Left officials will secretly message tech companies to censor speech that they don't like, and cover it up so that it only comes out in litigation. So that even years afterwards, most people have no idea and the media can successfully cover up what they did.
Right officials will shout from the rooftops "HEY, YOU BETTER CANCEL THIS GUY OR WE'LL DO IT THE HARD WAY", so that even a voluntary decision to pull someone who is unfunny and has bad ratings will appear like government censorship.
The difference between people who want to accomplish something and people who are solely interested in their public image.
Or the difference between people who are ok cheating and lying to the public, and people who would rather openly stand by what they do rather than endorse society being run by two-faced rats.
This isn't quite your dumbest take I've ever seen but it's pretty close.
You are literally, and I mean that literally, suggesting that being earnest is bad and wrong.
But then you're a leftist yourself so.
At best, he is saying that we shouldn't be canceling them at all. That we should leave our hands tied behind our backs and turn the other cheek to let them take another swing.
People still haven't accepted that this avalanche has already started. Centrists, peaceniks, and controlled opposition can shut the fuck up and get out of the way, or they can get run the fuck over. Our tolerance for the left has finally reached zero.
Usually the "use the left's tactics against them" position is pretty popular around this site, which is why I'm surprised that this post is not being received as well. I assumed OP was saying that conservatives are simply being performative rather than effective in their cancellation tactics, which is often echoed by a lot of others around here whenever they criticize the self-sabotaging behavior of Republicans.
EDIT: For the record, I actually am happy to see conservatives openly calling for the cancellation of leftists.
I'm connecting to an anonymous site using a VPN because I know the left are deranged enough to cancel me for thinking men can't become women and that prefer pronouns are retarded.
I don't care about leftists getting canceled. We warned against it for many years and they didn't listen.
They'd do more than cancel you if they could. Just being on a dissident site like this is enough for them to label you a nazi, which in their tiny minds makes you a valid target for anything.
When we win, remember that these people want you dead and broke, your children raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny.
I don't know which side is which in your theory, but it is deception vs forthrightness. Unscrupulous underhanded power vs fair warning. Generously, Captain Kirk in TOS vs Sisko in In the Pale Moonlight. You can clearly see the difference in individual billionaires. Elon Musk hasn't done anything any of the others don't do, but they do it quietly and behind the scenes while he screams like an autist. That is hardly helping his image.
Republican politicians ARE the professional losers who write sternly worded letters with no intention to act, but that's a different issue. Something was accomplished here no matter how our image is perceived.
The people who advertise "HEY, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE, I CANCELED JIMMY KIMMEL! IT WAS ME!" are the people who are interested in their own image, while the people doing it secretively are the people who want results.
Even if you believed that government pressure to cancel lawful speech is OK, shouldn't you want it done in the most effective way possible?
I bet even from a Realpolitik POV, the damage done from "Republicans are censoring" will be greater than the cancellation of a show that no one but boomers watched and who only served to galvanize the right.
If you say something is accomplished, I assume you mean that this would not have happened without government pressure. I sort of doubt that. His ratings were low and he was pure cringe and very unfunny. So if that is true, then nothing was accomplished other than the creation of a "Republicans are censoring" narrative that might be damaging. He should have kept his mouth shut.
Yeah I think Disney would have gotten rid of him eventually but the timing and Republicans pouncing was a convenient way for them to do it without taking blame. Sometimes you need to let your enemy save face. Give them an escape route as Sun Tzu would say. I really don't care about 'the damage done from "Republicans are censoring"'. Again, perception of virtue vs reality.
The left tries to cancel people for telling an off color joke ten years ago.
The right tries to cancel people for cheering on political assassinations today.
We are not the same.
The right wanted to be left alone.
The left wants us dead.
To rephrase:
The right wants to be left alone.
The left wants to be left, alone.