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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]This is rich coming from a site admin that deletes every post that doesn't comport with his worldview and bans all dissent against the site dogma.

Do you have any self awareness?[/quote]

I'm sorry, you are the one who lacks self-awareness. You are comparing having a post removed from a privately-owned website to government oppression. I can't fire you because i don't like what you post. I can't arbitrarily raise taxes on you depending on my mood that day. I can't arrest and deport your neighbors, including those who were here legally. Do you really expect anyone to take you seriously with this type of post?

DCUM is a privately-owned business. I have the right to decide what content I am willing to publish. If you want to say something that I won't allow here, there is nothing preventing you from saying it elsewhere. You can even set up your own forum and post whatever the hell you want. I am not the government. I can't stop you. Use your head for something other than a place to put a hat.
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All true, but fails to take accountability for attempting to surreptitiously delete certain viewpoints while promoting others in an attempt to distort public sentiment.

But keep telling yourself that you’re one of the good guys. The irony is that You look down your nose at outlets like Fox News and OAN while creating exactly the same thing. [/quote]

OAN is where my SIL got the notion that 400,000 illegals were entering the US every single day. 
There is a difference between looking down your nose and taking active steps to threaten, intimidate, coerce, blackmail expression. 
Just like some of the law firms Trump used federal power to extort that knew this was wrong but felt the consequences of resisting would be too dire.
Just like the universities. 
Just like CBS and now other media. 
Meanwhile, Trump turns a criminal drug organization into a terrorist organization for the purposes using unlawful means to carry out deportation (this is not an argument against deportation, it is an argument against unlawful means). Then Trump uses military forces to carry this out, uses military forces to carry out unlawful attacks in international waters. Trump sends federal troops into DC (for starters) because he can claim federal jurisdiction (and forcibly removes a protest that has continued for more than 40 years just because he doesn't like it). 
Meanwhile, Pam Bondi says they will go after hate speech. (I am not aware of any hate speech crime defined in the US criminal code). 
Meanwhile Trump declares antifa a terrorist organization.
This will justify the use of military force domestically in case of protests alleged to be antifa.

If they can go this far in less than 8 months, how far can they go in 48? [/quote]

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