Evil Facebook

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by edna kawabata, May 10, 2021.

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Is Zuckerberg Dr. Evil?

  1. yes

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  2. no

    16.7%
  3. maybe so

    36.7%
  1. Capt Nice

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    That is hardly the case as I watched riots, assassinations and dictators murdering thousands on TV in the 1960's-1970's. Ever hear of Nam? Black Panthers? Symbionese Liberation Army? Inter racial marriages and Liberace? Just to name a few...
     
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    We have similar things today but back then there was not the hatred between left and right.
     
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    Uhm, us hippies were hated by the conservatives and called us names all day long, denied us jobs or a place at the table. Sorry you can't white wash history with a poor memory.
     
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    We played Liberace at my interracial marriage
     
  7. Oh Yeah

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    Why did you wait so long? I ditched it in less than an hour . No regrets.
     
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    We have always been divided Edna. I think we had a short window when Clinton was elected that things were changing but that ended when Barack became President. Many were not happy that America not only elected a multiracial President but that more wasn't being done to punish America for it's racist past. With Hillary's loss it was like a slap in the face to woman and a threat to the radical social agendas of the left. The media and the social internet hated Trump and any other conservative so much that they demonized all who stood in their path. Even with the election of Biden and Harris they are not satisfied with just a victory but now want a complete destruction of the right. I'm afraid the last great compromise in government was with Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. It's been hardball ever since. All I have said here is just in my own opinion.
     
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    I do not mind the ones that admit it, it's the ones that pretend to be Americans with the only purpose of dividing us, many working for foreign governments
     
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  10. edna kawabata

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    Gingrich is evil...."He argued Republicans had to prioritize partisanship above all else. They didn’t have to balance that with the needs of governance. They didn’t have to balance that with the health of our democratic institutions. Gingrich said, “Put all that aside.” This is very much what you see in Republican politics today."
    Trump is and was an obvious con man whose demagoguery was swallowed by the gullible.
    Biden and Clinton are MOR Democrats who would like to work with the Republicans but it has moved so far right and partisan even saint Ronnie wouldn't recognize it.
     
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    We on the Right make essentially the same observation about those on the hyperliberal, America-hating Left.

    The much more sane, rational, and intelligent Democrat Party of President John F. Kennedy is GONE forever, leaving a klatch of moronic 'woke' wanna-be socialists in its place....
     
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    Narcissim.
     
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    Seems to me that the Republicans have moved left on the issues of immigration and protectionism.

    Anyway here is an interesting article:

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a..._party_really_moved_to_the_right_137048.html#!
     
  14. edna kawabata

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    This hasn't much to do with facebook....but

    Your guy does not seem to understand what is right and left are subjective evaluations dependent on current opinion. He notes conservative attitudes towards LGBTs have gone left....well not really. They are still well behind liberals. but take the case of equal rights for the races. Conservatives fought against equal rights for the races, but now all sane conservatives, even ultra conservatives, believe all races should have equal rights. Does that make them less conservative? He says foreign policy of righties have gone left....well not really. He uses a survey before and after the financial crisis. The entire nation turned inward and they didn't go anymore left on their resistance to giving foreign aid. His cherry picked examples and dismissing studies do not prove his case.

    The right has embraced rather than denounced nationalism, white supremacy. They have tried to overturn the democratic process and their anti-democratic bent has played out in state legislatures with suppression of voting rights by supposedly trying to keep balloting safe from fraud, which was a nonexistent problem.

    BTW check out your guys blog and see if you can agree with any of his opinions...I don't.
    https://hyrumlewis.blogspot.com/
     
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    Why would they do that?
     
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    Thanks for the tip. I can agree with some.

    Denouncing Nationalism and White Supremacy only became popular a few decades ago. They used to be radically leftist positions. You never heard and Democrat poll bemoaning White Privilege until a few years ago. Now it is all the rage.
     
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    But that is why the saying is a GOOD man can't be stolen. If you are easily swayed by propaganda you're very probably not that good,
     
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    Zuckerberg is a good businessman who caught a part of the Internet that epitomizes the very Zeitgiest of our age. The main thing I can't figure about him is why he hasn't had more imitators. Only recently with all this political controversy have we seen competitors spring up but why? Facebook is basically a web page, and web pages are far from expensive or difficult to run
     
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    I must be evil also as he is the one person in the Republican party that I was sad to see screw up with his personal life. He was my choice to be President until that came along. Biden is as crooked as the road he took to get the Presidency and Clinton was the best Republican the Democrats ever had.
     
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    You make a very interesting and provocative point! About the only things that the Right does is support one (ONE) very popular TV network, Fox -- both news, and, for business, and one less visible network, Newsmax. The Left has a wide variety of propaganda organs at its disposal, including MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC -- and Bloomberg, which has a large following because of its business world coverage (which is actually quite good).

    Aside from that, there are many right-wing AM radio talk shows (juxtaposed against almost no left-wing AM radio talk shows anywhere)! The Left has its voice (such as it is) on the overpoweringly liberal NPR (publicly-funded National Public Radio) radio, which is more often found on FM radio. Still, not very many Americans listen to any of the radio talk shows anymore, and, meanwhile, the hyperliberal Left rules the internet space occupied by Facebook and Twitter.

    Disclaimer -- I wouldn't touch Facebook again with a twenty-foot pole (played with it for about a month once, eleven years ago :dizzy:). I have a Twitter account that I never use... probably ought to ditch it, too. I guess I like my propaganda with greater depth, and less low-brow, impromptu bullshit....
     
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  22. edna kawabata

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    Facebook pages with right-wing content are the most popular in the US, with over 2 billion users worldwide.
     
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    Oh? Then why do Facebook editors and management punish those with right-wing views so severely...? When was the last time you heard about some foaming-at-the-mouth, America-hating BLM, ANTIFA, or NFAC personality getting kicked to Facebook's 'curb'?! Yeah... me, neither....
     
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    Do research, Zuckerberg spent millions in GA at election boards all over to affect the election. He is not some innocent nerd just goofing off. He bans and censors anything that counters the leftist message. You are aware of that, no? Everyone that posts on that site for their dopamine hit just give him more millions in ads.
     
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    Facebook used to support Trump and his followers because they were important customers as Zuckerberg elaborated above. After the Trump ban, they migrated to other platforms such as GETTR. The company's indefinite ban of President Trump continued to drive investors out of the stock, by which Facebook lost $34 billion.
     
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