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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by yulaow on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:14AM (#25744728)
From a point of view outside US, it seems to me that this is the consequence of the extreme polarization of the political situation in the US that happened in the last 8-6 years and brought what looks like a moral witch-hunt from both sides.

Now, if the consequence is to strike a point against the enemy party, it seems both formations unconsciously agree to sacrifice some piece of democracy or freedom. In the end everybody lose and society decays.

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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by waihtis on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:19AM (#25744769)
Exactly so. It's easy to argue against Trumpistas being a net negative to society on almost any level.

It's much less easy to think about ways to negate them as a political force without hurting everyone else in the process, and it seems a lot of people don't even care about weighing costs and benefits.

Unfortunately, when the modern political sphere is highly influenced by idiots on Twitter who are permanently stuck on first-level thinking, this is what you get.

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