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One for all the Trump supporters to think on

One of Trumps former serious staffers has stated that he believes Trump could shut down the internet if elected..I wont editorialize. Just read it yourselves and decided what you would do with all that free time. I will say that by my calculations, within weeks and "America Free" internet would be up and running in some form..😷
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-could-turn-off-internet-miles-taylor-1852774
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He may very well limit access to information, but I doubt he'll block Amazon and payment systems for donations and his NFTs. 😅 He also doesn't have the power to shutdown the internet in the rest of the world. But censoring news in the USA alone is scary enough.
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@NerdyPotato you do realize this has been going on for a couple years already and Trump had nothing to do with it. The Internet has been purged and Google is a hallow and empty compared to say ten years ago.
@SW-User it has changed for sure, but it could become a lot worse. The technology is available. Just look at North Korea for example.
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@NerdyPotato yeah it can and is seemingly getting worse but I don't believe Trump is the one limiting information it's almost scary to see how much hard is to find old articles and references while trying to debate people. I use to link so many different articles and new clips and transcripts of speeches while debating but the last two years that stuff has vanished from search results. You have to use things the "the way back machine" and other internet archives to find news articles from just 6-8 years ago. You're speculating about a future that's already going on and you're blaming someone who has nothing to do with it and you don't even think it's started yet
@SW-User oh, it's started and that wasn't done by Trump. But if he gets into office again, he'll speed it up big time. And that's just one of many dangers. He'll also revert all efforts to save the environment, escalate poverty, limit all kinds of human rights, etc.
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@NerdyPotato I know you believe that but disconnect from the Internet and look around at the world right now.
@SW-User it's a mess offline too. And it will only get worse with far right movements growing worldwide.
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@NerdyPotato the far right hasn't been controlling the country and everything you fear is happening under this administration
@SW-User like you said yourself: this has been going on for a long time. It didn't start when Biden took office either, nor when Trump appeared on the political stage. But it has grown much faster since 2016.
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@NerdyPotato a lot of it did. The Internet has been changed fundamentally in just the last two or so years. You have political prosecutions happening since the moment he took office, and now that is going both ways. Just study the end of Rome and you'll find a lot of similarities between their leader and ours
@SW-User Study Nazi Germany and you’ll see even more similarities between Hitler and Trump.
When Trump said,
[quote] “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
"That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world."
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It was like something right out of Mein Kampf,
and anyone who’s [b]not[/b] a white supremacist should be very worried. Of course, if you [b]are[/b] one, then he’s your man. 🙁
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@bijouxbroussard I hope as you age and mature you look back on this time with relief of how far you've came. But at least you care enough to fight for what you believe but you really need to learn to think for yourself
@SW-User I’m much closer to the end than the beginning, and I’m just hoping not to die seeing the system of restrictions that existed when I was a child [b]return[/b].

So I learned to think for myself long, [b]long[/b] ago and have been fighting the good fight over half a century now.
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@bijouxbroussard I'm sorry
Handfull1 · 61-69, F
@SW-User everything I feared happened under the Trump administration. Maybe I feared different things than most.
SW-User
@Handfull1 it's called paranoia and it can be cured
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@SW-User Careful Handy. I see a "re-education camp" in your future..😷
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@whowasthatmaskedman when is the refill on your meds supposed to be ready for pickup
Handfull1 · 61-69, F
@SW-User you don’t even know what I feared?
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@Handfull1 you told me everything I needed to know
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Handfull1 · 61-69, F
@SW-User that’s your problem. You think you know everything but just display your ignorance for all to see. Keep at it!
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@Handfull1 you know what they say about lions and sheep's opinions
Handfull1 · 61-69, F
@SW-User I truly don’t but obviously you do. It’s sad. You’re young! So much to learn.
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@Handfull1 it's never too late for you either hopefully by old age you will know more about how the world actually works