Has America Imploded?

I'm not saying that Twitter doesn't have the right as a company to ban the President. You wouldn't think that given the lawsuits, though. How is this different from the religious baker not wanting to create a homosexual themed wedding cake. He never refused to serve the couple. They were customers. He just didn't want to create their wedding cake. This is the typical leftist hypocrisy. The baker MUST BE FORCED to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple but the President of the United States of America is not allowed to speak his mind on twitter??????
 
Fun Fact:

- Most people who claim someone else is "wrong about the first amendment" are doing so in the context of their frustration because of someone else's successful First Amendment claim. I always find it a little funny.
 
Can anyone confirm or deny that there were more white slaves (with white masters) than black slaves (with white masters) in the last 100 years?

Based on locations named in briefings I got regarding human trafficking, which occurred yearly while I was still associated with the U.S. Navy, the greater number of slaves is probably concentrated in southern and southeast Asia. We had to take briefings on the odd chance that we would get an overseas assignment (for me, unlikely; for others in our building, at least possible). I say unlikely but people DID get sent to conventions at various times. It's just that my project didn't happen to send me because, technically speaking, we weren't on the leading bleeding edge of anything. So no research or seminars or symposia involved.

The USA has incredibly strict laws regarding human trafficking such that even if I were COMPLETELY outside of the territorial boundaries of the USA, I could be prosecuted if I was at the time on a mission on behalf of the USA and I indulged in anything related to the human sex trafficking rings. It would be a felony with jail time, a fine, permanent loss of clearance, and I don't recall if being labeled as a "sex offender" was automatic or not.

From the briefings, Asia (other than mainland China) is the hottest place. Getting human rights statistics out of mainland China is harder than pulling hen's teeth so there, who knows? I cannot deny, however, that the African coast of the Indian Ocean is also a hot spot. Central America isn't doing so well there, either. And (sadly) there is a touch of such trafficking going on in the USA even now.
 
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No one is arguing that Twitter doesn't have the right to ban Trump. However, they are HYPOCRITES because they don't ban people who actually do incite riots like Maxine waters and Iran's ayatollah and other leaders who start most speeches with "Down with America" and end with "Kill the Jews". Yep, those people can have a public forum but not Trump because you don't agree with him.
Hypocrisy reigns:)

If you support the banning of Trump because you disagree with his politics and do not lobby to ban people like Ilan Omar and the Ayatollah, you are a hypocrite.
 
I sense that the recent clampdown on free speech in the last 3 months in the US is almost communist in nature. Perhaps they are all emboldened because the Democrats are taking power. But there is a sinister feeling about it all. 1984 comes to mind. It is not just the government, but Big Tech with their monopolistic power taking more radical action because of the diminishing power of the Republicans. It is like a cloak of darkness enveloping the nation.

It seems the Parler issue goes beyond basic competition. Instead, it seems like a hypocritical stance on all things politics. Let lies and rumours spread wild on Twitter if it is about Trump, Russia collusion and so forth. Yet if anything is said about Biden's son, oh no, that is not allowed! Censored! Banned!

Let violent BLM protests cause over 2 billion dollars of damage all over the country, with over 25 deaths, thousands of police injured, intimidation and violence against individuals, spreading Covid everywhere in the middle of a pandemic, leading to countless more deaths, all freely arranged and discussed on Twitter and Facebook. No banning of politicians who actively encourage these mostly peaceful but full of violence protests. And some still believe that Facebook and Twitter don't have a political bias, just merely acting as neutral observers.
 
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I think we're going to need our friends in Europe who are still free to raise holy hell on FB and Twitter about banning Parlar and other conservative outlets because Google and Apple have effectively silenced 75 million people.
And it would be years if Congress ever did anything. They've been having hearings on this for years and done absolutely nothing.
 
I sense that the recent clampdown on free speech in the last 3 months in the US is almost communist in nature. Perhaps they are all emboldened because the Democrats are taking power. But there is a sinister feeling about it all. 1984 comes to mind. It is not just the government, but Big Tech with their monopolistic power taking more radical action because of the diminishing power of the Republicans.

It seems the Parler issue goes beyond basic competition. Instead, it seems like a hypocritical stance on all things politics. Let lies and rumours spread wild on Twitter if it is about Trump, Russia collusion and so forth. Yet if anything is said about Biden's son, oh no, that is not allowed! Censored! Banned!

