There's an interesting split in thought on censorship and concentration of power. I would expect the same people who condemn Twitter censorship to condemn Trump's centralizing of power, but we see the opposite. I don't care about Twitter and fear Trump. Others are the opposite
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False equivalency. Checks on lying and mass surveillance are trivial compared to checks on a president (possibly) criminally meddling in his own election, firing those investigating his conduct, and threatening to pardon himself for those crimes.
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Ari I love you man, and know you mean well. The lie was not trivial, justified a war which consumed something north of 400k people. There must be accountability here. Centralization of unaccountable power is the problem. Both with the Presidency & the unchanging bureaucracies.
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I'm not arguing against accountability for everything. I'm arguing that it makes sense to differentiate different scales of problems. Some are existential threats to US democracy, others are not.
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I see pedantic lobbyists who call themselves the Press coordinating with unelected bureaucrats to remove a democratically elected president. If successful likely the end of the American experiment. What do you see?
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“Coordinating to remove” ...you mean impeachment? Which can only be done by democratically elected representatives? Seems like you’re contradicting yourself. If he’s impeached, how is that any less of the democratic will of the people?
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We have lobbyists who claim to be Press. They are fabricating many false narratives, sometimes fed by bureaucrats, to manipulate public opinion. This is the crisis I see in regards to your vague claim "threats to US democracy" Seems no good faith here.https://mobile.twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1038130439897137153 …
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Your argument is that lobbyists manipulate be the public into wanting impeachment? So...disregard the will of the people because the voters have been manipulated? Both the pro-Trump and pro-impeachment arguments have the identical dynamic of claiming manipulation of voters.
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No. The word Press we associate with truth. The word lobbyist highlights the bias making arguments non-persuasive. Describing things as they are inoculates
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