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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by johng on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:09PM (#41239249)
Just like Bezos and the mainstream media use their platform to amplify left wing views?
Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by MisterDizzy on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:24PM (#41239402)
This is why it's getting annoying to see this sort of headline. "Nobody should own the public square... Unless it's a cadre of young San Francisco leftists who represent one of the most extreme left factions in the country. They should own the public square."
Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by localfirst on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:35PM (#41239536)
What I really hate is billionaires on both left and right using people and politicians as pawns to avoid anti-trust lawsuits or taxation

Kamala's platform is taxation of billionaires to provide equal outcome for everyone in America regardless of their residential status legal or illegal which is obviously problematic and wildly far left given the sheer neglect of law and order for its own citizens.

Trump's platform is lower taxation of billionaires to provide equal opportunities without pandering to any ideological initatives like DEI and other 3-4 letter acronyms and putting American citizens and enterprises first with increased law and order.

Personally as somebody in the center, I know which is common sense driven vs ideological and I've been a supporter of Democrats for a long time too.

> What you call 'extreme left' would be considered 'center right' in Europe.

It's not just US but UK, Italy are all dealing with the aftermath of this confusion pushed by EU progressive liberalism.

What you call 'far right' are merely the incumbent native population who have been neglected and outraged by the excessive pandering to 'far left' ideology with limitless compassion for non-natives who do not have equity in the said country.

The problem with Europe and US is that the undesirables have been pushed out of their native countries for obvious reasons and in to the arms of the self-congratulatory far left political correctness that the masses are rightfully displeased about.

Tommy Robinson is a good example of how simply making a documentary about the truthful events of a heavily politicized incident in 2011 is deemed a terrorist threat and the sheer ignorance and smearing of the opposing view through censorship and gaslighting is what has made Ireland, UK become volatile.

What Kamala's platform is suggesting is the same EU styled far left policies that has turned its own native citizens into enemies of the state for simply highlighting the neglect and decades of oppression.

Nobody living in their own country for generations dating back to its beginning would be okay with becoming a second class citizen in their own land their ancestors have built to pander to the new arrivals who do not respect the land who do not seek to adapt but to merely keep voting left and leech off the state welfare which is collapsing due to the sheer scale of expenditure and generous social programs putting pressure on enterprises causing capital flight which then translates into increasing taxation on the middle class who feel the brunt of inflation and limitless compassion.

Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by techostritch on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:34PM (#41239524)
Wait, Bezos like Jeff Bezos?former owner of Amazon Jeff Bezos? Since when has Jeff Bezos been left wing? His political contribution history is mostly to Republicans.
Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by dekhn on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:36PM (#41239560)
I think they're deducing that from Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post, which is (very mildly) progressive (left of the establishment median). I don't know that Bezos has himself really indicated much about his own political preferences nor does he exert strong editorial control over the Po.