The problem with Trump is that he prioritizes catering to his fanbase over deflecting accusations. So the Left Wing media gets him going, they get the sound bites they want, then they claim everything is racist.
I lean to the Right. It's frustrating though. The Right is dominated by people who don't have the balls to speak up. Consequently, the loudest voices on the Right are those that aren't necessarily the best representatives. It's another perfect formula for false narratives.
I should note, I lean to the Right so I am harder on the Right. The Left is full of people who hate this country and people who are easily distracted by false narratives. "Hey that's racist." "Oh, okay." "Hey that's a conspiracy theory." "If you say so." Fucking idiots.
Trump seems just fine. We needed someone with his rhetoric since the woke SJW crowd went so insane. He also inspired more people to speak up and brought in some new people to the right. We seem to be getting more and more voices as a result as well who are likely doing the same, but with different rhetoric from Trump's.
>I should note, I lean to the Right so I am harder on the Right.
I can relate. Its more vital that the right be moving in the right direction.
> I should note, I lean to the Right so I am harder on the Right. The Left is full of people who hate this country and people who are easily distracted by false narratives. "Hey that's racist." "Oh, okay." "Hey that's a conspiracy theory." "If you say so." Fucking idiots.
As left-leaning person this statement is absolutely correct. Lots of people who claim themselves as left are absolute idiots who think what if they're anti-conservative it means what they're left (while in reality they're even more conservative and dogmatic than conservatives themselves and this is says something). Braindead romanticism and smelling own farts is so strong what these folks doesn't know read problems and think what destroying racism and any word with phobia creates a perfect world, while making a perfect fuel for conservatism and even fascism (I even predict what Alpha generation will be extremely conservative comparing with zoomers).
I actually started leaning Left when I moved closer to a city. I think having such a broad group of people I was hanging out with emphasized the "Live and let live" philosophy for me. Then after Trump won the election it seems like the "Live and let live" idea shifted over to the right. The Right tends to want to control things when it comes to something like abortion. The Left has become incredibly controlling now. It almost feels like a bitter step father or something.
Honestly both sides wants to control, only using opposite problems and solutions. Left-wing morons uses right-wing fuck ups to provide what they're good guys and vice versa. Only on 90's and 2000's were soccer mums to control media and in 10's these people switched sides doing the same thing. 2016 election was a first major point to see how left became fucked up in their own delusions and 2020 made me just downright hate them for a lot of horrible things they did. And these moments made me more conservative and also I started to appreciate right-wing people (mostly libertarians and center-right kind of people, still despise conservatives, fascists and traditionalists). As left-wing person (Orwell kind of left) I'll say what left and right wing are horribly wrong about problems, cause a real ones are political polarization, corporate control of almost everything, complete bias in media and strong division between poor and rich people (plus shrinking of middle class for a bunch), monopolism, destruction of small business and horrible education not only in schools, but by parents themselves. Not racism, conservatism, SJW, social media, any word with -phobia, nationalism, right/left-wing people they're all consequences of what I said and this what need to be fixed.
Exactly just need to wait for the next mass shooting or terrorist attack. It will be conveniently found that it was planned on Rumble (despite little or no evidence) and they'll be disappeared like all the other big tech competitors.
Speaking of, what's the general consensus on Parler? I'm still suspicious about the events surrounding their restructuring. My understanding is they decided to host on Amazon's services, it was claimed that Parler was utilized in the staging of a so-called "coup", they go down and the information of everyone who used the site is conveniently leaked, a new CEO emerges, and now they're back like nothing ever happened.
My understanding is that the moment trump joined the platform Amazon flipped shit and shut them down and they had a really hard time getting back up again
Their own DNS servers? What about the registry they bought the domain from, which can also revoke the domain license? How about Google, which can blacklist them from almost the entire world population online? I hope they also have their own payment processors too. Hopefully ISP's like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T also like Rumble. And maybe it would be a wise idea to form their own government to avoid speech regulations online, which are apparently imminent.
Yes the era of free internet is coming to an end.
Leftists do not support the 1st amendment at all, soon it will either be repealed or hate speech will be added as an exception.
You conservatives keep hiding behind muh constituational rights but half of your country is ready to rip them out because they were made by old white male slave owners.
i wish that i was more optimistic... i hate being such a doomer
but the situation is more dire than anyone suspects. i think if there's a single fight worth engaging in wholly it's preserving the first amendment. as soon as the supreme court grants an exception to hate speech the internet dies like nothing ever existed in the first place, it would be instantaneous, intelligence agencies in America already surveil almost everything, they probably have a couple files on me already and I'm still pretty young
True, protecting the 1st should be main priority, but making people like and want the 1st should be the 2nd priority.
It doesn't matter how long you go on protecting the 1st if the people themselves hate it more and more. Eventually they will become a majority and that's when the 1st amendment dies.
This is absolutely scary.
This is the running away and hiding that i'm talking about.
Evading them is not the answer. Eventually they will make laws to make that illegal and they will find you. Decentralization isn't magic and the government has more than enough money and power to spy on you.
The answer is make people want freedoms. Campaign and promote freedom of speech as an ideal.
What you're doing currently is hiding behind established old laws that protect you, while the people are increasingly against you. Eventually your political enemies will reach a certain mass where they can change or mold the law to their liking.
> The answer is make people want freedoms. Campaign and promote freedom of speech as an ideal.
That's the idea, sure.
> What you're doing currently is hiding behind established old laws that protect you, while the people are increasingly against you. Eventually your political enemies will reach a certain mass where they can change or mold the law to their liking.
