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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by cmurf on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:45PM (#31784781)
>actively seeks to suppress and silence opposing views

What's your best example of either of these?

>while openly lying and distorting truth

Same, best example of either lying or distorting truth.

>The culture war will be fought and won once these evil influences are eradicated

How is a culture war fought? What is the metric for winning? And how are the opponent's influences eradicated, exactly?

>non-leftist political opinion without fear of being fired or ostracized

What is an example of a non-leftist political opinion that is suppressed due to fear of being fired or ostracized?

Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by PathOfEclipse on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:16PM (#31785114)
An example of suppression and silencing is: twitter! https://lidblog.com/twitter-censors-conservatives/. There are, of course, many other examples. Twitter silenced the hunter biden scandal at election time. The story turned out to be true and could have swung the election. Youtube has been restricting, shadowbanning and explicit banning conservatives for a long time as well:

https://www.prageru.com/petition/youtube

https://summit.news/2022/01/27/youtube-bans-another-prominen...

Open lying is harder to prove. Who admits they openly lied? But we can at least show many, many, examples of leftist media being factually incorrect. Here's one: https://www.city-journal.org/exposing-the-washington-post-on....

Here's another fun one: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/01/media/washington-post-new-yor....

It's always great when all the falsehoods are attributed to "anonymous sources".

A culture war is fought by winning hearts and minds, one by one, and also taking back influence, institutions, and power.

A non-leftist political opinion would be that the 2020 riots were worse for our country than January 6. an NFL coach recently got fined $100,000 and faced severe backlash for expressing this opinion: https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-apolog....

At least he didn't lose his job, yet? Others aren't as lucky when they "slip up": https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/media/rick-santorum-cnn-depar...