit things?!?

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      Ironically, right-wing Arnold who was a deep-dark republican back in the ancient times stumping for Bush and capturing the Governorship as a right-wing guy is way more reasonable and human than Elmo who’s never held any political position at all.

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        I am honestly impressed that you got that little joke I threw in there. I was just amusing myself with that bit of Irony. Originally, I was gonna go with the Fawlty Towers version.

        EDIT: Don’t forget how Arnie was banging and impregnating his house maid. He’s been a dick himself.

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    John Adams had tracks printed that warned the colonists about the evil British plot to enslave white men.

    Violence, fraud, and intimidation around voting was such a threat in early America, some think that it may be responsible for killing Edgar Allen Poe.

    Pulitzer and Hersh used their newspapers to push the country into war with Spain, over another conspiracy theory.

    This is not new, it’s not even remarkable for it’s stupidity.

    To those who say MAGA I ask: when were we great? To those who defend Democracy I ask: when were we a Democracy? (don’t worry, I’m going to vote for the cop over the fascist, I’m just saying).

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        Why is a flawed democracy preferable to other systems? Why are we convinced that democracy is the only way to run a society? It’s not like the only other possible options are autocratic dictatorships, we just refuse to entertain the thought that maybe letting idiots decide how to run a country maybe isn’t optimal

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    Hackers should just destroy X. We would all be appreciative. It would kill multiple birds with one stone.

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    Maybe giving conservatives internet access has been a mistake.

    Maybe the internet in general has been a mistake.

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      Now the internet has been great. It’s the anonymity that’s the problem. Everyone should just have one account. You could still post anonymously, but you can’t get any clout for it. If you want to have clout, you have to have a name and it has to be your actual one.

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        Some of the worst shitbags in the world are online proudly under their own names.

        Anonymity isn’t the problem. Instant mass communication between creatures with plains ape brains is the problem. We are not cognitively equipped for this shit.

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        It’s the anonymity that’s the problem. Everyone should just have one account. You could still post anonymously, but you can’t get any clout for it.