We can walk and chew gum, and wanting to use stuff like Odysee is not "hiding behind" anything. Trying to make YouTube a bastion for freedom of speech is an effort not worth fighting in my opinion. As it is, not being decentralized is a huge flaw.
These platforms (partly) rely on their monolithic nature to protect them.
"YouTube is too big to be taken down, so why bother?". Etc.
How quickly we forget about MySpace. YouTube is just one killer feature away from obsolescence, and the person who figures out what that feature is is going to be a billionaire.
> YouTube is just one killer feature away from obsolescence
I don't think it's about killer features; more so about critical mass. YouTube has millions and millions of viewers; if I'm a content creator I will upload to YouTube as I'm more likely to grow an audience. It's helpful to cross post to alternatives though.
You could have have an objectively better UI/UX than youtube and it's still DOA. At the end of the day, content is king.
I completely agree. The problem with any competitor is that the moment it arises it is plagued with Right-leaning talking points. I'm right-leaning myself but I want to see MMA and Pro Wrestling related top 10 videos, fail videos, funny pet and kid videos, that kind of thing.
I really don't need 500 explanations as to why "The Last of Us 2" is shit and how Biden is truly racist. I believe both of these things, but I already got the memo.
LOL! That's pretty on point.
Or there's always the 27 minute video about something somebody said in an article. I always scroll down to the first comment because it's usually, "He gets to the actual article at 18:15."
Rumble has a ton of funny pet and kid videos. That's all of the top of their home page. Odysee has some wrestling interviews on it and is more Youtube-esque
What I did like about Rumble, is that they don't seem to have all the political stuff all over the front page. Its mainly pet videos and drone footage on the home screen right now.
it's a bit more than that, content creators can still upload to multiple platforms, what holds youtube competitors down is mostly money, running a video sharing website is super incredibly expensive
You're definitely right, unfortunately, but that's certainly one thing all of us can help with. Not just punishing the shitty companies, but showing conservatives that they will lose out on a lot of their audience if they don't post elsewhere
You are forgetting one thing... WHY NOT BOTH?
Youtube doesn't even have a youtube only license.. It would have to pay more ad revenue to creators and it doesn't have competition for now.
Rumble has both types of license.
You can build your platform on BOTH... it's not an either-or choice.
He's a Boomer at the end of the day. Didn't seem to realize how big the issue is until Social media started telling us how to think, who to vote for, and who's allowed to speak.
Yeah you're probably right. He did talk about regulating them back then which is even more frustrating he didn't. That's kinda why I want Desantis to run. I appreciate what Trump has done but there is just several areas where he's still shown he just doesn't get it
I actually think Trump would be better for attacking online Corporatism. He's aware of the issues now, has been kicked off of almost every platform, and if he runs then they legally have to let him back on which they'll fight as much as they can. There is no way for them to look good shutting out a major president while he's trying to run for office, and people may also be more likely to use whatever new platform he's on in order to follow the election. Plus he'd be the best at tackling voter fraud during an election, especially with Covid over. Also, Desantis is a younger guy and the Dems made it so that he can probably run after 2024 and easily win, especially if he becomes Trump's VP. I'm just speaking idealistically of course, this could all go many different ways.
He who wins the normies wins the internet. Most normies don't even know what the fuck torrenting is or that ad blockers exist.
The only way a decentralized platform even has a chance is
1.) A borderline retard can use it.
2.) It has really good marketing to make it seem cool and trendy.
3.) It has some big name apolitical people to help it avoid becoming another right-wing political echo chamber.
> A borderline retard can use it.
good decentralized alternatives are already normie friendly (matrix and odysee for example)
> It has really good marketing to make it seem cool and trendy.
biggest problem right here, if only we had someone like the ex-president to advertise the plataform
> It has some big name apolitical people to help it avoid becoming another right-wing political echo chamber.
basically impossible to solve, decentralized free speech platforms will always be full of rightoids
I hate odysee. The extra steps involved just to comment on a video caused me to abandon the site. If something so innocuous will turn someone more experienced away due to contempt for the process, its going to turn these normies away even faster.
A site where 98% of the content is right-wing political videos will do it faster. The normies don't care about politics that much, and the ones that do, are not right-wingers.
What extra steps? I'm not trying to be a dick here I genuinely don't know what you mean, you create an account and sign in and comment just like YouTube or any other video site.
Normies don’t care about censorious content policy so long as vanilla content isn’t affected. They don’t care if a company hires a controversial figure because they don’t even know who the CEO is to begin with.
I don't trust Trump either. If he was truely anti-establishment, he would have pardoned Julian Assanage and Edward Snowden.
That said, Trump is a celebrity. Love him or hate him, he gets traffic, something an alt platform needs to compete.
Not only that, he wouldn't have pardoned the meth dealing rabbi Rabushkin or the Israeli spy Johnathon Pollard. Bad enough not to pardon good guys, but he went out of his way to pardon villains with no loyalty to our country.
So what? Trump still seems to be doing way more than Biden by pushing to get the right people elected, whereas Biden has yet to do anything that significant despite being given the highest seat in the country.
Too little too late.
Before he would have helped an alt platform rise above, but now he's just a worm struggling to attach itself to anything that will let him.
Timing is very important. He stayed on twitter while he had political power, confident he won't get banned. Didn't care one bit about twitter censoring other conservatives though.
Didn't want to join truly free speech sites because muh antisemitism. Well eat shit now.
Yup, for all the reasons leftists hate trump, he's still a massive jew cuck. Imagine if there was an actual president that flat out said, fuck you isreal, no more funding for you!
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