Why can't we pull the BUTTplug on FaceBook?
What he actually meant.
Oh, this it too good not to bring over:
7wo7rees (4,490 posts)
2. I don't believe it is Biden or Abbott.I believe it is systematic racism in CBP.
The CBP are out of control.
Abbott just feeds them
Texas cops loves their horses! They are intimidating as all hell!! I rounded a corner in downtown Dallas at a protest against war in downtown Dallas and ran right into them. I was only on my way to a McDonalds for coffee for friends.I had friends protesting Exxon in Houston who were hurt by them. Most people have no idea hiw frightening it can be. Or how very dangerous.
I'll never forget the day I ran into them in downtown Dallas!!
Larissa (560 posts)
3. Facebook was largely instrumental in the election of Donald Trump
A lot of the crap against Covid-19 vaccines comes from Facebook. Russian disinformation that favored Trump was rampant on Facebook.
https://www.thewrap.com/ken-burns-calls-mark-zuckerberg-an-enemy-of-the-state/
Historian and documentarian Ken Burns was asked about his opinion of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg by the New York Times this week and he didn’t mince words. Zuckerberg, Burns said, is “an enemy of the state” who deserves to be in jail.
Zuckerburg is a big lefty who donated $100M to dem ballot harvesting efforts.
If his ideological peers want to tear him apart I have no inclination to stop them.
True Blue American (14,033 posts)
5. I agree with Burns.
They, along with Twitter are responsible for Trump, the rise of the hate party and need to be cut down.
I had a small glimpse of just how vicious a mob could be on the net when a group went after a woman I know who had a Poetry site. It grew like mushrooms, as it went from board to board. She had to shut her Poetry site because of the attacks. All this from a single post that was not even what they said.They even tried to go after me, then deleted their post. But a Republican friend saw the post before it was deleted and defended me.
All this was before we reached the hate filled stage we are in now.
Go ahead, savage more of your own.
These stupid animals live by hate. They're running out of things to hate, so they're turning on each other.
Buckeyeblue (3,673 posts)
24. I left FB in 2012 because of the shit allowed to be posted about Obama
This is how the Republic slow simmers to a dry pan. Hate groups get to invent their own facts, about everything. And then claim they are sitting at the right hand of god. But now they have a wide audience.
In another time, these freaks would mostly keep to themselves. They'd occasionally call late night radio with their kooky theories of this or that. But they could be contained.
FB, and technology in general, gives them an outlet. Their tales, their lies, are just speculative science fiction. And like most science fiction, the stories are lazy, poorly written, the internal links to their arguments are missing, and yet millions continue to eat this shit up.
It'll be interesting to see how this ends. I think the right will end up destroying itself, will break apart into different extremist groups. But the rest of us will have to suffer while this happens.
DU literally has a sub-forum called, "Creative Speculation."
Scrivener7 (38,265 posts)
28. Because some people will be inconvenienced if we remove this very credible threat to American
Democracy.
And they just aren't willing to be inconvenienced.
That's where we are.
Ever the totalitarians.
Tarc (10,066 posts)
46. "Why is this stlll [sic] being allowed?" The answer is simple.
Unlike Trump and cronies, we're not fascists.
This thread proves you wrong.
hunter (33,646 posts)
63. I remove things I don't like from my personal universe whenever I can.
Television news and opinion was banished from my universe years ago, followed by commercial television. There's no cable, no satellite, no broadcast television in my world.
I recently added twitter to my personal media blacklist and this has improved the signal to noise ratio here on DU considerably.
If I stare at enough people like they are aliens from another planet when they start blathering on about some bullshit they saw on Fox News or Facebook maybe they'll take the hint.