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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by Barrin92 on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:41AM (#25731434)
it's not surprising given that it's Mercer funded who basically make the Koch's look harmless.

People shouldn't be fooled and take this notion of 'free-speech' that is being advocated by these platforms at face value. They're not about genuine free exchange, they're funded by and organised by very well networked organisations who use them to further extremist political causes.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by specialist on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:43PM (#25733887)
Libertarian vs neoreactionary.

Whereas the Kochs want to be in charge of government, the Mercers want to eliminate government.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by ncmncm on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:55PM (#25741673)
Eliminating government will favor whoever is best equipped to become one.

Similar, generic libertarian: means handing over all power to the biggest corporation. Big corporations exercise so much power already that it is only where they disagree that any civil governance is even possible.

Principle is that a power vacuum is always immediately filled by the strongest party.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by specialist on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:50AM (#25746814)
Utopian thinking is the great irony, isn't it? Your utopia is someone else's dystopia? TBH, I have a really hard time wrapping my head around these philosophical paradoxes.
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