Taking away a platform from someone encouraging insurrection is not a loss. As has been said so many times, with free speech comes responsibility. If you overstep the mark you pay the price. Trump has spent 4 years overstepping the mark and it is a Godsend that he has now has his platform removed.
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It has been quite an education to hear what his supporters have been saying about the current situation. There is no reasoning with these morons. What is scary is that there are so many of them!
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Parler has been permanently shut down
Really? Wow
Sorry I upset you so much. 
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Reasoned debate gets nowhere. Even if Trump went public and apologed for saying he won when he knew he lost, admitted he was deliberately trying to undermine confidence and told his mob to accept things and back off (all of which he can’t, because he believes his own lies), his mob wouldn’t accept it. They’d say he’d been threatened and coerced into saying things that weren’t true and use it as an excuse to blame anyone else for tryng to bring down their hero.
Their indoctrinated worship is so deep-seated it’s virtually impossible to counter it. Nothing will make them question their faith. It’s like religion. You don’t ask for proof. Proof denies faith. You must believe.
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It wasn’t you shroppie, the offender has been placed on my “ignore” for ever.
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Oh no! Donald and his bezzie mate have fallen out.
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Don’t worry. My comment was very tongue-in-cheek. We know who you’re talking about.
Badly, terribly and without any class at all, to be expected from an imbecile like him, but shut him off he’ll still be there.
So why hasn’t religion been removed? Its opportunism and such an apparent act of todays society, this reminds me of the stone scene in Jim Hensons The Dark Crystal.
Parler. The thing that moved from Amazon and then got totally and utterly hacked?
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No its not, I am pointing out that religion is allowed and I fail to see why Trump has been banned for causing this when religion does and says much much worse.
I have answered and not used diversion.
I think we need to count up the number of times Barry has used ‘echo chamber’ in this thread so far. Was google word of the day or something Barry? Please note, it does not take you appear more intelligent just because you use the same metaphor several times.
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HELP! being sucked into a Barry vortex of shite on another thread… difficult to get any traction on his slippery turds…
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It’s a valid question and I guess the answer is that over thousands of years religions been core to humanity seeking to understand fundamental questions of our origin, the existence of souls and the afterlife.
Most religions have can underlying base of a moral code that is, at least in theory, fundamentally good. God-figures are normally seen as protectors, worthy of worship for the overarching good that they provide. They are all-giving, forgiving, comforters. Trump is none of those.
But they are also the catalyst for religious fervour and the biggest cause of wars: I don’t dispute that. If we’re trying to equate following Trump with a religion I’d suggest that gods aren’t only out for themselves, Trump isn’t a benign source of goodness and goodwill to all men. Maybe the whole of religion is a lie, but I’d say it’s an innocent lie, not one perpetrated for personal gain.
Sorry, I’ve wandered off a bit there, but your point got me thinking. And if you’re wondering, I’m an atheist.
Discuss.
Didn’t Trump assume power only because of religion so therefore evangelical Christianity should be the first faith to be banned from twitter?
Fine by me but good luck with that.
No, it’s because he’s been here before, exposing the US government lies to the public about the Vietnam war. I would imagine he has all sorts of contacts within government and the military. Whether i agree or disagree with him is irrelevant.