Let violent BLM protests cause over 2 billion dollars of damage all over the country, with over 25 deaths, thousands of police injured, intimidation and violence against individuals, spreading Covid everywhere leading to countless more deaths, all freely arranged and discussed on Twitter and Facebook. No banning of politicians who actively encourage these mostly peaceful but full of violence protests. And some still believe that Facebook and Twitter don't have a political bias, just merely acting as neutral observers.
As an "add-on". The Congress people who appear to be screaming the loudest accusations concerning the pro-Trump rally that unfortunately descended into a riot look to be the very same people who encouraged the public to physically accost Republicans, called police pejorative terms, advocated that police be "de-funded", encouraged the filing of criminal charges against police. So the very people who want the police "castrated" so they can't even do their job and give those rioting, looting, and destroying property a "free" pass; now want the police to enforce the law, blame the police for "failing" to control the riot, and now demand that the rioters arrested. The Congress people, after their previous silence, have not right to condemn either the police nor those rioting. (The fine print, I am not condoning the rioting.) Such hypocrites.

Another form of hypocrisy. Today, as part of the Parler repression, I've heard headlines that certain major corporations will not be withholding donating to conservative organizations. Yet, very many of these same organizations contributed to the Black Lives Matter extortion racket. Again, hypocrites.
 
I'm not saying that Twitter doesn't have the right as a company to ban the President. You wouldn't think that given the lawsuits, though. How is this different from the religious baker not wanting to create a homosexual themed wedding cake. He never refused to serve the couple. They were customers. He just didn't want to create their wedding cake. This is the typical leftist hypocrisy. The baker MUST BE FORCED to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple but the President of the United States of America is not allowed to speak his mind on twitter??????
In Colorado, sexual orientation is a protected class. I mentioned you can't kick someone out or refuse service over violating one of the protected classes. They didn't kick Trump off Twitter over in violation of a protected class. Not the same at all.
 
As another "add-on", they also wanted to stop their use of pepper balls, a vital part of their crowd control armoury. It is easy for politicians to go in all PC, clipping the wings of the increasingly injured police to appease their base. But they might think different if they were on the front line themselves, completely outnumbered by an angry armed mob with violent intentions. Just look what happened when the mob marched to the Seattle Mayors house. She was pretty quick to close down the CHOP area then. Took a day, wasn't it?

Then look at the Chicago Mayors reaction when they marched to her house. She let all the rioting and looting go on unencumbered, but as soon as they came to her street, it was a different matter.

One rule for thee but not for me. Both Democrat run cities.
 
I'd just like to add, I am more on the Democrats side regarding mask wearing. [*** Runs for cover and cowers in the corner*** :ROFLMAO: ]
 
Can anyone confirm or deny that there were more white slaves (with white masters) than black slaves (with white masters) in the last 100 years?
That's kind of a tall order in such a recent timespan. If you go back to the medieval europe days it's easy. The feudal system was basically enslavement of whites, and we suffered under that for a really long time.
 
Why is it a tall order? Doesn't the fact there were 6 million Jews in enslavement, and 11 million people put in forced labour during WW2, mostly from Europe make the math a little easier? Europe is predominantly white. When were slaves freed in the US, was it something like 1900ish? The point I am making is that in the last 100 years, it is mostly whites who were slaves, while in the period before that, perhaps there was more black slavery.

Unequal treatment of blacks vs whites in the recent past in the US is a different matter though.
 
Jewish people would argue that their race is Jewish, not white. They consider it their faith and race.

We still have legal slavery, we just call it the American prison system now. Why do you think it's privatized and people recurve harsher penalties in cities where it is privatized? Those kickbacks must be nice.
 
Why is it a tall order? Doesn't the fact there were 6 million Jews in enslavement, and 11 million people put in forced labour during WW2, mostly from Europe make the math a little easier? Europe is predominantly white. When were slaves freed in the US, was it something like 1900ish? The point I am making is that in the last 100 years, it is mostly whites who were slaves, while in the period before that, perhaps there was more black slavery.

Unequal treatment of blacks vs whites in the recent past in the US is a different matter though.
i forgot about the WW's
 
They didn't kick Trump off Twitter over in violation of a protected class. Not the same at all.
I was talking about Parler, NOT Trump. I agree, they are not the same.

Slavery has been common throughout history. Mostly it was one tribe waring with another and killing most of the men and taking the women and children and some of the men as slaves.

Do a little reading on the origin of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas which at the time were actually populated by EUROPEANS. I don't want to spoil it for you but the "white" people never went hunting for the "black" people to enslave them. The "black" people sold other "black" people that they had enslaved to the EUROPEANS.

I say to anyone who wants reparations - I'll give you $5,000 and a one-way ticket to your choice of country in Africa. When you get there, you turn over your US passport and revoke your citizenship in writing. Let's see how long you remain free.
 
I just wrote to Amazon to give them my opinion of cancelling Parler.

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I am quite well read on the topic. In some African countries, up to 30% of the population were slaves within their own country.

Is modern day slavery where women enchant men, wrap them around their little finger and then ensnare them into marriage? :p
 
I think if the men like it, it's not slavery:love: Some men will do anything for a little nookey. I don't even know how to spell that but it is the cleanest word I could think of:)
 

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