Parler Being Shutdown Due to Capitol Storming

People who are from there, who come to America, who understand the dangers of it, it's a very eerie warning. I had Melissa Chen on my podcast, and she was describing... I follow her, she's great. She's really great. But her worries about China are, you know, a lot of people are like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, no, no, no. She really actually understands what the dangers are. And that's the dangers of accepting authoritarianism. Authoritarianism in this country is like... There's a lot of people that like it, because it silences their opponents. Right? Like, what's going on right now with like, parlors getting shut down, and you know, Amazon pulls it from their servers, and then Apple pulls it off of their app store, and then Google pulls it off the Google Play store, and everybody's like, yeah, good, they're spreading hate. Like, hmm... What percentage is spreading hate? Like, what's the numbers? And is this... is this wise that we shut down all discourse that you agree with? Like, yeah, it's not good if someone gets on there, and they're talking about violence against the government, or violence against individuals, or they're spreading racist ideas, or whatever the fuck they're doing that disturbs people and angers people. You're right. That's not good. But I do not think that the solution is to shut them down, because the real problem is that it sets a weird precedent. It sets a precedent where the people that are in power can decide that something is wrong-speak, something is bad, and you can just eliminate it completely. And then when things like that happen, they keep going. They don't just stop at that. They don't stop at things that we can all agree are terrible. They go to things that maybe you don't think are terrible. But other people do think are terrible. And then they keep going further than that. You see this with the left. There's a lot of people that claim to be leftist, they claim to be left-wing, but they're not quite left-wing enough, and so they get taken out by people who are more left-wing. And it gets weird, because it becomes this sort of political, ideological wrestling match for control of what is the left, what is the center, where is the right. If you disagree with anything on the left, you're the right. You might be extreme right. Yeah, no, you're a Nazi if you disagree. But I think what you're saying already happened, because with this incident, you're going like, okay, we blame Donald Trump's the president. His rhetoric was kind of, you know, you can interpret it as like he kind of gave them license to go do that. So shouldn't the buck stop with Donald Trump? Like Donald Trump, that's even a little bit of a debatable thing. You're going like he was speaking. Legally, you're going like, that's a First Amendment thing, he was speaking. He said peacefully, go over there. Yeah, but he gives mixed signals. Of course. The problem with him is he says we have to be strong, you have to go march to the Capitol. He gives mixed signals. And he says like, we have to do this correctly, we have to respect our great country. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that shit you said the other day? Right. He said that they don't respect anything other than strength. Like you said, go march towards the Capitol. You're firing people up. And you're firing people up, but they live with their mom, they're in the basement. They have no fucking job. Their identity is entirely associated with this movement. Yeah, no, my opinion is that. But I'm saying legally, it's debatable. Like what he said, you could argue in court. But then the buck should stop there. I mean, it's already happening where they're going, oh, no, let's take this opportunity to shut down Parl. Let's take this opportunity. They're going after Andy Ngo's book now. Let's get that out of stores. They want to keep going because like it's this orgy of kind of like, let's shut down this stuff that leads to. And you're like, wait a second. How can you prove it leads to that? I mean, idiots are going to do what idiots do. Like and to me, that was a coup attempt. That was a coup attempt by guys who believe like that's what you'd expect a coup attempt would look like by guys who believe like that Hillary Clinton's a shape shifter and she turns into a reptile. That's what you'd imagine it would look like. What are we doing? Okay, let's fucking let's go in there with Trump flags and take selfies. And so it's so dumb. Let's go kidnap Nancy Pelosi with zip ties. Stacks is zip ties like more zip ties than there are members of the Senate. Yeah, if anything, it was just like an inept coup attempt. Yeah. Well, it's losers. Yeah, it's losers who decided this is their moment in the sun. 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