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Oh my God, they killed Godfrey! “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
― Obi-Wan Kenobi, sensing the destruction of Alderaan by Darth Vader
The circumstances are complicated. Lisa Graves, the satirist behind the most recent incarnation of Elfwick, was reported to Twitter for using an expletive during an exchange on her personal account with another user. The complainant additionally made the demonstrably false claim that Elfwick was an ‘alt-right account’ engaged in ‘targeted harassment’. Before long, all of Graves’ accounts had been subject to a blanket ban. Given Twitter’s curiously draconian response to such groundless accusations, it is hardly surprising that many are assuming that the punishment is politically motivated.
― Andrew Doyle, sensing the destruction of Godfrey Elfwick by Twitter
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Twitter, like so many of the internet companies, is controlled by the left – and it is not just a case of a lot of brainwashed lower level staff recruited from the universities. The head of Twitter is a leftist – who see Californian politics, not as a warning but as a model to be followed.
Rich individuals and companies that own not just the internet companies, but also the fashion magazines and just about everything else in the culture – seem unable to understand that the end result of the leftist politics they back will be to rob them first of their wealth, and then of their lives.
The Duke of Orleans was the richest man in France – yet he seemed unable to understand what backing (financially and in other ways) hated of the rich, would lead to.
Would Twitter ban an “alt left” account that engaged in “targeted harassment” of conservatives? Of course not.
No more than “Ofcom” would seek to close down a television station for “liberal” bias, or the “Electoral Commission” would report Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne to the police for using millions of taxpayer money on pro European Union propaganda during the referendum campaign.
That would be the referendum in 2016 whose pro independence result has been ignored by those in power.
But I fear that they do understand, and they just presume that they will be doing the looting, and, should it comes to it, the killing. After all, they are on top at the moment, why should that change?
“Obi-Wan Kenobi, sensing the destruction of Alderaan by Darth Vader”
Uh… that was Governor (later retconned to “Grand Moff”) Tarkin, not Darth Vader….
/fanboi
Why would rich lefties need to have their wealth confiscated? Surely they should be sharing it voluntarily with those less fortunate. That is what they believe should happen so what are they waiting for?
When will ‘Bugs’ Bunny, or ‘Daffy’ Duck, sue their creators for such malicious names? Why doesn’t Twitter do it for them?
@pkudude99:
Nope. He was always called Grand Moff Tarkin, even in the original Star Wars back in 1977 as Peter Cushing explained here in an contemporary TV interview, he could never understand it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdXLDvx_tHQ
“The circumstances are complicated”
No, no they are NOT!
Paul Marks
“The head of Twitter is a leftist”
No, he’s a capitalist, wearing progressive cover-alls, in order to harvest the flock.
Of course, that’s just IMHO
Again?
Mr Ed – are you not aware of the fate of the Duke of Orleans, the richest man in France, who called himself “Citizen Equality”?
Some of the rich leftists are wicked fools (which is what the Duke of Orleans was) – but most of the rich leftists do NOT want plunder and murder, they just do not see that the movement they are backing (with everything from Hollywood films to the nightly news) will lead to plunder and murder.
They do NOT see it – the vast majority do NOT see it. No matter how obvious it may be to us.
Remember they went to school and university – and they were not very attentive (as they were already thinking about creating their business). They were just attentive enough to absorb the leftist doctrines that saturate the education system – but as they were not paying close attention (and are still not paying close attention) they do not understand these doctrines, and what they lead to….
They vaguely think that X is good (because they were told so, repeatedly, when young) and so they allow X to be spread in the television shows, magazines… and so on – not understanding that X is lethal poison.
When Edmund Burke wrote “Letter to a Noble Lord” (an open letter to the Duke of Bedford) he was trying to save the life of the leftist Duke – but the Duke took it as insult, as did the other rich leftists.
These days Edmund Burke would be banned from Twitter (and other social media) for “hate speech” – and when the mob of savage leftists came for the owners of Twitter and so on (and their families) the rich leftists would be utterly baffled, even as they were being tortured to death.
“But you are our friends – unlike that nasty bigot Edmund Burke”.
Paul,
You are so charitable towards them, lending if not giving, the benefit of the doubt.
I would say it is at best an intellectual laziness, not ignorance.