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Facebook is After Extremists
« on: July 01, 2021, 03:50:07 PM »
I'm sure you can guess what kind of "extremists" they are after. I don't have the friendface, so perhaps some here can verify that FB is apparently monitoring where people visit and post and then pops up a warning that they "may have been exposed to extremism".

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/07/01/dave-rubin-takes-facebook-up-on-their-offer-to-help-identify-extremists/
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2021, 04:18:49 PM »
I am very disappointed to report that I haven't gotten that warning yet.   I need to step up my game.

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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2021, 04:22:44 PM »
I am very disappointed to report that I haven't gotten that warning yet.   I need to step up my game.

Same here. 

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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2021, 04:26:23 PM »
I tried to put together a fresh account.
 
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2021, 04:33:22 PM »
I am very disappointed to report that I haven't gotten that warning yet.   I need to step up my game.

Just post on FB that you believe marriage is between someone with a penis and someone with a vagina and that you ate at Chick-fil-a last night. Should get you put on the permanent watch list.
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2021, 04:46:15 PM »
It is enough for MANY people that someone is simply called an "extremist." They assume kluckernazi right off the bat.
 
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2021, 05:21:30 PM »
I am very disappointed to report that I haven't gotten that warning yet.   I need to step up my game.

I must try harder, does the RNC have a FB page, I guess I could start there. ;)

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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2021, 05:36:49 PM »
I am very disappointed to report that I haven't gotten that warning yet.   I need to step up my game.

I suspect you (and I) are the extremists FB helpfully warns others ("the normies") about.
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2021, 05:44:49 PM »
It is enough for MANY people that someone is simply called an "extremist." They assume kluckernazi right off the bat . . .
I assume DemBLMtifa.
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2021, 07:13:00 PM »
I suspect you (and I) are the extremists FB helpfully warns others ("the normies") about.

I prefer to call them "mundanes" but that's just me.
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2021, 07:22:00 PM »
I prefer to call them "mundanes" but that's just me.

that works too
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2021, 07:30:43 PM »
I opted to just disappear off the platform one day vs. trying to walk the line or flaming out in a blaze of glory  =D

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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2021, 07:32:28 PM »
The right should capitalize on this extremism charge. Extremists are cool. Chicks love a bad boy. Steer into it. "Radicalized since 1776"
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2021, 08:25:49 PM »
The right should capitalize on this extremism charge. Extremists are cool. Chicks love a bad boy. Steer into it. "Radicalized since 1776"

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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2021, 11:18:28 PM »
Ran into Tony tonight - the World's Chillest Man - the guy who sat at the bar drinking and smoking while one of the local crackheads robbed it... Told him that I hadn't blocked him...
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2021, 08:57:20 PM »
Gab has the right idea:


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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2021, 10:50:19 AM »
Instagram was full of posts about this all weekend. 
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Re: Facebook is After Extremists
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2021, 03:14:09 PM »
Apropos article by The Z Man
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The custodial state is the sensibilities of women armed with the weapons and power created by men. This is what lies behind the popular lunacies of Critical Race Theory, wokeness and white fragility. Every one of these is pushed by a thousand perfumed hands as a way to show how much they care for all of their children. Stripped of the Marxist jargon, it is nothing more than a mother standing over her children telling them to play nice and share their toys with one another.

In the Assemblywomen, the 4th century BC playwright Aristophanes described a world in which the women of Athens gained control of the government. Before long the city fell into a chaos that is familiar to us today. Men were wearing their wives’ clothing, ugly women were demanding that men see them as attractive and, of course, everyone was supposed to share their good with the community. In short order the normal rhythms of Athenian life give way to the chaos of female tyranny.

I'll have to look up that ancient play and read it ... vanity of vanities there is nothing new under the sun.

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=24335

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