Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

I know that it’s become accepted wisdom among some that the various social media platforms have an “anti-conservative bias” in how they moderate content. However, we’ve yet to see any evidence to actually support such a claim. Indeed, one study that has been pointed to frequently seemed to show that Twitter, at least, had an anti-Nazi and anti-troll policy — and unless you think “conservatives” are synonymous with Nazis and trolls, then that doesn’t really prove very much. Of course, there was another report that came out around that time noting that some Republican politicians’ accounts were indistinguishable from Nazi accounts — so… who knows?

Russiagate, Nazis, and the CIA

Russiagate, Nazis, and the CIA

The first Cold War was an imperial business enterprise to keep the Generals, bureaucrats, and war materiel suppliers in power and their bank accounts flush after WWII. Likewise, the American side of the nuclear arms race left former Gestapo and SS officers employed by the CIA to put their paranoid fantasies forward as assessments of Russian military capabilities. Why, of all people, would former Nazi officers be put in charge military intelligence if accurate assessments were the goal? The Nazis hated the Soviets more than the Americans did.

Social democrats helped usher in fascism in Germany. They’re doing it again in America.

There are a lot of parallels between modern America and Germany during the leadup to the Nazi era: growing racism and xenophobia, economic decline, deteriorating democratic institutions, an obsession with militarism, violent political polarization. But the defining factor that the two countries share in their descent into fascism is a decision by each country’s liberals to participate in the campaign to repress the revolutionaries.

The operation by Weimar Germany’s majority Social Democratic government to crush the communist-led revolt of 1919 showed just how far social democrats can go when the bourgeois system they align with is threatened; they sent in paramilitary forces to assassinate the leaders of the Spartacus League, including the communist Rosa Luxemburg. This prevented Germany from becoming socialist (which would have stopped it from becoming fascist), and kept the opposition to the fascists incurably divided throughout the decade leading up to when Hitler came to power.

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Social democrats helped usher in fascism in Germany. They’re doing it again in America.