MAGAThread XV: Because Another

[Seangoli]

So the 1st Amendment is optional when the federal government no-platforms people you want shut up then?

No. Trumps wrong here. But it is amusing to see those who actively call for the deplatforming of their ideological opponents, get upset over being the target of calls for deplatforming. It's almost like we've been warning the left of that this whole time, and they still haven't figured it out yet.

There is a pretty hefty difference between what private citizens do and a representative of the current President does.

[Tarsonis]

Please let's not indulge the attempt to equate college students with no office or political power or influence shouting down conservative speakers on their campuses with the President of the United States telling the major media outlets that if they want access to his campaign they better blacklist people who hurt his widdle feefees.

Except they are calling for exactly that, that the government suppress their opponents' platforms under the guise of "hate speech." Now the government is calling for them to be deplatformed and they're crying foul. It is a foul play, they shouldn't be deplatformed. No one should. But it's still amusing, at least to me.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

What if they want statehood?

What if the rest of America doesn't want them to have statehood? We have a say in this too you know.

Maybe we should submit Puerto Rico to the UN Decolonisation Committee for the laughs.

[Tarsonis]

No. Trumps wrong here. But it is amusing to see those who actively call for the deplatforming of their ideological opponents, get upset over being the target of calls for deplatforming. It's almost like we've been warning the left of that this whole time, and they still haven't figured it out yet.

There is a pretty hefty difference between what private citizens do and a representative of the current President does.

Agreed, but he's doing what they want him/the government to do, they just wanted it to happen to their opponents, not them.

[Gormwood]

No. Trumps wrong here. But it is amusing to see those who actively call for the deplatforming of their ideological opponents, get upset over being the target of calls for deplatforming. It's almost like we've been warning the left of that this whole time, and they still haven't figured it out yet.

There is a pretty hefty difference between what private citizens do and a representative of the current President does.

The power disparity involved reminds me of the Eggboy Incident.

[Tarsonis]

There is a pretty hefty difference between what private citizens do and a representative of the current President does.

The power disparity involved reminds me of the Eggboy Incident.

I like how the WP thinks we need scientists to figure out why everybody rallied around the kid.

[Cannot think of a name]

Please let's not indulge the attempt to equate college students with no office or political power or influence shouting down conservative speakers on their campuses with the President of the United States telling the major media outlets that if they want access to his campaign they better blacklist people who hurt his widdle feefees.

Except they are calling for exactly that, that the government suppress their opponents' platforms under the guise of "hate speech." Now the government is calling for them to be deplatformed and they're crying foul. It is a foul play, they shouldn't be deplatformed. No one should. But it's still amusing, at least to me.

I've seen some pretty tenuous false equivalencies in my time here, but this one is a prize winner.

[Tarsonis]

Except they are calling for exactly that, that the government suppress their opponents' platforms under the guise of "hate speech." Now the government is calling for them to be deplatformed and they're crying foul. It is a foul play, they shouldn't be deplatformed. No one should. But it's still amusing, at least to me.

I've seen some pretty tenuous false equivalencies in my time here, but this one is a prize winner.

Of course of course. It's okay when they call for it it's okay, because they're right. Their ideological opponents should be deplatformed. Yes. Yes.


Actually, taking a closer look at the memo, you're right it is a false equivalency. What the college kids did is worse, they actually got people deplatformed, while all the memo really does is ask the news stations to challenge the listed people on their claims in light of the mueller report.

[Thuzbekistan]

Except they are calling for exactly that, that the government suppress their opponents' platforms under the guise of "hate speech." Now the government is calling for them to be deplatformed and they're crying foul. It is a foul play, they shouldn't be deplatformed. No one should. But it's still amusing, at least to me.

I've seen some pretty tenuous false equivalencies in my time here, but this one is a prize winner.

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

[Tarsonis]

I've seen some pretty tenuous false equivalencies in my time here, but this one is a prize winner.

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

Not in this case. The memo doesn't do much of anything at all.

