“I’m against the mobs in the West Bank because they’re ruining our chances to expand the settlements” is quite a take but then I’m not Israeli

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Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

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the problem with takes like this is they assume the behavior of zuck et al is somehow irrational/political/etc, when in fact it's an extremely rational choice when your options are "get strung up (metaphorically, possibly literally)" vs "nothing, maybe someone says something mean about you once"

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when a side defects without consequence you are now playing a fundamentally rigged game and the only way to fix it is to ensure defectors are punished in such a way that they learn there are consequences to all their choices

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again this is why you have to retaliate. if they are only afraid of republicans this will happen all over again

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