Quote (Skinned @ May 1 2020 12:25pm)
I have libertarian leanings so i believe people who ban who they want on their stuff for their own interests. Milo can be banned for bullying but the President can't so it isn't like it is a real functional limitation. If Milo was more famous or offered more or was better he wouldn't be banned.
that's hardly a perfect picture you painted. banning milo had limited drawbacks, banning the POTUS would cause widespread hysteria and back narratives that the left wants to censor people. and one is a troll political commentator, one is the president of the USA. when trump was in full bully mode on twitter against Obama twitter wasn't banning anyone, it was the wild west era.
Quote (Thor123422 @ May 1 2020 12:26pm)
I'm not familiar with Milo beyond knowing he was the right's token gay for a while. Is there, like, a compilation of tweets of his bullying I can find somewhere?
basically twitter said he directed his fans to harass Leslie Jones based on how bad the ghostbusters all female adaptation was. they tied in b.s. anti-trans narratives because people were calling Leslie a man, and because Milo had a strain of statements conceived as anti trans, so the allegations stuck like glue.
Milo was just the gay less intelligent Ben Shapiro, he had the "gotcha libs, owned" type compilations from campus speeches where he faced off against lines of college students asking questions one by one. his only advantage to Shapiro was on the topics of homosexuality and to an extent trans issues he had "insider knowledge" and couldnt be labelled a bigot to his own team. similar to how shapiro cant be called a Nazi because he's jewish. but he wasn't nearly as smart as he pretended to be, and he had a feud with Shapiro that went back to their work together at Breitbart. its clear in their engagements from a neutral standpoint that Shapiro fucked Milo up hard. especially when Milo went full on team trump, moved further right into identity politics, and lost a lot of his credibility in the process. the further right he moved "some people think ____, and i can understand why they think that" became "i think _____ because its obviously right". he pigeon hole'd himself.
This post was edited by thesnipa on May 1 2020 11:33am