@Halo
I mean, just make your own phones? 😏 You can even make it 5G-free to shelter yourself from Covid-19 radiation. Besides, a true patriot would never use iPhone. Just think about all that spying Apple does on behalf of the deep state. 😱
This is why I can't the current state of politics. Some random nuts and boomers believe some nonsense about 5G, the media propagates it, and it's assumed the entirety of one side believes those values that started with a fringe minority.
Honestly, the constant point scoring, cheap shots, and smug posts of self-satisfaction about "how dumb the other side is" without realizing the difference in underlying principles and trying to humanize the opposition will only lead to further radicalization one both sides.
Somehow, I, someone who has always identified myself as anti-corporate, anti-big business, and antiauthoritarian, am stuck defending the right because it has become clear that the left is not concerned with actually combating the issues with big business, governmental corruption, or individual liberty, which are the liberal positions I grew up supporting as the core of my belief system and fundamentally tied to the left in the wake of the right trying to censor art, music, and suppress the rights of individuals.
Now, what is very clearly the government overreaching and starting to impose tyranny and big tech censoring the public the likes of which is completely unprecedented in human history, we have people who just want to paint to demonize the opposition by any means necessary, not caring one iota for the principles that is innate within the political parties that just a few decades were intimately tied to their platform.
Where is the concern for the working class from the left? Where is the value for the common citizenry and their rights? These were the positions Obama ran on and was praised for, yet now seems completely abandoned. Now the left seems to not care about the issues the working man faces in society, and uses the image of populism to propose their own ideological agenda, rather than anything the working class cares about. It is instead an astroturfed progressive agenda that concerns about petty, insignificant things like gendered language in Congress when currently millions of businesses are closing their doors due to pandemic restrictions.
It is indisputably oppression in my eyes for Big Business and for these de facto monopolies such as Google, Apple, etc. to be able to socially engineer society and censor dissident voices on their platform. They are not meant to be curators of society, and no one person, agency, or group ought to have that much social power in society. The fact Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube thinks it can ban the leader of the free world from addressing the public should be enough alone to split them into a million businesses scattered across the winds, or to make it so they are held to account just as our government is through a Bill of Rights and protections.
You can make your own business like you used to, that's the issue with giants and monopolies in the market, which only continue to grow larger as more and more people can't survive the pressure caused by COVID restrictions, making their power and influence grow as well. This should not be a right wing concern, as the Occupy movement ran on this very notion, and the neoconserative agenda such as seen with Mitt "Corporations are people, too" Romney, clearly favors big business. Yet, the left does not criticize the deplatforming and censorship that big business uses its power and influence to cause, and instead makes the pro-corporate argument that "they're a private business so they can do whatever they want, go make your own alternative." I am sorry, but I am a man of the left, and the market cannot provide solutions within this duopolistic market in which businesses collude with one another, discriminate against their customers and who to serve, and actively suppress any form of competition unless they are forced to by alternative means such as, ideally, pressure from the government to do so. Unfortunately, the corruption in our system runs so deep that any means to seek readdress through the government often is futile, as too many are either supporting the censorship of people they do not like, or outright are paid-off by them to ignore it entirely. We cannot have justice when there is no channel by the people can seek it without the prejudice against them preventing society from progressing.
We, the people, found our rights to be self-evident and innate to us, and that no entity should be able to have the power to take away our rights from us, lest it be unjustified. The fact big businesses, technocrats, bureaucrats, plutocrats, and even now with our own government violating the constitution of the United States to further their own means, as the rights of the individuals within our nation become ever-shrinking with fewer and fewer ways to peacefully assert our grievances. It is only a matter of time before 95 Theses are nailed to the door of Congress or a big business, and by that time, society will have already begun its fracturing. We must turn this ship around, weed out the corrupt individuals in our system, reassert individual rights, and prevent an aristocratic class the likes of which will be unrivaled in world history from forming, or all the principles, values, and beliefs this nation was founded on will be only used as a framing post with only symbolic value.
I say all of this because I wish to outline I have very specific principles and ideas I try to follow, and very real concerns that I see unfolding before my eyes that grants me concern for the coming years and decades if things keep progressing the way that they do. I am not some partisan hack, not someone who believes unconditionally in one side of a political debate or that does not think for themselves. I am my own free person, not tied to the bondage of supporting a single party or ideology, by instead trying to reassert the innate human rights by which we should have never relinquished over the years, especially in the Bush Administration.
Halo, you can continue to make pot-shots, but you are not solving anything nor are you actively contributing to the conversation in a productive way. It is clear you do not care about the issues nor seek to discuss them in any meaningful way, as you just wish to make sardonic quips and jabs that only seek to undermine the point. This is not Twitter. Be mature and instead of sarcastically deriding everything with nothing of actual value to say, please actually listen to the points being made with an open mind for once. Otherwise, we'll treat you like the clown you present yourself as that cares not for anything and only seeks to mock and deride.
