I’ve become so fed up with the hand wringing about the whole capitol thing. Yes, they shouldn’t have done it and the guilty parties will be arrested. I feel like I’m living in bizarro world to hear the same people who questioned the 2016 election get so upset about questioning the 2020 election. Even worse is that the riots of the summer were applauded but they can’t shut up about last week and now we will be smeared for a long time.
A democrat cousin of mine was asking me about the capitol invasion and she got mad because I said those individuals were wrong but since you were dead silent about people’s businesses getting destroyed you have no grounds to say anything
The double standards of the 2016 and 2020 Election is only the tip of the iceberg. Also, Trump and by extension the right will be smeared regardless of what happened at the Capitol. Trump's election hurt their pride, the most egregious crime to the Puritan Left. In a few hours on November 9th, 2016, that smug leftist mask shattered and has been replaced with a veneer of pure vitriol ever since. I'll keep saying this, the world will suffer for years, if not decades, over the right daring to defy the Left in 2016.
It’s weird because I was born in 80 and I remember a time when the left was hardcore about defending free speech/expression.
When I am weak, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles. When I am strong, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
Over the last 6-7 years, it has been a tough pill for me to swallow that bands I used to listen to even further back that had messages like "Fuck the System" and "Fight the Power" actually meant "Fuck the Right-Wing System", "Fight the Right-Wing Power". I always thought that Oligopolies and Government overreach were bad things on principle, not because our team wasn't benefitting.
Those have been exterminated ideologically through propaganda. The few remaining ones are anti-war leftists that are also censored, but not smeared.