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And 7% of those protests killed over 25 people and caused > $1B in damage.

6th street in Austin is completely gone. People who live in major metros may not understand this, but rural America is laughing at them. These cities are national embarrassments.

But that's not the point. The point is the sheer arrogance required to believe that they're qualified to control what people are allowed to read.

These same people can't even keep their cities from being burned down, 50+% increases in murder rates, fecal matter on the streets, people leaving in droves... I'm supposed to listen to them? Really?

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Disregarding the hyperbole, rural areas have their own set of problems that seem outrageous in turn to city dwellers. It's easy to scorn the speck in your neighbor's eye; removing one's own is more constructive.

They most definitely do have their own set of problems.

But if 90% of Twitter was run by Republicans who lived exclusively in rural areas, would you like it if they deplatformed Biden?

Would that be construed as offensive? Because that exact scenario is happening in reverse. People at tech companies in San Francisco who vote 90+% Democrat have just kicked off the Republican president of the United States. They've been talking about it for years, and this event is just pretext.

As a republicans living in a rural area, I have to disagree with your logic.

The issue with Trump isn’t his politics but his policy. I agree with his politics, we are both nominally Republican after all, but when he goes to implement it the policy is incompetent at best and actively harmful at worst.

For example, both Trump and I support the ideal of strong Republican leadership. I want to achieve that via elections, he aimed to achieve that through illegal power grabs attempts at last 4 years capped off with inciting a violent riot against his political opponents.

He has simply gone too far.

He stood in front of a crowd and told them to seize the party for himself, then after the riot called them patriots and told them they are loved.

Fine, you disagree. But statistically, Trump has overwhelming support within the Republican party, even after this.

Vast majorities of Republican voters believe that Biden stole the election. Scarily huge majorities of Republican voters believe that something approaching Civil War is possible. Similar numbers exist that believe Democrats were trying to invalidate the 2016 election with their calls for impeachment before Trump even took office.

If San Francisco had any diversity of thought at all, it would understand how damaging their petty bans and disclaimers have been. But it doesn't. The perverse reality is that San Francisco has become an echo chamber.

> 6th street in Austin is completely gone

I’ve been to Austin and to 6th Street. Tragic.

> These same people

They’re us. We’re all the same people. Maybe try asking them why they’re upset first before going “WHY do THOSE PEOPLE have to act like this?”

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