Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac... by watwut on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:32AM (#25101457)

Which historians? I read quite a loud of American history lately and this is first time I see this claim.

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Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac... by hobs on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:08AM (#25101727)

It's not a controversial opinion as far as I can tell -

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-g... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-ame... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-th...

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Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac... by watwut on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:31PM (#25103453)

It is not really historians and it does not really push the narrative of government "given up on citizens as reaction to them not trusting government".

Government and citizens are not even two super distinct entities, government are citizens and is put in place by citizens.

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Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac... by mensetmanusman on Sunday November 15, 2020 @03:05PM (#25104295)

Generally one side of America so gave up on government that a guiding principal of ‘starve the beast’ (that has done so much damage to our young) became dominant.

Once people with that world view actually enter government, they don’t have a lot of desire to use government for what it could be used for in terms of helping citizens instead of consolidating powers as a function of lobbying dollars.

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Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac... by jrootabega on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:08AM (#25101725)

You wouldn't know him, he goes to a different school.

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