[Cannot think of a name]

I've seen some pretty tenuous false equivalencies in my time here, but this one is a prize winner.

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

Not in this case. The memo doesn't do much of anything at all.

Oh and On the Jews and Their Lies did nothing at all right until people started murdering other people in the streets... oh how on Earth could we have seen that one coming?

[Seangoli]

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

Indeed.

It is wildly inappropriate for aa sitting President to even ask that media outlets censor themselves, ,let alone release a memo more or less demanding this.

Comparing this to what private citizens say and do is just hogwash and not even remotely in the same arena.

[Tarsonis]

Yeah this isnt really comparable. Government vs media is much more severe than student vs speaker

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

So you can't understand the relation ship between people calling for government censorship of political opposition, then getting mad when the government actually does that to them?

I'll take willful ignorance for 600 Alex

[Seangoli]

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

So you can't understand the relation ship between people calling for government censorship of political opposition, then getting mad when the government actually does that to them?

I'll take willful ignorance for 600 Alex

Regular blokes asking for censorship and the sitting President asking for censorship are two completely different things. The former have no authority in thr matter. The latter exerts a significant amount of authority by nature of his position.

This isn't a case of Conservative vs. Liberal double standards. This is a case of it being eildly inappropriate for a sitting politician, let alone the President, to do.

[Valrifell]

Also it seems that the Trump Campaign is demanding that various individuals who have been critical of Trump or who have been pro-Mueller be no-platformed.

News broadcasters right now.

[Valrifell]

So you can't understand the relation ship between people calling for government censorship of political opposition, then getting mad when the government actually does that to them?

I'll take willful ignorance for 600 Alex

Regular blokes asking for censorship and the sitting President asking for censorship are two completely different things. The former have no authority in thr matter. The latter exerts a significant amount of authority by nature of his position.

This isn't a case of Conservative vs. Liberal double standards. This is a case of it being eildly inappropriate for a sitting politician, let alone the President, to do.

Just like how Kirby Delauter thought Kirby Delauter could stop news printers from publishing Kirby Delauter's name. But I guess for some reason this is different from Kirby Delauter's stupid case because it's Donald Trump.

[Valrifell]

What if they want statehood?

What if the rest of America doesn't want them to have statehood? We have a say in this too you know.

Nah

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

So you can't understand the relation ship between people calling for government censorship of political opposition, then getting mad when the government actually does that to them?

I'll take willful ignorance for 600 Alex

Telling someone to shut up and actively censoring their words are two very different things, last I checked.

[Cannot think of a name]

They're so comically unrelated it's kind of an astounding thing to watch the gymnastics involved in trying to make it fit. This is the result of people working that 'bothsame' muscle like it was a profession.

So you can't understand the relation ship between people calling for government censorship of political opposition, then getting mad when the government actually does that to them?

I'll take willful ignorance for 600 Alex

I mean, I can see you trying to jam that Duplo piece onto that Lego piece, we're just not buying it. Keep going though, the effort is amusing. It's a weird hill to die on.

[Vassenor]

Sarah Sanders is doubling down, and actively calling for people who supported the Mueller probe to be executed for treason.

[Bear Stearns]

What if the rest of America doesn't want them to have statehood? We have a say in this too you know.

Nah

So Americans have no say in who gets to join the Union? Should territories be able to force themselves on us without our consent?

[Gormwood]

Sarah Sanders is doubling down, and actively calling for people who supported the Mueller probe to be executed for treason.

She has completely lost what little she had to begin with. But I keep getting told liberals are the snowflakes.

[Vassenor]

Nah

So Americans have no say in who gets to join the Union? Should territories be able to force themselves on us without our consent?

So what is the rationale for not allowing them entry?

[Bear Stearns]

What if the rest of America doesn't want them to have statehood? We have a say in this too you know.

Maybe we should submit Puerto Rico to the UN Decolonisation Committee for the laughs.

Didn't Puerto Rican nationalists try that in the '50s?